Diaper Stacker

Well, I have been remiss in taking pictures again. I made the the crib bumpers, curtains diaper stacker and bound a premade quilt for my daughter's baby's room. I did get a picture of the diaper stacker so you can at least see the fabric my daughter chose. It is a cute jungle baby theme.
She is having a girl!

Quilt Show

This last Saturday and Sunday was my quilt guild's quilt show. It turned out really nice. Here are a few of the quilts at the show.

The lady on the left was our featured quilter. She is Geraldine Nall, a member of our guild. She is an excellent minature artist. These are some of her quilts.

Here are some felt quilts. I really like these.                                                             

This is looking down one of the rows. We have our show at the refurbished Blue Goose Shed. It adds a lot of ambiance to the show. It is an old fruit shed next to the railroad where local growers would send off there produce to markets.

This is another of Geraldine's minatures. The pieces are so tiny!

Ribbons for quilt show

I am chairman of the ribbons committee for the quilt show next week for one of my quilt guilds. We are a rather poor guild so I chose to make the ribbons and donate them as opposed to turning in receipts. They took me a while. Our show is called 'Romance in Bloom', so I made ribbon flowers for the awards. Here is a picture of them. Four categories and three winners in each plus 3 honorable mentions for the quilt and wall hanging category as there are so many entries in that one.

I was also sick last week so lost time in making them. Had the flu but feeling better now. The only thing was I was sick when my daughter's baby shower was held so I didn't get to go. But we are doing baby shopping tomorrow for stuff she didn't get at the shower.

Finished my next challenge quilt

The theme for the challenge was wedding. We were giving a hankie and a pice of white on white fabric. We were told to use lace. This is what I made. It is titled 'Penguin and Turtle'. It is my youngest daughter's wedding. This is their first dance.The hankie I got was black. I used it and lace on the first border. The colors yellow and burgandy were her colors for the wedding. The ribbon below is left over ribbon from the wedding with the names and date on it. There is a turtle button at one eand representing Brian and a penguin button representing Samantha. We tried hard to find a cake topper with a turtle and penguin but ended up with a glass one of penguin bride and groom. The turtle and penguin are the bride and grooms favorite animals.

This is a close up view. I used bullion stitch to simulate the flowers in her hair

These are close ups of my not so great machine quilting. It is the first time I have done anything but meandering!

A few things

I made a little felt elephant for a Circus challenge on CDA.  She is about 5 inches high. She is doing the one leg stand! LOL

These are ATC's for a winter wonderland ATC swap on CDA. I had fun making them.

Finished my Challenge quilt

The squares are 16" and the quilt is 64" x 76". I used a lot of fabrics I had bought right after 9/11. This quilt will be donated with all the guild's challenge quilts to local soldiers stationed overseas in the war zones. Our theme was patriotic. I think it turned out nice. The beige strips have usa quilted across them. I have quilted hearts here and there around the quilt and have named the quilt Hidden Hearts.

Crocheted baby jacket

I finished the little crochet jacket for my upcoming granddaughter due in May. At the time I started this I didn't know the sex. I am now working on a pink one when I am not working on my challenge quilt. I am ready to quilt it so look for pics of the quilt in the near future!

A close up of the pattern