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!

Quilts, Quilts, Quilts

Quilts for our 2008 Christmas Home Tour

I've got 4 of my quilts completely finished-piecing, quilting, and binding. I am hoping to get the rest back from the quilters pretty quickly so I get going on those bindings!! Here you go!!

This quilt is actually not being sold. This is the one that I made for Jan who did the 100 mile run for our non-profit group, Signs of Hope International. It has handprints and names of kids from one of the schools that we work in. The middle one doesn't have a name on it to show the countless others that still need help.


This is the handprint of Curry's favorite kid over there, Solomon.


The rest of these quilts are going to be sold at our Christmas Home Tour this year. I hope that it goes well, this is our first year with a lot of vendors!

This is the boy boy quilt that I made. It's a John Deere quilt. I love it, Curry wasn't too sure about it when I showed him the fabric.


I love what the quilter did in the yellow squares. She sewed little corns into the quilt!


This is the table runner/wall hanging that I made. It's out of the Pumpkins Gone Wild Fabric.


This is one of the baby girl quilts that I made. I loved the pattern and had some left over fabric from the quilt that Curry made, so I incorporated that into this quilt.


I think it is so simple and so girly.


I also made some nursing covers. I never nursed Asher, but I imagine it would be hard to keep a blanket over you and check on the baby without showing a little much... So I made these with some really fun fabrics!













Look for more to be posted...hopefully soon!!

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!








The other one turned out cute and I'm excited to give it away! I think the person I am giving it to will love it! The two quilts that I pieced last week will be two of many that I am making for our Christmas home tour, Once Upon a Christmas. We are going to have many booths this year that people can buy things, and some of the proceeds will go to Signs of Hope, our non-profit organization. I will be so busy sewing for the next few months, trying to get as many as I can done! Hopefully it is worth it in the end! :

Oh My Stars!

I love going back and seeing what I've accomplished in the last 2 years! This is so fun!

I finished another quilt. I have had the top done for a while, but was waiting to take it to the quilters. Then June was so busy that I didn't have time to do the binding. I finally just sat down and did it while the kids played outside. I really like this one. It's another Buggy Barn quilt. I took a picture from far away to show the whole quilt and one closer so you can see that there is 2 stars in each border.

My Mother's Day gift to my Mom

Here are the placemats that I made for my mom for Mother's Day. The way they are laid, it looks a little off, but they turned out really

Stripe-y Stripe-y

A baby quilt that I made for a friend of ours...

Here is a picture of the quilt I just finished! I have no idea who or what it is for, I just saw it in the store, loved it, so I made it. I took some work since I am not very good at sewing straight lines. I am pretty happy with it though. The lines are straighter than they look in the picture. This one was fun because I don't usually do bright colors. I like the darker, bold colors. So it was something different for me. I think it turned out cute!



This one is really easy-it's a quilt as you go. The background is just one piece and as you sew the strips on, you have the batting and backing on there, so it is quilted as you sew the strips. That's why you want to have really straight lines. It's fun because it's a frayed quilt