More Table tops & Pot Holders

Just a note to let you all know that Mom and I are still sewing, we have the feed sack pieces all cut and one half way sewn up , we cut enough for 4 lap quilts, however we did not have enough for the boarder of 2, so this morning we went to  JoLee's Quilt Shop in Mayo, found enough for both of those and got extra for some other projects .

I have the Volcano Quilt almost done,doing the free motion was making my shoulders sore, so I put it aside for now and when I get home I will post a picture of it and all the other quilts we have finished  .

The table tops and pot holders in this post are completed, I will probably be using them for Christmas gifts this year.

I may not be on here for a couple of days,so it might be after I get home before I make another post, I should be heading home over the weekend .I would rather stay here and keep making quilts, but duty calls !

My week with Mom & Feed Sack Fabric

I have had a wonderful week with Mom, the weather has been warm but we have also been getting some pretty heavy rain everyday, we got up 2 mornings to a lot cooler weather.

We have been in the sewing room everyday, I finished up 2 Quilts, a Basket Weave and a raffle quilt for my community center, to be raffled off in August. The Basket weave is for the Quilt Show coming up in October. I am currently working on my Volcano Quilt, I have made some changes since I last worked on it, so far it is coming along good, but it is a slow process, I have a little under half of the machine quilting on that one done, and then if there is time I will start another quilt of some kind .

When we went to PA in 2008 we went to visit with Mom's cousin's daughter Debbie, she was showing us her sewing and quilting room and gave us 4 feed sacks to take home with us, just a couple weeks ago I went to HeartFelt Quilt Shop In Winter Haven,FL and brought 2 more pieces that look like feed sacks to add to our stash.

Saturday Mom came in and said she wanted to start cutting the feed sack fabrics, so hopefully we will have some of those ready to quilt also, who knows. Like I said we get a lot done together, now if only Rexa was here too, she was to come for the weekend but unfortunately she was unable to make it.

I hope & pray that everyone has a wonderful and Happy 4th of July today .

Grandma Ely's Blocks or Mystery Quilt

I went ahead and put all the blocks together  ,with my daughter-in-laws help we decided it would be better this way ,then I added the 5 inch boarder , I want it  to be hand quilted ,I think it would make it more orginal this way..............
I brought this up to Mom and she said the blocks were not Grandma Ely's after all ,she said her Aunt Charolette gave the blocks to her years ago ,but Mom can't remember if her Aunt made them or if maybe Great Grandma Goodwin did ........................
So to me this is a mystery Quilt !

Off Too Visit With Mom In Live Oak.Florida !

This is Mom and the pictures were taken I think after we got back from Pa. in 2008 .Every morning she puts on her long sleeve shirt ,boots and a hat ,goes out to feed the chickens and birds , (Chickens no longer here ) ,then she waters the flowers if they need it , by looking at this last pic. I would say it is fall because of the leaves on the ground .Those are from the tree right by the house  .She is always so full of energy !
Now that it is summer it will be too hot to stay outside much, so we take this time to stay inside with the air on to plan, cut & sew our quilts or anything else we need to make .I have 2 quilts at her house now that I plan to finish while there ,one is a basket weave and the other is an art quilt that my Aunt showed on her blog last Feb.and hopefully I can get another one finished that was started about 4 or 5 yrs ago.
So I will be on my way on sunday morning ,we will visit awhile and then probably get started on sewing monday morning ! Hope to accomplish alot ! I will not be able to post everyday but when ever I visit with my sister while there  she will let me use her computer .

Finished School Room Quilt

Remember this ? I finally finished this a week ago .it is ready for hanging on the wall .My daughter Tammy wanted it at one time I will see if she still wants it .
When I made this, I was looking for fabric that had the presidents faces in it , Mom said you won't find any .... I found them ! I went to Trenton ,Fla on my way home from her house one time  and stopped at the Quilt Shop there and they had some of this cut into fat quarters ,I think I got the last one !
I have the shop listed as a favorite if you want to visit it .

Crochet Rugs

Last year when  I made some jackets and small fleece blankets I had some scraps left over , I am a stcker for saving everything ,so I took them with me to Mom's and asked her if she thought we could make a rug out of it and she said we can try ,well she started it and then I finished it but I think I cut most of it too wide , it is ok but I am afraid someone may trip over it so I thoughtt maybe I could put it in a lawn chair or something .this is the top one .

This other one is from a couple of my skirts that I wore to church and they were getting kind of ragged so I cut them up and made this one ,it is very light weight ! but I love it and I plan to keep this one by my bed  .They were fun to do and I plan to make more ,Mom has used t-shirts, sheets and mostly just any cotton fabric's ,I have learned alot from my Mom and she will probably have something new for me to learn when I see her next .

I have seen alot of new ways to use fabric for crocheting and the fleece would be good for the totes and handbags, maybe bowls ?

Finally Getting Something Accomplished

OK this is the used computer that I sent off to have formatted and all new stuff added to it, so now after 2 &1/2 weeks of aggrevation , spending more money, waiting ,waiting and waiting ,problem after problem ,I can now work on here faster, up-load and down load pictures to this blog and facebook or  to my e-mails

, I have alot of catching up to do and pictures to show.So starting tomorrow I will be showing what I did get done while waiting on this to happen.