End of summer fun

It's chile roasting time. This time of year, Nate gets the itch for roasted green chile. He has been buying them up from the farmer's market and trying to simulate NM chile roasting on our grill. So far it hasn't quite been the same as NM.

Jakey and mommy have a special reading corner. This is also where most of Jacob's toys are kept. It's kind of a mess back here, but it's his special place.

My first quilt

I know I have quilted many quilts, but this is the first one I've done with my own pattern and materials. The layout of the quilt using dark/ light squares quilted in triangles. The greatest thing about this quilt is that every single bit, down to the thread is all thrifted, vintage and secondhand. It was all headed for a landfill and it has been rescued. I think I could get addicted to this. Most of the flowered patterns are vintage sheets that I got from a vintage sheet square swap.

Here is the almost finished quilt hanging on the line. I couldn't wait until the binding was finished to take pictures of it.

Here is the back of the quilt. It is a little bit off at the bottom. I"ll have to work on that. I think the bottom fabric pulled away a bit from the top 2 layers as I was quilting it. Otherwise I am really happy with this quilt.

#22

We got 2 1/2 quilt backs out of this large king sized sheet. For those of you who are bored with this pattern, I am mainly recording the quilts for our records, not because I think they are really all that interesting to look at now that we are into our 20th quilt with pretty much the same pattern.

#20 and 21

Refuge House #18 &19

More quilts and more vintage sheets. The exciting thing about this batch of quilts is that we completed them in 1 month, 2 nights of quilting and putting them together and a few extra days of me sewing the bindings and washing them. We are getting really good at this. Manna and Amy sewed a few of the bindings on these quilts and Shelley, Lidia and Manna put most of the tops together.