Name the ram contest

In case you hadn't heard, we bought a ram! He is 1/4 Dorper (the black part) and 3/4 St. Croix. He has a nice hair coat which was a major factor in choosing him. He was born in 2010 and his given name was 'Thing 1'. His twin was named 'Thing 2'. Randy has tentatively named him Captain Jack( because of his black pearls, says Randy), BUT, we already have a Jack so I'm soliciting other suggestions. Come on, send in your name ideas!

Ben is home and came out to watch Fly and I practice. Here are some pictures he took of the gang. This small group is Captain Jack in the front, then Caroline (waiting to see if she will give birth in the next week), Marshmallow, and then Jack.

And here are the rest of the sheep including this years three babies, 150 is Soda (girl from Dr. Pepper), 151 is Rosemary (from Freckles) and 101 is the boy PoP (from Dr. Pepper).

enjoy!

Two borders at the same time, Xs and Os.

This was an awesome border design I found in a book. I quilted both sides at the same time by alternating from inside to outside. I also quilted a fun leaf design in the Xs and Os to set them off.

Cyndi's turtle quilt

This quilt required turtles! I challenged Cyndi to come up with a continuous quilting turtle and she delivered a winner of course! These were fun to quilt but hard because I couldn't see the chalk on the quilt! Enjoy.

feathered circle on charity quilt

Here is another quilt with a free hand feathered circle and some free hand block designs. I get my inspiration from magazines and books. I just love how this between block quilting turned out. Check out the back too!

Charity quilt with modern quilting

Here is a charity quilt that I quilted with a really nice and fast leaf design. Combined with the parallel squiggles, I'm pretty happy with the results. If I was doing it again , i might outline the blocks as well. Look for more squiggles from this quilter!

Snowballs by Rebecca

This is a quilt that Rebecca made as a wedding present. I love this fabric and the pattern! I quilted it with an organic wavy line across the blocks and then a little flower in the corners. Hope they like it!

Quilting for Shirley

Here is a quilt that my sister in law worked on the last few years. Of course she picked a complicated mariners compass for one of her first quilts! But it's just beautiful and I hope the quilting does it justice. It was fun to quilt and there are two layers of Hobbs wool batting.