Friday, April 22, 2011

It's DONE!!!!

I finally finished hand stitching the binding and I am soooo very happy to be done with this quilt!
Here is the front:





...and here is the pieced back which I am so in love with!!!

I used the pattern by Elizabeth Hartman called "Fenced In" from her book The Practical Guide to Patchwork which I won back in November
I was so excited to win and even more excited to see a project (actually quite a few) which didn't scare a novice quilter like me! I haven't measured it but it fits perfectly on my full size bed!

Up next...a hippie quilt for my momma!



Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Binding Time

My week last week started out like this:


Now I am working on this:



It was such a beautiful day yesterday I took my quilt outside to sew on the binding in the sun. I have to say I really enjoyed that! Soaking up the sun under a new (almost done) quilt!


Tuesday, April 12, 2011

OMG Becky... I WON!!!

I am so excited!!! I won the Tokyo Subway Map Quilt by Elizabeth Hartman of Oh Fransson! I am in love with this quilt! Everytime I look at it I see a new block I like and the quilting is just awesome!! It was such a great cause that she was raffle-ing it off for and I am so very thankful that it's new home is with me!!! Thank you so much Elizabeth!!

Friday, March 25, 2011

Sophie's Onesie Dress

Two posts in one week (let alone in one month)! I made this little number using Prudent Baby's Onesie Dress Tutorial I bought a package of onesies at Walmart and dyed a couple with some fabric dye I bought at Ben Franklin. Here is one of them that I dyed:

What a cute little peanut!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

I'm still alive and sewing I have just been really bad at taking pictures of everything (besides the fact that it has been dark, cloudy and raining buckets here for the last two months...not that I'm complaining! ). My friend Sarah took a picture of some pj pants I made for her tiny little peanut:
She's just so darn cute! I thought that lips flannel fabric was too cute! I made her a little onsie dress for it, but it is in size 3-6 months so I have to wait till she grows into it for a picture! I told you she was a peanut!!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Christmas Present

I have been horrible about taking pictures of the stuff I have been making! I need to work on that this year! Here is one of the Christmas presents I made and actually snapped a picture of:


I had to try these iron on transfers for a project for my brother... since I still had some left over and they were so much fun to use I made them into wall art. I found these graphics at The Graphics Fairy


She has tons of vintage clip art on her site and it is all free! I found this pretty little nest and matching robin and printed it off onto iron on transfer paper. Then I just ironed it onto some pretty muslin fabric I had and stapled that onto a couple of canvases I found at Michaels! Easy and fun!!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Yes, I still craft

Here is my latest work in progress:

This quilt is going to be huge...I haven't measured it yet but trust me. It is ginormous!!! I saw this pattern in Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting Easy Quilts magazine Winter 2009 issue. This pattern is called Lizzy's Parade by Cherri House. It is a great pattern and went together pretty easy. So far the hardest part is making the quilt sandwich and starting to quilt this monster on my machine. But even just pinned together I love it and have seriously thought about just using it with the basting pins! LOL!