My sister's baby quilt

Blush

I have loved all of the fabric that Basic Grey has put out. Blush is no exception. This is a wall hanging I made for my boss, Sandy (from Oh My Crafts). I've been wanting to do a quilt like this and it was easy and fun to make. Now I'll just have to make one for me! :)

We did it!

Jandi and I made it into the top 10! Now we just need you to help us by voting! You can do that here! Thanks!!

My Newest Quilt

My friend Jandi invited me to do a contest with her for allpeoplequilt.com. I am really excited to enter this one. It was a lot of fun to be creative and decide how I wanted to embellish this quilt. I'm really happy with it! I made the picos all the way around it, made the yoyo flowers and used ribbon to make the stems and connect all the flowers. Then I quilted the whole thing too! It took a lot of hours and hopefully she and I will win and it will all be worth it! haha

I finished something!!

I finally got some time and motivation to finish some sewing! I got two quilts done this week! Both are baby quilts (I had to start small :) ) I have no idea who they are for, but I love the way they turned out.

The first one is the fabric and pattern I won from Camille from her quilt blog hop this summer. (Thanks Camille!)




This second one has been my problem quilt. I had this fabric just sitting in my stash, so I decided to do something with it. I decided to use my new machine to quilt it too. Holy cow...what a process! I quilted the whole thing without checking the back first, when I was completely done I turned it over and saw that the tension was off and nothing was holding! I took my machine into Nuttall's and they told me it was the thread. So I picked out EVERYTHING and changed my thread and quilted it again. I looked at the back and saw it was EXACTLY the same! (Didn't I learn the first time?!) I took the machine back in to the same shop I bought it from and was about in tears telling her what happened! She took a look at the machine and played with it a little bit and fixed it! I took it home and picked out the 2nd quilting and got started right away--for the 3rd time!! Anyway, I love the way it turned out: Here it is!

Halloween Quilt

This is one of my favorites that I made. It was a lot of fun to make and create!


I love this one-I saw one with the same idea at quilting guild a few months ago and decided to make one for me! I printed all the pictures that I found from online onto muslin and then made nine patches to go in-between. I took closeups of my 3 favorite pictures and then I took a close up of one of the nine patches to show you the awesome quilting job on it. Each nine patch has a spider web in it and all the pictures are framed. The border has moons all around it. This has got to be one of my favorites that I've done and I didn't even have a pattern! Crazy!

I have been sewing...

You may not be able to tell by my blog, but I have been sewing lately! Last month I finished putting together my Christmas quilt using Moda's Figgy Pudding fabric and Mary's Cottage Quilt's Crossroads Pattern. I brought it to show at Quilt Guild in August and Mary was there doing our trunk show! She was so nice and did a great job!






Here is my next project I'm working on. Obviously in pieces :) This is using the fabric that I won from Camille's quilt parade last month. I am making a baby blanket, using the pattern that I got from Camille too! I am so excited to see how it turns out!

And here is a picture of my haircut I just got today. It's different from what I've had. I love it!

Asher's Quilt

I finally got this quilt finished for Asher's bed. I am glad that it is finally done. I used the Back Porch Bouquet Moda fabric. I used the Peas and Carrots pattern from Green Fairy Quilts. And my quilter did a great job on it. Asher is in love with it and wants to show it to everyone who comes over! Thanks Asher for loving it so much! I love you!

Finished Projects

Because I didn't get to showcase this one when I finished it except on my last post, I'm going to post it again, and show the other projects I've finished this week! I am trying to make room in my tiny little house for all these projects, so I have decided to not start anything else until I am done with what I've got going...I'm almost there!!

I bought this kit from the Quilt Shop Hop (see this post to see what I got) from Elaine's up on 3300 East. It is totally different from what I usually do. Lots of bright colors. Most of my colors are more muted usually. What do you think? I even quilted it myself after taking my class from Carmen Geddes at Broadbents. It's not great, but it is a first try...you can't tell from this picture how bad it actually is :)



I finally finished this quilt that has been sitting for a few months. I hand quilted this one and finished the binding tonight! Another one down!



And last project I finished this week is this carseat cover for my cousin! She's having a little boy anytime, so I am sending it in the mail to her tomorrorw! This is a super fast project that is so cute and fun to make!

My First Quilt

Here is a picture of my first quilt that I made. I told my mother in law that I didn't want to do anything hard, so I would just skip the applique. She wouldn't let me get off that easily, and now I'm so glad she didn't! I LOVE applique! So anyway, here it is:


And here is a picture of my lastest quilt. I love this fabric, it's totally different from anything I usually do. It's fun and bright and puts a smile on my face! And I even did the quilting myself on my Bernina!



And I've learned that going out of your comfort zone is the only way to learn something new...and that the iron can be your best friend when quilting. :)

Father's Day Quilt

I made this quilt for my dad for Father's Day. I love the colors in it and I even made sure to throw in some music fabric because my dad LOVES music. He has been the same band ever since I can remember. I love listening to them-I've always been kind of made fun of because of how much I love oldies music-but that's what I grew up with! My dad's band plays 50's, 60's and country music. Anyway, so I made this quilt for him because he is ALWAYS cold! :) He lives in Las Vegas for heaven's sake and always has a jacket or blanket on him when he's in the house! He called me this morning to let me know he got it in the mail and even told me it would be good for winter too to help keep his feet warm at night! :)



This is the first quilt that I quilted on my sewing machine. It was really fun to learn how to do. Of course, I couldn't wait for my class to start it, so this is pre-instruction. But I think I did pretty good!



I love my dad and want to wish him a Happy Father's Day!

The Last of My Quilts

Before I show you pictures of my quilts, I want to show you what my kids were doing as I was finishing up my quilts and things I was making for the home tour...


Jaman was making quilts at first, but then when he saw that I was making pillowcases too, he stopped and made a few pillowcases out of paper also! The funny thing was that he wanted to do it just like me, use my cutting board and everything! Funny kid!



Asher just enjoys cutting anything, so that's what she was doing!! They are so cute!




Here they are! The final few of the quilts that I made! It's weird to be completely done with them and have them all set up in the house ready to be sold tomorrow and Friday!


This quilt was made out of Lancaster County fabric. I sewed the material into nine patches and then cut each nine patch into fourths. Then turned each square. I think it made for a fun design.


Here's an upclose shot of it.


This is a blue and white metallic Christmas quilt. It is a rail quilt.


An upclose of the rails.


This is an I Spy quilt. Each of the squares are a different material. You have to try and find all the different objects in the quilt.


I got this idea from my friend Paula. I think it's great and have the stuff to make one for each of my kids...someday


I love this quilt. It's a little crazy and not really me, but I LOVE the purple and blue border around it. It was a really fun quilt to make.


And it was a lot of work! Look at all the little squares that had to be not only sewn but matched up!


This is something totally different from what I would usually do. It's preprinted and a story book and I just made it into a quilt. It was fun making it though. Not really the colors I'm used to.




This was a really fun quilt to make. Just laying it out really hurt my eyes! :) Once it got quilted, it's now much easier on them!


This was fun to mix and match everything!


Here is the basket of pillowcases I made too.


They are all Christmas pillowcases. Each has a little paper on them that says:

Wishes really do come true!

Each night in the month of December, make a wish for someone else.
On Christmas Eve, you can make a wish for yourself.

Please remember other's during this holiday season.


Here's an example of one that I made. I thought they were fun. I did a few that were more geared toward little kids and some that could be for adults! I think they are fun!


Whew! I'm done! As long as sales are good, I'll do it again next year. I'll just plan ahead more and start a tad bit earlier... :)

More Quilts

More Quilts I made for the 2008 Christmas Home tour

Here are some more of the quilts I have been working on. It's been so much fun trying to come up with a new pattern for all the different fabrics!! I love that no two quilts are the same!! I need to thank Just Sew in Highland for helping with some of the bindings! And all the ladies who have donated time and batting and some cases material to help quilt and bind these quilts!! You are all amazing. I know the kids in Ghana will benefit so much from the profits of these quilts. Thanks to all who have helped or donated a quilt for our cause! We owe you so much!!


Here is one of the Dick and Jane quilts. This was so fun to make. All of the materials are specific to Dick and Jane.


Parts of the story are printed on the fabric:


Here is a closeup of some of the borders that I did on it.


The second Dick and Jane quilt. It is almost the same, but some of the materials are different.


A close up of this one's border


Here is the Halloween quilt that I made


This one was really fun to make. I LOVE Halloween


Here is the last one for now. It is made out of Batik. I found a similar pattern online and then made this one up. Blue is not my favorite color, but I really like this wall hanging!



The lady who quilted it put fun snowflakes all over the whole thing. It is so cute!


Again, thanks to all who have helped. The home tour is in less than 3 weeks!! I still have about 7 quilts at the quilters and about 18 pillowcases to make!