I'm delivering my gift today!

Good Morning!  I am so excited to be delivering my little gift to Maya and Naina this morning at our Hardanger meeting!  We will be meeting at PDO (Petroleum Development Oman) at the golf club and Naina is hosting.  Anyway, stay tuned as I will enlist Amu to photograph the event. I hope these ladies will be very, very happy as they are waiting to order some quilting gloves and have been inspired by my Raspberries and Chocolate quilt to try and stipple. I will show them the proper machine quilting gloves first and then give them the driving gloves that I got at Daiso the other day!

Fons & Porter Quilting Gloves

Daiso 600 baisa Driving Gloves a.k.a. NEW QUILTING GLOVES!!!

I wrote on the covers for the girls.  It is hard to see! They will be so happy!  It feels good too to be able to make someone happy, be thoughtful, and be inspirational and to blog about it!

Stay tuned til later today!!....

edit:  I check and recheck my posts.  I noticed, hey!  I have two signatures!  Do you all?

I'M DONE!! I DID IT! First quilt finished in 2009!!

Ta da!!!  I finished my French Braid quilt last night/this morning.  I just took it out of the dryer and couldn't help myself and took pictures.  I know they could be better but seeing it is 3:33am on Wednesday, July 15th; well, this is what I got! 

I'm SO proud of me!!  I have renamed this quilt:  RASPBERRIES AND CHOCOLATE

Two of my girls.  This is when Amal got down and helped me baste the quilt.  I made the binding and was measuring it around when Uki made her appearance.

Here it is.  The finished top.

A close up of all the goodness!

This is the first time that I pieced my backing.  I really super like it! I can't keep Uki off it either.  Peach?  Where are you?

Here is my attempt at taking a photo of the binding.  I have since taken off those stray threads.

Why?????????????

An hour's or more worth of quilting has to be taken out because of this.  I have ALWAYS had problems stippling with this machine.  It is very frustrating and annoying.  I'm off to the movies with my kids and have already started unpicking.  Oooohhh.....

French Braid Two Runs

Ooh, not too sure I like this seeing it in print now??!!  These are two runs of my FBQ that I am taking a class on.  The bottom is ooh, not so keen on it.  I like it when the pink comes in and the brown.  I will have to put really good separaters in tomorrow to make it come together and stand out.  Haven't decided now or I had decided and have now changed my mind to keep it open until I audition more fabs tomorrow.  I am on the second pink one of the third run now and have to have four completed.  Leftovers for tonight!  We bought Paul Blatt Mall Cop this afternoon for this evenings pleasure after dinner and homework (the kids, not me!).  Thanks for stopping by.  I have more posts...

French Braid Quilt

As promised.  These are the fabs that I will be using for my French Braid quilt that we started this morning.  There is a lot of cutting and I did not finish.  I will work on it this weekend.  Meanwhile, I had to give my legs a rest and will get back to the spiderweb again.

French Braid Fabric Audition

Here is a close up of the lovely feature fabric that I will be using....I hope!!  Does anyone know which flower this is??  It almost looks Oriental.  Hence, why I think it is Japanese because there is no selvedge.

Here are the fabrics I found today, beautifully Vanna'ed by Peaches (whom only got her backside trimmed and kept her coat; but she did have a bath, first time in three years!) that I am seriously considering for a French Braid quilt class that I signed up for at the end of April.  I am trying to step outside my box, which is still confusing, as I love color and try many things. We are so limited in Oman but it is getting better!  Tell me what you think and check out the French Braid quilts here.