February Already?

Gosh, where does go? I think my last post was MLK weekend. That was the weekend Dave and I swapped rooms and I am still trying to find things and put things away! It is really nice having the extra room to move around. I just need to take the time to go through and organize things but that will have to wait until after I finish this wedding quilt. I have the top done for the wedding quilt and I also have the pillow cover top made and quilted. I plan to finish up the pillow tomorrow and piece together the back for the quilt. I've got the long arm up and running and so far it is stitching pretty good. I am not doing an all over design on this quilt I am just stitching in the seams, it is called "stitch in the ditch." If you do it right the stitching shouldn't be visible, you will just get the puffy quilted look. I've yet to master the art of the stitches not showing, for the most part I get them in the ditch but every once in a while it looks like I swerved to avoid running over something, LOL. Here are some pictures of the quilt top and pillow top.

Here are a couple of pictures of the quilt top laid out on the table. I took measurements so I can know how big to make the backing piece, I am going to try to get that done tomorrow and hopefully be able to sandwich all the layers together.

This is the pillow top. I used my embroidery machine to put the bride and grooms name in the right and left block, their names are Anne and Scott. The middle block is a heart with the initial of the last name which is V.

Here is a close up of the pillow top after it has been quilted. It is kind of hard to see in the picture. I have a few places I am going to pick out and requilt. I had to go to JoAnn's and get some invisible thread to quilt it. When I started I was using a varigated thread but I didn't like how it look so the invisible thread looks better. It will also look better once I wash it and the threads tighten up some. I also bought a king size pillow when I went to Walmart earlier, can't wait to see it done! Here are some other random pictures...

These are pictures of the table in my new room. I have a lot more space to walk around the table now. Marley is sitting in the window in the second picture. She and Puppy like to sit there and see whats going on in the neighborhood.

These are the awesome old cabinets that Dave got me when the dry cleaner he worked for cleaned out one of their old wherehouses. The drawers are full of buttons and other old goodies. I really like how they look all stacked up.

This is a bottle of water that froze in Dave's car...brrrr

This is me driving to work one day when the weather was bad and we didn't get a snow delay for work :( We've had really strange weather again this winter, we will be in the 50s one day and the 20s the next, everyone has been sick and it just goes around the office. Well, I am going to go get ready for work tomorrow. I'll post some more later this week on my quilt progress.