Something New

A few years ago I made my daughter some pillows for her new apartment.

They are Big pillows... 24" square.
I remember when I made them that I wanted to keep them for myself,

but, being the nice person that I am,

I gave them to her.

She has loved those pillows and has asked for new ones, 

using the same pattern.

This is the daughter who has banned me from making any more quilts,

so you know I jumped at the chance to make her pillows!

I have the top of the first one pieced.

This pattern was for a wall hanging and was published in a magazine

years ago.

(It's called "Coastal Mountains" by Penelope Taylor. I don't have the

name or date of the magazine.)

 

My daughter's decor is in aquas, teals and blues.

 

The top will be quilted to give it a little more body. 

I just love the richness of the batiks and the deep colors of these fabrics.

 

The second pillow is being made with lighter colors

and will, hopefully, be done soon.

Again, I may want to keep these for myself!

(Maybe I should just make some for myself!)

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I'm a little late in posting Clue 3 of Libby's Mystery QAL.

I was out of town over the weekend and just made the squares for Clue 3.

 

It's not too late to join in on the fun!

And the clues are super easy to make.

I'm also linking to Design Wall Monday.

Take a peak at what others are creating this week.

Happy Quilting!

Finished Socks

I haven't been sharing my knitting much these days.

There hasn't been as much to share,

but I do have a few finishes.

This top sock may have been shown before,

but the pair is finished now and ready to gift.

I liked making the cable so much,

I made the pair below the same way.

 

These were gifted to my sister-in-law.

These socks below are for a child.

Using DK yarn and making smalls socks sure speeds up 

the finishes!

These were all made in the last week.

I've been in awe of those who can knit an adult sock in a day.

I can almost knit a child size sock in a day! 

:D

 

I've decided to make a bunch of children's socks and

donate them in the fall.

These are almost instant gratification!

Happy Day!

Old McDonald is a Finish

It's funny how sometimes I look at fabrics I've purchased and think

What Was I Thinking??

This is how I felt with this fat quarter bundle of fabrics

I've had in my cabinet for quite some time.

Why did I buy this and what am I going to do with it?

On my list for 2018 was to get this stack of fat quarters sewn into something.

Let me just say....

I love this quilt!

The large triangles allow for the cute fabrics to shine

and the colors to pop.

I quilted it with a swirl design,

which took no time at all.

I had this striped fabric in my stash

and had to add a strip of left over triangles to the width of the fabric

to make it wide enough for the backing.

The stripe worked well for the binding, too.

This fun quilt will be for my niece

who is due any day now.

I've had a quilt made for her for a while,

but that one will stay in my pile

for another little one.

The good news is I had enough left over triangles to make

another slightly smaller quilt!

Hopefully the smaller version will be finished soon.

Old McDonald had a cute farm!

Linking to Design Wall Monday today.
Enjoy!

Happy Quilting!

Libby's Mystery Quilt

Libby at Life on the Hill

is hosting a Mystery Quilt a long!

She has given the cutting instructions

and the first clue,

so it's not too late to join in on the fun!

We need a dark and a light fabric for the blocks

she will be having us make.

I purchased these fabrics a while ago

to make something else,

but that didn't work out.

Even though they aren't light and dark,

I hope there is enough contrast

to use them here.

Libby released the first sewing clue yesterday.

I think it took longer for my iron to heat up than it did

for me to sew these blocks together!

Thanks, Libby, for helping to feed my addiction!

Happy Quilting!

"Baby" baby Quilt is Finished

Yesterday was a good day to spend sewing,

with the winds being what they were here.

Thankfully, we didn't have the snow to go with the winds

like they did up in the north.

While playing in my Hidey Hole,

I decided to get two baby quilts quilted

and finished.

This "Baby" quilt top had been finished for a while

and was just waiting for me to move forward.

These fabrics came in a fat quarter bundle I picked up somewhere.

The yellow "baby" fabric and the birds caught my eye.

 

I didn't want to lose those two fabrics,

so chose a simple design for this quilt.

 

Then I just stitched in the ditch for the quilting.

 

Making the backing is my least favorite part of quilting,

so I usually just have plain fabric.

I needed this backing to be a bit wider than the width of fabric

and I had left over squares,

so the backing was pieced.

 

It's a finish!

I'll take it for a spin in the washer

and then add it to my collection of quilts waiting for babies.

 

Have a great weekend

and

Happy Quilting!

Old McDonald Had a Farm

And someone put it on some cute fabric!

Somewhere along the way I became the owner of a 

fat quarter bundle of this farm fabric.

I'm not one to purchase bundles like this,

but it must have been a good deal.

One item on my list of things to do in 2018 is to use this

bundle for a  baby quilt.

I wanted the design to show the cute pictures on the fabric

and to be fun and happy.

Out came my 60 degree ruler

and triangles were cut.

This fabric has it all!

Orchards, tractors, farm scenes, apples, fences, dots, and swirls. 

There was a lot of squaring up of the fabric before the strips could be cut,

so things would be straight.

The colors are so bright and cheerful!

I've sewn together more than half of the rows already.

These go together so quickly.

I've made triangle quilts before,

but never one with triangles this large.

I cut them on the 7" line of the 60 degree ruler.

With only two more rows of triangles to sew together

and then four rows to add to the top half,

I'm hoping this will be finished this afternoon.

There might be enough triangles left to make another smaller quilt.

Once this is off of the wall,

I'll play with the remaining pieces and see what can be made.

Today I'm linking to Design Wall Monday.

Happy Quilting!

Happy Saturday!

There is a reason I woke up extra early this morning.

Praise Be!

Have a great weekend

and

Happy Quilting!

Blooming Burst of Color

I just put the finishing stitches in this Blooming Nine Patch.

The blocks were sewn into rows

and the rows are now sewn into a quilt top.

And it is one bright, fun quilt!

I, obviously, have not trimmed the edges yet.

I was so excited to have the top sewn together,

I just had to share quickly!

 

 My husband said if I put this on our bed,

we won't need a night light!

I'm just trying to help him out!  :D

 The backing fabric has not been purchased yet.

A friend suggested polka dots.

You know I LOVE polka dots,

so that's what I will look for to finish this wild quilt.

As I've mentioned in previous posts,

this was a kit.

It's the third blooming nine patch I've made

and, by far, my favorite!

The pattern can be found in the book

"Tradition with a Twist"

by Blanche Young and Dalene Young Stone.

I did alter the pattern, but the idea is the same.

Happy Quilting!

The Blocks are Finished...

It has taken a while to get all of the blocks cut and sewn

for this Blooming Nine Patch quilt and they are done!

Now to begin sewing them into rows.

There are a lot of blocks and

a lot of rows! 

The rectangular pieces along the edges will be trimmed

into a straight edge once all of the rows are sewn together.

 

As I mentioned in my previous posts,

this was a kit.

When I first saw it a friend was thinking of buying it and there was only one left!

She decided not to get it and it hadn't been on the table for one second

before I snatched it up.

It was coming home with me!!

Maybe I'll cancel everything for the next couple of days and just sew!

Where is the snow when you need it?

(I kid, I kid...)

Happy Quilting!

Blooming Nine Patch

The past few days have seen a little progress on the

Kaffe Blooming Nine Patch

I'm making.

*****Edit.....I had called this quilt by the wrong name originally!
It’s not a disappearing four patch, but a blooming Nine Patch!
Thank you, Libby, for pointing this out! ******

The farther out the rounds of squares are,

the more cutting, sewing and cutting needs to be done.

I am thrilled with how this is coming together, though.

It's a bright and wild quilt for sure!

My design wall isn't nearly big enough for this entire quilt.

This is as wide as I've made it at this point,

but I can't get the length on my wall.

There is one more round of nine patches left to make and add.

This is the fabric that will be last and will make the border.

I added one more square to the length. The original pattern

called for three solid squares down the middle,

but I am using four.

Hopefully all of the squares will be made in the next few days.

Then the sewing of rows begins!

I'm linking to Design Wall Mondays today.

Happy Quilting!

Procrastinating....

I know I should be taking the borders off of my

On Ringo Lake

so I can figure out where the mistake was made,

fix it

and finish that quilt.

Who wants to sit with a seam ripper,

removing 8 borders from a quilt that was supposed to be finished

when there is new fabric waiting to be played with and sewn together?

I decided the borders could wait.

Out came this kit that I bought a year ago and is screaming to be made.

It's a Blooming Nine Patch...

made with Kaffe fabrics!

You know it had to come home with me!

 The strips have been cut for a while

and the sewing commenced the other day.

I ran out of room at the top of my design wall!

There are several more rounds of squares and nine patches to be added

once they are made.

 

I've made two of these before and the most difficult part was

choosing the fabrics.

The kit sure made it easy!

I'll keep plugging away and while this is being put together,

maybe I'll be inspired to spend some time with my seam ripper.

Happy Quilting!

An Applique Finish

This quilt has been one of my favorites to make.

I don't know why it has taken me so long to finish this one

since it is one of my favorites.

I'd get so far and stop for a while,

only to pick it up again months later.

Never the less...

it's finished!

And I love it.

This middle block is my favorite.

I love how the fabric worked for fussy cutting the flowers.

 

I hadn't appliqued anything in a while and really enjoyed making these blocks.

Now it's time to begin another applique project!

 

Finding the border fabric turned out to be more of a

challenge than I anticipated.

I am pleased with what I finally found.

I think it keeps the eye on the applique blocks.

 

This one will hang on the wall in my back hallway

for summer.

Or I might put it up there now!

Red, white and blue quilts make me smile.

Happy Quilting!

A Quick Baby Quilt

Sometimes simple is best,

isn't it?

I've had this stack of fat quarters for a while

and needed something quick and easy to do the other day,

so I started cutting squares.

I played around with them for a while

and finally decided that this simple layout was the best one.

I love the fabric with "baby" and the birds.

A couple don't really look like baby fabric,

but they play well together.

My daughter came home from work a bit ago

and told me her manager is expecting a baby girl in May.

She asked me if I had any "extra baby quilts" here.

I told her there would be one for her to give to him.

Maybe this will be the one.

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Remember this quilt?

The quilting has begun on it.

Hopefully I will have it finished soon.

I don't know why it's taken so long for me to get to this one.

It needs to be finished and hanging on the wall.

I do see a couple of places I need to pull out and requilt.

Photos show everything!

I thought about filling the blocks with quilting,

but decided a grid would look nicer.

I'll do something swirly and feathery in the borders.

It's Whoop Whoop Friday!

Happy Quilting!