CAN'T COMPETE WITH THE BIG DOGS!!!

I am smart enough to know that I am not a  Judi Madsen from Green Fairy Quilts, Leah Day, or any of the wonderful quilters out there but.....in my own way I wanted to share with you some of the quilting on this "Tree of Life" quilt.

 I put some religious symbols in this quilt because "The Tree of Life" is very much mentioned in the Bible.
 For those of you who are not Mormons' it is mentioned in the "Book of Mormon".

 Now...I had thought to apologize for the religious tone to this post but then I got to thinking....my religion is what makes me who I am, you whether you believe in a God or not, that is who you are and is your right.


Here is a picture of the Savior.....

 I was asked how I did this.

 I used the straight stitch on my Pfaff quilt expression 4.0.  I drew with the frixon pen on some tissue paper.  I pinned the paper where I wanted the picture and just went to town.
  Now....once I got going  I learned that I should remove the pins where I could because this only caused the tissue paper to tare in places that I didn't want.
In some places it looks like small knots, it isn't, that is just the tissue paper that I can't get out but will either wear away or wash out.  I guess I could take some tape and rub across it.

Here is the Angel Moroni, he stands on every Mormon Temple.

Some swirls...you know I love swirls

I guess you can call this feathering?
Hearts???

This is a bad picture but did some small swirls between the rays

This is one of my favorites to do as well.

The Golden question is

Do I have the quilt done yet?

I am hanging my head in shame...doing the shame walk.....

NO>>>NO>>>NO

I have procrastinated, I am bored with it, tired of it....can't pull the trigger.  All I have to do is go in my room and put the last border on and bind it..that is it....that has been it for a week now.

I did go and do extra quilting in it this last week but it has sat for days after that.

Won't someone come over and keep me company while I make the last plunge in getting it done and out of my home?  Begging here!!!

VALENTINES QUILT AND BLOGGER COMMENT.

I received a comment from a blogger the other day. I can’t tell you exactly what was said, I can’t tell

you if it was a comment or emailed to me directly

I can almost tell you who said it but at the risk of being wrong, (by the way....thanks for the comment)

I won’t. I don’t get paid to remember, maybe if I did, I would???

So the comment was, Barb, when will you finish the Valentines Quilt? Something of that nature…..now….wasn’t this the right kind of push

to get me going in the right direction. To get focused…………………… BECAUSE

Since that message….I just hear WHEN!!!

Go in my sewing room, saw it sitting there…..WHEN!!!!

Go to bed at night…WHEN!!! Driving my son to the airport today, once again the words were ringing my ears…..

So when I got home,

cleaned house, ran a few errands and decided that the time is now!!

Some of you may remember, some of you may be visiting for the first time, and then if you are like me you had forgotten.

To refresh your memory, I took the

insides of the hearts from this table topper

and made a small quilt. Today, I took a running stitch around each heart three times.

Then when I quilted it to the back, I took another running stitch.

Then just did hearts and loops. I did want to say that this quilt is very similar to

Accuquilts Valentines quilt, my hearts are bigger and different. This was not done with the Go cutter. The direction for this quilt is in the pattern for the Valentines table topper, you can find it at Inchworm Fabrics if you are interested.

Tomorrow I will bind it, I will….truly…..but for now my bed is calling me.

Oh...just on a side note, I am thinking of having a giveaway....and it has to do with the experimental Valentines topper that I made. This will only be for those who follow my blog and don't mind a few mistakes....so once I get it bound.....just be ready.

HANKERING

That's right hankering. I got a hankering to do some free motion quiting.

As usual, true to form, I had other things that needed to be done but I veered off course again.



I remembered that I had sandwiched a quilt a good while back. I am blushing at the fact that it was so far back I can't remember and and...and...I haven't quilted it yet.

I definitely need more practice but boy is this fun!! I will show you the front when I am finished.

I am so excited, I feel like that little puppy when he sees his master and wets himself. I will have three sons home this week-end. One son will stay for almost a week...... I think some depends are in order.....HA!!!!