In the Pink

I finally finished my 'In the Pink' quilt! I started this in 2009 (I think), and have been "meaning" to get it quilted and bound for at least 2 years now... you know how that goes.
Anyway, I needed a Valentines wall decoration for my front room, and this will be perfect!
Now onto the next project...

Sunflower Wall Hanging

Remember our sisters quilts from a couple of years ago?
I just finished quilting mine!

I've been needing a wall hanging for above the desk since I re-arranged the room.
This is the perfect fall quilt! I've decided this is going to be my seasonal wall.
Will have to see what the future seasons bring!

New Kitty and My First Table Runner!

My older sister adopted a stray female cat this spring that turned up in her yard. Turned out the cat (still a kitten herself!) was pregnant!

She asked me if I wanted a kitten when they came. I told her if she had a yellow tabby male, I'd take him. Well OF COURSE she had a yellow tabby male!

So let me introduce you to Ozzie, or Ausie, or Ahzie... can't decide on the spelling yet, but you get the idea.


My sister & her kids named him Oscar, but that wasn't quite right for me. I thought maybe Oswald...then Osi came out of that.


Anyway, here he is, in all his cuteness, chowing down on my first ever table runner! (He wasn't all that interested in posing for photo's)


The table runner is made from fabric I picked up at Joann's.

And BTW ladies, Joann's now has mini Jellyrolls (20 strips.. this one had 10 different prints), and charm square sized packages! The jellyroll was $12.99 and the yardage was $7.99. HOWEVER, Joann's also will now take more than 1 coupon per transaction, as long as they are DIFFERENT coupons. So I used 1 Robert's 50% for the jellyroll, and 2 different Joann's 40% coupons for the 2 quarter yard coordinating cuts I got for the backing. Total came to $9.50! With tax! I have a feeling I'll be shopping there more often!

The pattern is modified from the April in Paris Quilt from Fresh Fabric Treats. I changed the squares down to 6" from 10", and used some hand-me-down fabric for the foundation pieces. I also used leftover batting to quilt it with.

I LOVE cute projects that cost less than $10!

Vintage Sheet Baby Quilt

Dude's friend at work wife is pregnant with their first child. They are even more "hippy" than I am...inasmuch as they are not finding out the sex of the baby, will be using cloth diapers, etc.


They've decided to throw a baby shower, but have told everyone not to bring presents (??).


I of course decided that a baby quilt was in order, and it needed to be as gender-neutral as possible.


What better fabric to make it out of than my vintage sheet scraps from this quilt? Recycled fabric! Totally Hippy!


The whole quilt is made from the sheet scraps and 2 pieces of vintage fabric from my mother and grandmother.


The backing came from a king size comforter given to me along with a king size headboard and mattress that my parents now use.


The comforter had a big rip from one side to the middle, but there was quite a bit of usable fabric left. Perfect for a recycled fabric quilt!


I had fun quilting a different design into each border square. The center squares are wonky 9-patches, so I used wonky stars to quilt each of them with.


The pattern itself is adapted from Vickie Eapen's Wonky Nine-Patch Quilt out of Moda's new Fresh Fabric Treats book.


The original design has solid color squares for the border. My scraps weren't big enough for solid squares, so I adapted them to the 2 rectangles. Also, the sizing was cut down to 6"
squares for my quilt.


And here she/he is, all wrapped up with left-over binding and ready to present to the new-to-be parents! I love baby quilts!

E-Fannie Vintage Sheet Quilt

E-Fannie? You ask?

This is my vintage sheet quilt that my sister Shannon finished quilting for me in June.

She and her family came up for the 4th of July, and she brought the quilt home to me! As I was binding it today, I came across a mysterious word quilted into the bottom left corner. (Pictured in the 3rd photo, but very hard to actually see it).

From the back of the quilt, the word looked like, "Canooddle" (photo 2)... which didn't make ANY sense to me, so I called her up to see what it was!

It HAD BEEN "Steffanie" from the front however, as I readied the quilt for binding, I trimmed off the "S". Then, as I bound the quilt, the "t" got covered up. So we were left with "effanie" (or einaffe...which somehow looked like canooddle from the back...don't ask).

Shannon and I joked about it being an Effanie quilt, then I though of E-Fannie (like E harmony... Electric Fannie!) I told Shannon she had just named my quilt!

It then came out that she had also quilted "Gypsy Bandana" into it (photo 1... also hard to see). How cool is that?

So this is now my E-Fannie Vintage Sheet Quilt!
Isn't it awesome?

Thank you, thank you for the quilting (and the name) Shannon!


P.S.... I was thinking about making pillow cases out of the leftover sheet scraps, but then thought.. duh, it's a vintage sheet quilt made up of tons of different sheets.. all my current pillowcases will already match! Ha!


Now I can make a cool bag or something out of the scraps!

Wild Thyme Back

Oh yeah, here's the back...

Wild Thyme Done!

A Ha Ha Ha! (D'Artagnon style)

I finished it!

In less than a year too!

Waaa Hooo!

Compliments can begin now... thank you very much....






Oh, and this is Drew holding his eyes open for the camera... apparently the mouth has to stay open also, to ensure the eyes don't close with the flash... too cute!

Vintage Sheet Quilt!

I finished my Vintage Sheet Quilt top!

My sister Shannon and I both found some great vintage sheet fat quarters on an Etsy site. We decided to share them and make our own style of quilts!


Shannon made this darling top with hers....



I used the 'Garden Brick Wall' pattern from Quilt Magazine.















As you can see, this is a Queen size top. Now just need to find a cool King sized sheet to back it with, and send them off to El Paso for Shannon to quilt for me! Whooo Hoooo!

Max & Whiskers complete!

I finished my postage stamp quilt today! Isn't it cute? Drew decided to "cheese" for me while taking the photo's.. you can tell who's going to be using this quilt!



See the quilting? I stitched one diagonal through the patterned fabric, and the other through the solid fabric.

Also, check out the binding fabric I found at Joann's, it goes really well with the print! The project called for 3/4 yard for the binding... you can see how much I have left over... I used my new bias tape maker and made 1/2" tape from 2" strips. I'm thinking the pattern was using 2.5" strips...that may be why I have so much left over.




And my cute backing with the 6 leftover squares I had through the middle. I think it turned out awesome!

Max & Whiskers Postage Stamp Quilt

I managed to finish piecing and sewing together my Postage Stamp Quilt! I was originally going to follow along with p.s. i quilt's quilt along, but my neutral jelly roll took a long time to get to me. Oh well, better late than never, right?






I bought the backing last monday, while on a shop hop with my mother and 2 younger sisters. I also have 6 extra blocks left over from the front, I'm going to use them on the back... more to come here as well!

The Barn Show

Another cool image for you:

I found it here along with another pic of the Old Glory Quilt…

Just thought it was cool & you’d enjoy.

Old Glory Quilt

This is the quilt I'd like to replicate for this years 'sisters quilt'. It seems to be the year for really cool old reproduction prints, quite a few civil war lines are out, as well as our favorite French General lines! What do all you ladies think?

Pink Penguin goes to Toyko Quilt Festival

Hey all fellow quilt/fabric lovers!

Go check out this post at blog 'Pink Penguin'

The author Ayumi made a recent trip to the Toyko Quilt Festival, she’s posted some amazing photos! Such as this:

and this:

and this!

Go check out the rest! They’re awesome!

http://ayumills.blogspot.com/2011/02/tokyo-quilt-festival.html

Robot Lobster Quilt!

So this one has only taken 2 years to finish... I'm getting good at finishing UFO's lately, because I can't concentrate on anything new with Drew in the full on TERRIBLE TWO's stage. Douglas requested a "Robot Lobster" quilt right after Drew was born, I found the main fabric on clearance up at the Ogden quilt store by Stacie.

Kinda Robot Lobstery….

The backing came from Connecting Threads, the stripes is from their ‘Cheep Talk’ line, on clearance for $3.00/yd. and the leaf print is from their ‘fabric seconds’ area, supposedly the leaves start to slant downward toward the right edge of the fabric, rather than run straight across… I couldn't see that, can you? Anyway, it is on special ‘seconds’ price of $2.28/yd. If you need any backing fabric, this may be a great option for you! They have other colors of leaves, and plaids…

Anyway, Douglas is happy tonight!

Sisters Wall Hanging Complete!

Remember that wall hanging from 2-3 years ago? Well I finally finished it! I made my own bias tape and everything with my new bias tape maker…..

Arcadia Log Cabin progress

I finished my first honeybun of Arcadia Log Cabin squares...I have this pile of strips left over, I think I'm going to do either scrappy log cabin squares or piano keys with them.. have to see.

Two more honeybuns to go!

New Projects!

Over the weekend I managed to grab a few minutes here and there to start a log cabin quilt... I found a picture of this quilt online, and thought that would be a great pattern for my 3 Arcadia honeybuns!

So here is what I've managed to piece so far:


And then my neighbor came around with 3 beige couch pillows she was trying to find a home for… I told her I’d take ‘em! I’m planning to recover them in oh so cute fabric and give them away as gifts! My other neighbor calls me the ‘neighborhood horder’… I try to get her to understand I’m the ‘neighborhood recycler’… I’ll show her, she may be getting a recovered pillow soon!

Happy Monday all!

BOM's

I actually managed to sew today! I got caught up on the last three block of the months! Yeah! Only took all day... in between cleaning, laundry, running after kids, etc... but they're done!