Our Silver Spur Cloggers

 This is one our recent events "A Spring Fling Event" at the Community Church in Auburndale Fl.
This is some of them dancing (Clogging) on a platform, note the older girl in back her skirt is a different color,I ended up having to replace several of the skirts from Zebra Print to Black sparkly Tulle over the Blue like the top because the Zebra print was turning black from wear, did not look good so now I have all changed except 4 more and one new one for a new girl.

 Some of our youngest dancers

Sarah finally earned her dress she has been moved up from beginner to intermediate

She was thrilled !

 Lacey one of the older girls ,this is the new skirts with black tulle over the blue and silver trim.

At this time there was only one boy Dustin and a very good dancer too, we now have another boy in intermediate and a few beginners .
We had just last weekend went to 3 events in one day ,they did very good in all of them .
More to come!

Latest Baby Quilt

A Friend of mine from High School saw some quilts I had posted on my Facebook , I made this quilt for her doing freehand machine quilting with my own design.

  This is the one she saw and thought it was a baby quilt ,when I told her it was a small table top she asked me if I could make a baby quilt like it , I told her yes I could . The lace you see is antique lace over 20  years old , I had it in my stash for at least that long.

This is the boarder, that part was done by machine also, but I used a stencil for that part and added the curly cue's, The lace was sewn down all around it so there was no lose openings for babies tiny fingers. My friend had a choice of pink binding or same color as quilt , she wanted all same color.
I used pastel multi color thread .

This is close up of the finished quilt .The Mother of baby girl loves the quilt!

I plan to make some more, maybe some in colors and something different for boys.

New Quilts I made for Christmas Gifts

I had these 4 quilts all started before Christmas but was running out of time, so I had to wrap them and give to them like they are and will finish them soon. I have been so busy last year that I was exhausted after the Holidays so I took it easy for a couple weeks ,Then started getting busy again , ended up having to make a new Baby quilt and do a couple other things. next is replacing some skirts of the cloggers dresses that had faded terrible , hope I can make them look just as good !

 Made this for Sarah , still need to finish the quilting and binding, Sarah's favorite animal is horses

Chloe's is done except binding. Chloe's favorite animal is Giraffe's

 Bradley's needs to be quilted & binding.
 Bradley's favorite thing to do is go fishing!

Waylon's needs the same.
Waylon's Favorite is old car's and trucks

Handkerchief Butterfly Quilt

 About 4 years ago Mom asked me to help her make the butterflies out of old hankies , so I pinned the shapes and then used a blanket stitch around 12 of them ,I had told her I would wait for her to emborider the heads and antlers and then go back and do more ,She waited almost 4 years for me to get back to it we would forget about it each time I went to visit , finally the last time I went I finished the rest, then we added the sashing and squares to it then, the wide boarder.

 Mom will get a yellow backing then ,hand quilt around each one, I can't wait to see it finished now!

2 Baby Quilts,A Mug Rug and A Color Cloth

 A baby quilt that I made for a friend, I did not have enough of one color for the binding, so I pieced it with the plain colors.

 A free hand drawn mug rug of  flowers, I used fine point marking pen and fabric markers, then ironed the colors in before machine quilting it.

 I brought this panel at the Quilt Show in White Springs last year and decided to color it with fabric crayon's  at Mom's, the power had gone off because of a storm, so I was unable to sew, we lit several candles and I colored the panel, then ironed the colors in the next day. I do not care for the wording so debating on whether to use wonder under and apply it to another color cloth.

Another baby quilt i made ,it looks just like the one i made for a great grandson.

Latest Quilts Finished and New Tops

 Finished this,sold and sent out

 Machine Quilted Panel ,sold

Machine Quilted Eagle Panel

 Pieced and Machine Quilted for Baby boy or toddler

Tops that are ready to add the batting and backing to ,red and green is more for a girl , ,Black and Gold more for a boy

Machine Quilting a 5 Generation Quilt For A friend

 My friend Donna had asked me about finishing up this quilt for her by making the backing to fit and quilting it.

 She wanted to tell about the quilt on the back so I asked my niece Kim to do the words for me on her special emboridery machine.

 Donna told me that she received the quilt her gr Grandmother made but some of the old feed sack fabric messed up,  she was trying to preserve what was still good, so she took some of it apart and made it look like this .

At first I was going to ask my Mom to hand quilt it, but with her having health issues and had so much to do she said it would be after the holidays to get to it , so I decided to go ahead with the machine quilting and keeping in  mind that it was old I made an X in all the squares to keep it together better with a special fancy stitching. Donna had sent me light blue thread so it is hard to see where it has been stitched, but we love it just the same . I would do this with the one I found in a hide away couch that was here when we brought this house. Anyway I am proud of Donna for accomplishing something like this, she has not been quilting very long! Good Job Donna !!