The dino quilt

Hello All,

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day.

A few days ago, I put the last stitches on my middle son's Dino quilt. Yah! It's finally done.

I pieced this quilt LAST year! and have just got around to quilting it up. Here's the back.

Thankfully, it's large enough that he can still use it ;)

When he was looking at it, the toddler decided it was his and he kept trying to take it from Carson. LOL, too funny. Isaiah  finally asked where his quilt was and he went to his room to get it.

So another one to check off the list!

I tried a variety of different fmqing designs. Practice, practice... one day I might be better at it. I like to practice on my quilts, instead of on little pieces of cloth. Although I got a wonderful book for Christmas, that uses those pieces of of practice work for bags and such. More on that in a few days.

Have a wonderful day!

WIP Wednesday

Good morning All,

 It's a gorgeous day here today! Only going to be in the upper 70s, which is amazing for August!! I am really enjoying it :)

This week I am working on an art bag for my middle son. He's been requesting one for a few months, and with his birthday next week, I figure it's time to finally do it. Geesh, poor guy. lol

I have his quilt sandwiched too, so am ready to start quilting on it. Here's the backing.

That's whats going on in the sewing room this week.

Linking up with Lee.

Have a great day everyone.

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August goal for ALOYF

Hello All,

Hope your Summer is going well. We need rain here in California, anybody care to send some?? Our fire season has already started, and August is usually are hottest, driest month...so some rain would be awesome.

My middle son is turning 10 this month, I thought it fitting that it's his quilt I plan on quilting up for my August goal. The top was pieced back in November 2013! I blogged about it here.

So it's time to get 'er done! I have the backing fabric ordered, so as soon as it gets here, I can get going on it.

Have a great day!



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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

WIP Wednesday

Hello Everyone,

We are having such gorgeous Fall weather here. Our Black Oaks are starting to change color, well...their leaves are. lol The RedBud changes from green to brilliant oranges and reds, before the leaves fall off too. Such gorgeous colors among all the green Pines.

I started quilting J's quilt, Train stop. It's a LARGE quilt, and I dont have enough table in the back of my machine yet, but it's going ok.

I haven't decided if I am just going to do straight line quilting, to keep with the geometric design of the quilt, or if I am going to add some fmqing too. I'll get all my straight lining done, and see what I think.

(This quilt is entered into Quilting Galleries weekly contest. This week it's Modern Geometric. You can vote for your favorite on Friday.)

I also got most of my dino quilt top done for C. Here's a sneak peek...you can't see the rest till next month. I want to throw on a few solid strip borders before then too.

Have a great day!
Linking up with Lee.