Signature quilt

Hello blog land, I am back! Been offline for almost a week. It's good to be back. I was having computer problems, all solved now though. I got lots of housework done, amazing what you do when you have no computer pulling you in, yes?! LOL

Linking up with H&M at Quiltstory today.
Linking up with Karen too.

I decided I needed another purse. One in lovely Spring colors. Something pretty and cheerful. So I made up my FQ purse in my favorite flowers, roses.

Where the rose fabric is, isn't just decoration...it's a nice, big pocket! On both sides of the purse. It's perfect for papers, lists, mail, whatever... I love this feature! The bag also has 2 more large pockets, a zip pouch and 2 small pockets.

 On the Q&N forum last year, we all made little signature blocks and traded them. This is how I set mine. I do not know if this block has a name or not. I just put it together as I went.

Here is how I set them together.

A nice little top. It's  square, about 65" x 65".

A perfect snuggle quilt....once it's quilted. 

 I hope you all had a wonderful Mothers Day!

Have a great day and..

 Thanks for stopping by, Dorian

Quilt-as-you-go table runner and some Spring pictures

Linking up with Karen.

Linking up with Quiltstory.

I whipped up this cute table runner yesterday. It's made from the charm pack of Fandago that I won.

It's quick and easy...

 I made a quick tutorial for it on the Q&N.


 Looks like Spring is finally arriving. Slowly but surely. Here is a few pics for you.

The RedBud still looks funny. As it's just a bunch of sticks with some buds attached right now.

It wont leaf out very much, until the blooms are starting to die.

Here is the first Lilac blooms.

Very similar to the RedBud...but it has it's leaves first.

And a pretty little wildflower, not sure what it is.

 

Hope you all are getting a little bit of sunshine and warm weather.

Thanks for stopping by, Dorian

Happy Easter

Wishing you all a very blessed Easter.

Hope your day is filled with lots of love, and....

Chocolate!

Thanks for stopping by, Dorian

Sneak peeks and another prize

Hello everybody!

I hope those of you in inclement/bad weather are doing ok. My thoughts and prayers to those in the path of hurricanes.

I shall have to go take some pictures of our Redbud. The flowers are finally starting to open. I just love their color.

For today, I have a look at some lovely fabric I won a month or so ago, in the Pillow talk blog hop. I want to thank Lissa (of Moda Lissa) for the great fabrics!

They came in this adorable light green with chocolate dots (reminds me of my favorite ice cream, mint chocolate chip, lol!) bag.

Fandango, by Kate Spain!! And some Lily and Will from Anne Sutton!!

Fandango has some great colors. These are charm packs, so 42 pieces in all. Some from each of these color ways.

Lilly and Will, so sophisticated! A charm pack too.

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And now for some sneak peeks of the disappearing 16 patches I've been working on. You'll be able to see the whole things in late June, sorry for the wait :)

The first one used some off-white tone on tones I had in my stash. This was fun design. I just hope that I can write it up well, as it's a little tricky.

This one I was going to use a solid white, or tone on tone white. But then I remembered I had some of this gorgeous gray Sunkissed in my stash!

Perfect!! I think I'll call it A Lovely Sunkissed walk in Central Park, as that's the 3 major fabric lines in this quilt. LOL

 Hope you enjoyed my sneak peeks.

Have a great day!

Thanks for stopping by, Dorian

A prize and a pillow

First, I'd like to send a big thank you to  Deb Strain. I won a giveaway on her blog a few weeks ago. And my pretty prize came in the mail yesterday.

 Deb blogs at Inside the Studio. She hand paints her creations to get put on greeting cards, mugs, fabric, etc. She works for Moda, and I can't wait to see her new fabric line this Summer!

Thank you Deb, I love my gifts!! That butterfly card is PERFECT.
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Now for my finish this week. I posted a small tutorial type post, more tips than anything, on the Q&N on curved seams.

Here is the pillow I made with my curves.

As you can see, I am not much of a pillow maker. I didn't have a pillow form, so made one. And I made it too small.

 Oh well, the quilting looks good at least ;)

Linking up with Karen today...and with H&M today (tuesday).









Have a great day!

Thanks for stopping by, Dorian

Not much sewing..

 Going on over here. I've dabbled a bit with some more DP16 patches. Nothing I can show you now though.
 On the Q&N forum we are doing a few swaps. A friendship swap, making little tiny bags, they are 5"x 6", so cute! We'll put some thread in them and maybe a few trinkets.

We've done one mug rug swap. This is the one I made for Deb.

And here is the one she made for me. I love it, thank you Deb!

 We are having such a good time with these swaps. So we are doing another mug rug one, with a Summer theme. I like to wait till I have my secret friends name, before I pick out fabrics. That way I can use colors and such that she likes.
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I think Spring has finally come to the Ridge. Here's what our mornings have been looking like.

 Lovely sunrises, with a bit of clouds thru out the day. Been in the 50s and 60s, so not too bad. Chilly enough for fires in the morning though.

I hope to get some sewing done this week!

Have a great day!

Thanks for stopping by, Dorian

DP16 progress....and a finish

Good Tuesday morning! You know what that means....






So here is my progress on my DP16 patches. I decided to go with this block.

I have 9 blocks, 2 each of all of them, except this red/blue.

I'll be ordering some solid white this week, to get these blocks in a quilt top.

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And now a finish.... This is my FQ bag.

  My Grandma is 88 yrs old. She and her Mother both quilted, crochet and knitted.

 My Grandma has headaches and dizzy spells, her eyes get tired easily....but she still can make her newest Great-Grand DD a quilt! I hope I am still quilting at age 88!!

So she emailed me a few days ago, and asked if I would make her another purse. She loved the one I gave her last year for her birthday, but needs one a bit bigger.

 

 

I hope Grandma likes her new purse!

Thanks for stopping by, Dorian

A table runner

Linking up with Karen! I love doing this, thanks Karen.





If you all read my post over at the Q&N, you know I've decided to really start doing some machine quilting this year. Of course, I hope to get back to my hand quilting soon too, but I need to fix my hand first :)

I have 3 times as many of these ....

 That need to be quilted. So I need to do some machine quilting too.

I got the right presser foot for doing some straight line quilting.

Just some simple, echo quilting.

I still have a problem with getting my backing nice and smooth.

I know...lots of crinkles....

The front doesn't look too bad though.

A happy Spring runner.

I figure I'll have plenty of practice this Summer :)

Advice, comments, helpful tips are all very much appreciated.

Have a great day.

Thanks for stopping by, Dorian

Another fabric Tues

WOW, I can't believe how quickly this week has gone by! I guess I've been hibernating. Last week was so cold and wet. We had rain/snow just about everyday until yesterday. Then we finally got some sun.

I'm doing a link party again this week. Thank you so much Heather and Megan, it's always fun to see what others are doing. And to show off what I am doing....although sometimes it just isn't much. I have to wait till I can get some fabric, to finish my DP16-patch, but I'll be sure to show you as soon as I do :)





This week I want to show you my 'boy bag'. I've been making bags with girls in mind, of course! I love a pretty bag, whether it's a purse, tote or little clutch. I actually get attached to one purse, and just use that till it's used up. But I enjoy looking at them all.

But Rae over at Made by Rae and Dana at Dana made it had a month to celebrate the boy. And I jumped on the band wagon...albeit too late to show over at their sites.

My youngest son is 6, he loves bags, boxes and anything he can get his hands on to organize all his toys. His Daddy bought him a plastic box with 4 littler boxes in it, and each little box has sections...it's supposed to be for tools, screws, nuts, etc...but Littleboy uses it for some of his Lego's. LOL.

So, I made a fun boy bag.

It has lots of pockets.

Some hooky spots, for hooking on flashlight, compass, etc.

I wanted to add a mesh bottle holder, for a water bottle, but didn't have any.

It has a nice flap, with a pocket under it for binoculars or whatever.

A perfect bag for a nature walk, plenty of room for pencil, paper, snack, bug catchers, and anything else he may want to bring along.

Or he can fill it with small toys, crayons, books for a long car trip.

These cute little clips are my dh's idea. He thought it would be a fun thing on a boys bag. A few days after he bought me these, is when I came across Dana's blog. And low and behold, she, too, made a cute bag with these clips!

Well I hope I have more to show you this coming week. I'll try not to be so quiet.

Thanks for stopping by, Dorian