This is Starry Night For Josh & it's going to the pattern creator Alycia Carmin.  It will be awarded as Quilt of Valor.  Thanks Alycia.  I love your desgns!

A couple of thank yous

This first quilt is a thank you to my doctor for taking good care of me.  I used a chart to figure out how to cut the setting triangles on the outside border & they are huge.  So after I figure out how to sew that border completely it will be ready for the frame.  I fell in love with this quilt when I saw it on Wanda's Exuberant Color blog a couple years ago.  I cut 2 of each block on the Accuquilt with the Blazing star die.  I will make a 2nd quilt for me.

 The second top is for another QOV to thank a veteran for their service.  It needs 1 more border to be big enough.  It's a quick & easy quilt but I had to change my original border when I cut wrong & didn't have enough fabric left.

Finally Finished!

This quilt was a challenge to finish.  So many set backs.  So glad it's done & ready to be presented to a veteran.

Exploding Star as a QOV

This isn't big enough for a Quilt Of Valor & I have to add borders.  How I wish it was big enough because it's such a dramatic pattern as is.  Click pic for a better view

Chris' baby quilt

i lost most of 10 months of longarming in 2015.  The first 5 due to stupid human error that broke down my longarm & not being able to get it fixed until May.  Then in July got some scary diagnosis & spent all my non work time running around getting tests.  Turned out manageable thank God.  Anyway while I began the year excited about how my free motion practice was going, after all those months I'm almost starting over.

This is a baby quilt for a friend at work.  I'm posting this really humble quilting so  I can see later the improvement whenever it comes.

A little practice

A little practice to catch up on skills & start moving forward again.  This is practice for a Christmas stocking I'm going to make.

Looking for Mr Mojo

I've been looking for my mojo this past week.  This year has had alot of quilting roadblocks & I need a jump start.  My longarm was down for 6 months due to stupid human error & then health delays.  I did a few tops in the winter but all I've done since summer is try to put together a paper pieced star for a Quilt of Valor.  Every piece was touched 5 or 6 times.  I finished it last Saturday with at least 15-20 hours struggling with it.  & it sure was not the quality I worked so hard to get.  So I went back to watch the Carol Doak  craftsy class on foundation paper piecing & found I was doing 1 step totally wrong.  I could not line up 1 single piece the way I was doing it.  So decided to make a second block to get the process embedded in my brain & it took only 6 hrs.  This will get faster as I practice but Im grateful to learn how to do it right.

Here's a link to the first block
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