Busy...Busy...Busy

I don't know what the deal is, but the more I try to get caught up, the further behind I get!  I have been so busy, and I still have so many quilts waiting to be quilted.  I have pictures of several I have finished, but have not downloaded them all to the computer yet, so I'll just put a couple of teasers on here for now. 

I decided to make a quilted tablecloth.  I found the pattern in one of the many magazines I subscribe to, but the pattern was only as big as the black part.  Not big enough for my table.  So, I added to it. 



Here's another shot of the table cloth.  It ended up barely fitting on the long arm, and at it's largest point, was bigger than a king size quilt!



Here it is still June, and I've already received my first Christmas quilt from a customer.  I'm not showing the whole quilt, because I don't know what her plans are, but it's really cute, and all applique.

Another block from the Christmas quilt.

So, that is all the photos I have for now.  I'll post more later.

As for the rest of my busy schedule, I just got back from taking a class on furniture painting with this great paint called, Annie Sloane's Chalk Paint.  I had a blast and really got some good ideas for technique.  I'm going to attempt painting my island in the kitchen.  I'm leaning toward a red, but bought some other colors just in case.

I also went to an APQS course on maintaining the long arm.  It was in Carroll, Iowa.  I drove up from Lubbock ( by the way, that's a longgggg....drive).  I met another longarmer from the forum, Connie, at the Omaha, Nebraska airport, and we roomed together.  It was a very educational class, and I learned a lot.  Now I just hope to able to apply everything I learned when it comes up.  Not stuff you do on a daily basis.  They gave us a great manual to help with the memory, though, and Amy the instructor did an awesome job of teaching it. 

Amazingly, they had just hired a new woman for teaching, and she had lived in my hometown Lubbock, TX for 5 years!  That was fun, as I usually don't even meet people that know where Lubbock is, much less have been there :) 

Well, now I'm back to work, so the quilts will have to wait for another day.

Ya'll have a blessed day!