Puppy Love

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all well. It's summer, which means we are dealing with both heat and smoke from fires. Poor California :( 

I got my youngest son's quilt done a week or so ago. He is 9 and just loooves puppies! So I bought this puppy panel and cut them out. As all the puppies wanted to be stars :)

  The pictures are 8" square, so the star blocks ended up around 14". I needed this quilt to be a good size, as my young son is going to be quite tall, like his Daddy and brothers.

I then did a pinwheel for the alternate blocks.

The quilt measures at 52' x 64', so I hope that it keeps him warm for a few years.

As you can see, I quilted it in all over spirals. I wanted the spirals to be bigger, but I had a hard time making myself quilt them larger!

And you can just see the cutie this quilt is for in the picture up above.

I lined it with some soft flannel backing.

One more..

So bright and cheerful (although the pictures don't show how bright it is!), and Isaiah loves it :)

Thanks for stopping by, you all have a lovely day.

I am linking up with Pat at the Scrapatch today, thank you Pat for your weekly link up :)

Dorian

Scrappy goodness

Hello All,

We got our first snow of the year :) That makes me happy. It wasn't a lot, but it sure did look pretty coming down. And makes for a great time to be in the warm house, playing with my scraps.

I started this project back in Feb of 2016, it's called Round of Nines Reinvented. (The link for the project no longer works. It's a  Quilting Company pattern, here is a youtube video for it.) I would work on it, the put it away in a drawer for a long while, then work on it a little bit more. It spent most the time in the drawer. But a few months ago I decided to take it out and finish it.

After making all my 9 patch blocks, I laid them out and decided it was way too busy for me. I had to put some sashing in there and slow things down a bit.

Then I used some more scraps, and made this cute border.

Here's where it is so far. It's 58x58, I think I want to add one more sashing/small border to rest the eyes, and then some more scrappy goodness at the top and bottom to make it longer. 

While those ideas are perculating in my head, these scraps called out to me, as I went thru the scrap drawer.

They got to send to me by  my quilty friends who I was doing a round robin with. The are leftover pieces that one person sends along with the row she added, in case others want to use some of the bits and pieces in their row.  This is the round robin we made. 



And this is what I am making with those tiny HST's you see in the picture of these scraps.

These stars are quite small, the HST's are 1.5" unfinished. Not sure what I am doing with these cuties, but I'll figure something out.

I've been having fun playing in my scrap bin! So many lovely things can come out of those little pieces :) 

Have a great day!

A New Year already...

Hello Everyone,

Wow, I can't believe it's been almost 4 months since I've posted here.  I hope there is someone out there reading my blog still :) I've been trying to be a better blogging since my youngest has been born, and that was almost 6 yrs ago already!! Just where has the time gone? It seems like it goes slow on a day to day basis, but then you look back and WHAM years have past....so, again, I am hoping to be a better blogger this year.

Well, lets get to the quilting huh?!

I have joined a blog hop, hoping to keep it going and get more blogging done.


My day is March 8th. This is what I am working with:

Isn't it pretty! I love those roses.

I'm also working with these HST's, left over from a mystery quilt of Jess's, that I did a few years ago.

I added the two fabrics at the top of the picture above, plus had to find some more background fabric that was close to the one in the HSTs. And this is where I am at right now.

I'm calling it Starburst. I just love it :)

I had fun making Christmas gifts this last year. Although I don't have pictures of any of it! I made some big reading pillows, a backpack to carry a stuffed puppy around in :) plus a sleeping bag for said puppy, and a sew together bag filled with felt and embroidery stuff. In January I made a fun little bag for a friend. And started on StarBurst. So not a lot of sewing, but some, and that's ok :)


Well thanks for stopping by! I hope you come back and see what I made for the blog hop.

WIP Wednesday

Hello Everyone,

It's another Wednesday, they seem to get here so quickly, just where is the time going?

I have a teething baby, who is fussy and clingy, so I haven't been doing much sewing. But I did manage to whip these 18 windmill star blocks up.

Chain piecing, these come together soooo quickly!

I'm using my beloved Sunkissed as background and/or more windmill blocks.

 

I haven't decided yet, if I am going to keep the hexagon shape, or add background to make them squares. I'm just not sure how I want to lay them out yet.

These were made using Kona solids, in the architextures jelly roll. The background is Sunkissed by Sweetwater. 

Hooking up with Lee again. 

Oh look, Julie is showing off her versions of this block! (I used her hex n more ruler too.)

Have a great day!

Leftovers

And no, not the dinner kind ;)

Howdy Folks, back in March Jess had another fabulous mystery quilt weekend. It used jelly rolls, and here is what I had leftover when we were done. Lots of strips sewn together, and partly cut into. But also whole wof strips.

While doing the mystery quilt, and any other time I have some strips like this sewn together, I immediately think of Lone star quilts. So I thought I could use the leftovers and do that. But... I've made a few of those... here, here,  here

So I kept that in the back of my mind and let it stew.

In the mean time, I started seeing, and remembering, other star quilts that were just gorgeous. Like this one from V&co.

And this one from Rachel.

photo taken from stitchedincolor.com

And then Lee started her Bloom, bloom, pow quilt along.

picture taken from freshlypieced.com

 And that was it. I knew what I was going to do with my pretty leftovers.

I matched my oranges to other colors. So all my blocks with have a shade of orange in them.

Then I used my hex n more ruler and started cutting.

And came up with this.

One strip will give me enough for both these blocks. All my blocks with have a different shade of orange, for each set. And different colors...blues, greens, purples. I'm having fun~

Hope you have a great weekend.