The Car Hop Quilt

I have been working on a powerpoint slide show to honor my friend, Teresa.  She was an excellent quilter, although she did not believe so.  She was also a very good friend to me, many other people, and animals.  I have not found any reasonable instructions on YouTube to enable me to post a slideshow on my blog.  Meanwhile, I have not posted since October.  I hope to have the slide show dilemma figured out by new years.  Let us see.
It has been a crazy time!!  Let us try to get on with quilting and sewing and having visitors and baking yummy stuff, even if it boils over in the oven and burns and is still not cooked in the middle.  It shall cool and set, we cut the burnt top off and the inside is pretty yummy just the same. 
     In August I did complete the car hop quilt.  This is the one I bought the fabric for in Weiser, Idaho, about five years ago (on a little road trip with Teresa, of course).  Then the fabric aged in my quilt room until November 2017, when I grabbed it up and took it to the quilt retreat in Eagle.  I did not like the background fabric, so off to Quilt Expressions, in Garden City.  Found the perfect 'jacks' background fabric.  I got the thing cut out and pieced into a top.  Now what for the backing?  Me and T (Teresa) went on another road trip to Nyssa and found this great poodle fabric that just screamed "1950s!!"   The owners of the shop also had a big dog. Teresa is a nut for dogs, especially big ones!  As another fabric addict, Country Corners Quilting Shop was at the top of Teresa's list because it had fabric and dogs!  What could be better than that?

I can't remember this lovable dog's name. Teresa
said it is a Mastif.  They brought him in just so she
could visit for a little bit.

Okay, I bought yards of pink fabric with black poodles on it.  I finally got the back of the quilt made.  Then dear friend, Phyllis, let me use her long-arm quilt machine to quilt it.  This occurred on a Saturday in June and two short follow-up sessions.  I am not speedy, nor do my feet, legs, and/or back handle standing up so long these days.  If you win the lotto, please, do not gift me a long-arm quilting machine.  Between work, trips to Council and McCall with T and Daisy, and the trip to Sisters with T, I managed to get the binding on with the appropriate 1/4 inch between each stitch.  Done!  Just in time to put into The Fair! 

See the light background fabric is jacks!

Then my husband and I went to visit our daughter in Europe, for two weeks and a day.  T cat-sat our dearly beloved Ebony cat, and our house, while we were away.  Dear friend, Phyllis, picked up the quilt when The Fair was over.  Thank you so much.  We were back a week and a half, when I got very sick and was off work for another week.  I put off getting the quilt delivered to my cousin, because I still had a terrible cough (which I still have).  Then some awful events occurred in October, and I finally got myself over to her place and gave her the quilt.  I am soooo happy she likes it!

Ta da!      the teal and bright blue are not so different
in this photo.  Need a better photo.

I am glad I am finally able to share this quilt with you.  I think I may have got three decent sized quilts made this year.  I made a couple quilts for demos, seven doll quilts and a baby quilt.  Oh, let us not forget the "Greedy" wall hanging!   Right now, I am taking a break from attempting  pop-up for my daughter.  One quarter inch piece of the bottom is not catching in when I sew the bottom on the rotten thing.  I will post a photo after I tear some hair out.   Keep on keepin' on.