Long time no post!

Sooo busy..... here are a few quilty and not so quilty things I've been up to since my last post.


Made a quilt for Willow.


Really love how the quilting came out on this one!







Bubble bath on vacation. Nice!



Family reunion. Three of 4 sisters.

Had my fortune told in New Orleans! How goofy is this guy? Like my hat? Searched high and low for a hat to fit my big fat head. This one was 'perfect'!

Did some sewing with the girls.

Summer chalk art.


Got a booth at the antique mall! Check out The Flying Phoenix. www.theflyingphoenixartisans.com


Went to the lake.



Got a swingset! Lovely Assistant is breaking it in.


Customer quilt.

More later!

Baby quilt all quilted

Baby quilt is quited!

I did loops and hearts. Heavy on the loops, light on the hearts. It's hard to make the hearts upside down! Gotta work on that. Also, had to try and avoid spots with lots of seam allowance underneath. The machine didn't like those spots too much.

Have the binding cut and stitched together, just gotta get it on the quilt.

Baby quilt progress

Baby quilt is coming along!

The top before border.

Here is the border, ready to sew on.

A closeup of the border. It may not be laying there in the right direction.....

Here are the leftovers. These are blocks that I discarded (just couldn't get the points right...), leftover triangles from stitching and trimming, and leftover squares from overcutting. I think I may make a whole nother quilt!



And one of my lovely assistant. Note the peanut butter (she calls it mmmmmbutter) on the cheek. You should see her leg.....

Baby quilt coming along

Working on this baby quilt some more. Have finished all the blocks, now on to sashing! These pics were taken with the 'old' camera cuz my husband skipped town with the new one. I use the old one now more than I did before we got the new one! Someone is always running off with the new one and leaving me stuck with the old one. Sheesh....

The border blocks.


The main blocks.

QST's are tricky....

OK, working on QST's for a quilt. They're challenging. Tried the Wonder Cut Ruler, did not like the results. Tried the draw a diagonal line on a square and sew down both sides trick, still didn't like the results. Have decided cutting a square, slicing it diagonally into triangles is the way to go. Still trying to get it right. They're looking better..... aren't they?


Not quite there.


Pretty bad.


No good. Not to mention the one going the wrong way in the top left corner. Sheesh!!


Really bad.


Nope.

Eh.....

Gotta get my 1/4 inch seams just right. My machine isn't helping any. I may have to switch to another one.

And here are a few people I know playing with a box - the world's best toy.

more fabric auditions

Auditioning fabrics for a quilt

The solids and ginghams with other interesting things at the bottom. Close ups follow.





What do you think?

baby quilt

Just bought this fabric to make a baby quilt. Pics of construction to follow!

The gingham to the far right looks blue, but it's really lavendar.

Pam - see the stripey fabric? I thought it might be fun to mix in some other stuff. Found this stripey piece and it looked like fun. Thought I'd dig through my stash and see what else I could find that would blend. I bought a bix box of all kinds of fun pieces from a lady who made doll clothes and I think some of those might go nicely. The stripe looks a little bright in the pic, so maybe not that one..... I'll post another pic if find some fun things. Maybe I'll do a mock block? Hmmmm....