Baby quilts for twins

So I was given a great opportunity to make the cutest baby quilts ever!  A good friend of my sister's had twins last November and my sister asked if I would make them quilts.  The babies were a little boy and a little girl, what fun I had coming up with these quilts.  It's been sooooo long since I got to make a cute little girl quilt and I just love how it turned out.  Of course I love the boy quilt as well but there is just something about a little girl quilt.....

 

 



Where does all the time go??

Well here it is the beginning of February...WOW!  So far this year has been action packed.  I've been tinkering away at quilting and sewing.  I haven't worked on Flower Power for awhile now and am starting to feel "behind".  This is just because of the deadlines I had given myself when I started this project.  Oh well, it's early in the year I WILL get back on track.

 

We were away in January in Cancun and had a great trip.  Always nice to get away from the cold and snow and get a tan and soak up some sunshine.

 

After getting back from Mexico I made some big changes to my diet and my life.  I've removed Gluten, Dairy and Eggs from my diet, yes, it does sound extreme.  Surprisingly it's going smoothly...it is truly amazing how your world opens up to new and different ideas and products.  This will be about a 2 month exclusion and then I will re-introduce dairy and eggs and see how that goes.  I REALLY miss dairy...cheeeeeese please!  Gluten I may never bring back into my life.  The other big change is I am finally going to train for a little Triathalon.  So I'm swiming twice a week at 6a.m. and running 3 times a week.  Both of which have not been a part of my life in a VERY long time.  Baby steps...this morning I swam about 50 laps (not continuous) but still I survived.  My arms will be quite sore tomorrow, but I'm feeling great.  Very excited about this new adventure!!

 

I decided for some reason that I needed to make myself some new pot holders and oven mitts??  So I wasted about a day making these

 

So time consuming making these little buggers...but after they were all done I am super happy with them.  I LOVE the fabric, I wish I would have bought tons of it when it was around.  They are so pretty I don't want them to get dirty.  But I've already thrown away my gungy pot holders so I guess I will have to use them.

 

Well that's it for now...off to finish some more odds and ends.  I cleaned my room the other day and boy do I have odds and ends to finish :)

 

Happy Quilting!



Flower Power

Well here we are.....2013...Happy New Year everyone!

 

Another year of trying to catch up on years of UFO's.  Hopeing to get some projects done and entered into shows.

 

 

I have started off the year by finishing off 2 more blocks for the Flower Power quilt that I'm working on. 

So this takes me down to 3 more blocks to go...

 



Customer quilt.....

So I've had this quilt on my machine for the last 7 weeks!  In that time frame there were many days that I didn't work on it.  I have 43 hours invested into it...It was pieced by a friend in Las Vegas who I have quilted quilts for in the past.  She is a wonderful piecer and makes beautiful quilts!

 

The front looks good but.....I think the back is the amazing side!  This is where you can see the 43 hours of quilting.



Flower Power

Block Number 8

(5 more blocks to go)

 

Hoping I can find the new Quilter's Newsletter today....

 

 



Flower Power

 

Well I zipped off blocks 6 and 7 quite quickly, have had them done for about 6 weeks.  Block 8 is sitting waiting for me to hand stitch....The October magazine will be showing up shortly, I'd better get on with it!

 

 

This block with the browns, I'm not overly happy with it?!  I used fray check in the corners of the flowers to prevent fraying while I was stitchin' and on the dark brown flower you can see the sheen of the fray check....still debating on re-doing that flower.  It's not as noticible on the other 2 flowers.  Hmmmm...

 



My Cheater Apple Core

 

Quite some time ago (like probably 3 years) I bought 2 different Quiltsmart packages.  One was the Apple Core quilt and one is the Double wedding ring.  Well I decided last week that I would finally do the Apple Core.  A traditional apple core quilt is hand pieced, so that is why I called this a cheater apple core.  It may be a cheater but it was still a little time consuming!

 

So the product is a printed, fusible interfacing.  So you cut apart all the pieces (110), cut a cross in each piece,  then pin the apple core to the right side of your fabric piece.  Sew around the solid line then cut along the dotted line.  Then flip them all inside out, I would do this while watching t.v.

 

Then you have to peice the background which will create all the alternate apple cores when these get ironed onto it (I know it sounds confusing, but watch it works)

 



 

Laying out the apple core pieces onto the background.

 

Slowly ironing all the apple cores in place.  I seriously got "iron" elbow doing this!  Probably took me about an hour to get them all on.

 

Ta-Dah!  I wasn't sure I was going to like it when it was done, but I think it grew on me.  Now to get it quilted......