A sweet gift

My friend Rachel gifted me two half yards of Anna Maria's new laminated fabric! Thanks Rachel! How sweet, and Happy Friday to me! Happiest day at work that I've had in a long time thats for sure....
couldn't wait to get home and make an apron for Sophie, she needs one now that she is starting to paint -
This thursday playgroup they each painted a skein of wool yarn, and the mamas are going to knit them hats. I'll post pics of the yarn soon, they all turned out very pretty!


I used my walking foot, worked great, and lined it with the same fabric as the ties.


Also good for doing dishes!

Christmas Quilt and Snow

I finished this quilt top out at Camp - Its going to be for my Mom and Dad for Christmas - don't look Mom! I'm working on the back now, with about 2 yards of the Kona cream, and also a strip of each green, which for some reason are all sewed together. Forgot what I was going for there... I think I planned on cutting into strips again so I'll have little square borders for some big solid squares on the back.


The inspiration for this came from AmandaJean's Quilt along.


We made a snowgirl/teddybear thing in the front yard... since then they eyes have fallen out and its been snowed on ... now it looks like a snow ghost!

Two sweet girls

I am truly going to make an effort to post more often. Really have been busy creating, but instead of taking pics of what I've been sewing, I've been watching these two sweet girls play -


Washing carrots -


And supervising sewing room nap time!

Letters for the couch

Lots of things have happened since I last posted....our 25th Wedding Anniversary, Quilt camp, Strep throat, Dad in the hospital ( he is doing good now). I'll spare you all the details, but lets just say I've been busy - here are some pics to prove it!
Some new pillows for Sophie to throw off of the couch so she can use the couch like a trampoline... we just can't tell her not to, I mean really, don't you wish you had a couch big enough that you could jump on?
I put a strip with a 'hidden' zip on the back of each one, so far its worked and she hasn't been unzipping too much.
I've been collecting fabrics with letters with pillows in mind, maybe she'll learn the alphabet while she is midair?
As you can see, I finally got some Aunty Cookie! Very happy about that.

Also happy I got the 'pebble' quilting down, so looking forward to doing some more of that -


Mailed this wonky star to Amanda for her Quilts of Valor project on the way out the road to Quilt 'Camp'. She must have had a lot of sewing sisters pitch in, because she is making 5 quilts! It was very fun to make and I can see how these could be addicting...


Ahhh, Quilt Camp.we always hang our completed projects over the railing... we always have so much fun out there, its so hard to come back to reality after 4 nights in this beautiful cabin.


What could be better than this?!?

Quilt almost done

Here is the Chocolate Lollipop quilt top held up by the DH on the front deck -


And here it is all quilted and ready for the binding -


I used a Kona cotton for the borders on the front - and the chocolate lollipop fabric that Lorrie sent me for the bottle caps that I sent to her!


Here is the back, I used a linen/cotton blend that I got at a garage sale, it was a 60" wide five yard chunk, really nice, think I payed $5 for it - I love finding fabric at garage sales and thrift shops -


It took almost two spools of King Tut thread, 9 and 1/2 bobbins -
I couln't get the whole quilt in the picture, its been gray here for weeks, so the lighting is awful.
Now I'm off to finish the binding, and start a red, white and blue wonky star block for Amandajean -

Sunday Stash on Monday

A day late.... this little fat quarter set of OOP Heather Ross arrived on Saturday!

Very happy for me! Sorry for the bad picture, its been so dark and gray lately.

I haven't been able to get a picture of the Chocolate Lollipop quilt top, and if my machine, Ella, gets out of the shop today, I'll have the back done tonight, and the quilting will begin!

Two knitting bags

I'm having trouble with Blogger, and the DH ( with our camera) gets back tonight, so will have some pictures of that Chocolate Lollipop finished quilt top soon - and I now have all six of my Scrappy Christmas blocks! I'm so amazed how well they all go together, so pics of those soon too... meanwhile, here are two bags that I made for my daughter a while back.
She asked for a couple bags to carry her knitting projects around in, so I sewed her up some Pink Penguin style bags.
I did square off the bottoms so they can stand up, and made the casing for the selvedge drawstrings about an inch bigger. They are in constant use because she always has about five projects going at once - hmmm...wonder where she gets that from?!