November 2012

November was a busy month. I had to get four quilts finished. I was so relieved and tired when I finished the last quilt. Since then I have been taking things kinda slow, I am keeping up with my BOW that Rhonda is hosting.

BOW

Block #7 is embroidered but I have not sewn the attic window on to it.

Birdies

March

April

May

I made the boys pillow cases. This had to be the easiest pattern for pillow cases.

Moda Turnover
I was looking for something one day and this Moda Turnover that I have had forever and remembered a tutorial I had saw using the turnovers, she used a charm pack and cut them in half. Well I had to make one. I need at least one more package of turnovers for the center of the quilt. This will be Chelsi's Christmas quilt next year. I think I've had the turnovers for two years so I hope I can find more.

Finishes
Nikolas

Chelsi's

If you look on the right side of the photo you can see the backing I used for this quilt.

Aiden's

Greg's

I like the back of Greg's quilt as well as I do the front.

I'm kinda at a crossroad about blogging and I'm not sure how or if I will continue. I do enjoy recording my doings.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Staying out of trouble

Well, at least I'm trying to stay of trouble. LOL I have Nikolas, Aiden and Chelsi's quilts finished and I'm working on Greg's. I'm sure Greg's quilt is growing. Whew!

At night I am doing hand embroidery. Every Tuesday I start on the BOW that Rhonda is doing. So fun!

Once I get my BOW done I'm working on Birdie Stitches.
January's block

February's block

I'm about half done with March. I'm thinking of doing the quilt as you go method when I quilt this quilt. Have any of you tried that method?

Hand Embroidery BOW #2

This is week #2 for Rhonda's hand embroidery BOW. Come join in the fun, you can catch up. Rhonda gave a peek of the layout last week. I'm excited to try my hand at attic windows.

I'm still struggling to get my stitches to be about the same size, practice makes perfect. Hopefully, I will be getting better by week 12.

Happy quilting!

Hand Embroidery BOW

Rhonda is doing a hand embroidery BOW. You can get the details here. Rhonda has a sneak peek at what is to come here. It was perfect timing for me.

This is a terrible photo of my snowflake. Sorry.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Easter shirts

I am sewing I just don't seem to be making any quilts. I'll get back to quilting eventually.

Here are the grands Easter shirts.

This was the first time I made the boys shirts using the same fabric.

Happy stitching!

St. Patrick's Day

I didn't wear green today because I forgot but I have green eyes so I'm good. lol

Lacy's friend made Chelsi a top for today.

Those are her beloved Cabbage Patch dolls. I bought the cat one first not realizing they come out with another one each month. Chelsi kisses her babies and jabbers to them.

Since Chelsi didn't need a St. Patrick shirt I made her a Cat in the Hat.

Here are the boy's shirts.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Valentine Shirts

Of course I made the kids shirts for Valentine's Day.

I loved the little top Lacy purchased for Chelsi to wear for Valentine's Day. Lacy and I thought she could wear it after Valentine.

I found a site that has the trucks for every holiday and thought they were perfect for the boys.

Have a wonderful day!

November Lazy Heart BOM

I've had the hearts fused on the background for about a week. I would go back and forth trying to decide to put the owl or use this design from Embroidery Library. Finally, I called in backup and a decision was made. Whew! I love this block! Only 1 more block to complete this BOM.

Did you see the turkey?

I'm not to sure about two orange blocks side by side.

Happy quilting!

Lazy Hearts BOM August

Rhonda just continues to tickle me with this BOM. I did change mine up quite a bit. Barb cut the leaves and acorns on her GO cutter thingie.

When I got the blocks done I felt like it still needed something. Soooooooo I went to my embroidery designs.

I loved the little spider. lol

Then I added sashings.

Only 2 more BOMs.

Happy quilting!

Embroidery Machine

Here are a few things I did with my embroidery machine.

The boys got shirts for Halloween.

Happy stitching!

Lazy Heart BOM September

I definitely made this month's block my own. When I started tracing the heart I remember I had a hummingbird design for my embroidery machine.

Then I thought of these flowers.

Then I got brave and enlarged the flowers and flipped one of the hummingbirds plus I enlarge the little bird.

Lacy's quilt

My quilt

Happy quilting!

Gown

I found this tutorial for a gown at Banana Bear Blog and I thought Chelsi needed it. I will be making more for her. I'm not sure what size she wears, preemie is a little small and newborn is huge on her.

I'm working on getting caught up. Be Prayerful is ready to be stitched and Lazy hearts needs to be fused. Today is another day and more sewing time.

Have a great day!!

Makeover

Jon and Lacy are at Kid to Kid so much I'm thinking they have their own keys to that store. lol

The last trip there, Jon found this little outfit. He took it to Lacy and said "Can your mother make this cute?" I thought that was funny.

I looked through my embroidery designs looking for the perfect design.

To me it still wasn't "cute" enough. So I started looking at baby outfits on etsy. Which caused me to have to make bows. I had never made bows out of ribbon.

I didn't think I did bad for the first time and Chelsi promised me she would wiggle if anyone started looking at them up close. ;)

Happy stitching!

Roll

Chelsi needed tops to go with her capri pants. Although, the capris are long pants on her. This is the first top I did for her. I think it needs little bows or flowers to cover the snaps.

Happy stitching!

Train #3

I have enough blocks for a row. I hope this afternoon to get the blocks sewn together and get the train track sewn on. It will take all 8 blocks for one row. I thought the halloween blocks would be fun. I will also make other holiday blocks.

This is the background for the next row.

Happy quilting!

Trains #2

I couldn't decide on a background for the train blocks. As I was digging thru auditioning fabrics I came across the bag of flannel squares that Betsy had gave me. I love working with flannel.

Here are the 1st two train engines. Jon thought Nikolas would like having engines on his quilt more than the cars.

The design came with the train done in a zigzag or satin stitch. I like the satin stitch better. I also like that I let the background fabric show through the window.

Then I was playing around with the two blocks and the train fabric.

I need 81 5 1/2" blocks, half of which will be Thomas the Train fabric.

Happy quilting!