Longarm Quilting

I've been putting up a few new patterns on my pinterest board and will be working to add a border board and block board for more custom jobs in the next week or two. 

Currently running a special of ALL Edge to Edge designs are $.01 an inch.  This is a great deal and won't last forever, so take advantage while you can! 
I am offering a 72 hour turnaround on edge to edge designed quilts.
Quilts with edge to edge design but separate border design are $.015 for up to 2 borders. 
Custom quilting begins at $.02 an inch and goes up depending on complexity. 
I have batting available for $7 a yard.
I will ship quilts back - and only charge actual shipping costs. 
No hidden costs!  Quilting, Batting, and tax if you live in Utah are the only charges on the invoice. 

Contact me if you're interested - abby@latimerlane.com check out my pinterest board to view designs.

Happy Birthday Mom and Dad

This week is always a busy week in April - as we celebrate my mom's birthday on the 17th and my dad's birthday on the 20th. 

This year my mom had a big one - the BIG 60.  My siblings and I decided to send her for a little spa day and it was so much to surprise her with it.  My mom is so giving and helps us all so much - this day was longtime coming and very much deserved.  She is such a great mom and the best grandma to our kids.  We are lucky to have her. 

Jim's birthday is tomorrow and we are taking him breakfast at the Iceburg his favorite spot in the world.  My dad is so loving, kind, hard working, honest - the best dad a girl could ever ask for.

I am lucky to have such great parents and to have them be such a big part of my life and lives of my kids.

Love you both - Happy Birthday!

Menu Mondays

It's been awhile! I have a goal this week - and only 1 goal.  To lose weight!  I'm going to be so hungry and so onary by Friday - but I'm going to do it!

Monday - Pesto Basil Tilapia w/salad (demoing Tilapia at Costco and Jake LOVED IT!)
Tuesday - Basalmic Grilled chicken w/ fruit
Wednesday - Chicken Broccoli Casserole w/grapes
Thursday - Bean Burritos w/edamame
Friday - Turkey Meatballs w/pineapple

For the rest of my meals - I'm focusing on fruit and protein - like edamame, hummas, cottage cheese w/tomatoes.  Maybe throw in a little oatmeal to feel full!

Goal is to eat good - and get active this week!

WIP Wednesdays

We have been hit HARD with a horrible flu this last week.  It has lingered and has not been fun.  Felt the weekend was a bit wasted as laid around and watched a lot of TV.

I had purchased and watched the Craftsy class Pre-Cut Piecing Made Simple by Camille Roskelley which is so worth the money.  Great tips and tricks.  New patterns, great ideas.  Very helpful.  One of the patterns is some ideas on half squared triangles - and I feel in love with the look and with the ideas.

So I got a couple of Marmalade charm packs and couple of white charm packs - put Jake to work drawing some lines down the middle (that was a fun exercise) and made about 84 half square triangle blocks.  

I spent Friday night trimming them up - and playing with some ideas.

Loving the star look - I think a whole quilt in these would be to die for!

I have been wanting to make a quilt using this block for a long time - so I decided on a couple more and came up with this....

I love how this is turning out!  I can't decide whether to keep going and make it bigger or stick with a baby sized quilt.  I have a few showers coming up - thinking this could be a cute baby quilt. 

What do you think?

linking up to WIP Wednesdays

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Finish Up Fridays

Client Quilts

 This was a cute quilt done out of Grace fabrics.  My client wanted the dresses and the sashing outlined and the borders done in an all over design.  

I was excited to try out a new (to me) design called Anne's Favorite Flower.  I don't even have it listed yet as one of my patterns I offer - but I love how it turned out!

You can see it best in the photo below.  This is a great pattern and is very striking on a quilt. 

The next 3 quilts are from my cute client Rinda.  She comes up by with some of the cutest quilts - hard to give them back to her.  

This quilt was just center fabric surrounded by charm pack squares and some cute appliqué.  She wanted the Tumbling Bears and Hearts pattern.  I hadn't used this pattern before and thought it turned out cute.  So sweet for a baby blanket.  Hard to see the detail in the pictures - but fun pattern!

The next quilt I think is the disappearing nine patch pattern.  She chose the pattern Flower Panto for her design.  I hadn't used it before, and to be honest wasn't that excited as I didn't love the look of it.  

Once it started quilting - I changed my story fast!  I love how it turned out.  Love the detailed flowers.  I really enjoy this process of quilting - and opening my eyes to patterns I wouldn't normally chose myself.  Love a surprise like this!

The back looked so good!

And her last one - I love this x's and o's pattern.  I really need to make one for me.  She chose Candyland which is one of my favorites!

Rinda uses minky on the back of a lot of her quilts and I love how it looks!  They all turned out so well.  

Remember - I'm currently offering all my edge to edge patterns for $.01 an inch - so if you're interested email me at abby@latimerlane.com to get scheduled.  My current turn around time is 72 hours so take advantage before prices increase.  

WIP Wednesdays- Quilting Update

A few picture of what I got done this last weekend.

 

First up is this cute quilt - the picture does not even come close to doing it justice.  It was so cute. Greys, reds, and navy.  I think this is a great pattern (Atkinson Designs).  All the fabrics were geometric designs.  My client told me to pick the design - so I went with Geometric which is triangles and fit in well with the look and feel.  I want to run out and buy myself all these prints.  It was such a cute quilt. 

 

 

This next quilt I used Rose Leaves.  My client picked this pattern and I hadn't used it before. 

 

I love getting to use new patterns.  This quilt was so cute.  Love all these squares.  The quilting pattern was a lot cuter quilted out too.  Funny how I don't always love the look when I first see them on paper, but once quilted they look so pretty!

This next quilt I threw together.  I started it about 4 years ago....had 4 rows sewn together.  I pulled it out a few years ago to give as a wedding gift.  They have been married and have their 2nd kid on the way - so that should give you a good time frame of how late I am.  I decided to pull it out a few weeks ago to give as a gift to someone - and missed that deadline too.  SERIOUSLY! 

 

So this weekend I told myself I was getting it sewn and quilted - and I did.  Love how the quilting turned out.  I used Drop of Paisley as the quilting pattern - and loved it.  I have been wanting to try this one for awhile, and I was happy with how it quilted out.  This back was in my stash - and I even pieced my batting from a couple of strip scraps so I feel like this was kind of one of those freeish quilts.  Love those!

 

Linking up to Freshly Pieced WIP Wednesdays!

Quick Getaway

So a few weeks ago - Mike decided to book a week up in Park City.  I was a little annoyed as I am so busy at work these days - how would I be able to get away?  He also booked it on a weekend when I had a big roll out and wouldn't be able to come up right away.

Friday night rolls around and he got the kids all packed up and ready and headed up.  They spent the night hot tubbing and playing their ipads. 

I finally got up there around midnight - to sleeping boys. 

I was amazed at how much we did Saturday and Sunday.  We had such a fun time and did so much - it made it all worth the trip. 

Saturday we went sledding at Gorgoza Park.  It was so much fun!  If you have little ones - and are in the area I would highly recomment it. 

  

We had a little take out at Baja Cantina and then Jake and I went out for a little night skiing.  It is so peaceful and nice to be up there at night.  I love to watch Jake ski - he loves it so much.  He wants to stay out all night!  He fell once or twice and when I went over to help him up he looked up at me and said - "that was a good battle wound mom". 

Sunday, Mike headed out to ski while the kids and I were lazy and laid in bed.  It was nice to sleep in and not have to do anything or be anywhere.  Jake went back out for for another day of skiing and by the end of the day he was going up lifts and getting mad that Mike wouldn't let him ski down blue runs.

Sam and I decided we were going to hit the Alpine Coaster Sunday afternoon.  He wanted to go fast the whole ride up - but as soon as we started going down, he wanted me to slow down.

All in all we had a nice little getaway.  I'm always surprised at what gets backed into a few days.  We spent time hot tubbing and the boys even swam.  

I would never tell Mike, but I'm glad he booked the room, even though I wasn't happy at first.  It was a nice needed break away from life.  Something we should do more often!