The Quilted Ant of Placerville!

Lookit!  A Quilted Ant!!

 

This Ant is famous in our town of Placerville, it sits outside of a local Pest Control company and at any given opportunity, they decorate it!  Seems the local quilt guild "Gold Bug Quilters" got ahold of him and decorated him to announce their quilt show next weekend in the neighboring community of Cameron Park.  Its a great little quilt show that I always attend, lots of beautiful local talent and some fabric eye candy for purchase, I even won a raffle basket last year...woot woot!

It really made me smile to see this guy all gussied up and quilted, what fun, hes hecka cute!  I pass him on the way to work and on the way home....glad I got a photo of him!  If you are local at all, please come to the quilt show next weekend and show your support for these great ladies!

SQUEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

           This little birdie below.......told her Gran a secret today....

                      Shhhhhh!!!  She wasn't supposed to tell.....but these two    beautiful people, my son and his lovely wife.....Mommy& DaDa

                                    
                                    have a secret, a very special secret!!

                                                             Shhhhhh Gran....
                             
                           Mommy has a baby in her tummy!!

                 YIPPEE!!!! They're pregnant, due in April.
 
This is just the best news....especially with our little Jayden turning 3 this Sunday......we are all so happy!!  Time to start planning another quilt!! LOL!!  YIPPEE!!! Shaking my booty, I am one happy happy Granny!!  I couldn't be more excited!!!!

Lone Starburst QAL

This week the assignment with Melissa Corrys QAL at Happy Quilting blog was to sew together our star centers.  Since I am making two of these quilts, I have shown a couple of each, patriotic and modern.

                               
                               I'm not sure yet which version I like better!

Aiming for Accuracy QAL

         
           Heres the last two lessons...I am a bit behind..these are #5 & #6.  The Aqua fabric in the first block was sent to me by my quilty pal Kathy in Ohio, thanks girl!

Lone Starburst QAL

Our assignment this week with Melissa Corrys  Lone Starburst QAL was to make a whole bunch of flying geese...here they are in my two color schemes...yes, crazy me is making two quilts!  My featherweight "Trixie" did great!
   
                                         #1-Modern color Scheme

                                                  #2- Patriotic

Lucky Stars QAL

            The finished quilt top!  Lucky Stars flimsy!  I love it, its so bright and fresh and fun!

I was really going outside of my comfort zone using this peacock blue as the background and it WORKED!  I really love how it made the fabrics pop! 

 

Now its time to get it quilted...

Star Surround QAL

                    
                        Heres my progress on the Star Surround QAL, we did Hst's this week! Heres my 9 piles of half square triangles.....

Funny thing is....for some reason, I got the crazy idea to do 2 of these quilts, so I have another one in progress in patriotic fabrics....no pics yet though...sorry!!

Theres still time to join in on the fun...heres the link:http://happyquiltingmelissa.blogspot.com/2013/07/star-surround-quilt-long-schedule.html