time flies!

It has been a long time since I posted. I've been very busy. We had all new floors put in and so I've basically packed up and unpacked our house over the last 2 weeks. Whew! The hardest part was the sewing room. I have a very deep closet in that room and I hadn't cleaned it out in a very LONG time. It was good to refold some ufo's. I'm wanting to get back to working on one in particular so I hope I can post some progress on it soon.
In the meantime I've been focusing on these 3 projects and making some progress. This is the second vine panel of my Susan McCord vine quilt. It's about halfway - I LOVE working on this project!

I made a few more blocks for Cheddar Posies. I'm running low on my cheddar stash. The cheddars at my LQS are a bit dull. I need to find more somewhere else. Anyone know of a good Quilt shop in central Florida that stocks lots of reproduction fabrics? We're going on a holiday there in a few weeks. We've never taken the kids to Disney World/Land before - it should be fun.

I'm slowly making progress with my red and white quilt too. I have 3 of the setting triangle 1/2 wreaths done and did the background quilting in one of the corners to see how it would look.
I'm still waiting for the quilt to tell me what it needs in the red parts - I hope it starts talking soon :0)

Happy Quilting!!

pink lemonade?

After way too much deliberation and one trip to the LQS I decided on this blue from my stash for the setting squares of Pink Lemonade. (Other fabric was acquired at the LQS. When some goes out some has to go in - right? :0)This project turned out very differently from what I planned at first. It doesn't seem to matter how much planning I do at the beginning - my quilt projects seem to evolve anyway. It was a fun little project. Lori has a link-up on her blog so you can see all the other quilts made in this quilt-along. It is so interesting to see other people's versions of the same project.
I'll get around to quilting it soon I hope! Thanks Lori!!

Happy Quilting!

Cheddar posies

While I've been undecided about the setting fabric for Pink Lemonade I have been working on more blocks for this quilt. It is for my DD#1. I wouldn't have picked this color scheme but now that I've a few blocks made I love it!
I still need lots more blocks. She enjoys helping me choose fabric combinations for each block. The pattern in May/June 2011 Quiltmaker calls the pattern Rosy Posies so since mine are all cheddar I'm going to call it Cheddar Posies.

Happy Quilting!!

pink lemonade

Monday night I finished making the blocks for Lori's doll quilt-along Pink Lemonade. They were fun little blocks/partial blocks to sew.

When I went to choose fabrics for this quilt I chose first this pretty bird print by Renee Nanneman for the setting squares. I love this print - I have a big piece of it and I thought with a bit of fussy cutting I could center the birds in the setting squares. I want to use this print but... I think the blocks look boring on it now that I have them all sewn.

So I thought I would explore options.

I tried yellow like Lori's quilt. I like it but I'm not sure where I could use a quilt with this much yellow.

I like this one too.

This one is my favorite but the print is too modern for the look I was going for.

Plain brown is just too dark.

I'm stuck in indecision now. Maybe I'll have to take a trip to the LQS ... :0) What do you think?

Happy Quilting!!

panel #1

I finished the first panel for the Susan McCord Vine quilt-along. It took me 6 weeks to applique. I was actually surprised that it went that fast. It was so fun to work on I just couldn't stop!

A friend of mine suggested that I could make a collage to show all of the panel in a different way. It was fun to play around with the idea.

The program I used cropped the edges of the individual pictures but I think the overall effect is fun to look at. I'll have to play around with the program some more before I finish panel#2.

So with 12 more panels at 6 weeks each I should be able to finish this in 72 weeks. Or something like that... :0)

Happy Quilting!!

is it over yet?

The last project I finished in 2011 was this little zippered pocket for DD#1's new Kobo. She reads unceasingly and brings a stack of books with her everywhere. Hopefully this little gadget will help. It was a fun little project to make and she helped pick the fabric for it as well. It sure had been a long time since I made anything with a zipper in it!

This little stack of blocks is for the Pink Lemonade doll quilt quilt-a-long that Lori is hosting. This is the 3rd one of her quilt-a-longs that I have participated in. It's a fun little project to start the year off with.

I am also back to working on my Bird of Paradise quilt. I drew the first of my own blocks and started appliqueing it on the weekend.

I finished my first panel of the trailing vines quilt. A friend suggested that I make a collage picture to show it as it is too long and skinny to take a good picture of. I need to get her to help me because I have no idea how to make a picture like that. Hopefully I can post about it in the next few days.

Happy Quilting!!

jingle bells, jingle bells...

I made one more quilty gift for Christmas - placemats for my Sister-in-law. I used some Amy Butler fabric if you can believe it.
I was a bit unsure of myself sewing with these brights but I was pleased with the results. They should be a colorful addition to their kitchen.

We went to visit DH's sister's family farm to spend Christmas. There wasn't a lot of snow but enough for a sleigh ride in a one-horse open sleigh :0) The horse wore the jingle bells. The kids thought it was pretty special and you could hear them singing Jingle Bells from the far end of the field.

I took a picture when I was a passenger too but it wasn't very flattering of the horse :0)

Wishing you a very Happy New Year!

Happy Quilting!