On a personal note...

Seven years ago started it all. I can't believe how lucky I am to be married to this wonderful man. Bring on Forever, he's never going to get rid of me, I won't let him.

Four years ago our little Lili was born, yes on our anniversary.

I can't believe how much she has grown. I love my little girl.

Oh, you will love this: "You know you are a quilter when you get a new rotary mat for your anniversary present."

By the way, he didn't just get me a rotary mat, he knows better than that. He got me a gift certificate for a manicure and pedicure. I can't wait, this will be my first time being pampered!

It's finished!

I finally finished quilting this bright quilt.
I had the quilt in the machine for a week, it took me roughly 23 hours of non-stop quilting, add in the sore back allowance and breaks and I was standing at this quilt for over 30 hours.
Why such bright colors?
I am entering it into the HMQS Quilt show and the theme is Pump up the Color. These bright squares are definitely full of color. I have a booth at the show as well, so if you are in the Salt Lake area May 7-9th, come and check my booth out!

I alternated the squares by quilting the outside of the flower and then the inside of the flower. This gives the quilt a 3-D look. The pictures don't give it justice. It looks amazing.

The green flower block took 15 minutes (Clint timed me) and the yellow flower block took about 10 minutes. I averaged all 80 big blocks at 12 minutes and came up with 16 hours. Then the outside small squares took 5 minutes each and there are 76 blocks that took 6.33 hours.

Here's a picture of the back with the front. I personally like that back more because I am not a huge brights fan, but it's my reversible quilt and I love it! The only thing I wish I would have done was use three more thread colors, but then I really never would have finished. I used over 6400 yards of thread on this quilt!

I only need to trim, iron, bind, put a sleeve on and then I will be finished. Any volunteers?

I think I am going to call it "Pumped Up Flower Patch."

I would love any better name suggestions!

Aggh! I am never going to finish!

I can't tell you how crazy I am at this point in the quilt game. I was thinking (because I forgot) there were only eight rows on the quilt, but there are ten, plus the border. What to do? I have to have it done right away so I can get to my other quilts that are backing up! I am only pausing for a moment to let you know that Louann received her quilted bag and Stacey made her quilted bag kit! Oh, and you have to check out this!

Wish me luck! I am going to need it. Thanks Clint (husband) for the back rubs, I don't think I could be this far on the quilt without them.

What have I done???

I had to take a picture of my scraps for my bright quilt. I love the fabric that piles up when I cut out a quilt. I wish I knew what creative thing to do with them, right now the scraps just end up in quilt heaven, aka the trash can.

With all that I have to do, want to do and need to do, why did I take on this quilt? I am going to enter it into a quilt show in May and I need to get it done while I am in between customer quilts and my new design sample quilts. So, this first row has taken me six hours, I just barely finished it and can now turn it, wish me luck with the seven rows left!

--My website updates!--

So I wanted to let all of you know a few things about our company website. First of all, we have started a newsletter. I would love for all of you to sign up, you can do so "here."

Second, we have added a "Deal of the Week" feature, where we slash the price on one item on our website each week. This week, the item is our Checkered Flower Quilt Kit, normally $45.95, on sale for $24.99!! That's one amazing deal! Check it out "here."

Third, we will be having a monthly drawing for someone to win a product off our site. To find out more, you can read about it on our homepage, www.greenfairyquilts.com.

And fourth, I wanted to let everyone know we have added a handful of CUTE products to our site. Check out our "Fat Quarter Bundles," and our new lines of "fabric."