Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Finally a Little Quilting

I'm one of the bloggers who has disappeared for awhile due to life changes.  I have been doing a little quilting lately though, and have 3 finishes to show for my time.  I didn't get a picture of this one finished, it is finished though.  It is an unusual baby quilt, but his mama wanted a star wars themed quilt.  The dog is mine, she is 4 years old now, but we have only had her for a few months.  


This is another unusual baby quilt.  I had made his big (4 years old) brother a Marvel Super Hero quilt, and since they are sharing a room, I went ahead and made baby brother a similar one.  I tried to baby it up a little.  Their family just closed on their first home last week, so hopefully it will get good use and add to the decor.

And, the very plain back.

Before moving into their new home, my grandson and his family stayed with friends for almost 4 months.  They are a family of 5, 6 if you count the dog, and since that seemed to be a very awesome help to them, I thought their friends deserved a huge thank you.  I had made these blocks a couple of years ago as part of Angela's Rainbow Scrap Challenge, so I sewed them into a quilt and sent it to them.

My granddaughter-in-law said that she cried, it was her very first quilt.

She was comparing the fabrics in her quilt to some that she had seen in the kids quilts.

She has 2 cats, so for you ladies who love your furry felines, here are a couple pictures of hers enjoying her new quilt.  She is a veterinarian, so you know she loves her furbabies.

Candace

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Super Heroes and a Crazy Year

First finish since last April other than a few bags and pillowcases.  It's been a crazy year, I'll write more about that later, in case anyone still follows me.

This is a big boy quilt for my 3 year old great grandson, Maddox.  Can you tell that he is into the Marvel Super Heroes?

Somehow I got these out of order.  This is the finished product wrapped up in its matching pillowcase, along with an additional pillowcase for the quilt that I'm making for another youngster in the family.

Basted and ready to quilt.

Not the prettiest quilt.

The front finished.  It didn't call for sashing and cornerstones, but was so busy that I felt like it needed some separation.

The back, also busy.  The back is fleece, with no batting.  We asked the recipient, and he preferred not heavy.

Another project, another ripple afghan.  Just getting started on this one.
Last May, my daughters life changed greatly.  Her marriage ended and she moved in with us, so our lives changed greatly, too.  She had one almost grown child living at home, and another grown child with a child, who was in need of some help, a single mom.  We sold our home so that we could buy a bigger one and now we have a five bedroom, two story home with a bedroom downstairs for us, and 4 bedrooms, a kitchen, living room and bath upstairs for them.  We have all lived here since last July, and things are going well for the most part.  There have been some adjustments and some compromises, but we all try to make it work, so it does.  It hasn't left much time for blogging or quilting, so that has been set aside until now, I'm finally getting to a point where we are "almost" settled.  We have roughly the same amount of space downstairs as we had in our old home, but it's distributed differently.  The formal living room is now my sewing room, and it has been an adventure solving issues as I went along trying to get things set back up.  If moving is a challenge normally, try it when you are also consolidating basically 4 households into one.  Our garage was a war zone, but now due to a lot of work, a garage sale, and a huge pile of stuff to a charity, we are pretty much consolidated.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Jacob Levi's Quilt

The front of the quilt.

The fleece back.

And the label.  We left room at the bottom for the specifics to be added, after the baby is bonr.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Splash Park and TeJay's Babies Quilt

We have a new splash park in our town, and here is one of my great-grandbabies enjoying it.  She isn't quite walking yet, but it won't be long.

Wish we'd had these when my kids were little. 

Thirty-six fussy cut blocks ready to go for a baby quilt for my brother and sister-in-law's new great-grandbaby.

We got cute fabrics, but as I worked on it,  I kept feeling like it just wasn't scrappy enough for me.  My sister-in-law went fabric shopping with me, she isn't so much in to scrappy.  Hope she likes this one.

Fussy cutting definitely takes more time and fabric.  I hope to maybe get a baby pillowcase from the leftovers, but that will take care of 2 yards. 

A corner of the finished top. 

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

A New Top

This isn't the one, but I got the little cart and put it together myself.  Not perfect, and my hands hurt, but it's done and it looks just like this on the outside.  The inside, a couple extra holes, but not too bad.

My Scrappy Christmas Rail fence is a top now.  I hope that when it is finished it looks Christmasy. 

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Misc.

It's uber busy, but I'm getting used to it.  I was thinking of sashing, but have about decided to go with it as is, with a bit of shifting of blocks.  I find that as I put it together, careful as I can be, they seem to still shift themselves a bit anyway though.

A crude facsimile of the difference with sashing.  I am stubbornly sticking to Santa's way though, I do believe.

We ate dinner with Hailee and her mom and sister (among others) the other night and I promised her a hanging for her door.. She gave me some specs, and this is what I ended up with, it's about 9 inches by 11 inches.  She's a Bruins fan, and so wanted some black, white and yellow and this was all I could find.   Hailee is 6.  We were on the way home from seeing Alan Jackson at Sea World, and he was outstanding.


I have 3 queen sized beds, and want to have 3 Christmas quilts.  I have my Iowa Christmas (Carolina Christmas Mystery), and now I'll have my Santa Blocks when it is finished.  Today, I got a start sewing together my leftover strips to make a rail fence.  I was planning to do sashing for it, and have fabric ordered from Connecting Threads clearance, but if I have enough leftovers, I may just go without the sashing.  I'm hoping to make my house look Christmasyer, with a minimum of decorating.  

Friday, March 27, 2015

Fifteen of Fifteen


Santa Blocks, Set 14.



Santa Blocks, Set 15.
Fifteen of Fifteen

Monday, March 23, 2015

Santas, Again? Yes, Sorry!

Santa Blocks, Set 12.

Santa Blocks, Set 13.
And my wild and crazy, six sets of boo boo blocks. 

Thank you, Santas, Set 2.

Friday, March 20, 2015

More Santa Blocks



Set 2 from my 5 sets of boo boo blocks.  Set 10 of all.


Set 3 from my 5 sets of boo boo blocks. Set 11 of all.
The original, and set 1,2, and 3 of my boo boo blocks.  Not too bad, still look scrappy, not too matchy matchy, I think.  But, just in case, I ordered some more sale Christmas fabric from Hancock's of Paducah to use for my last 12 of 90 blocks.  Hopefully, I'll have enough left, with what I already have and what I have ordered, to make a third Christmas quilt.  I have 3 queen sized beds, and would like one for each.  I have my Iowa Christmas, from Bonnie Hunter's Carolina Christmas mystery, so I'm getting there.
My Iowa Christmas (Carolina Christmas)

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Misc. Sewing

My new bag.

Inside of bag

Boo boo cutting out, meant to do 1 batch, did 6.  Oh well, I'll use them all.

Set number 8.

First boo boo batch, Set number 9.  9 batches done, 6 to go.