August 6, 2010

Finished!

Well, here it is!  I finally finished it!  Back in June actually…..Oh it felt SOOOO good to get it done!  Way too many strings to bury!  I love how it looks on our bed….it really brightens up our room!  My husband loves it too! Happy quilting!

Trish

February 26, 2010

Well, I finally finished A Quilt!  It has been a long time!  I have been so busy…..also have been working on the paramount star quilt, which I am actually getting closer!  I am sewing the binding on and tying and burying all of the strings on top of the quilt.  I did  it the hard way…..I am burying all of the ends……talk about a loooong job and tedious.  WOW!  There are a lot of ends!  I did it that way on this quilt too.  I don’t like the way the knots look on the back of the quilt.  I don’t know how everyone else does it but my start and stops always look really bad so I found that the really tedious way looks better…..8)  Happy quilting everyone!

Trish

July 30, 2009

Well, here are some pictures finally!  I haven’t gotten much farther on my Paramount Star quilt!  Talk about slow, hey?  I am burying all of the ends…..so that is taking me lots of time too!  Boy, reloading that thing on the frame is no picnic!  I hope to finish it some time before winter, but I don’t know…..all of the starts and stops are killing me!  It is really pretty though.  I don’t know how people can do anymore dense quilting then this…they must spend 8 hours a day 7 days a week quilting!  My eyeballs and back get tired!  (and feet!)  Happy quilting!

May 28, 2009

Hello!  How is everyone!  Good I hope!  This is what I have been doing!  Painting and wood floors!  Not much quilting going on here!  I love our floors!  They are wonderful!  One of these years I will get my blue and white quilt done!  Keep on trucking along!  Have fun quilting everyone!  (Love my daughters silly face!  She took a picture of herself!)

Trish

February 11, 2009

Well, been delinquent on the blog lately…..partly because I have a new printer and I can’t get it to upload photos and then to get them onto the computer.  Gee, if I thought it was complicated before……now it is IMPOSSIBLE!  At least before I had the HP director.  Now I have a brother printer and I have no clue.  So here I am.. I am still working on my paramount star.  I have been kind of “basting” or going along the quilt and just making sure it is as square as I can get it and then I will go back and do all of the fun stuff!  All of those saw tooth borders are a pain in the you know what!  I can’t wait until it is done!  Neither can my husband!  I have been piecing another quilt, it is “Herman’s March” .  It is my favorite colors of red white and beige!  Just what I need..another project!  Have fun quilting!   Trish

September 21, 2008

Here is my progress so far on the paramount star quilt!  Not much!  But I finally found a pattern for the corner blocks which was one of my biggest road blocks!  And now the other big road block is what to put in the vine border!  I am just not a quilting designer!  I started to quilt around all of the sawtooth borders…….yuch….  Happy quilting!

Tricia

September 17, 2008

Hello, well I must say, if I found it easier to put pictures in my blog ( or if I wasn’t so computer illiterate (sp.?) I would blog more………anyways……I finally have my parmount star quilt on my quilting frame!  Wholly cow!  Can you believe it!  I can’t!  Neither can my husband!  It has been sitting there for a week……  I quilted three formal feather wreaths on it.  Started to quilt in the saw tooth borders and goofed up on the leaf border so I did some frogging already! FUN!  Still don’t know how I am going to quilt the whole thing.  I am not a creative person when it comes to designing a quilt top.  I wish there were classes on how to look at a top and how to come up with ideas because I never have a clue at how to look at it and how to design ideas.  Anyways, off to “designing”.  8) 

Trish

August 25, 2008

Here are my pictures of the wagon wheel quilt I finally finished!  I did a pantograph on it.   I couldn’t figure out what to do on it and my husband thought it looked so “fall like” and wanted leaves and acorns on it.  So I found a pantograph with leaves and acorns and there you go!  It is very dark! It is Moda’s snow blooms fabric.  Very pretty fabric.  I am so slow with quilts.  I don’t know how people just spit out so many quilts!  Must be nice!

July 15, 2008

Well, I didn’t fall off the face of the earth!  I have been so busy with my new job!  It sure has been fun!  I feel stupid all over again!  I hate being in orientation.  I feel so dumb.  Anyways, I did get two quilts pieced……one is actually on the frame and I have absolutely no idea how to quilt it.  That is because I don’t quilt much.  My husband said “just do a pantograph on it!”  It is too pretty to do that to it!  When I have time, I will put a picture of it up.  Happy quilting!  Trish

May 14, 2008

Woo Hoo! I start my new job on Monday the 19th!  I have been a pediatric RN in the ICU at Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin for 8 years.  I am starting my new job in the Emergency room at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee.  Back to adults! I have been an ICU nurse for 11 years and I need a change!  So this will be totally different!  Can’t wait! 

Trish