Blue Sunflowers

 A few weeks ago I posted some photos of a

yellow and green sunflower quilt I was making.

The fabric is from a line by Robin Pickens.

There is another colorway for this line in blues

and yellows and I like this one just as much.

I had purchased both colorways, not knowing

what I was going to do with them and have had

them for a while.

The blue colorway came out to play after I finished the

top from the yellow and green colorway.

 

 

 

 

If I had only one block I could make quilting,

it would be the HST.

This block can be used to make

so many different designs.

 

I loved the black with the yellow and green fabrics,

and it looks just as nice with these.

 

I'll start sewing all of these blocks together soon

and have another top to quilt.

Happy Quilting!

Stockings for Miles

 This Christmas will be my grandson's first one

and I needed to get his stockings made!

I've made two for my daughter and son-in-law's family...

one for their home and one for mine.

Last week I put the finishing touches on Miles' stockings,

so he is ready for Christmas!

:)

This is the stocking for my house.

 

 

 

These Bucilla kits are so full of cute details!

 

 

 

 

 

Santa sure is jolly here. 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, I made a quilted stocking and stitched

the felt to the front of the stocking.

 

 

 

 

 

This is Miles' stocking for his home.

His dad LOVES outer space and requested

this space ship stocking.

 

 

It turned out so cute and sure was fun to make.

This stocking has the same quilted stocking

as the one for my house.

Santa will be able to stuff these stockings to the top now!

Happy Quilting

&

Creating.

Sunflower Table Quilt

 I just love Robin Pickens fabrics and have used a number

of them over the years.

I'm not sure when these came out, but I've had them

in my stash for a while.

The sunflowers and the lattice are just so pretty together.

 

  

 

The blocks are all sewn together and it's about

54" square.

Once it's quilted, I think I will use it

for a tablecloth. 

 

 

 

These are all 5" HST's... mindless sewing to me.

 

 

 

 

 

I have to look in my stash to see if I have a fabric for

the backing, then I can get it quilted.

 

I might have purchased these same fabrics in the

turquoise colorway, too!  :)

 

 

Happy Quilting!

Luna Quilt Finished

 Luna has been waiting to be quilted for a little while

and I finally got to it this week.

This quilt is for my latest grand-nephew,

my sister's grandson and her 6th grandchild,

 

 

 

 

 

This pattern in The Luna Quilt by Kitchen Table Quilting

and went together so quickly.

I had wanted to do something with the stack of primary

colored fabrics I've had for a while

and this worked well.

 

I think this is the third quilt I've made from these fabrics

and there may be enough for one more small one.

 

 

 

 

 

This pattern has several different sized quilts to make,

but this one is in between the baby quilt size

and the lap quilt size.  

 

 

 

It was quilted with some straight lines

and that's all it needed.

 

 

 

I even pieced the backing.

All of the fabric for this came from my stash,

which I'm pretty pleased about.  

 

It will be washed and given to the little man soon.

 

 

Happy Quilting!

Whale Baby Quilt Finish

 My grandson was born in April

and before he was born,

my daughter and son in law asked for a

Whale quilt.

 

I ordered this pattern and pulled some fabrics

to make the whale, but immediately knew

it was not what I wanted.

The fabric pull was going to be way to busy.

 

After some looking and pondering,

I found a pattern of a Sunset at Sea. 

Now I knew what I wanted to use.

 

To make this quilt even more exciting,

I had won a selection of water colored hand dyed fabrics

from Vicki at Colorways by Vicki Welsh

and had purchased a few other fabrics packs from her 

to make another quilt that never happened.

I had my plan!

The whale pattern was scaled down to 75% and the

fun began.

 

 

 

I could not be happier with how this quilt came together.

 

 

 

 

 

The only fabric that is not from Vicki in the body of the quilt

is the lightest water blue. 

The sky, the sun and the whale are all made from her fabrics, too.

The borders are batiks that I purchased for the quilt.

The quilt has been delivered and

my daughter and son in law are very happy with it.

The little man is only 5 1/2 months old, so he isn't thrilled yet!

(I did make him a quilt when he was born.... an outer space quilt.)

 

 

As a side note,

for some reason none of your comments are

coming through to my email.

For the longest time I was getting most of them

to my email, but now none are.

I have looked to see if I can change a setting,

but have had no luck.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what to try?

I do appreciate all of your comments and feel badly

that I can't reply.

 

Happy Quilting!

 

Travel and Busy Month

 As so many of us say these days....

How did we get to the end of September already??

I have been gone a lot this month,

traveling and doing fun things with family and friends.

Therefore, my hidey hole has been pretty quiet.

I did start a new quilt last week and it is

pure mindless sewing!

These fabrics have been hanging in the cabinet for

    quite a while and it was time for them

to come out and play.

 

 

The sunflower and lattice fabrics are Robin Pickens

and I just had to have them when I saw them.

 

The HST's are 5" square and were fun to play with,

trying to decide on a design.

 

I think this will be a picnic blanket or a table cloth.

 

 

 

Hopefully, it will be sewn together soon. 

 

 

 

The September Gridster bee blocks were made

and are on their way to the Queen Bee.

I had not made this block before and really enjoyed it!

 

 

I'm looking forward to getting a couple of things quilted

and on the finished side soon.

 

Happy Quilting!

Luna Top Finished

 I think I am at the end of making this round of

Baby quilts and the Luna quilt finished it off. 

For this one I pulled out my stack of primary colored fabrics

with a lot of black.

I've used this stack to make several other quilts over the years

and pretty much finished up the pile.

 

 

 

The background fabric has black (or maybe navy blue??) dots

and worked really well with all of the bright fabrics. 

 

 

 

This quilt went together so quickly!

I think I'm just going to use straight line quilting

on this one to finish it.

 

Something new is being worked on in my hidey hole now

that the baby quilts are finished.

(For the moment anyway!)

 

I'm linking to Design Wall Monday today.

 

 

Happy Quilting!

Sew Together Bags

 A while back I had a pile of HST's left over from my

Lucky Stars quilt and could not throw them away.

They were too small for me to make into squares,

so they sat for a bit.

Then an idea came to me...

sew them onto a piece of fabric and use them for

the outside of a Sew Together Bag.

 

 

 

 

 

I had enough HST's to make the "fabric" for two bags!

 

 

 

 

 

I kept sewing organic straight lines with different colors of thread

and was so excited with the finish.

I sandwiched batting and fabric before sewing them together,

so the outer fabric was good and sturdy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bright batiks were used for the pockets and linings.

 

 

 

 

 

This batik plaid was fun for the end pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

I had not made one of these in a while

and it was fun to create them again.

 

 

They will be given as gifts,

although I would like to keep one for myself.  :)

 

I'm linking to Design Wall Monday today.

 

Happy Quilting!

 

Oriana is Finished

 Back in April I took a class at one of my

local quilt shops to learn to make
Oriana.

I had wanted to make this quilt for some time

and could not figure out the pattern, for some reason.

I signed up for the class and then began

looking for fabric.

This part was challenging!

I finally decided on a rainbow color scheme

and began cutting strips.

During the first class I was able to figure out the pattern

and went to town after that.

My quilt top was finished before the second class.

After I finished it, I sent to to

Rebecca Grace Quilting

and asked her to work her magic on the quilting.

She returned it to me a couple of weeks ago

and it is finished!!

 

 

 

 

 

The biggest challenge for me in making this quilt

was deciding where the different colors would go. 

 

 

 

It lived on my design wall for a couple of days

and I kept going in and moving strips

until it was pleasing to my eye. 

 

 

 

The next biggest challenge was getting the seams to match to make

the circle.

My seam ripper was called into action several times.

 

 

 

 

I could not be happier with Rebecca Grace's quilting!

She does such a phenomenal job in every aspect of her quilting.

With all of the different colors in this quilt, 

I decided to bind it in black.

 

I'm excited to finally have made Oriana!

 

 

Happy Quilting!

 

Lucky Stars is Finished

 "Lucky Stars" has been on my list of quilts to make

for a long time.

The group I go to "quilt camp" with every year

decided to each make this quilt for this years camp

to put on our beds while we are there.

We aren't supposed to show our quilts to anyone else

until the big reveal at quilt camp.

No one reads my blog, so I can post the photos here.

 

 

 

This quilt was made with my three most favorite fabric elements...

Kaffe, Batiks and polka dots!

 

 

 

 

This pattern went together so quickly

and was an easy one to make.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the twin size, which seems big to me,

but it will work on my bed at camp.

 

 

 

 

I thank my lucky stars that Rebecca Grace

quilted this for me.

She chose the design and I love it!

 

 

 

 

 

It will be fun to see all of our Lucky Stars quilts

at camp in November.

Hopefully I'll remember to take photos.

 

 

 

Isn't the backing fun??!!

Happy Quilting!

Red, White and Blue Finish

 In the beginning of 2022 I told myself that I was

going to work through as many kits and projects 

that had not been started or finished on my

"Shelf of Shame" in my hidey hole.

One of the first things I worked on was a red, white and blue kit

that I had purchased a number of years ago.

The quilt top was finished pretty quickly and then it sat.

And sat and sat.

Now I can say it is finished!

 

 

 

Flying Geese are one of my favorite quilting designs,

so this design was a fun one for me.

 

 

 

 

 

I quilted it with straight lines and stitching in the ditch...

fast and easy.

 

 

 

 

This photo looks like the geese are taking off in flight! 

 

 

 

This morning my daughter told me of an Air Force

officer who, at the age of 46, didn't wake up one morning,

leaving a wife and four small children.

She asked if I would like to donate this quilt to them.

What a great idea.

This will be on it's way soon.

 

 

Hug your loved ones tightly today.

 

Happy Quilting!

Kassie's Tree Skirt

 As some of you know,

my traditional wedding gift is a

quilted Christmas Tree skirt.

 

Two of my nieces were married before I

 began this tradtion,

so I needed to make them each a tree skirt.

 

One was made and gifted back in the spring

and the second one is now finished

and ready for gifting.

 

 

 

 

 

As I was looking through my Christmas fabrics

I found this pile of triangles

I had cut to make another tree skirt. 

A few more prints were cut

and laying them out began.

 

 

 

I don't know what it is about quilts made with triangles,

but I just love them. 

 

 

 

There are some tradional fabrics and a few more

whimsical fabrics in this skirt. 

 

 

 

The thing my niece may appreciate the most

is the backing fabric.

It's from my mom's stash of Christmas fabrics

and probably dates to the 90's.

My mom didn't sew much,

but enjoyed making Christmas things.

Kassie will like having part of "Gram"

in the tree skirt.

 

 

Happy Quilting!

 

 

 

Solid Bold Baby Quilt Finished

 I have to say...

This baby quilt did not end up anywhere near

where I had envisioned it and
I LOVE IT!!

This was started by using a pattern in a recent

American Patchwork and Quilting magazine

and I immediately changed the pattern a bit.

 

 

 

In the magazine the blocks were set like this,

so a plus sign was in the middle of each block. 

 

 

 

I just love these bold solid colors paired with the black and white. 

 

 

 

I was playing around with taking photos of the quilt top

after the blocks were sewn together and turned my camera on an angle.

I loved the blocks set on point!

That's the way it was finished.

I quilted it with primary colored variegated thread and just followed

the straight lines of the quilt.

 

This wee one hasn't arrived yet,

but the quilt is done and waiting.

 

I'm linking to Design Wall Monday.

Happy Quilting!

Ribbon Baby Quilt Finished

 This quilt top has been finished for some time

and has been patiently waiting to be quilted.

It's turn came the other day and it's now a finished baby quilt!

 

 

 

 

I just love these ombre prints and wish I had purchased them in

every color.

They make such fun quilts!

 

 

 

 

 

The pattern for this baby quilt was in a recent issue of

American Patchwork and Quilting.

I didn't make it nearly as big as the quilt in the magazine.

 

 Deciding how to quilt this one had me stumped

for a while.

Then I decided to just do something simple and get it finished.

This is labeled and ready for delivery.

It feels so good to be getting some of these

quilts finished and out the door!!

Happy Quilting!