Spring Cleaning and some Sewing

I haven't had the grandkids in two weeks.  So I have spent my days painting all the trim and baseboards, I have stained the stairs, I put up a vinyl tree motif in the dining room which I also painted.   Whew!!   I did get into the sewing room,  first I cleaned and rearranged it, cleaned and oiled my machine, and got to sewing.  I finished the top of the triangle quilt,  I finished all the migrating geese, and I managed to get started on a memory quilt for my mom who just turned 90 (she only wanted the grands and great grands).  I will have to add color she won't like all that black.  A couple more pictures and hope to have it done by next weekend.  Wishful!!!

 

these two cuties are the youngest of my grandkids and those three are my boys

although I miss the kids,  Happy to have gotten so much done.    anna

Mini QAL

having fun working on these mini's  got two more done, but 

had to stop and

do some much needed cleaning and oiling on my machine.

quiltshopgal.com  mini QAL

helping me with techniques, check it out.

the friendship star will have to be redone, 

that ONE point but that is okay I'm learning.   

I bought a pattern with these size blocks so this is practice.

Christmas Squares

This one was made as a Christmas present I have three sisters and we did a Pollyanna, so I didn't know who would be receiving it.  This was made in 2011  it was a really nice fabric collection, I might have the selvage to find the name.

Olivia's Lime Quilt

this one is an old one, it was made for one of my boys girlfriend at the time.  Her favorite color

lime green.  This was a Christmas 2011 gift.   scrappy binding and this wild flannel back.

gray elephants

This is for a girl at work for her grandbaby.  this is a changing pad size, again straight line quilting, flannel back, and a applique elephant near bottom.  i just need to blanket stitch him.

Migrating North

so I started with this quilt awhile ago, I knew I wanted the paisley to stand out, so I added coins but I didn't like what I had put together.

It sat on my wall for months trying to find different fabric. I got the blue/gray fabric and pulled a charm pack I had.  In the meantime I came across Deb Tucker's Migrating Geese video, I liked it so much better than the coins.  So this is what I have come up with... I hope it doesn't take as long to put it together as it took for me to get it together. I will add a thin border in between the strips.  This will be a queen size that will go to my youngest and his wife.

got the geese done today 3/22, 

brick wall

This was made with a Jelly Roll, I didn't know what to do with it for a long time.   started making strip sets, and ended up with this.  this went to a girl at work.