Happy New Year 2013

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year!!
I have given my Niece and my Step Daughter their quilts and enjoyed very much the look on their faces as they opened them up.
This is my DSD with her new quilt.

I get a lot of pleasure making quilts and even more when I give them away.

Now we are into a new year, what are your quilting plans for this year?

Here are a few projects I would like to accomplish this year:

1. Make a graduation quilt for my nephew- he graduates in May
2. Finish my sisters quilt - she will turn 50 in August, so I would like to get it done for her Big Day. :)
3. Make a Christmas tree skirt - this has been on my list for a while
4. Finish up any or all of my current WIP's

For me, being a little (or a lot) organized helps me to stay focused so
today, my plan is to work on getting organized for the new year. That means cleaning up my sewing room, organizing my fabric, prioritizing my projects and on and on.

That should do me for now. How about you? I would love to hear what you are working on or what you want to work on.

This is my 100th blog post and the start of the new year so I am having a give-away. I think this is a great way to kick off the new year and get our creative juices flowing, don't you?

I received my order from Connecting Threads last week and have 4 charm packs to give away.

The 2 different collections by CT are Mirage and Rose Manor.
All you have to do to win these 4 gorgeous charm packs?? Leave me a comment about one thing you would really like to make this year and the winner will be picked on Sunday, Jan. 6th.
 Something new for the new year.


I love brand new anything, and this is a brand new year with so much potential ahead of us.

I hope we, you and I, have a very creative and happy new year.

Thanks for stopping by.

God Bless your new year.(and mine too. :))

Piecing the binding

Hi there,
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.
I am working on the binding for the charity quilt I am making and wanted to show you what I am doing.
This is fabric that is left over from piecing the quilt and they are 5 x 10 inches in size. In this picture below I have them laying right sides together and just the corners overlapping. I drew a line from the middle of the bottom fabric and the upper left hand corner of the top fabric down to the middle of the top fabric and the lower right hand corner of the bottom fabric.



In this next photo I drew another line a half inch towards the corner and then stitched on both of these lines.

 

I then cut a quarter inch from the first line which gave a quarter inch seam to the binding and a quarter inch seam to the triangle.

 

I pressed the seam open.

 

Then I pressed the top of the seam to get it good and flat.



 

After I pieced a piece about 24 inches in lenth I cut it in half lenthwise which made it 2 1/2 inches in width and pieced the ends together using the same technique as shown above. 

 

Now I have these left over triangles to make something out of. So many possibilites. 

 

And that is how I am making my binding while using up my left over fabric.

Have a great day and Thanks for stopping by.

Merry Christmas

Hi everyone,
I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas if you are reading blogs today. I am working so yes, I am reading blogs.
Here is a little update.
I finished quilting my charity quilt and I am piecing the binding with left over fabric. It looks amazing. I used a polyester bat and I can't believe how light the quilt is.
Anyways, that is all for now, go and enjoy your family.
God Bless and
Thanks for stopping by.

New sewing tables from Ikea

Hello,
Here are pictures of my new sewing and cutting tables that I bought last weekend at Ikea.

 

Cutting table with flannel board on the wall above it. There is a lot of storage space underneath the table and the height is perfect.










The corner table with sewing machine. LOVE IT!















This space above my machine I am thinking of putting a peg board on the wall to organize tools and thread.

Any thoughts??





New pictures of WIP.
Here are pictures of the charity quilt I am working on, all layed out so I can look at it before I piece it. I had the fabric cut out right after Black Friday and started piecing it last night.

 

 

 

 All pieced and ready to quilt. I am really loving this quilt.
You can find this pattern here.

 

 Ready to quilt.

 

I hope to get this quilt completely quilted today and binding on tomorrow. I am slow and take a lot of breaks so I better get back to work. Have a great day.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Totally Tuesday

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to share my totally awesome weekend with you.
Last Friday night my daughter and I, along with her two sons drove to Minneapolis Minnesota to go to Mall of America and the Ikea store. We arrived in town around 9:30 ish, found a motel room and crashed in order to be well rested for our big day.
Saturday we were up and at em by 7:00 ish, out to breakfast by 8:00 ish, to the pool til 9:00 ish, back to the room, cleaned up and ready to check out by 10:30 - ish.

Off to the mall we went. first we had to wear the boys down a little more so we rode rides until noon (grandma and toddler friendly rides) and then off to Ikea for lunch and some major shopping.

Lunch was de-l-ish (kinda got a theme going here).

Shopping at Ikea here we come>>> Oh My Goodness!

We left Ikea around 4:00 ish with stuff strapped to the SUV, kids strapped in and brains overloaded with tons of decorating and storage ideas like you wouldn't believe.

What did we get?? You are asking??
We got, picture frames, an easel for the boys, canisters, an embroidered pillow case with pillow, sheets, candles, a book shelf and much more.
AND!!
I got my new sewing and cutting tables!!

Unfortunately I left my camera in my daughters vehicle so I couldn't take any pictures but as soon as I get my camera back I will be sure to take some pictures and post them.

There hasn't been any sewing done on them yet because this week is finals week for me but I am looking forward to this weekend. Yea baby!!!

The baby boy quilt is finished and the way to his new home. The binding is all done on the Bento Box quilt and half of the binding is done on the green table topper, just the hand stitching to the back needs to be done..


I am having visions of projects for next year dancing through my head and can't wait to get started.

Merry Christmas from our house to yours.

New baby boy quilt

Good afternoon everyone,

Hi there, just wanted to share some of the things I have worked on this weekend.

I pieced this darling little boy quilt and now have it loaded and ready to quilt.

I am almost finished quilting this Large Mug rug or Small table topper.

That will put me at 3 quilts to get bound and one tabletopper/mug rug to bind.

I still have my flower quilt on the design wall. Sorry about the quality of the pictures, my camera didn't want to focus real well.

I hope your weekend is happy and productive.

Thanks for stopping by.

Finish up Friday

Hi Everyone,
 WOW!!
I can't believe 2 months have gone by since my last post. The time just seems to go faster and faster, especially with the holidays coming on.

I was reviewing my September to do list and the only thing I completed on that list was Olivia's quilt. It is all done and I need to get it in the mail.

I also finished up quilting the Bento Box quilt and have the binding ready to put on it. I have to get some movies from the public library and get busy on that one. I like watching movies while doing my hand work.

I did start quilting on the little green table topper and I finished up quilting a customer's quilt yesterday. 

I still have more that I want to get done so here is my new list:

1. Finish up the American Beauty quilt - the white needs to be quilted and the binding put on.

2. Work on piecing the Flower quilt.

3. Quilt the 2 table toppers and bind them.

4. Piece and quilt Baby Boy quilt for Kari. (She had her baby last week!)

5. Finish up Baby Boy Raggy quilt.

6. Piece and quilt man's quilt for charity in Jan.

7. 2 Christmas stockings for the newest grandchildren.


I joined a NewFO Challenge for 2013 and you can check it out here:



It sounds fun and I hope to keep you updated on all the exciting projects I will be working on in 2013.

Thanks for stopping by.
God Bless.