Update on Donation quilt #2 (Fairy panels)

Well here are the completed pics of this Fairy quilt with my freehand quilting:


















Fairy Quilt back =quilted


Fairy Blocks

Fairy Top - sewn, waiting to be quilted

Well I have the top of Children's Donation quilt #2 completed (approx 44" x 65") the one featuring 6 of Michael Miller's Perwinkle blue Fairy panels. I don;t love the colorful border as much as I'd like, but hope a child will like it. The backing will comprise of two big sections of fabric and some of the left over colorful blocks (I like to use everything up and no one really sees the back too often)

Donation children's Quilts

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Well as soon as I read about Margaret's Hope Chest organization I knew I wanted to to do at least 2 quilts to donate. I have pieced the first one yesterday and have it all basted for quilting... it is a simple nine patch. The backing is bright and a bunch of patched fabric pieces I had from different projects. it is approx. 50" x 50".



Michael Miller's 2008 Blue Fairie panel


Tonight I started cutting and piecing a few of quilt #2's pieces... I am using Michael Miller's 2008 Blue Fairie panel as the main fabric and will have nine patch corners on the quilt. It should be about 42" x 60" maybe more or less, haven't decided on internal border piece spacing yet.

I am so excited to participate in this worthwhile cause! I love the idea that sometime in the near future a little kid somewhere will be using a quilt I made... I've only ever given my quilts as gifts to family. Well it is getting late and I've been up since early am so I'm off to chill before bed.

Happy sewing!

Up next. . .

I plan to focus on my mini wall hanging quilts with celtic embroidery and bias strips too... will post when I take photos again. I also plan to make a kids quilt of nine patch squares or a trip around the world or both ;) for the Margaret's Hope Chest project due by November 15th!

Celtic quilt wall hangings

Well here are two of my current favorite "small" wall quilts I've completed. I plan on making a few more intricate ones, but for beginning ones I picked one easy celtic knotwork to embroider to each quilt top fabric, added a border and then quilted the whole quilt and added binding. The purple/Gold completed 10-10-09 and Red/Green Christmas completed 10-11-09.

The purple and gold quilt (approx 16" x 16") features a Love knot

Red, Green and gold quilt (Approx. 23" x 23") has a simple interwoven circle knot

Margaret's Hope Chest

Margaret's Hope Chest

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Contests on other blogs!

The Flannel Queen and The Dizzy Daizy are two online fabric shops and they are each having wonderful grand opening give-aways! Go over to their blogs and check it out….

The Flannel Queen

The Dizzy Daizy

Finishing older projects...

I have finished three older quilt tops in the past week and one new quilt top... I plan to baste one at a time and quilt each one when I get a few more quilt tops put together.

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I figure I am in the mood to try new designs and plan to just go with the creative flow. In the meantime I will think about what quilting designs if any I want to use for each of the quilts... I may stich in a ditch, meander or try feathers? Or swirls? So many choices, I just don't want to start a difficult quilting design and mess it up! I sew and quilt on my Brother 6000i sewing machine. A long arm would be great but at few grand, that is just not an option unless I actually sell some quilts and make some money back from my crafty passion LOL

Until later . . .

Contest to win fabric!

The Fabric Shopper blog is hosting a giveaway for some beautiful fabric! A fat quarter set of the entire collection of My Happy Garden by Michelle Engel Bencsko for Cloud9 Organic Fabrics. That's 8 fat quarters total!


Hurry up and stop by The Fabric Shopper the contest ends on September 20th!

I just won a contest!!

I just won a bag of books and other goodies from the Book Binge website! I won Day #4 which is so exciting and cool, it is so much fun to be a winner of goodies that I really wanted!

Book Binge Day # 4 winner: Farscapegirl

This is what I won !

Book Bag Giveaway: Day 4 Winner Announced

The winner of our Day 4 book bag is:

Farscapegirl

Once again, included in the bag is:

Sweet Persuasion by Maya Banks
Sexually Satisfied by Melissa Randall
The Spicy Bedtime Companion by Joan Elizabeth Lloyd
Socialite Evenings by Shobhaa De

Along with an assortment of bookmarks, magnets and other promotional items. You also get a nifty looking tote.

Ilona Andrews & Nalini Singh + others create fun site!

Some of my Top, most favorite, bestest authors (Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, Meljean Brooks, Patrice Michelle & Jill Myles) of paranormal fantasy romance have gathered together and created a place to cut loose, share thoughts, advice and hopefully funny, maybe even embarrassing personal stories. Got to love the web! I can't wait to see what all these awesome women want to share with their fans!!! To visit go HERE

blog contest

Not by me, I do plan to have one sometime in future maybe after I get 20 or more followers or visiters, but since I never really tell anyone I have a blog it would probably have very few entries LOL

Buta very generous blogger, Showing Bones is holding a contest for great vintage fat quarters! Contest ends 8-24-09! Go enter!!

Eva's 2nd birthday party!

I made a Dora novelty quilt for my "niece" (my cousin's youngest little girl) for her 2nd birthday on August 8. I fussy cut Dora swatches and used them in the blocks and appliqued Dora to the fleece hearts.

Here is the birthday girl making sure her daddy doesn't put his hands on HER Dora quilt! LOL











This was my first time at applique. I added more appliqued fleece flowers and hearts to the dora quilt to even out the plush softness for Eva to enjoy the tactile feel of them. The back of the quilt was a super plush soft pink fleece. It was super easy to quilt. I had fun making it!

And here she is surrounded by all her new presents (what she could fit on the couch at least). She had a LOOONG day for a 2 year old and was very sleepy.

Brandy's finished quilt

Here is Brandy's quilt, all quilted and with a light purple binding. Finished size was 102" x 90".



Brandy came up for a quick visit yesterday and I finally had a chance to give her the quilt I made for her birthday (August 3rd) . . . Yeah!

She was awesome and said she would treasure it always, it was the perfect reaction and more than I even expected. I love making quilts for family and friends, I get to see their reactions and happiness. It rocks!

Brandy's b-day quilt progress

9-patch blocks on White background

I have all (36) 9-patch 9" blocks completed. I'm still undecided on what color to use for the back ground solid blocks...I may even make some strip blocks to go in between the tradition 9-patch blocks to spice up and modernize the quilt. I wanted to stick with a traditional feel, but will see how I feel about it.

Here are some pic's of my trial layouts....

New contests!

Brandy's birthday quilt started!

My SIL requested a bed quilt with Brown, Purple and Green as the main colors for her birthday on August 3rd. Here are some of the fabrics that came just in time for me to get started on it this weekend. These show salvage names... I picked an assortment, Benartex, Moda, Quilting Treasures etc...

I have made almost all the 9-patch squares (11 more to go!) this weekend.

Pic above is a few of the purple, plum, lilac and brown blocks just to see the colors together, I am making the primarily green & brown mixed ones tonight.

I plan to decide if I want all one color filler of solid Brown or light green or if I'll use scrappy fillers of all colors, OR if I have a wash of dark to light colors. I will try out variations and if I remember to take pics I will post them.

Dora Quilt for friend's 5 year old daughter

Well I finished the Dora quilt over the weekend. It is larger than the normal lap/ kids quilt. It finished at about 48 x 56. It is backed in a bright fuchsia pink fleece, no batting since the fleece backing is so plush it would have been too bulky for a little 5-year-old girl to drag around.




I only did sparse quilting to outline the blocks, just enough stitch-in-a-ditch to keep it from bunching when washed.

I plan to make another Dora themed quilt for my "niece" (my cousin's daughter) for her 2nd birthday which is on August 8th. I also have my SIL's B-day on August 3rd!

Update on Pink Brown Kaleidoscope quilt

Traditional Kaleidoscope layout

This second layout choice is just random blocks.

Well the blocks are done. They are 64" x 64" without border. I can either add 10 more blocks of green, blue or purple colors... or keep it just pink and brown and add a couple large borders to box it in and make it a Queen size quilt. OR I can just make it a kid / lap quilt and make a better one. The values don't really show up as much as I had hopes. I need to use more solid fabrics and less patterns. Oh well, trial and error.