Scrappy Kaffe Finish

 This quilt was finished a few days ago,

but I didn't take the time to take photos of it until today.

The top was finished quite a while ago

and was one of the five I sent to my LAQ before I moved.

 

I really enjoyed making these blocks.

I can't remember the name of pattern and

have not looked in my boxes of patterns to find it,

but it was a wonderfully mindless quilt to make.

The pattern had all of the blocks sewn together

without sashing,

but it was way too busy for me.

There was nowhere for my eye to rest.

And you know I loved working with my Kaffe scraps!

 

 

 

The deck in my new house isn't as good for taking photos.

It was a super sunny day today, too.

 

This border fabric really works well with all of the colors in the quilt.

 

The sashing has tiny yellow polka dots

and the quilting was done with orange thread.

I think this quilt will go to a dear friend of mine.

I have given her table toppers and a wall hanging,

but have never given her a lap quilt.

 

 

There may be another quilt made from these blocks in my future.

:)

Happy Quilting!

A Finish!!!

 This quilt has been a long time in the making.

The top has been finished for several years

and just hung in my hidey hole, waiting to be quilted.

Before we moved, I sent a number of quilts off to be quilted

and put this one in the pile.

It is now done and ready to be donated.

Several years ago I decided to cut all of my

reproduction fabrics into  strips and squares and

use them up or move them out.

I'm not a fan of reproduction fabrics,

but have family members who love these quilts.

This one is the second quilt I made with HST's.

I love the simplicity of HST quilts.

The design allows the fabrics to sing.

 

 

 

It's so wonderful to have a finish!

Onto the next quilt that needs binding.

Happy Quilting!

Temporary Set Up

 I am finally to a point where I can think of sewing and creating again!

My set up is temporary until the cabinets and such are built,

but I am making it work.

We creative types will do what we have to do to be able to create,

won't we?

Thankfully I use a table for my sewing machine

so that it's at the right height for me.

This table can go just about anywhere.

And look what I found!

Fabric for binding one of my quilts!

The binding is slowly getting stitched down to the back.

It feels so good to be doing this in my down time.

And look at what else I found!

One day I suddenly remembered where my rulers were

and found the 60 degree ruler!

 

 

This quilt is going to be for one of my brothers.

He loves all things mechanical and geometrical.

It will be a fun one to make.

The colors will be different from the pattern...

yellows, greens and grays with an aqua background.

 

 

 

Now if I can get rid of this thing for good,

I'd really be in business...

 

Too much painting and cleaning

and not nearly enough fun.

 

Happy Quilting!

Crickets...

 It feels like it has been YEARS since I have sewn anything.

I got through the shakes a few weeks ago,

which was tough.  :)

 

The move went well... it happened about 2 1/2 weeks ago.

Most of the boxes that can be unpacked have been unpacked.

The problem is we need to have cabinets built in several different places.

 

One of these places is my hidey hole.

Right now there is nothing in there to store all of my quilting

treasures.  I had to leave my cabinets in the old hidey hole

because they were built into the room.

I was over there yesterday and walked into my old room

and sighed.  I really miss that room.

 

Right now this is my hidey hole...

 

Hopefully it will be ready for action in a few months.

The cabinet maker is super busy

and has a waiting list.

 

 

The other day I wanted to start cutting out a quilt

that I purchased the fabric for a while ago.

I found the fabric, but cannot find the 60 degree ruler I need.  

I'm not purchasing another one because I already have at least two.

Hopefully I'll find one soon.

 

I also have 5 quilts to trim and bind.

(They were sent to my LAQ before we moved to get

them out of the house.  She worked very quickly

and got them back to me right after the move.)

Do you know where the fabric is for the binding for these?

Yea.. neither do I.

 

As my mom always says,

"This too shall pass."

 

 

In the meantime, I am handquilting this quilt top that

my great grandmother made.

I started working on this a long, long time ago.

Unfortunately I do not enjoy hand quilting

and am not very good at it.

Plus I am very slow.

At least it's giving me something to do with my hands

and maybe I'll actually finish it!

 

Happy Quilting!!

 

 

Boxes on Top of Boxes

 I'm not sure anyone realizes how much STUFF they have

until they are packing up a house.

We have lived here for 31 years and have accumulated so many things.

Now I'm packing and sorting and tossing and donating and ugh!

I'd rather be sewing.

 

For the meantime my Hidey Hole looks like this...

 

 

And these are just a few of the boxes.

This too shall pass, as my mother says.

 

Since I can't sew right now,

(what was I thinking when I packed up my Hidey Hole first??!!)

I am able to do some hand work in the evenings.

Thankfully I have a number of Bucilla kits to be made.

I just finished this set of ornaments last night.

The hangers will be added later on,

but for now, these will be packed up for the move.

 

 

I think I was moved to pack up my hidey hole first

so I wouldn't be distracted and come in here to sew.

Sewing is much more fun than packing!

 

Onto the next box!

 

Happy Quilting!

Bucilla Snowpeople

 As you know, I love working on Bucilla felt kits.

I go in phases where I work on them for a while in the evenings.

I'm in one of those phases right now.

 

My daughter saw this kit last year and loved it.

The kit was ordered and I started working on it

about a month ago.

 

I do handwork in the evening while my husband watches tv

and I listen.

 

 

The front is finished!

 

Are they not the cutest?!?

We've had more than enough snow this winter,

But I still love these people.

 

 

The kit directions have us finishing this in a very strange way.

Instead of following the kits directions,

I'm going to make a small neutral quilt and stitch this to it.

It will be easier to hang this way.

This took a while to make, but was so fun and worth the effort.

 

Not much may be coming from my hidey hole for a while because

we are moving!

We are staying in the area, but moving to a smaller house.

Packing up a house after living here for 31 years is a JOB!!

And my hidey hole will be smaller, so I'm really having to purge.

It feels sooo good though!

 

 

Happy Quilting!

(and cleaning and sorting and purging!)

:D

Valentine's Day Sewing

 We are not big on Valentine's Day at my house.

It's usually just like any other day around here.

Yesterday, since we couldn't get up our driveway

because of the ice storm we had on Saturday,

I played in my Hidey Hole.

The portable heater was plugged in,

making the room nice and cozy.

While this was going on outside....

(This is my only Valentine Decoration. The Be Kind sign stays out all of the time.)

this was going on inside....

 

 

I usually web sew blocks together,

but yesterday I just took my time

and slowly sewed these blocks into rows.

 

 

The sewing begins with the bottom row in my Hidey Hole

because I'm short.  This way I don't knock blocks onto the floor

reaching for the top rows.

 

 

I wasn't totally liking the gray sashing when I started,

but it's growing on me.

This will be a little like an I spy quilt with the different

fun figures on some of the squares. 

Hopefully this will be a finish soon and will get quilted

and ready to give to the new wee one.

 

I'm linking to Design Wall Monday today.

Happy Quilting!

Scrappy Baby Quilt

 

This is what I awoke to this morning... again.

It's pretty and all, but I do not like snow.

We are forecasted for ice tomorrow and more snow next week.

The one good thing about snow days is more time for sewing!

With all of these baby quilts needed for my extended family,

I have been thinking of what to make.

I am not one to have orphan blocks laying around,

but I did find 10 of these scrappy blocks that I had made

several years ago and decided to add to these for one of the

baby quilts.

I'm not sure if this block has a name

(I'm really bad at knowing names of blocks!),

but it's a fun block to make with my bucket of 2 1/2" squares.

I have five more to make for this to be the size I want it to be.

In addition, I'm trying to decide on sashing fabric.

I like this bluish gray and think the colors pop against it.

 

This white with silver lines looks good up close,

but gets lost from a distance.

 

When I went to the quilt shop yesterday,

I was hoping to find a cute polka dot that would work,

but had no luck.

I have a white with yellow pin dots,

but they disappear from a distance, too.

 

What do you all think?

 

 

Happy Quilting!

Blooming Butterflies Finished

 I never thought I would be posting about this quilt being finished so soon.

There is a lot going on with my family and some very close friends,

and I've needed to escape to my Hidey Hole to recharge,

so I've had some very concentrated sewing time.

 

This quilt, Blooming Butterflies,

went together much more quickly than I anticipated

and I love the finish.

 

 

This will be given to my niece at her Drive Through Baby Shower tomorrow.

 

 

This was a kit from Shabby Fabrics and as soon as I saw it,

I knew I would be making this for this particular niece.

One reason for it going together so quickly and easily is because

the pieces were laser cut and had the fusible on them already.

 

I followed the pattern placement exactly because I liked it so much.

 

 

 

The fabrics in this kit are so fun and cheerful.

It will be such a sweet baby quilt

for my grand niece.

 

 

The backing is such a fun fabric, too, and looks like it's in motion.

 

I'm sad to see this one go, but know that my niece will love it.

I'll have to make sure my sister doesn't take it from her, though!

 

 

Happy Quilting!

Next Baby Quilt

 I've mentioned before that I have two nieces,

who are sisters,

both due on March 3rd. 

One niece is having her third son and will, most likely,

not make it March 3rd.

The other niece is having her first... a daughter.

This nieces LOVES butterflies.

 

After I heard that she was expecting, but before I knew the sex of the baby,

I saw this kit on Shabby Quilts and knew I had to order it.

It would either be a baby quilt or a quilt for my niece.

It has been patiently waiting to be made for a few months.

It came out of the cabinet last week.

The middle section is done. It went together pretty quickly,

especially since I made it just as the kit suggested. 

Usually I change things up to make the quilt my own,

but I love this quilt just as it is.

Next is to make the praire points and add them to the 

outside border.

They are all pressed and ready to put into place.

 

 

I'm hoping to have this one done by the end of the weekend,

but we shall see. The quilting could take a while.

Happy Quilting!

Kaffe Hexagon Finish

 This little quilt was made from extra triangles I had cut

to make another Kaffe scrappy quilt.

I couldn't let these triangles go into the scrap bucket

because they may never see the light of day again.

 

 

I decided to leave the points at each end of the quilt instead of 

straightening the edges.

Binding these points was pretty easy since the inside angle

was not too sharp.

 

 

 

 

 

A simple corner to corner quilting was done.

I really like the white with black fabrics used for the

fill areas. I may have to do something like this again!

 

 

 

This one may be donated to Hands2Help,

but I need to measure it first.
 

Happy Friday, All!

Happy Quilting!