Hugs and Kisses

May I present to you… my latest finish! After making this quilt, I really wanted more on-point fun, so I made this one! It’s amazing how cool such a simple pattern can look! I have to remember that more often…it doesn’t have to be super difficult to be cool!

This was the first quilt I got to quilt on my new machine, and it was HEAVENLY! Rory has a stitch regulator for free motion quilting, so all of my stitches are nice and pretty instead of uneven! To celebrate, I quilted meandering flowers all over. Amazing!

So, of course the top was a few inches too big to fit a width of fabric….As I pondered how to fix that predicament, I thought about the front. What is it? A bunch of X’s! So what did the back need? A big O! Then the quilt wraps you in a big hug! I felt clever :)

Anyways, this one finished up at 46”x46”, and is now in the shop!

Oh and guess what? I am diversifying a bit! There is an item in the shop now that is NOT a quilt! And since it happens to go with this quilt, This is a fantastic time to share!

I have started listing sets of matching burp cloths! So head on over a check it out :)

So Cool!!!!

Ok, I know I said I was going to post another finished project today, but I woke up with a fever and cough and whatnot (AGAIN) and just haven’t had the energy! But, then I got a phone call from my BFF Melanie. Guess who is on UCreate today? Did you guess Mel? Or me? Well either one would have been correct!

HOW COOL IS THAT?

Cool enough that I felt better for like a whole five minutes!

So head over and check out Melanie’s super amazing shower curtain, and take a gander at the sidebar and see if you recognize a certain quilt!

And hopefully I will get that finished project up for you guys tomorrow! And hopefully the plague leaves my home sometime SOON!

Happy Friday!

It is Friday, and I finally have a finished quilt to show off!! Barely made my “this week” cutoff…but I DID make it!

I know I say this every time I finish a quilt, but I love this one! I’ve been dying to try out this block style since I saw them all over flickr, but I was kind of afraid it would be difficult from the comments on said flickr pictures. But, I figured out how to strip piece them,and I happened to have a little stack of fat quarters that just screamed USE ME, USE ME! By the way, this entire quilt was made from stash. So proud of myself!

At first, I thought about using a bright pink or orange solid, but settled on the lighter pink (Kona Carnation) for a couple reasons: so that the brights would stand out better, and so that the quilt wouldn’t be so bright it hurt your eyes!

I have serious issues photographing orange fabric. For some reason, the entire picture ends up tinted orange. Any suggestions?

Anyways, this is the back. A wavy stripe print from Amy Butler’s Midwest Modern, with strips of a cute little orange flower print. The orange print is also the binding, which frames the front very nicely.

There’s a less orange-washed picture of the backing, and a better shot of the binding :)

This was the last quilt I quilted on my old machine, and of course this one was a little larger than what I’ve done lately(52”x60”), so the next one was much much easier! I quilted all over loopys (my favorite!).

This one is listed in the shop.

Ooh and guess what? I have another finish to show you on Monday! Have a fabulous weekend!

Introducing…

Meet Rory, my new favoritest sewing machine!

This is her straight out of that lovely box I posted last Friday. So exciting!

We have had a bit of time to get acquainted over the weekend, and she is definitely amazing! Let’s see…we quilted a doll quilt and a baby quilt (pictures coming soon), made a baby shower gift:

(check out that super cool “accessory wardrobe” back there!)

and here she is hard at work on a brand new quilt top!

Doesn’t she look right at home in my table? And can I just say, hurray for a knee lift! Oh it is glorious! Along with a whole lot of other bells and whistles, of course :)

I plan on Rory and I having lots and lots of adventures together, since she will probably be the last machine I ever own! (Part of how I convinced my hubby that she was a good purchase, tee hee)

And I leave you with this picture of the kid and I, sewing away on a drawstring backpack for one of my adorable nieces whose birthday we celebrated on Sunday! By the way, if I try to sew while Zoey is awake, she insists on sitting on my lap to “help”.

Have a fabulous day! And ps, I do have a quilt almost bound that should be posted by the end of the week, and is it fun!

EEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Look what I just carried in my front door!!!!!! EEEEEEE!!!!!!! It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!!! (ok, random movie quote…)

Now to feed the kid so she will nap so I can OPEN THE BOX!!!!

Seriously?!?

So, I’m not saying anything about feeling or getting better anymore, because apparently I jinxed myself. I woke up this morning with PINK EYE! Now I can’t touch fabric ALL DAY for fear of spreading this plague!

Off to the doctor in a bit…

Those almost finished projects? Yeah, it’s going to be a bit longer…

I really have been busy…

I have been very friendly with the couch and sudafed and an entire box of kleenex for the last week, but the plague is slowly being evicted from my house, and I am once again friends with my sewing machine.

Oh, and my rotary cutter has been getting quite the workout!

Hopefully I will have a finish to show….soon.

Oh yeah…

I almost forgot, here’s my fabric loot from the show last weekend!

I kind of went on a bit of a pink/raspberry spree…I believe a new quilt will soon be designed…

Oh, and you know what those two lovely bundles are? CENTRAL PARK!!! Kate Spain is a freakin’ genius :) Unfortunately, the lovely ladies at Above All Fabrics (love them!) had already sold out of the other two colorways by the time we got there, but I will get them! I will! I actually had plans to order yardage as soon as it came in, but we made an unexpected BIG SCREEN TV purchase Friday afternoon…The joys of having a brother working at an electronics store to alert you to fantastic sales!

Anyways, back to the show. I also got a cool do-hickey to mark seam allowances for half square triangles, and an itty itty bitty screwdriver. I will have to get pictures of that soon!

By the way, I have two quilts almost ready for basting! More on those soon too!