Merriest Christmas to you and yours.
Here are a few Christmas items from years past before this blog had begun: a little elf,
a pillow with my first square in a square blocks
Improv Christmas trees.
I had hoped to blog weekly, and came close to that goal. There may be another before the year is over.
Miss C loves her Second Grade teacher, and potholders make a great gift. This year, she did much of the sewing, she chose the fabrics and the design. Her teacher loves pink and yellow, so she found these in my stash.
Pink is a favorite color of a good friend, so I was inspired. I have been wanting to make a 16 patch, so this is my first. I was hoping to find just florals, I came up short, so we have a few florals and pink vintage trailers, raindrops, dots, and some neutrals to calm things down a bit.
My granddaughter helped me with the layout, and pronounced this arrangement "perfect." I like the binding - a dot print from Amy Butler. The backing is a duvet cover from Ikea. I love the botanical print, but I got lots of wrinkles as I was quilting with my walking foot. I took out the worst part and re-quilted it from the back. I wished I had done all the quilting from the back. The backing is quite soft: difficult to quilt but lovely to feel.
It should be a great cuddly throw with wool batting.
Measures 60" x 72"
Pieced and quilted by me on my DSM
16 Patch
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When the latest issue from "Online Quilt Magazine.com" came into my inbox, I couldn't resist this great tutorial.
I found fabrics in my stash and had it sewn in no time. "Cushion Covers" as they say in Australia are great, easy finishes.
I have two others waiting in the quilting queue:
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Miss C wanted a canopy bed to go with her new fancy thrift store doll. We had the perfect sized boxes from canning tomatoes, and we found a tutorial on You-Tube by a 9 year old. Here is what we came up with.
The bottom of the bed is a fruit box turned upside down and covered with fabric. The sides and top are the box tops. We covered the top, left the ends alone. The mattress is a pillow (that fit perfectly) in an existing pillow case. Later we added curtains with tie backs. It's all put together with duct tape! Pink duct tape!
Here's the finish. It was a perfect day-before-school-starts project. Miss C is excited to be starting 2nd Grade.
This little project just took about 30 minutes, and will be very useful.
I quilted the fabric with wool batting scraps, then sewed the lining to the outside quilted piece, right sides together. I turned the flat piece and top stitched, then folded it and top stitched it again around three sides. My walking foot really made this easy.
I feel a few more in my future for upcoming holiday gifts. Everyone needs a cute glasses case, right?
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These placemats have been in the WIP closet for a while now. I finished them first with white strips on the sides of the log cabins to change them from square blocks to rectangles. But, when you put a plate on the placemat, most of the log cabin unit would disappear, so I simply added more 1.25 inch strips to either side.
There's a whole rainbow here! And the backs are the same IKEA print.
Bring on dinner!
When I'm away from my sewing machine, I have this little hand quilting to take along:
It's been a to-go project for a long time, but I loved stitching and looking at this Pacific Ocean view last week.
This one is for my grand-neice who is a barrel racer in the rodeo! I have seen her ride and I've seen her big buckle from a win! She and her husband live in North Central Washington. I had purchased the backing for this quilt especially for another quilt that I made for her. It didn't work for that one, but it's perfect for this cowboy baby quilt.
I used the colors from the cowboy boots backing to choose fabrics from my stash for the front. It's all finished now, this photo was taken before the binding was totally stitched down.
New baby boy is due in September. I think I'll keep it until he is born so I can put his name on it.
My brother, the great-grandfather-to-be has just evacuated his home because of the horrible fires in the area. The new parents and grandparents are also in the area of the fires. I pray that they stay safe. Please join me.
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I'm going to see Baby L who was born on Tuesday, and I don't want to go empty handed, so I sewed this ball. My two granddaughters helped with the stuffing.
Welcome to the Sea Hawks world, little one!
There is lots of spying to do with this quilt, and a bit of calm. For a baby due in October.
A pig, numbers, words, a mermaid, horses, rain, deer, a tea party, bunnies, birds, the bunny from Good Night Moon, and lots of polka-dots. The wide borders are a subtle polka dot in cream and taupe.
The back has the world's most perfect fabric:
More spying! It's fig tree & co for Moda. Don't know the pattern name.
I just want to curl up with a baby with this one. The design is my own, (if you can call it a design!). It measures 41" x 54". I quilted it with my go to spiral on my DSM.
I know it will be well loved by my nice neice and her husband.
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