A Beautiful Completion

I have a beautiful completion to show.

This is the first quilt in my big project. I have 21 quilts to make and I figure it will take 2-3 years to complete this project.

This is a Bonnie Hunter quilt called Floribunda. I used a very light yellow as the neutral.

This has every flowered fabric in my stash that was big enough to use. I used a light yellow flowered fabric for the backing.

I quilted it with Fays Feathers and a cream colored thread. The only thing this quilt needs is a label. I will be making all the labels at once and I plan to get them all made in the next few weeks.

I will Keep on Scrappin!

What has been Going on?

I have a few things to share this week.

These are my apple pie filling quarts.  Yumm for this winter.

This is the apple jelly that will probably be syrup instead. Which is ok with me.

This is what  I have on the design wall. The blocks on the side are for a new quilt that I hinted at in my last post.  The flag you can see is the beginnings of another Quilt of Valor. Yes, I know I said I was done with Quilt of Valors but I need to make one more this year.

This is the backing waiting for me to load for the next quilt. I have everything ready I just need less than an hour to get this quilt ready to go.

This is the top patiently waiting.

This is the squares I cut out yesterday for the next quilt I need to work on. It will be a leader ender.

Here is what is on my sewing table. I have 8 blocks to finish putting together so I can get this top going.  It is the next quilt to go on the HQ.

Well, this is all for now. I will keep scrappin!

A Few Things in the Works

I have a few things in the Quilt Studio that I have been working on.

I have this quilt off the design wall and I am sewing the rows together now. This will be the next quilt on the HQ.

These are all the darker thrift shirts that I have been collecting for years all cut down to 10 inch squares in order to start on the Herringbone quilt. I have more than I need cut for this quilt but I will be using these squares for several quilts. I just need to get some back ground fabric then I can get started on this quilt.

I have also started putting the blocks together for another quilt.  I have not taken pictures of those blocks yet. I have also finished quilting the quilt I have had on the HQ for a while. I will be writing a separate post on this finish. It is beautiful!

I now have both treadle machines sitting side by side in the family room down stairs. I think they look so happy together. When my daughter was here working on the tomato juice she learned how to treadle.

She worked on these string blocks and she had a good time.

I bought a seam guide to use on my treadle machines and my feather weight. I used this guide to make these 16 patches for another Quilt of Valor that I have started. I think I am getting better at my treadling.

This is all for now. I will Keep on Scrappin!

Busy Time of Year

I have been very busy the last few weeks but not necessarily with quilting.

I went and picked up one bushel of peaches and one bushel of pears. The peaches were ready first and I started on them.. My husband Ron helped with these and we were able to finish with them in two days time. We bottled 27 quarts and I saved a few out for just eating.  Don't they look beautiful?

Next the pears were ready and it took me a couple of days to complete the bottling on them. I was able to get 27 quarts but did not keep any out to eat fresh.

Next my daughter and I went to pick up one and a half bushels of tomatoes. We really lucked out and the lady had some very ripe tomatoes for $8 a box.  I was planning to spend $20 a box. A box is half a bushel. We hurried home and juiced 2 boxes that morning and afternoon. We were so happy we went back the next day and picked up 2 more boxes. My share of the tomato juice is 36 quarts.

With a couple of boxes of tomatoes we made tomato soup.  Yummmmy! I got 16 pints which is plenty for me and Jenny got 7 quarts. She took the leftover tomatoes home to make juice or salsa.

These are hers. This soup is very chunky with tomatoes, onions, celery, carrots, barley and garlic. I loved the recipe. I looked online quite a bit to find a recipe that did not puree the ingredients to death. I love chunky. I have bottled some soup just like this about 20 years ago but I had lost the recipe. Now I have found the perfect recipe.
I will be picking up a couple of boxes of apples on Thursday to make apple pie filling to bottle and also I will make jelly.Then I will be finished with bottling for the year.