My Gammill and the Quilt

This is a top I worked on this weekend.Love the way that it turned out. The quilting is actually done with a lime green thread that matches the back. However, the thread is very thin and you have to be up close to notice what color it is. The batting is Quilters Dream 70/30 and it quilts beautifully. I really love Quilters Dream battings they are all top quality.

This is a view of the quilt coming off of the machine. Look at the top take up bar and you can see the bright, bright green backing. That is the thread color on the quilting.

This was a really great quilt to work with. Good workmanship and 'plenty of backing'.

South Carolina has been really hot this past week, just like the rest of the country. The heat index here today is 107 and let me tell you it feels like it too.

Tori's leg continues to heal. She is now in a fiberglass cast from just below the knee to just above her toes. She is not allowed to drive so Andy is helping us out with everything. Don't know what we would do without him.

I can't believe that we are only 23 days from 'Summer Fun Quilt Camp'. Time for us to Rock and Roll to get everything ready. This is our first trip during the month of August so I really hope that the air conditioning holds out for our trip. I have plenty of things planned and I know that the 'show and tell' will be wonderful as usual.

OK, guess that I need to get back in the groove. Have a great week. I'll try to check in again sometime this week.

WHAT A WEEKEND !!

I try to post something at least every weekend. I had hoped to have pictures of the garden or all the quilting I had done on the longarm, but that was not to be. Last Friday Tori and I attended a continuing education class for dental hygiene credit hours that we needed. We had a wonderful morning and a fantastic lunch. I dropped her off at her house and headed home. Between the time I dropped her off and reached my house - about 15 minutes-- Tori spoke to her neighbor and then went to her front porch to get her mail. Aparently when she turned to leave the porch something did not move right and she fell off of the porch. A total of 12 inches to the ground. In doing that she broke her right leg in 3 places. Two breaks in the ankle area and one break high on the fibula. Luckily the neighbor was still in the yard and reached Tori and immediately called us. I was driving into the yard as Mr Loose Thread was walking out of the door. Long story short and a ride in an ambulance and a few hours in the ER at Richland. Tori has a partial cast on her left leg and a sprained right ankle. It has been an interesting weekend. Of course, the up side of this; Piper and I have spent most of the weekend together.
Dusty and Sherry came back into town today so that relieves alot of that stress. Dusty will be here to help Mr. Loose Thread and Sherry is always helpful in many ways and is always available to help. Andy (Tori's cousin) will be staying with the girls for a while to help get Tori to work and Piper to Daycare, so, all is under control.
Looks like things will be taken care of and my family has told me that I WILL go to Knoxville for the AQS show. That I WILL NOT worry or fret and that I WILL have a good time. Sooooooo, OK, no problem. I guess that I MUST leave on Tuesday and come back on Sunday. I MUST look at quilts, take classes, tour the vendors (please don't tell Mr. LT about the vendors), and eat in nice resturants. OK, if I MUST then I guess I am off to Knoxville on Tuesday morning.
The four blocks that appear in the picture are from the 'Little Quilts Twelve Days of Christmas' that is Designed by Wanda Hizer. I am enjoying this block of the month and Little Quilts has made it so easy. No big yards and yards of backing fabric like some othe BOM's. They have generous cuts of the background and plenty of the fabrics needed to complete the blocks. Very professional. Very good BOM.
OK, I am on my way to Knoxville. I hope to have lots of pictures and other stuff when I return. Have a good week--I know that I will.

Saturday

I spent today quilting a small top for Tori. She pieced this one several years ago and now she is going to give it to someone for Christmas.





Lucky person.

I used YLI varigated thread and warm and natural batting. The panograph is called Rain Drops and is the creation of Lisa Calle. I love this pattern and used it on my "Gallaxy Stars Quilt".

Did I mention "Gallaxy Stars"? I finished the binding yesterday and slept under it last night.

This slept pretty good too.

I have decided to do another one possibly using Christmas fabrics or maybe Halloween fabrics. Well, maybe I could use fall fabrics. That is the thing about this pattern, you could use any type of fabrics and have it turn out just great. Notice that I did use the pieced border option on this top. If I had some nice shams, I could just use this on my king size bed.

It was nice to escape into the studio today.

We had a real scare last weekend. Husband's Doctor detected a large mass in the right side of his chest and sent him for a CAT guided needle biopsy on Tuesday. He had known about this since the previous Thursday but did not want to tell me while I was dealing with Quilt Camp. He told me after I got home on Sunday. I thought that I was just going to collapse in front of him. This would be absolutely devastating, since he had his right lung removed 25 years ago due to lung cancer. Wellllllllllllllllll, we went to the hospital on Tuesday morning and the suugeon/radiologist ran the first CAT and after much consultation it was determined that what they/we were seeing was fluid. When the lung was removed the space was filled in with fluid and now has a few tiny calcified areas. He even went back and compared pictures from the past 25 years on the area. WHAT A RELIEF !!!! I can't tell you what a relief this was to both of us. So, we went to our favorite pasta resturant Tuesday and ate our favorites and had a wonderful bottle of wine. LIFE CAN BE GOOD, and some things are just not worth the the time it takes to deal with them.

Don't forget to order your 'Artful Bras' book from Quilters of SC. just click on the title and it will take you directly to the website order form.

If I do anything tomorrow, I'll let you know.