So EXCITED...

I received an email and my "Tribute to Abe Lincoln" quilt will be in the Pacific West Quilt Show on  August 23-25, 2013 at Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center. 

Here is the email I received:

June 1, 2013

Liz Morgan

29024 23rd Ave. S.

Federal Way, WA 98003

Dear Liz,

Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that your entry, Tribute to Abe Lincoln, has been selected to be judged in the quilt competition at the Pacific West Quilt Show. Your quilt will be on display during the show at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center, August 23-25, 2013.

Your quilt will vie for one of 60 awards totaling more than $25,000 in cash and prizes. We extend our sincere congratulations to you as a Finalist!

By June 15, we will be emailing you entry instructions and a Return Information Form to complete. Contact us as soon as possible if you have any questions about any of the items.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Spannring

Show Director, Pacific West Quilt Show

Email: pwquiltshow@gmail.com

Office Hours: M-F 10 AM - 7 PM (PDT)Tel: 360.635.6500

Association of Pacific West Quilters

www.apwq.org

 

This is so EXCITING and it is my FIRST time entering.  8)

Thought I would share this with you! 8)

Happy Sewing!

June UFO Challenge is...

I have A LOT of catching up to do in order to keep up. Good Luck everyone with June UFO.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Finally Back...

I am finally back! Its been a very busy month for me here at the home front. We came back from our fishing trip and have been busy since! 

Do you remember back in February "Tribute to Abe Lincoln" quilt? I was so HAPPY I finished it and decided I wanted to enter it into a couple of shows. I decided then that I wanted some custom quilting done. Well I got it back in April and I was so devastated with her "stitch in the ditch" work. I researched and researched for a GOOD longarm quilter and she is well known in the Quilt Magazine world. I cannot send this quilt to ANY shows for my quilt is not a show quilt. 

 Now who does this kind of work? I UNDERSTAND that "stitch in the ditch" is hard to do. However, if a longarm quilter is NOT comfortable, then she should say something!!!! Don't you think? I am just devastated. Can you tell? One day I will get over it! *sigh*

Mother in-laws quilt...

Well I FINISHED her quilt and she LOVES it! THANK GOD! 8)

Have a great week! 

Gorgeous Day in Winthrop

Couldn't ask for a gorgeous day! The weather was warm and so peaceful here. Decided to take the dogs with us on the dock. Kappy is sitting on my lap.

Ok this is a strange one... my husband took the dogs on a walk so they can do their business. While they were walking, a fish fell from the sky! SERIOUS! 8) He saw an osprey bird and a bald eagle. He thinks the osprey drop the fish due to the eagle.

Here are dogs investigating the fish. 8)

As far as sewing today? Not ONE STITCH! 8) WHO can with a gorgeous weather!

 

MAY UFO IS...

I totally forgot to post our UFO for May. *sigh* I think this clean air is getting to me. 8)

Good Luck with your May UFO. Please shoot me a private email when you are completed.

Checking In...

Haven't been posting here lately. We have been so busy at home dealing with raccoons. They decided to live under our new deck and actually have their litter of babies(don't know exactly how many) and it cost us $$$ to hire pest control to come out and throw spongy ball that is soaked with male raccoon urine under deck to get them out. So that is done. YAY!!!!

With that taken care off, we headed out for a two week vacation. We are now in Winthrop, WA at Silverline RV Resort. Saturday was opening day for trout fishing. All I have been doing is feeding the fishes for everyone around me to catch them! *sigh*

Here are some pictures that I took on our way here. It is a gorgeous day so I will take pictures of resort. It is so pretty out here. This morning is was like 28 degrees. But I still went out on the dock to do some fishing. 8)  

The weather was sunny and warm! We actually had out windows down on the drive here.

As for sewing, I finally finished my Tribute to Abe Lincoln quilt. YAY! 8)

Until next time. Hope you have a wonderful day! 8)


 

Custom Quilting....

Yesterday I posted a picture of my quilt on Natalia's longarm frame. Well she finished my quilt yesterday! Natalia did stitch in the ditch on all blocks. I LOVE IT! 

I cannot wait to receive quilt and get binding sewn on. Oh this quilt will not be waiting for another 5 years to get it his binding on. 8)

Here are pictures of quilt. 

 Love love the detail work on the back!

 Love love the circles on sash!

Back to working on my March UFO. 

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Civil War Love Letter Quilt - Custom Quilting in the works...

Back in February, I finished my Civil War Love Letter Quilt. Since I am so new to longarm, I searched for a longarm quilter and found Natalia Bonner of PieceNQuilt . She does some phenomenal work and after contacting her, she agreed to quilt my CWLL quilt. She is usually 6-8 weeks out. I tried looking for a someone here in WA. and no one did not want to touch my quilt! After the second reject, I decided to ask why? The explanation I got was "it is too much work on the knees  & hands". I didn't want an all over design...I wanted some custom work done.

Quilt is not totally done yet. She posted a picture of quilt still on her frame and from what I see, I am loving it! I will post more pictures as soon as she sends me pictures. 8)

LOVE the circles! Don't you?

In the meantime, I just received my 1/4yd fabric for my Civil War Chronicle quilt. I will be working on completing that today! So stay tune. 8)


Have a wonderful Tuesday!

UFO 1 - Update...

Still waiting for my fabrics to arrive. I needed more fabric for borders for my CW Chronicles.  In the meantime, I finished with MIL quilt top and will be loading it on my longarm today.  I think I am going to do an all over design. I will post pictures as soon as I am done. I would like to get this done before Mother's Day. 

In the meantime, I decided to work on my March UFO. My UFO is from 2011 Western Washington Shop-hop.  The first block is from Carriage Country Quilts shop in Des Moines. Love Love LOVE that store. Anyhow, the pattern is so cute. A lot of hand embroidery. I will post as soon as I get the embroidery done. 8)

Have a wonderful Monday!

Weekend Progress...

Well I have been working on my mother-in law's quilt. Here is what I designed. I am having a problem deciding what backing to use. So I left that up to my her to decide. I made the outer border wide 8". I still have to attach the outer border to quilt. But I wanted to take a picture of it to see if the outer border will work. My mother-in law crossed stitched the frog blocks. I just added the pinwheels and churn dash.

I made the outer border really wide 8". I am pleased with the results. Now to get it all put together and hopefully on Monday, I will be able to load it on my longarm and start quilting!

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! 8)

Happy Stitching!