Gemma's Bug Quilt

A few years ago, before my youngest granddaughter

Gemma was born I made quilts for Kaitlyn and McKenna

using a bug jelly roll I had picked up at Tuesday Mornings.

Along came Gemma and I just knew I had to make her a bug quilt too with the same material - hmmm I couldn't find that jelly roll anywhere on the Internet.

So I went to the Quilting Board and asked the members there, if

anyone had this jelly roll in their stash.

Yippee a lady from Virginia answered my plead and we agreed to swap out fabrics

She was working on a charm quilt in green and asked that I send her

2.5 inch WOF green strips in exchange for the bug jelly roll.

It was a perfect answer to my quest for the bug jelly roll, I was surprised

at just how many greens I had in my stash and was able to send her 

44 different green strips and I added some other

unusual greens that were not exactly WOF.

I was so happy to be able to give my name sake - Gemma Elizabeth

a quilt with bugs along the same lines as her sisters.

Gemma's quilt was made from a sale pattern called Square Root 

from Connecting Threads and has applique on it.  I swear

the applique took as much time as the whole quilt did.

I am not a fan of applique that is for sure.

This is about as close to modern quilting as I get for now :)

Heather and Zack's Wedding Present - Burgoyne Surrounded in Scrappy

My friends, Heather and Zack went and got married in a quiet ceremony

this past April before moving to Michigan.

It took awhile to get around to finishing all my summer quilts up,

 but they all went into the mail or Fedex just before school

started again. In my haste, I even forgot to take some picture!

However, I did get 3 nice pictures of this quilt to share :)

The quilt ended up measuring 120 x120 with out any borders -

so the perfect size for a king size bed. The only thing that is consistent with this quilt is the center square - a burgundy fabric to represent Heather's heart and all the other squares are indicative of the love that she has for us all and the lives that she has touched through her teaching and just being the wonderful woman she is!

A new Babylock Jane has found a new home!

Let me introduce you to Jane!

Here she is my straight stitch and FMQ machine.

My dear husband, Carnell bought me this machine for our anniversary.  I had been tossing around the idea of a new machine, as I was wearing out my Sapphire 830. I was leaning towards a Juki 2010, but Carnell said why buy something off the internet when we already have a rapport with our local sewing machine shop.  Ian, over at Tanner's gave me an excellent deal on Jane and I have been happily sewing up a storm ever since she  came to live with us!  She isn't fussy about needles, thread and sews beautifully straight stitch.