Well, It's Been a While......

I decided that I had let this blog linger far too long (a year?).  It's been a busy time for us out here in the Valley.  We've got our Quilted Solutions business humming along (with a few interruptions here and there), and I've gotten far more serious about my piecing and creative aspects of my quilting.  I'm embarassed to say that my husband has become the "expert" on our Gammill; I have to keep getting reminders from him when I go to quilt.  But our dream of having a joint creative enterprise has really turned out well.  We both enjoy having jobs to do each day; somehow it makes our leisure time that much more interesting.  I'm posting some pictures of a few of the quilts we have worked on lately, and will be showing more as time goes on.  Hope to make this a regular habit.  It's tough keeping up with all the options and choices about sharing info, but since I enjoy reading so many other quilt blogs, I decided it was high time to reinvent my own.  Have a great day!

We're Making Progress

Yesterday morning we got our web site http://www.quiltedsolutions.com/, up and running.  Of course, a friend of mine promptly spotted an error, so we made some minor typo adjustments, but in general, we feel good that we've gotten this far without too much trouble.

Guy has done an incredible job of picking out motifs and doing some quilting over the last two weeks that is just lovely.  He did a difficult job with Josephine's Geometrics quilt, including some awesome swirls and a lot of point-to-point lines to enhance the geometric over/under sashing.  I've included a picture.  It was pretty interesting trying to deal with such large "blank" space while trying to maintain the integrity of the design. 

Laura's Placemats

I had fun working on some placemats for my daughter-in-law, Laura.  I have some beautiful "apple orchard" fabric that I put with backing and batting, then quilted an overall "apple" edge-to-edge design in.  Then cut and trimmed them to size and am nowt adding the binding.  It was fun to work on a "functional" piece for a gift.  The binding is not going nearly as fast as the quilting, though (no surprise there).  They will finally look like this:

This week will be dedicated to continuing to get our "business" in order; business cards are being printed, and I still have to perfect a brochure for handout at quilt shops, quilt guilds, friends, etc.  Stay tuned, we're just getting "revved" up.

Up and Running

Our Gammill quilter with Statler Stitcher is installed in our basement quilt studio.  Pictures and info to come soon.