Another finish

I got the binding done on this quilt Monday while the boys fished. One down about 20 more to go. I started 2 more baby quilts on Sunday. One is all flannel and not something I am completely thrilled about yet - am hoping the quilting will make me like it more. The other is a coin using Central Park and I am going to back it in flannel. These will be my first attempts at flannel, we'll see if I like it or not.

I won!

First - Here is finished project. It was made with leftover blocks from my Central Park quilt. I have started leaving hand projects in the car for my few minutes of time sitting at the bus stop, doctors office, baseball games. One done about 10 to go!

Second - I won one of the prizes from Amy's Creative Side Bloggers Quilt Festival! I never win anything. My prize was Cowboys Blessing Hanging from Prairie Moon Quilts (http://www.prairiemoonquilts.com/). The kit comes with all the fabric, embroidery floss, backing, pattern and a cute drawstring bag to store everything in. She also sent two adorable patterns to boot! Thank you Amy for doing the festival and Shelly from Prairie Moon for my prize!

And check out her adorable thank you cards

Online Quilt Festival

Thanks for stopping by! I have been quilting for about 9 years but stopped for awhile after I had my two boys. The past few years I have become obssessed with quilting and spend my spare time quilting, thinking about quilting, looking at blogs, etc.

I thought I would share this quilt with you. It is an original design that I made for my sister-in-law after she lost her twins at 5 months along. It is called Flowers of Hope. It was a very painful time for our family and the quilt was thearaputic for me when making it. My brother and his wife are amazing people who have been through alot and have shown so much love and respect for each other along the way. So inspiring!

It was made with Frolic (I made 3 other quilts from this line). I tried applique with the flowers so they got a ragged edge once washed. For the quilting I attempted to do loops - so not my favorite technique but once washed it looked alot much better.

Thanks for visiting and remember to stop by and see the rest of the quilts in the festival http://amyscreativeside.com/2011/05/13/bloggers-quilt-festival-spring-2011/

My first pillow

 It has been over a month since my last blog. I may not be sharing what I am working on but I have been busy. Both of my Connecting Threads quilts have been quilted and I just need to hand sew the binding on. I just finished quilting the Central park quilt this afternoon (my parents were sweet enough to take the boys for a few hours so I could finish it). I am hoping to get the binding sewn to the front tonight yet. I did get one more stocking done (This time I quilted the back too - I like it much better than just the piece of fabric, but am not going to tear my first one apart).

So now to my embroidery/quilting project that I am sooooo in love with. My youngest drew this person about about a month ago. I have been seeing people blog about embroidering their kids artwork so I decided to do that with person. Below is the pillow that I made it into.

 I am so proud of it. He has only seen the embroidery part. We are celebrating his 5th birthday this coming weekend and will surprise him with the pillow. I might have to embroider another person just for me! I am trying to convince my oldest to let me do a piece of his artwork but he thinks it is lame. So I might have to sneak something with out him finding out!

One Christmas Stocking Done - Maybe

 So in December I made a quilt using 12 Days of Christmas and loved it so much I decided to make stockings and a tree skirt with the fabric. Last night I finished the first stocking. I used a tutorial from Cluck Cluck Sew to figure out the lining and the cuff. For some reason it took me about 10 minutes to understand how to attach the cuff. (I am blaming this on the medicine I am on for my sinus infection).

Anyways the stocking is all put together but I think I am going to rip it apart. For the backing a just used a piece of fabric and I think I should have done a quilted backing. The fabric by itself seems so flimsy.

I am going to make the next stocking with the quilted backing and then decide what I should do about this one.

My youngest has claimed this one for himself. The oldest wants half square triangles, so I started cutting those last night.

I have yet to make a decision on the Central Park and Pinwheel quilts. I have started picking out paint samples for the bedroom though. Not sure what look I am going for. Shopping the weekend so hopefully I will make a decision then.

Pinwheel Sampler - 16 blocks done

Here are my 16 blocks from PSIQuilt's Pinwheel Sampler Quilt. Testing it out on my bed to see if I should go with this quilt or the Central Park one shown in my last post. We are an indecisive family. My husband likes this one on the bed or the CP on the wall with neutral bedding. Each boy likes a different quilt. I think I am leaning towards neutral bedding and walls and hanging a quilt behind the bed. Then I can switch quilts out depending on my moods :) I am going on a girls weekend to Chicago next week so I need to make a decision by then to get the bedding and accessories that I need. What to do, what to do.

Double Hourglass Quilt is Done

I finally finished my double hourglass quilt based on the tutorial from Cluck Cluck Sew. http://www.cluckclucksew.com/2009/09/tutorial-double-hourglass-blocks-easy.html

It went together so easy and fast. What took me so long was trying to decide how to quilt it. I wanted to do something besides the meandering. I ran across the double hourglass quilt that Fussy Cut did (http://fussycut.blogspot.com/2010/05/double-hourglass-quilt.html) and decided to do the straight line quilting like she did. Only I did it both ways across the quilt. We plan on using this at ball games and for picnics.

I made all three of these quilts from the 2 jelly rolls that it takes to make the hourglass quilt.

A nice surprise to see that the pattern was stars. Love it.

This is now gracing my kitchen table. Makes me want the snow and cold to be gone and then sun to come out.

I am also working on a Central Park quilt (pattern on Moda Bakeshop). I am trying it out to see if I want to make it king size. I am debating between this pattern and the PSIQuilt Pinwheel Sampler in Verna. I have 8 blocks done. I hope to have the rest complete by next weekend, then I will share them.