January 6, 2017

Happy New Year.  My kids made it back to New York fine. I sure is quite here without them. We all miss them. I really miss Megan's laugh! But, Brooklyn is where they live and if Megan had not moved to New York she probably would not have met Patrick. It is wonderful to see Megan happy!
Megan did my hair color before she left.  She always gets it just the color I want! My next job will be to get all the decorations taken down and put away. I enjoy putting them up, but really don't care for taking them down and fitting everything back into the proper boxes and totes.

I am ready for warmer weather! All the photos of snow is so pretty, but.... I don't miss the snow one bit!

I picked up my Fiber Art pieces from the St. George Art Museum yesterday. A few will go up on the walls once I get the Christmas things down, but a lot of them will just be rolled up, put in bags and put in the closet.  The museum has asked for donation of art work this year. I am thinking about donating my piece called 'Stages'. It was made to represent the prairies. It is a tryptic that I will never display. It was piece that everyone enjoyed and it fits in a venue like the Museum. It would be nice if they would purchase it, but that didn't happen. It would benefit from being put in a shadow box frame, but I don't have access to the tools to make a frame, nor the extra funds to pay someone to make such a frame.

I finished a quilt for Donna S. She picked it up today and was very happy with it. I really like how it turned out. We used wool batting and Superior Thread's Sew Fine in the top and the bobbin. I used a panto called Brilliance. I love this pantograph. It is replacing Square Spiral as my favorite.

Now..... time to get a bit of paper work done. It is time to remit the taxes I have collected to the state.  Happy Quilting!

Thursday Dec 29, 2016

                    These are a few more of the client quilts I have finished over the past few months.

Shirl's quilts. She was very productive, getting quilts done for all her grand children her great grand children!

Bev's cute jean quilt!

Laura's quilts.... she was another very productive client! I love this pantograph, Brilliance.

Karen's quilt


As this year comes to a close, there are now things I need to get done for the business end of things.  That is not nearly as much fun as the actual quilting, but it has to be done. I have been so very blessed to have been able to spend time with family and friends over the Holiday Season.   It's time to think about dinner, I will close for now. Until next time ....
Happy Quilting

Season's Greetings

Though I would attach our Christmas card.  This watercolor is done of what I remember my Grandma Funk's home to look like. Both she and the farm house are no longer with us.  I hope everyone had a great Christmas and that we all have a better 2017 than 2016 has been. In light of the current election I am afraid that might not be the case. I hope I am wrong, but..... it really isn't looking good. This posting is not going to be political though.

2016 has held a lot of things for me, both good and bad. I am going to try to stay focused on the good. I have had a couple of exhibits this past year.  The last is currently at the St. George Art Museum, here in St. George, Utah. It will be there only until the 31 of December.   Candice is doing well in school and about ready to graduate. She will be applying to graduate schools. We have been lucky to have Megan and Patrick here twice this year. They are both doing good, both working hard and enjoying life in New York.  Meg is working hard and going to school.  Dave is doing pretty good as well.  One of the negative things we are going through is the possibility of Dave loosing his job.  We are hoping and praying that this does not happen. If we have to relocate.... well..... we relocate. Hopefully we will not have to cross this bridge, again.

I have been very busy with client work this past few months. I am enjoying that.  Right now I only have 3 quilts awaiting me. I will get at them as soon as the kids head back to New York. There are a couple of shows I might enter coming up. I have not decided about that yet.  Now that this blog seems to be easier to use. I will try to remember to post at least once a week.  I still don't have my website up and going. Patrick is waiting for me.

My goals this for 2017, besides getting more fit, is to focus on my painting more. I have done very little painting and really miss that. I am going to try to spend less time working on other's projects and focus on some of my own.  If Dave's job is solid and IHC signs a contract, I am going to cut down my client work. I still want to do some, but really need time to do my own art.  I have sold two pieces this past year, neither were high dollar, but I have hopes. My patterns are selling well, in the one store I have them in. I was going to have thing on a web site, so the patterns could be down loaded as PDF's but I really have not had time to even think about that.  Also...... I am thinking about a class, am working on a book and various other things.  We will see how much I accomplish this year.  I am going to become more computer savvy. I have to or I have to just quit.

Janice's

My quilt

Shauna's quilt

Darlene's

I am going to close for a while.  I have many other photos of quilts to post, but I need reduce their sizes, I guess.  My machine has hung on uploading, won't up load but won't let me disconnect either. Until later..... Charlotte

September 20, 2016

The summer is gone and I have really gotten a lot accomplished. It has been so nice here in St. George in the mornings that I have not been motivated to do anything but sit out and soak up the cooling weather and the sun. Today it feels like fall. I am not going to have any problem working.

I have not posted anything in a while. I post stuff on my Facebook page and kind of fill that it is where my time is best spent. I thought I would add a few photos of the things I have been working done since I last posted. For some reason the photos are not loading and will not let me cancel and start again. So.... if you are reading this and wish to see what I have done, go to my Facebook business account Charlotte Purcell Gary. I have a website being working on too.

Happy Quilting
Charlotte

August 22, 2016

  I have been busy trying to keep up. The Painted Hills Fiber Artists have a show at the St. George Art Museum, here in St. George, Utah August 27-December 31, 2016.  If you are in the area please check it out.
I have my Simple Cell Phone Case pattern in a couple of shops. One shop 'Scrap Apple Quilts'  located here in St. George, Utah and 'It's Sew Moab' located in my home town of Moab, Utah. I have a web site being built by Patrick Sayer's. So lots of positive things going on in my life.

I finished another couple of client's quilt. One was another pineapple...same as the last so I won't post a photo of it. I did do a great pantograph for a client.

the panto is call mimosa. I really like the way it turned out. A friend and fellow quilt and I ordered a bunch on new pantographs.  I hope I have more clients that will want over all quilting done. A lot of times that is all a quilt requires.  Sometimes custom is called for, but more times than not, a over all design would work just fine and cost the client a lot less than custom with wonderful outcome. 

Until latter...... Happy Quilting to you all

August 6

August 6...... Today was my Mom's Birthday. I still think about calling her and telling her something that is going on in my life from time to time and then remember she is gone.

I finished this quilt for Darlene Gardner. It was a fun quilt. I did use a pantograph on this one. This pantograph was a bit time consuming. It requires 4 passes for each roll of the quilt. I borrowed the pantograph from my friend and fellow quilter, Cathie Purdy. Thanks Cathie!

Time to fix something for dinner..... don't know what. Would rather quilt!

Aug 3, 2016

Dave and I had a wonderful weekend with high school friends. I am so glad we went. I actually just sat and enjoyed the setting. I honestly can't remember when I just sat before. I always work on some kind of hand work or appliqué quilting. I did get a drawing and a watercolor sketch done one afternoon. Dave and I cooked breakfast for one of the days for the group too. There were 9 couples there. We stayed at place on the LaSal Mtns. called Whispering Oaks. It is a perfect spot for reunions. 

We had a flat on our c-max while coming down off the mountain from our weekend, in a tire were had just replaced the week before because of a nail! That was not so great. The little car does not have a spare. Thankfully Dave had a patch kit in the car. He did not have pliers in the car though and he had to pull a piece of metal out of the tire before he could patch it. Some of our friends stopped to help us. If they had not come down off the mountain the same direction as us, we would have had a major problem! We will not purchase another car that does not have a spare. I don't want one that does not have a full size spare. I drive from here to Moab often by myself. There are places across the swell where this is no cell phone reception at all. If I happened to get a flat and someone stopped to help me... it would not make any difference, since there is nothing but a kit to put the stuff in the tire that plugs the hole and inflates the tire.  Not only does it plug the hole, but it messes up the stem on the tire.   We did not ask about the spare and were not told by any sales person that there was no spare here at the Ford dealership in St. George.  Had we really thought about it, we would not have purchased the car. 

I got accomplished today. I finished this wonderful pineapple quilt... put 19+ hours into this. It turned out very good, I think. I hope the client likes it. I think she will.

 I finished this today also. It is a small baby quilt. I think it turned out very cute. I really like this pantograph.

 It has been a long day and I need to call it a day and get some sleep. I have another busy day tomorrow.  Good night!