Been busy! Getting ready for a road trip with my daughter.
 I will miss the Kuna Quilt Show on August 4 and 5, but will have a wonderful time with my daughter.  Also, found a 2012 manual with all the quilt shops in North America in it.  We gonna be doin' some visitin' on the way to Ft Leonard Wood from Davis-Monthan AFB.  Big smile.  I have to travel light, since I am flying to Tucson. Which swatches to take? OMG! 
Please, click on the Gluten Free Doll Quilts link on the left of my page and view my latest doll quilt.  Yellow, white, and orange.  Here is a peek.

"Moose and Squirrel quilt" or "R&B quilt" or "Rocky & Bullwinkle quilt" or "Sew Lucky to Get It Done in Time"
Pete is very happy with this quilt.  It turned out very well.  I really like the design.  Thank you Elverta for keeping me sane, while I was doing this on the sly, so it would be a surprise.  Thank you, Bryan, for the terrific job of quilting it.  The writing with the characters and segments of the show "Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends" turned out very nice indeed.  People read the words: Fractured Fairy Tales, Dudley DoRight, Nell Fenwick, Snidley Whiplash, Boris and Natasha, Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman, WABAC Machine, Bullwinkle's Corner, Frostbite Falls, etc. and it brings back their memories.  Now, I have a hankering for a salad made with rapien and mooseberries!

So much to do, so little time.  Or enough time, just doing too much!  The quilt show is fast approaching, and I am not going to have my barn quilt finished in time.  But I got the "Moose and Squirrel" quilt completed in time for my husband's birthday on June 27th.  I finished getting the binding stitched on at 7:15 p.m. on June 26th.  I finished at the CONFAB and was going to go home and go to bed, but instead I went home and cleaned house. 

Barn Quilt: making some progress  I ususally do not make things that are brown. Brown is kind of boring to me. I really like bright colors.  However, I must make the dirt part of my barn quilt and decided on some different shades of brown, some on the sandy side. I am string piecing them, and hot dang, they are looking nice!  I have the blue sky part all done, and the roof cut out.  The barn is the next part after the dirt.  Only six weeks left before the quilt show.  I have to make 4 - 6 more blocks for my dirt part.   Good night!

Emmett’s annual Valley of Plenty Quilt Show June 14^th through the 16^th at the Emmett  Junior High School, 301 E. 4^th St. in Emmett, Idaho.  I just want to ge the word out.  My goodness, I love going to quilt shows and I seem to miss several every year.  This has got to change. 

Elverta is my savior!  Working on three projects. One is on the sly, so I cannot post any photos of it, but it is really taking shape, now that my dear friend, Elverta, had me over to her place, so I could work on it.  Wow, that was a terrific sentence. Meanwhile, at Elverta's last Tuesday, I discovered that in my haste, the week before, I made a major error. I did not re-adjust my needle position after the demo I had done. UH OH!  My seams were the wrong width! cuss cuss cuss and throw up my hands and cuss cuss and "Save me Elerverta!!" Alas, woe is me!  After a few minutes I simmered down and pulled my head out.  Elverta made me feel better, and I was able to determine the breadth of the damage and we started ripping.  Then Elverta ripped and I sewed the correct seam allowance and 3 hours later we had not only fixed the damage but made some further progress.  I felt much better when I left her house.  Elverta is my savior.  hmm. good blog post heading.
  Meanwhile, I am also working on my Christmas wallhanging and Elverta's Jungle Quilt and a barn quilt.  Hmmm . . . that makes four projects at once.  The photo is of Merlinda The Ninja Quilt Dominator enjoying Elverta's Jungle Quilt.

Summer Fun Quilt is done!  That is the fourth and final name of this quilt. I saved my end-of-the-line binding scraps then cut one 7" inch piece and two 3" pieces, then combined them with four 3"X3" squares and made blocks.  I picked all my primary colors to go with this lovely flecked white fabric, I picked up at Cindy's Quilt Shop in Caldwell, ID.  I did not choose the border fabric until I had all the blocks pieced together. Then I found my border fabric at my new favorite quilt shop! I had an appointment to use the long arm quilt machine at the Bluebird on Saturday, April 28, and I managed to run out at 9 pm on Thursday evening and find the backing fabric, which I brought straight home and threw in the wash so I could get it ready Friday night for my Saturday appointment.  I used the backing fabric as the binding also, because it is just so smashing next to that sharp navy blue.  Oh, I forgot to mention that the strips in the crosses are 1 3/4" wide.  That is helpful to know if you want to try a couple blocks.