A couple finishes...

Despite having my husband gone, this week has actually been quite productive. I've been working on getting a quilt done for Quiltmaker Mag and was actually suprised that I completed in time to not only beat the end of the month deadline, but I was able to enter it into my county fair this weekend. I went back by the fair yesterday and noticed a blue first place ribbon. The thing about our local county fair, is that every item is given a ribbon based on a certain rating system of quality. So there were several first place ribbons awarded. I'm a little bummed I didn't receive a specialty ribbon, but I am super proud of this quilt, so I'm pretty excited. Since I'm not sure if I can share the quilt yet, I'll just give you a sneaky peek. That's all quilting done on my machine at home. No long arm quilting here!

I also managed to finish my Joy Ride baby (bb) Quilt. This one was pretty easy. I have to say, this is probably the fastest quilt I've ever done. It's a nice size. 35" x 43". I'm actually going to hold on to it for now because my brother and sister-in-law are expecting their first baby and if it's a boy, they are getting this one. Simply because of the motorcycles (we are a Harley loving family). I'm pretty sure neither of them read this blog, I hope. I am also pretty sure that they will be having a girl, since I'm the one who super wanted a girl and didn't get one (I didn't want another kid after my first but all the super cute girly stuff kept throwing itself at me so I convinced my husband to try again; a boy). So it seems everyone is having/had girls when I had my boy. (Insert mumbling under breath here)

I also have lots of other baby quilts planned, but have not included them in my WIP list. I figured since they have not been cut into yet, I can't technically say they're "in progress". Alrighty, well everyone enjoy the last few days of summer. I registered the oldest for Kindergarten today...6 MORE DAYS!!!

Joy Ride

I finally got around to putting together my Joy Ride quilt. I followed Allison's Road Trip Quilt Tutorial and it went together really quickly! I used FQ's instead of 1/8 yd strips and I was actually suprised at how much fabric I had left over. I picked up all the bright colored fat quarters for $1/ea at my local quilt shop during a sale. The newspaper ad fabric is from the Peak Hour line by Kelly Wulfsohn for Riley Blake. I picked it up at My Girlfriend's Quilt Shoppe during the Eastern Idaho Quilt Shop Hop. And the cars/motorcycles came from and 1/8 yd strip of leftover backing from this quilt. It's also from Riley Blake, but it's from Wheels by My Mind's Eye. I got it when Allison let me raid her scraps. I'm so happy for her that she moved to Washington after living here in Idaho for so long (cuz she LOVES her homestate of WA, but for my own selfish reasons I'm bummed that I no longer get to rummage through her scrap basket. I felt like a kid in a candy store!