TROUT! and a visitor!

 This has been a busy time for me and I'm sorry that I haven't posted sooner, but I do have something to show you!  I just finished making a quilt for one of my grandsons who will be graduating from high school next week.  My DIL told me that he wanted a quilt to take to college and wanted it in red and blue.  I had no idea what to make, so I went to my favorite quilt shop (Boersma's in McMinnville, OR) to see if they had any ideas.  One of their best workers showed me several quilts hanging up and we determined that a certain quilt by the name of TROUT would work.  The reasoning was that it could be made with red and blue and would be masculine enough for a college boy.  I had to order the pattern, which came pretty fast (thanks, Charisma!).  Then I went back to the quilt shop to find fabric.  The clerks there helped me pick out appropriate fabrics.  I didn't waste any time sewing it together and then quilting it myself on my domestic sewing machine.  Here are the pictures, front first, then back.

I sewed his name into the back.  It is a large and extra long twin sized it was a relief to get it finished!  Thank you to Charisma Horton for the pattern.  I wonder why she named it "Trout".  It sure doesn't look like a fish.

We will be going to his graduation 3 days after we attend our granddaughter Abby's graduation!

Since it has been so long since I have posted on this blog, I will tell you about some of my other projects.  I made a baby quilt for my grand nieces baby.  It is so cute!!

I also finished a table cloth that I made with Tilda fabrics.  Tilda is from Norway and since I have norwegian ancestry I thought it would be appropriate.  And I love the fabrics.  I backed it with flannel and quilted it in the white strips.

Yesterday I had a visitor!  It was Janet, from Rogue Quilter!  We have known each other for years via our blogs and I have won give-a-ways from her a few times.  She was going through McMinnville after visiting her daughter in southern Oregon and asked it we could meet at Boersma's quilt shop.  Of course, that worked for me as I live about 1/2 a mile from there!  It was a short visit, but as quilting friends, we understood each other right away!  Here is a picture of us in the shop!

I will try to be better at posting from now on - we shall see!  Thanks for visiting!