Granddaughter Kassy

This Tuesday and Wednesday my granddaughter spent the night. She is 12. We spent the time sewing. She made a quilt with batting from a charm square pack called It's a Hoot from Moda. I put up my design wall so she could organize the squares how she wanted them. She then sewed it together and then bagged the top and back and batting. I helped stitch in the ditch for her. She gave it to her cousin Mallorie.

Kassy sewing and her finished quilt

Started Challenge

I finally started one of my challenges for my quilt guilds. Found out it is due next month instead of March! Yikes!! We are to use the fabrics with packet and make a quilt at least 60" x 72". It is to be patriotic themed. All the challenge quilts are being donated to local residents serving overseas. Our last two challenges have been donated.

I am using all the patriotic fabrics I have. Not buying any fabric as it is all from my stash!! Yeah!
The large stars are going to be alternating blue and red and there will be four stars in a row. I am going to have to quilt as I go as that size is hard for me to fit in my machine.

Quilts and a surprise in the mail

I finally finished quilting my Christmas quilt. Yeah! I got it done before Christmas. LOL

I never showed my buttonhole appliqued quilt top put together. Here it is. I just have to decide how to quilt it. I think I might stipple around the appliques.

Look what my friend Barbara sent to me in the mail. It is parts for a little porcelain baby. Was so sweet of her to think of me. I will make a body for her and then crochet a dress and bonnet.

Tablemat for Thanksgiving

Here is a tablemat I made from some precut pieces that had fusible on them. I got them at a garage sale. I made this for my Mother in law as she always has Thanksgiving at her house. The leaf fabric is flannel and soft. I used some glitter paints too.

Christmas quilt

I made this top and haven't quilted it yet. It is for Amanda's October Challenge. I made it from a Moda jelly roll called Candylane Christmas. It is a pretty easy pattern but looks really nice.

A close up of the fabric.....

Fourth of July quilt

Here is a quilt I made from blocks I won at my guild's block of the month. I won them a couple of years ago and finally got around to putting them together. About time Hey! LOL

row round robin

This is a quilt made by me and 7 other ladies. It was my quilt guilds round robin last year. We made a row every month for someone else's quilt according to what they wanted. All the info and first row and each succeeding rows were in an envelop passed on each month. At the end of 8 months we got our own envelop back and could put together our quilt. I chose colorful batiks and gave the gals the freedom to choose how to do their row.  I made the fifth row down as my starting row. I think it turned out great!

all quilt squares together

I haven't been posting much as my Internet wasn't working well. We had the repairman come last week and he fixed it. I have satellite. He said my reception strength was like bad dial up! Any way I am back and able to upload photos. Here is a picture of all the folk art applique blocks up on my design wall. I am working on the math for all the inbetween sashings now.

Last two squares and one of the dresses

Here are the last two squares of the folk art quilt. I can't wait to sew it together. I am going to change the sashings a bit and the border as the pattern is a bit plain.

I have finshed two of the bridesmaids dresses and finally the other two came for fitting today. Here's a picture of the dress. Not very good pic but don't have a mannequin to show off a strappless dress. The leopard belt has tucks and the bodice ad skirt also has a few tucks. Very hard to see with the black. I hate working with black! LOL

Close up of the bodice.

Internet woes and new stuff

I have been having tons of trouble connecting to the Internet. Not really sure what it is as it works intermittenly like now. Any who I think it is good enough to upload piccies of what I have been doing.

Two of the girls came for a fitting for the bridemaids dresses I am making. Only a few modifications so I am happy and can now cut into the actual dress fabric as patterns are set.

While waiting on the girls I have been making some fusible applique blocks from a kit a friend gave me.

This is a close up of one of the blocks. I fused the pieces to the background and used variegated thread and stitched around each applique piece with a machine buttonhole stitch. I have made 4 more blocks since this picture. I will try and get more pictures tomorrow.

Here is a doll I made for my secret sister reveal. She collects sunflower stuff so I made a sunflower doll. If I make a doll any sooner than the reveal they would know who their secret sister was!

Turtle Quilt

Three turtles walking across the quilt!
Close up of turtle and quilting

This is the quilt I made for my son-in-law for his birthday. He loves turtles. I pieced the background from 2 1/2 inch strips and then machine appliqued the turtles and leaves. I added a couple of turtle beads and buttons.

Fairy Tale Quilt Challenge

Here is a quilt I made for a quilt guild challenge. Our theme is Fairy Tale and my saying is "There is no excuse not to dream". I picked Pinocchio as I thought if a wooden puppet can dream of becoming a real boy than anyone can dream anything!
I used a woven technique for the bed quilt. It is fabric that has fusible on it. Two different fabrics are woven then fused together.

This is the little 9" doll that goes into the dream cloud. He is the real boy!

I have also been going thru my fabrics and such looking for stuff to donate for an autions one of my quilt guilds is having this month. I found quite a bit of "why did I buy this" fabric to donate! LOL

Breast Cancer Auction quilt

This is the quilt that my quilting mini group made to donate to the Sutter Cancer Health center for their auction to raise money to fight breast cancer. We each picked out the fabrics we wanted to use from Margo's extensive breast cancer fabrics. I made the first row, Couthouse steps with the Lorilei cancer ladies, Beth made the second row, pieced hearts, Mona made the third row, pinwheels, Margo made the forth row, propellers and the butterflies and Jerri made the fifth row, the 3d flowers. Margo put the quilt together and bound it and Mona quilted it.

charm playing

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. I have mostly been playing with my charm square packs. I have made a table quilt with the Wildflower and Joycelyn lines from Moda. I am working on a bag for a swap with the Posh line from Moda.

I love the florals and they make a colorful cloth for my table.

Table runner and doll pin

Here is a table runner I made using the disappearing nine patch pattern and a charm square pack.....Decadent Victorian by moda.

It is for my secret sister at quilt guild.

Here is a pin I made for this month's pindoll swap. The theme was Eggsactly.

Calendar quilt squares done

These are the squares from a block of the month from one of my quilt guilds that I have finished. One for every calendar month. I am not sure if I am going to put shashing between the sqaures or not. I thought maybe a batik that has a lot of the colors in the squares. I have lots of multi colored batiks. They are done with fusible applique and I used different colors of threads with a buttonhole stitch to go around each piece in the applique. I will get a picture after I have finished the quilt and post it!