Hi Everyone!

Hope you're enjoying your summer.  I thought I'd share a picture or 2 of the jelly roll race quilt I made.  I used a batik fabric jelly roll, and shoot me, I don't know the name of it.  I bought it about a year ago in a local quilt shop.  It was a fun quilt to make, watching the fabrics come together.  I just quilted the rows and added a simple binding.

I placed the quilt on the floor to take a quick shot.  The little black blur, Casey Ray, quickly made her way to claim her spot.  They love to lay on whatever we put on the floor, don't they?  lol

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Sewing Time

I spent some time sewing over the weekend. My DD found a cute "fish" mobile for a crib. That was what she picked for a theme. We found a turquoise colored fabric that looked like "bubbles" at Hancock's a few months ago. DD wasn't ready to commit to this fabric yet. Unfortunately, when she decided she wanted to use that fabric, she could only find 3 yards. My Hancock's didn't have any. I asked her to send me what she had and see if she could find anything else she liked. She sent the turquoise bubbles and found the same thing in pink. I found a busy, cute, bright fish print to match the turquoise and pink bubbles. I'm not crazy about using a lot of the pink, so I decided to use it as a trim on the valance and I'll use it to bind and back the quilt. Here's the valance and quilt top I made.

My DD takes care of my 2 year old grandson quite a bit. She has a toddler bed for him and it will stay in the baby's room. I found another fish print to go with the turquoise bubbles and made a quilt top for him.

So, I have a good start. I plan to make bumper pads and I still need to quilt the quilts!

Saturday morning!

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Now why is it that during the week I can sleep and don't want to get up and on Saturday morning when I can sleep I wake up even earlier than I need to during the week and I'm wide awake and a million things of what I should be and could be doing keep me awake and I get up and it's really early? I'm wondering if I had just a little too much coffee this morning... lol!

Let's see ... about the picture ... it's reversible tablecloth. The pattern is called "Reversible Tablecloth". Isn't that a clever name? It's from a local quilt shop called The Christmas Goose. I made one side with a wine print fabric and the other side is coffee fabric. There are coordinating prints and the border coordinates with both sides ... so it's reversible. The center is large square of your theme fabric and a couple of borders are added. This would be fun to do for gifts and for holidays, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, or Valentine's Day and Easter.
Well I guess I'm off to figure out what I want to do today. Have a great day everyone!

Quilting Anyone?

Well, it's about time isn't it? I haven't posted lately. Here's a picture (and not a very good one) of a table runner I made. The pattern is from the book 'Dining at the Lodge' by Helen Thorn. You can see it at www.pinetreelodge.com. Sorry ... I thought I was figuring this blog thing out. I kept getting an error when I tried to add a link here. I'll keep working at that. Anyway, the quilt book has cute patterns for placemats, tablerunners and small tablecloths. The directions are detailed and pretty easy to follow.
Ok, who out there is good at working on one project at a time? Do you start and complete a project before you start another one? I don't!
I often think that if I focused on one projectc at a time, I might actually get a few things done and get to be pretty good at something. But, that's not me. I like a lot of different crafts and I like planning them and working on them all at different times. Sometimes I focus on one and sometimes I work on several different things at once. It's really all about the fun of it, so I guess it really doesn't matter what I do when. These past few months I've been crocheting, sewing, quilting and knitting a little bit. So, I'll post about whatever I do and either confuse or surprise you all! Happy Friday everyone!