Christmas sewing

Hello Everyone,

I've been playing with Christmas fabrics lately. Making a few things for gifts, or decoration for the house. I haven't decided yet what I am going to do with this cute wall hanging/candle mat.

I wanted to make a wreath and using some 2.5" squares popped into my head, so I played around and came up with this design. Would it look cute with some novelty button sewn around it?

Here is the mug rug and cup cozy I made for my quilty friend on my forum, QATW. We made each other one, so now I am waiting for mine to come in the mail. These are fun, quick projects that are nice to trade.

I have a feeling more of these poinsetta flowers are in the future ;) I used the Hex n More and the Sidekick ruler to make it.

I'll show you more next month on the Stitch it and Gift it blog hop.

Have a great day!

For the Boys!

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to those of you coming over from Samms wonderful blog hops. A big thank you to Samm and our great hostess, Amy , for another great blog hop.

I have three boys, and have had many boy fabrics come and go thru the house. Lots of vehicles and machines. As my oldest and youngest sons love them.

But my middle boy is an animal lover. And his favorite animal is a Dinosaur... of course! They were big, and powerful and LOUD and ferocious.

Carson is 9, and hasn't had a quilt made for him since he was a baby. So it was time.

When I asked him if he would like some of the great robot fabrics in his quilt, he told me no,it had to be dinosaurs, and 'real' looking ones at that. No cute, frilly ones ;) LOL

There isn't a whole lot of 'real' looking dinosaur fabric out there. But I did find a few. Mostly these 'tossed' dino's, which makes it a bit hard to come up with a pattern for them. As they are hard to fussy cut and I don't do applique very often.

I used up quite a few pages of paper, trying to find the right design to show case the tossed dino's, along with this repeating panel.

My best Friend Carol suggested that I make the blocks crooked, so it looks like they've been thrown down. Perfect! It was just the idea I needed. As I had 3 different size blocks I was working with.

I also used some of this beautiful Kona solids jelly roll, to brighten things up. Along with a Shadowland piece from Kona Bay. I thought it was perfect for dino's. And another piece of Kona solid.

Here's Pine, our barn cat, following along on my photo shoot.

The quilt is a bit bigger than Carson, so I'm sure he'll outgrow it within a few years. 

I had fun with the borders. I even mitered them.

This quilt is waiting in line.

It will be next, after I finish my First boys quilt. It's about halfway done, you can read more about it here, and here.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Don't forget to see all the other great projects on the blog hop. Here's who I am sharing my day with:

Amy's Crafty Shenanigans

Ridge Top Quilts

Creatin' in the Sticks

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Meadowbrook

Malinis Quilts

Just Let Me Quilt

                                                            Kris Loves Fabric





 Thanks for stopping by.

Dorian

Nov goal setting...ALYOF

Hello, hello,

November already! Are you getting your Christmas gifts made? Sigh~ I haven't even started.

My November goal is easy though, finish J's quilt! I hear we are in for a rough winter, and I want to get his quilt done so he can use it.

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Oct goal completed!

Hello Folks,

Can you believe it's the end of Oct already??! I can't. It's just amazing how quickly the time is going.

On my goal setting post the beginning of Oct, I said that I wanted to get at least half way thru the quilting on J's quilt.

I am almost done with the straight line quilting. I just have one hexagon row to go.

And one day when I wanted to do something other than straight line quilting, I started on the FMQing.

I'm doing these connecting boxes in the background pieces.

A star in the hexagons. I'm not sure what I am doing in the middle of the triangles just yet.

But I think I've certainly hit the halfway mark :)

 So next month I really want to get this finished up. It's starting to get quite chilly at nights.

Thanks Shanna and Melissa!

Happenings and ALYOF goal setting

Hello Everyone,

I hope those in the West are staying cool. I hate these heat waves. LOL

First up, if you are a Quilt and Needle forum member, OR are a member of our Facebook site, it's time to vote for the Paint Chip Challenge. You have until July 5th. And let me tell you, there is 13 gorgeous projects, and you can only vote once! It's a hard choice.

Secondly, here is my oldest sons finished quilt top. He loves it :)

 He is passionate about Trains, so I have called it Train Stop. He also is a math whiz, so those geometric shapes are right up his alley.

I love the gray graduate strips. They are from V & Co's Simply Color line.

And third, my goal for July is to get my Christmas in July blog hop project started and completed! I have to have it done by August 2nd, which is my day on the blog hop......

I don't even have my fabric yet! So can't even show you a picture of that. lol.

Have a great day!

 

WIP Wednesday

Hello Everyone,

I hope your days are bright and sunny. It's been beautiful weather here. Warm with a cool breeze for the most part. Perfect!

My young man's quilt is coming along nicely.

These hexagons and triangles are HUGE. The quilt is going to finish at around 67"x84" or something like that. He's a big boy ;)

 
I just have to sew my rows together, then the top will be done.

Son is very happy with it, he says he loves the geometric designs :)

I used Julie's hex n more ruler, what a great tool!

Linking up with Lee. Thanks Lee!

Something little, and a start

Hello Everyone,

I hope your days have been as beautiful as mine! Gorgeous, warm sunshine has been making Spring a lot closer. Of course...we'll still get plenty of wet, cold rain and snow in April and possible May..maybe even some more in March... but I'm loving this Spring weather today :)

I got my oldest sons quilt started. Yah! Using the Hex n more ruler, I've been getting some hexagons cut and strips put around them. These are ready for a good press and trim.

And then another round of the blue fabric in the background. And then I'll be making some triangles to add to them.

I also got a quick project done. It's high time I had some new pot holders.

 

So just some simple rectangles, double batted with some poly stuff. Easy! and sometimes you just need a quick project.

I'm linking up with the Gals over at Quilt Story today....
Linking up with Freshly pieced today...

Have a great day.

 

WIP Wednesday

Hello Ya'all,

I'm hooking up with Freshly Pieced this week, for WIP wed. Thank you Lee and Claire!

I have my paint chip challenge wall hanging almost complete. I just need to order some more fabric for an outside border. Here's just a peak at it.

My I spy blocks are almost all pieced together now, although I don't have a picture of the rows, here are the blocks. More about this quilt posted here.

I've bought my hex n more ruler a week or so ago, so I am all set now to get my oldest sons quilt started.

image borrowed from Jaybird quilts

These are the three things that are on the top of my To-do list!

 The I spy quilt is my March goal, so I am working on it as much as I can.

The paint chip challenge is not due till June.

So I have some time to play with my new ruler.

Have  a great day!