Ritzy those babies are beautiful! Congratulations to you all.

Whew! I just caught up on this thread! Yeah!

You ladies have been so busy and have done such beautiful work. I know if I start commenting, I will forget someone but I have to say that those hand-dyed fabrics are just beautiful. The bag, Annis' red quilts, Graneva's binding on the baby quilt--wonderful!

I am going to check and see what else I have missed on the forum. I am downloading books to my iPod. I leave for Missouri on Monday for an extended stay to help with babies. God, please give me strength. Hopefully, boys will sleep and I will be able to check in here so I don't get so far behind in my reading.

Thank you for the blessings for the boys and for the entertainment for their grandma.

Wonderful, Ritzy...Had been waiting to hear !! They're handsome !

Congratulations, Ritzy! I'm glad everything turned out so well!

Congratulations to Beccah and her boys ( all of them)

Congratulations to you Ritzy and all your family what lovely babies and such a good weight.
Anne

Congratulations Ritzy those lovely little babies but wow carrying them at that weight she must be glad they are out. They look so snuggly and lovely. What a relief they are here safe and sound.

Great picture of Eli and Coy what faces!! and so nice to see you again!

So glad to hear that the babies are here. And such good weights for both of them! I'm sure their mom is one tired lady. Give her our best.
May God bless the entire family,
Luann

UGH! I am ten pages behind on this thread but the good news is:


Beccah and her boys. Ezekiel was born first and was 7 lbs 2 oz, 20 1/2" long, Ezra was born two minutes later and was 6 lbs 8 oz and 19 1/2 " long. That is like two full term single birth babies!

And here is our Eli who was able to visit with his cousin Coy who was on his way to his first year of college.

Wendy and Luann - neat hand dyes! I like to use them but I've never considered making my own.
Annis - awesome latest red quilt tops and congrats on the machine purchase. Nice your granddaughters are interested.

Barb

Yes, the hand dyed fabric will be for sale. I have expanded the color wheel and as soon as those pieces are finished being pressed I can get a picture of them. I have also put together 36 other combos that use a percentage of each of my three primaries. I can make these according to what a customer wants, that's why I spend so much time developing and keeping track of my process. If someone only wants fat quarters of the red to yellow group I can do that as well. I prefer to only dye up to one yard sizes. Yards are cut at 40" so that after all the hot water washing and thread loss they are still very generous.

If anyone is interested in purchasing some of these, contact me on my personal email and we can work out the details.
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Luann
This is so you don't need to page back thru everything to see how the first portion of the color wheel turned out.

Luann your colorful fabric is absolutely gorgeous. Will you be selling any? It looks and sounds overwhelming to attempt.

Geneva another lovely quilt for your grandbaby. It looks so joyful.

Annis the red & white quilts are stunning. And what a lucky granddaughter. My granddaughters are not interested in sewing at all. They spend all of their time doing rodeo. I'm jealous!
Judy

You are going to miss the red and white rush, they are gorgeous again so congratulations what a display they will all be. Your DGD is going to have some fun with the machine lucky girl.

Graneva love the quilt, the embroidered name came out really well. All your baby quilts are so inspiring, I love to see them. and you've a little nor due in Jan, congratulations. Another baby quilt!

Finished piecing the last 2 red and white wall quilts. No time for details but they were a slow process, only doing 1 per week. Of course there were other things that took up some of my time. I'm hoping to finish all of the quilting and binding this weekend. Then I have a lot of catch up to do on things not quilt related.



A couple weeks ago my oldest DGD said she wanted to learn to do machine embroidery. I showed her my fancy machine thinking maybe she could get some use out of it since I still haven't. I could tell that it was a little overwhelming to her. So after much research I found an almost new machine on Ebay at a great price. This one looks user friendly and also sews. I'm hoping to check it out over Labor Day weekend. She said she prefers pictures instead of words so the Quick Reference Guide is perfect. She won't get to take it home until their new house is finished so it will be set up at my country home for now. I'm hoping to find a nice bag to hold all of the pieces so it doesn't have to be stored in a cardboard box. It also needs a walking foot and a 1/4" foot so will have to do some more shopping.



And I decided to get an embroidery only machine to keep at my country home for others that might want to use it, also at a great price. I've never sewn on a Brother before. This one is still in the box. It will eventually be passed down to another DGD in the future.



I ordered a CD with lots of embroidery designs and alphabets, about 1000 items that I want to turn into PDF documents so they will be easier to sort through. I can open them 1 at a time in my Art and Stitch program, then save them with different endings including what I need for my Pfaff. That will take some time! Maybe I will get motivated and actually start some machine embroidery soon.

I'm enjoying all of the discussions on fabric dyeing. It looks like so much fun. That definitely is not something I will be doing, anytime soon anyway. Years ago I did some sponge painting on fabric. I would probably enjoy doing something like that again.