Hallowedding Quilt FINISHED

I am so excited to finally be able to share the Hallowedding quilt 

I made for my daughter with everyone!!! 

 This quilt began following a Epic Halloween QAL on Flying Parrot Quilts blog. 

 Sylvia complied a bunch of really cool patterns and has all the links there so I am not going to list them all here unless I used ones she did not and I will include those.

First up are a few photos of the finished quilt.  Front

Back

I am sorry but this post will have LOTS of photos and not a lot of words! 

I will say that I deviated from the QAL and

 added some things that had meaning for my daughter and new SIL.    

First up I wanted to include the raven dressed as a peacock that was on their wedding invitations.

The original bird was drawn by a friend of my daughter's, Michele Warner.

I had to draw the block and then I did thread painting for the tail.

I wanted to put in the word Hallowedding.

 I used the same font that was on their wedding invitations.

I also wanted to include their names.

I wanted to somehow include the wedding date.

My quilter, Kathy, put their initials in a heart on the grave stone too.  

This pattern is from Joanne Milnes but I embroidered the spider and the date.  

You can find it on Craftsy.

 This cauldron came from Fandom In Stitches, Jennifer Ofenstein

Spider webs were made using a specific ruler.

Black cat came from a pattern by Artisania.

Potion bottles.

This one is from Fandom in Stitches, Shae Merritt

You saw the LARGE bat up above, this is the medium one.

Pattern is Midnight Bite by Lillyella

And the smallest one

Spooky eyes, from Happy Sew Lucky

The spiders were by Flying Parrot Quilts and can be found in the QAL on her blog.

Samll

Medium

Large

Haunted house by Flying Parrot Quilts

Probably one of my favorites is this Ring of Coffins by Jessee of Art School Drop Out

Candy corns and Witch's hats by Flying Parrot Quilts.

Witches were by Rebecca and can be found on Craftsy.

I found this peacock in the Ghastlies fabric and thought this placement was awesome!  This one is Beep and the one on the red background represented Gizmo.  Both were my daughter's house peacocks.

I had a long skinny spot that Sebastian fit in purrrfectly!

Label hand embroidered by me!

Finally a photo of the quilt hanging in my back yard.

The newlyweds!

They LOVE it!!

I hope you have enjoyed the sharing of this quilt.

It is an amazing one and it took FOREVER to finish.

I am hoping to send it to a few quilt shows before it settles in it's new home forever.

I am linking up with Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.

I would love to hear what you think of this one!

Congratulations Shelby and Eric, we love you!!

Enjoy your weekend!

~XOP~

WIPs With Friends

I have been working hard on getting those dragons finished up. 

 I have so many other things I need to work on!  

I have the third dragon sewn together and the fourth one has all the paper piecing done, 

he just needs to be assembled.

 Pile of black and green dragon parts.

Black dragon finished

Green dragon waiting to be pieced.

I will link up with Sew Fresh Quilts

Please take a few minutes and share what you have been working on too!

~XOP~

An InLinkz Link-up

A Tribute and Farewell to Beep

Yesterday, Beep made a trip to the vet. 

 She was having some trouble breathing.  

The vet felt she needed to have oxygen and be monitored through the night 

so sent my daughter and Beep to the ER vet in a neighboring city.  

Beep had Pneumonia, most certainly a complication from the surgery.  

The vets put her in oxygen and gave her a mild sedative and some antibiotics, 

but her little birdie body just could not hang in there any longer.  

They called my daughter to come as quickly as she could since Beep's heart had stopped once.  

She made it there so that Beep passed in her arms.  

It is hard to believe she is gone.  

Hard to imagine going to the house and not seeing Beep there anymore.  

My daughter drove to my home early this morning.  

She came to my room, told me that we lost Beep and climbed into my bed, crying.  

I held her as we both cried.  

She decided to go home and try to get some sleep as she was exhausted.

  I will go check on her later today and we will talk about how much we loved that silly bird.

Fo now a photo tribute to our little Beep.

This is one of my favorite shots of Beep.  With Shelby and Eric on their wedding day.

Christmas at our house.

Showing off her new diaper that grandma made.

Her first egg.

Beep at Easter

Celebrating her birthday!

Beep turns one!

I love this photo of her.

RIP sweet Bijoux (Beep) your sassy little self will most definitely be missed!

~Love Grandma