Bunny Baby Quilt with Feathered Wreaths

This quilt has simple feather wreaths in the open blocks and a Crosshatch grid in the bunny print blocks. I digitized a "feathered Flower" type border to match the size of the feathers in the blocks. This quilt was pieced by my Aunt Dee Dee and is for my cousin's newly adopted about four year old daughter from China who she is going to bring home this fall.

Baby Quilt Finished

I finished the baby quilt top with Moda "Candy Kisses" fabric by Sandy Gervais. The rail fence blocks were finished about 5" and the border about 2.5 ". The total size is about 46" square.

I quilted this next quilt for my aunt.   It is pretty pinks and greens and white tone on tones with a cute bunny and tulip print. She pieced the backing with leftovers of 8 inch squares making it a nice two sided quilt. It is much brighter in person and a darling cottage quilt. The pattern I used is "feathered Curls" by Timeless quilting designs. Timeless Quilting Designs

Design Wall Monday

I plan on finishing this baby size quilt top today! I have three more rows and a the big hearts print border to do.

Bookkeeping Week

After four years of flying by the seat of my pants with my bookkeeping for my quilting biz, I went back through this week to come up with the actual total amounts invested less any profits, to know how much I really have put into the business, and get myself back on quickbooks with a nice neat balance sheet.

With my mom's care and pre-mental-pause syndrome, and general lazy tendencies,  I have been getting my income and expenses for the income tax return, and had my depreciation, but no balance sheet with the all of $ draws and items I had purchased but didn't include in my tax return. Now, I am caught up with the dreaded paper/computer work. Phew.

Well, my dear mom and dad have been gone for 2 years now, so I can't keep using my mom as an excuse, although, I think she would happily accept responsibility, the fun loving gal that she was. 

The bottom line I found is that if I sold my machine I would break even with a little profit, at this point, after four years as  a part time business. So, on the bright side, from here I can keep in the positive and try new things as a business, or just do personal and charity quilts.   

Chores:

 We planted a nice new ground cover on our slope over the past three weeks. It is called 

 dymondia-margaretae or "silver carpet"

Picture of slope with "silver carpet"


It is supposed to take 6 months to fill in completely from the little  3 inch plantings.
Here is our first plantings. Now 3/4 of the slope is done. DH and two "happy" helpers

 It is supposed to keep the weeds down and it is a nice low lying dense, drought tolerant plant. I hope it takes. We are being very diligent with our weeding and watering so far ( the last 14 years, not so good).

Now, I can get back to piecing and quilting! Happy days!

Stash Report WE June 13

Used this Week: 14 yards

Used year to Date: 81 yards

Added this Week: 0 yards

Added Year to Date: 10 yards

Net Used for 2010: 71 yards

Sunflower Quilt:

I finished a ufo from a few years ago this week. The Pattern is "The Spin" from the book New Cuts for New Quilts by Karla Alexander. It was supposed to be a wedding gift for a young friend who loves browns and yellow and is kind of earthy. The couple got set of towels instead.  

I have started a simple rail fence quilt with some pink fabrics for a baby quilt, which is a nice quick change from this last quilt.

My oldest son graduated from UCSD this weekend with a degree in Bio chemistry, and now he is going to start applying for jobs hopefully related to his studies. We have two more sons presently in college and working this summer doing house and commercial building painting and a job at the aquarium at Legoland. We're glad they could find jobs.

Stash Report WE May 23

Catching up by reporting a jungle themed jungle quilt top finished a couple of weeks ago.  Pics in a prior post

Used this Week: 2 yards
Used year to Date: 67yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date:  10 yards
Net Used for 2010: 57 yards

Quilt top and some machine quilting

I have been busy with home repair projects mostly. There always seems to be one more to do.  I finished piecing a baby sized jungle quilt. I had purchased this cute print and didn't like the first quilt I did and pulled it apart, but didn't know what to do, and it ended up awfully busy. Oh well, Yeah! I get to add something to my report this week.

I did a customer quilt with designsbyvickie.com  meanderingbubbles2. I like how it turned out. The design shows mainly on the brown backing, but it makes a cute background on the modern powder blue and browns polka dot front.

I went for a walk/jog on a four mile loop my husband and I like to do. It was beautiful outside and really helped give me some pep! I have been dragging around for a few weeks and got tired of feeling tired, lol.