I finally got it quilted. :D #1. I had to practice free motion quilting. #2. I had that craft sale stuff to finish #3. My daughter wants one of these for her new room in a house at college. So, the CW quilt has been temporarily set aside so I can get this ready for DD. She leaves Thursday....

The blue/green around the outside is one of the most beautiful colors I've ever seen--but the camera won't capture it. :?

There's only enough blue/green left to do one binding, so I pulled the tree truck brown fabric--and Rachel loves that--so I'll get green, she gets brown. :D I'll bind them tomorrow.

I'm getting much more confident with my stippling. :D :D :D

I also sandwiched "tranquility" and two other UFOs--I'll quilt them tomorrow. :wink:

Then it's back to the CW for hubby. :D

great job!

Great job Karla. Love the colors in the tree of life. Very pretty. Hope you and your mini's stay warm tonight. See where your getting hit with more 'weather'.

Very Pretty!!! And your stippling looks great too! :D

Okay--I tried to get a close up of the outside border color--I'll see if this looks close....

Alaskan lady--I am very weary of dealing with the weather as far as the horses are concerned. If it was just me I had to worry about--it'd not be a big deal. Take this morning, for example: I got up at 5:15 am on a Saturday :shock: because I knew the waters in the barn would be frozen. Then I emptied four 70 lb tubes of traction sand in the pasture (heavy!!) so the horses would have a path to walk on--I worry about them slipping--borken legs and lost foals :( . I also spread three buckets of lime--it adheres to ice and creates traction. Then I shoveled--again. Plus I did all the usual--clean stalls, empty buckets, make stalls up, get hay down for the week. It took two hours. I ate a double serving of oatmeal when I came in. :D

Thanks Melissa. Maybe it was just a phase before--a hormonal one? :lol: I'm glad I got through it. :oops:

Oh YES--that's the color!! Try to visualize it on the photo above. :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol: But it was a fun Phase!!!! :wink:

Great job, Karla. I love your tree of life!

Looks beautiful Karla

love the tree !!

WOW ! Its beautiful !
Sharon

Really nice Karla and you sound like you are getting your UFO's done too. We'll hope for a break in the weather for you. That is alot of work for you. I'm sure your babies appreciate what you do for them.

That is beautiful! Did you have a pattern to go by? IF so, where did you get it? Or did you design it yourself? Very pretty colors & the quilting is great too. Congrats on finishing it so well!
Linda

Beautiful Karla....I admire your tenacity and diligence in looking after the mini's, especially during all the bad weather, I don't know how you manage, your workload is enormous and to work full time too..how do you find the time to sew?? :shock: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :D

ooooooooooooooooo pretty. great job

Your Tree of Life has turned out beautiful.

Karla, that is really turning out great! I love that green color you have also. YOur stippling is looking better and better.

Sorry for all your snow. I feel for you...don't you have the trough heaters for your water? Or the automatic waters that don't freeze??? :shock: :shock: Where you live....welll worth every penny I'd say!!

Beautiful, Karla--the grey and black background really sets off the tree. Was it a kit or did you design it? Regardless, I would want to keep that one so I could look at it every day!

Awesome job, Karla!! WTG!!!

Beautiful and great stippling. Yes, get some of the electric water heaters to put in the water trough, worth every penny :D

For those who asked, the pattern is from a book called "Big-Block Quilts by Magic" by Nancy Johnson-Srebro.

No heated water outside here. To be honest--they scare me--the paper ran a story about a horse who was electrocuted from one that shorted last winter. :( Plus--I don't think we have a good electric set-up to do it. It's a big old barn--and the electric box is new--but not all the wiring is. I'll carry... and empty. :wink:

Oh wow! How nice the fall colors show on the gray black backgrounds. Good choice!

Thanks for the pattern info.
L

Oh yea, forgot how horses can chew everything they can get to :oops:

very nice Tree of Life

fantastic..you are doing so well with your stippling too. .

bluebird--the horse didn't chew it--the water had electricity running in it--but I've heard they can short out and the horse gets shocked. I'd never sleep if I had them. :roll:

you've got a full plate and can do mind boggling quilting. where do you get the energy? must be magic oatmeal! C

It's beautiful, and I agree about that green!

I wish those water heater things weren't so scary.

I like it!!

Very nice. Great work.

Karla-you have done a beautiful job!!! Both the quilting on the tree and your stippling are superb!!! I can see why Rachel wants this quilt to hang in her new room! Wonderful!

Your love for your minis shows in every thing you do for them. :D