Things are Starting to Settle

Well, it has been another week and things around here are looking a little bit better every day.
I have not worked in my quilting studio but I thought I would talk about the quilts I have made for my kids. I have made several over the years.

This is a Bonnie Hunter free pattern on her website Quiltville, Chunky Churndash. I made this for my oldest son Garrett.

This is Scrappy Mountain Majesty from Bonnie's website. I have made three of these quilts. This is the first one I made and it went to Garrett's wife Tosha.

This is another quilt from Bonnie Hunter but it is from one of her books and I made this one for Melanie.
I have made two quilts for my son Luke, one of which I have already wrote about. It is a Quilt of Valor. He spent 1 year in Iraq. The first one I made was a huge king size quilt that everyone in the family made a block. I can't find any pictures of this quilt and I know that I have taken many picture of it. If and when I find the pictures I will show them on this blog.

This quilt is from Bonnie and it is called Smokey Mountain Stars. I gave this one to my son Doug. It is made from recycled shirts, allot of them from my husband.

This is Jared Takes a Wife from Bonnie and this was the first big quilt I made from Bonnie. I gave this one to Doug for his birthday.

This one was made for Laura, Doug's wife. It is not a Bonnie Hunter. I just designed it the way I wanted it to be.

This is a mystery quilt from Bonnie Hunter that I gave to my daughter.

This one I have shown before in one of my first posts. It is a sampler quilt that I gave my daughter in 2000.

This is the one I made for my son Eli when he got back from his mission to Russia. Not good pictures and I machine quilted this on my DSM.

Well, I think this is enough pictures for this post. My husband and I are going on a mini vacation tomorrow and will be back on Sunday. 

I will talk next week.

Wow, 2 Weeks Have Flown By

Well, August is almost done. I have been going like crazy to catch up here at home because of being gone for 6 days. Luke and I flew out mid afternoon on Thursday and we worked like crazy getting everything packed into the truck through Sunday. Jared is a master at Tetris otherwise we would never have been able to get all the stuff into that truck that we did.
We decided to drive straight through to get home and Nebraska seems to go on forever. We left Madison, WI on Monday at 2:30p.m. and arrived home at 10:00p.m. on Tuesday. The trip was a blur.
Since being home we have worked hard to get things unpacked into the house and storage. This is a big job with 5 kids.
I have also been sitting 3 other grand kids this week because today they leave for Texas and who knows when I will ever see them again. They are moving to Houston.

I decided today to showcase a few quilts that I have not talked about on my blog. I make baby quilts for every one of my grand kids and then they get a twin size quilt when they are older. I have 21 grand children at this point and every one of them have a baby quilt. All but 2 have twin size.
Here are a few of the twin size quilts I have made.
The boy quilts I use a large center fabric and then I add borders. I try to use fabric a little older looking so they will still like their quilts when they are teenagers.

This not all of the boys quilts I have made but for the life of me I can't find pictures of a couple of quilts. 

This girls quilts are all different. They are all pieced quilts, most are Bonnie Hunter design.

From the above quilt I made two more quilts from the bonus triangles. One in purple and one in pink.

The next two quilts were leader ender projects. I gave the purple one to a grand daughter and the pink one was for charity.

This next quilt was a Bonnie Hunter design from one of her books.

This next one is actually a representation of two quilts I made for twins. The only difference being different borders.

The next two quilts are for two different grand daughters. I really enjoyed making these two because they are not pink or purple. Most little girls like pink or purple but these two like the bright and fun colors of yellow and orange.

This one is my nod to the modern quilt. I normally like the traditional look.

This quilt below is a Bonnie Hunter design in pink and purple.

I know this is not all 19 quilts I have made but I don't have a picture of one or two. I have already written about the one I made for Lizzy because it was the first Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt.

All of the grand kids get pillow shams or pillow cases the next year for their birthday. This way they have a matching set.

Well, I will sign off for now. I have really loaded this post with pictures and talk.
See you next week.

Making a Quick Update This Week

I do not have allot to report this week because 90% of my time has been all about the yard and the house. I have been trying to get the basement ready for our daughter to move in and also to keep the weeds down in the flower beds. I had one interview this week and a test for another job application so I have been out of the house allot this week.
I have finished the quarter squares for the alternate block for the Smith Mountain Morning quilt I am working on. I am now in the process of cutting for the this block but I have not started to sew anything.

I will not be able to update my blog for 2 weeks because I will be out of state for a week and when I do get home I will be helping my daughter's family get settled in our house. They are moving from Wisconsin and will be with us at least a year.

So my quilt studio will be a little quiet but I will be ready to get back in the swing of things as soon as possible.

Take care and enjoy the end of summer!