Baby Jack's Quilt & Fall Is In The Air

Here is Baby Jack's quilt.  He is due in early December.  I wanted to do something special to welcome him into the family.  All I have to do is to finish the binding.

This is only a fabric panel.  It was fun to just play around free motion quilting on Teddy's pants.  I like the way Teddy's paw turned out by just quilting pebbles in only the white areas.

Below are our double crop beans, which look great!  Dean planted them after he harvested the wheat in July.  Our other beans are just about ready to be combined.  Everything is late this year, but every farming year is different and full of surprises.

Fall is definitely in the air and we are blessed with beautiful rich fall colors.

Happy Quilting!

Kay Lynne

Taking the "Drag" Out of Free Motion Quilting

This post is not my original idea.  I give the whole credit to Leah Day.  She posted about how she attached dresser pulls on her ceiling along with a few bungee cords and clamps to hang her quilt as she free motioned.  I thought about this for a long time and didn't want to put any holes in my ceiling so I came up with a similar idea, but with a little different equipment.  I have an old snap together quilt frame that I received for Christmas years ago from Dean.  I hand quilted one quilt in this frame.  Well I found a different way to use it this week.  I put it together a little differently and still used Leah's idea.  I'm only doing a baby blanket right now, but I'm sure that a larger quilt would work just as well.  I didn't buy a thing.  This was stuff that I already had in the house.  If I want my frame a little bigger, I will have to go the hardware store and get longer PVC.  Please let me know what you think!

Now I can have it both ways--no holes in my ceiling and no drag.

Hmmm--I can have my cake and eat it to...as the saying goes.

 My friend, Sandi, at Sew in Peace is having an I Spy Swap!  I have my blocks from a previous swap and received some really unusual and fun fabrics that have given me enough blocks to make an I Spy Quilt. If you have a child in your life that just needs an I Spy Quilt, here's your chance at getting a large variety of fabric.

Happy Quilting

Kay Lynne