Hot Quilting

A few months ago I started making a quilt for one of my nieces

with this pink and black zebra print.

She LOVES pink and black zebra print.

Well....

It is in the home stretch.

"Hot Hot Hot" is becoming

Finished Finished Finished!

My FMQ skills are not very good at all,

but they will only improve with practice....

I hope!!

This is one wild quilt!

Now that the deadline was met for making the four

Family Crest quilts,

(WOOHOO!)

I can get the sleeves blocked for this sweater I'm making.

Unblocked sleeve parts.

Front pieces and back stitched together.

Hopefully this will be done by fall!

In the meantime,

the sock knitting continues.

I finished the first sock with this awesome

"Socks that Rock" yarn.

Isn't the pooling so cool??

I love how the heel and toe are striped. 

It's like I added a different yarn for each, but I didn't.

Please visit Patchwork Times and Whoop Whoop

to see what others are creating.

Happy Friday!!

Mission Accomplished!!

The Family Crest Quilts are Finished!!

With time to spare!!

I really thought I would be finishing these

on the trip up to our

Family reunion,

but they are done with over a week to spare!

It is a Gorgeous day here today!

No humidity and lots of sunshine.

 

These were certainly a labor of love!

I learned a couple of things while making these four quilts....

~ I do not enjoy machine applique.... at all~

~ I will never chose to make four of the exact same quilt again~

~It's amazing what can get accomplished when one puts her mind to it!~

The labels need to be added to these quilts and then they will

be given to my nephews at our family reunion.

There is one more quilt to finish before heading north to this reunion.

Do you remember "Hot Hot Hot?"

This one will be quilted and bound by the end of the weekend.

Enjoy this day!

Happy Quilting!!

More of the Same....

For someone who bounces from project to project,

making four of the same quilts is a

Challenge for me!

I have made multiples of things before,

but they have been little things...

like table runners or table toppers.

Last night I finished quilting the third

Family Crest Quilt.

Only one more to go!!

Woohoo!!

I'm hoping to have the last one quilted by tomorrow night.

Once the fourth one is machine appliqued,

I'll trim and bind them.

Hopefully my nephews will enjoy having these

as much as I have enjoyed making them.

While I am spending hours quilting these,

I am dreaming of the next projects on my list.

(Of course my list changes daily... or hourly!)

I have been collecting low volume text fabrics

and will use these, along with some Kaffe Fassett fabrics,

for a project I have in mind. 

 I am itching to cut into these!

My youngest daughter has her undergraduate degree in Chemistry,

her graduate degree in Forensic Chemistry

and works as a Forensic Toxicologist.

When I saw these fabrics, how could I NOT buy them?

I have been banned from making her any more quilts for the

time being, 

but I see a bag in her future. 

:)

Last week I posted this pattern and said I want to make it with

reds and blues.

After looking at my stash, I have very few blue fabrics!

These found their way home on Saturday.

I must get quilting if I am going to finish the last Family Crest quilt by tomorrow.

Please visit Patchwork Times to see what others are creating today.

Happy Monday!

Stay cool!!

More Family Crests Quilts

It's July 17th...

half way through the month...

half way through summer....

How did this happen?

I was outside this morning and had to take a couple of

photos of some of the plants on my deck.

I love photos of plants with dew drops.

It's going to be a hot one today!

Okay...

onto the other important stuff for the day.

I finished stitching the second

Simmons Family Crest quilt.

Hopefully the third and fourth will go quickly

as I am getting bored with this project. :)

I don't know if I'm going to do any stitching

in the background. 

Any thoughts?

 

The back looks kind of cool, too.

 

Two down, two to go!

 I do have a knitting finish.

 

These socks are kind of Christmassy and will

go in my pile of gift socks.

I started another pair and
LOVE this yarn!!

It's "Neon Trees" by Blue Moon Fiber Arts.

I love how the colors are wrapping around the sock.

AND it's soooo soft!!

Please visit Patchwork Times and

Whoop Whoop to see what others are doing this week.

Happy Friday!

Is He Worried??

My husband cut this cartoon out of the paper

and brought it home yesterday.

Do you think he is concerned??

Have a great day!

Happy Quilting!

:)

Making Progress...

I am slowly making progress on the

four Family Crest quilts I am making for my nephews.

I pin basted two of them the other day and was able to use

my cutting table to do it.

From now on, I'm only making quilts that will fit on my

cutting table.

No more crawling around on the floor!

:):)

 

LOTS of machine applique!

 

One done, three to go.

After looking at this photo,

I think I need to stitch the outline of the helmet in black.

It will stand out better.

This one still needs binding, but the stitching is finished.

Yay!

Happy Quilting!!

Family Crest Quilts

Last week I posted about making a quilt for each of my

Four Nephews

using the pattern of our family crest

I had drawn years ago to make a flag for my dad.

And I really questioned my sanity.

Well,

the tops are all ready for quilting.

This past weekend I spent

HOURS

tracing and cutting and pressing and cutting...

And it's always nice to realize that some pieces were traced

backwards and needed to be traced again. 

:(

So now the sewing begins.

I'm hoping it won't take too long to stitch around all of the

shapes and add the details to these quilts.

A girl can dream, can't she??

Yesterday I had to visit my LQS to get more red background fabric,

and found this pattern.

(Please excuse the bad photo,

but it's raining here today.)

I have been ITCHING to do some applique

and am totally inspired by Lea Anne's at Podunk Pretties

design in the reds and blues.

What do you think? Won't it be beautiful in reds and blues?

Let the tracing begin...

or continue??

Please visit Patchwork Times to see what others are creating.

Happy Quilting!

Knitting Friday

The knitting needles have been clicking again here.

I've been traveling a bit and

knitting is much more portable than quilting!

At least more portable than

 the quilting I am doing right now.

I finished the inner sleeve pieces for the sweater I am making

These need to be blocked and then borders will be added to three sides.

I am in the home stretch with this sweater!! 

WooHoo!!

On a recent trip to visit my brothers up north,

I need a mindless knitting project,

so another pair of socks was started.

 

The first one was finished while visiting with a friend last night.

 

My mom bought me this yarn at

Tuesday Morning last year or the year before...

I don't remember.

 

It's making a soft, fun pair of socks..

kind of Christmassy!

Please visit Patchwork Times to see what others are knitting.

Happy Friday!!

What am I Getting into??

Years ago I made decorative flags...

a LOT of decorative flags.

My father asked me to make a flag

with our family crest for him.

What an undertaking this was!

I had to make the pattern myself and it was not easy.

I am NOT an artist.

 The Family Crest Flag

 

Well...

fast forward about 20 years.

 

I have four nephews and got the idea

of making a quilt for each of them

of the Family Crest.

The pattern was found in the attic,

the fabric was purchased

and I started tracing pieces.

Lots and lots of tracing...

 

This is for one quilt!

Three more to trace.

I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew.

Happy Quilting!

(and tracing!)

:)

 

Snowball Pinwheels

The other day I found

this tutorial for Snowball Pinwheels and thought

this block would be fun to make with the

charm squares I have of 

Anna Marie Horner fabrics.

I had some white charm packs,

put those together with the Horner charm squares

and started to sew.

Some of the Horner charm squares would not have

looked good as pinwheels, in my opinion,

so I decided to make plain snowball blocks with those.

After a few hours of sewing and ironing,

I had this nice pile of blocks.

I put them up randomly on the design wall and have this.

I like how these look together, but will move things around

over the next few days and tweek the layout.

They look like sparklers to me....

Maybe it's the 4th of July influence right now.

It's fun to play with things on the Design Wall!

Happy Friday!!

June Report~350 Blocks Project

Wow! Here we are on July 1st.

How did this happen?

Things were busy in my

Hidey Hole in June

and I do have some blocks to report.

First,

I made the blocks for my "Hot, Hot, Hot" Quilt
and put the top together.

20 Blocks

I also made the two June blocks for "Gravity."

I also made this baby quilt for a friend.
I'll count this as 25 blocks since some were really easy and fast to make.

My latest project will be made from these blocks.
These are Snowball Pinwheels and plain Snowball blocks.

There are 48 of these.

My June total is 95 blocks!
The total number of blocks for the year is 268.
Woohoo!!
It has been a fun and productive month in the
quilting department.