Charity quilts

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to talk a bit today about charity quilts on the Q&N forum. We have three charities that we make quilts for. We have ever since Jess started the forum. It's our way of helping out to some of those in need.

Right now our three charities are: (Clicking on the links will bring you to the treads on the Q&N forum for those charities.)

Harmony Home. A counseling center for abused children.

Pine Ridge Native American Reservation.  Supporting Native Americans in need.

Quilts of Valor. For our military. And also for forum members who have a military family member or friend in need of a quilt.

You can read a bit about each of our charities here.

We are always looking for more volunteers to help make these quilts. What we do is we sign up for making blocks, piecing and quilting a quilt each month or two. We also have volunteers give the backing and battings or send money to the quilter to purchase these items.

If you want to help out, then come on over and sign up to the forum. It's free and painless ;) and go to one of the charity threads and volunteer whatever you are comfortable doing.

We've made some fun, gorgeous quilts for these charities.  Here's a few we've made over the years.



  

 

Have a great day.

Friendship X and + blocks

Hello Everyone,

Thank you all so much for your lovely comments on my Kona solids blog hop. I had a handful or so of no-reply bloggers, so if you didn't get a personnal thank you note from me, that is why. I had no way of emailing you.

Pat and I are having a lot of fun with our Friendship blocks.

I just received her Dec and Jan blocks. Mine need to go out to her, we were both late with our Dec blocks, but neither of us care that much they are a bit late. We are just enjoying swapping together.

They all look so good together to.

I enjoy looking over Pats and seeing all the pretty little pieces she is using.

I enjoy going thru my scraps and bringing back some of my favorite little pieces to put in our blocks.

Thanks Pat, I so enjoy doing this with you :)

Have a great day all.

WOW, time sure does fly!

Howdy folks,

I can't believe that I'm heading into my FOURTH year here in blog land!!! The time is just racing by so very quickly.

Ever since Isaiah's been born, the blog has been somewhat chaotic. I just don't have a lot of sewing time and I try to keep my blog more sewing related than anything.

Isaiah is going to be 2 in a few months, how'd that happen!! Geesh.

If you're a new reader, I want to say welcome and I hope you stick around. I do intend to keep my blog and start posting more soon.

I have a lot of tutorials in my archives. And my most popular one is making a Lone star/8 point star. ''

 


This is such a gorgeous pattern. It's one of my all time favorites.

 Paint chip challenge






These pictures are all in my archive. Which you can find along the right side of my screen.

Summer Star



   

Jeweled star

 

I even did a Lone star quilt along. You can find the pages up at the top of my screen. Or click on the link.

And the companion post to that is set in seams, my second most popular post :)



I want to thank everyone who posts these links on other social mediums. I know it's very popular on Pinterest.

And thank you all for hanging out with me and reading my little space.

Have a great day!

Some Christmas stitching

Hello Everyone,

I'm finally getting around to showing you what I was working on before Christmas.

My best friend has 2 grandchildren that are very close in age to my little guy. I wanted to make them an I spy quilt to play with at Grandma's house, but didn't have the time.

So I made these cute I spy pillows instead. I only have a full picture of Emma's.

I don't know what possessed me to quilt not only the fronts of the pillows.

But the backs as well as the pockets! I guess I was having fun :)

These pockets are big, so they can fit a book or two in them :)

Emma is the one in the photos, very nicely showing off the pocket, and pointing out things.

I also made these quick, easy coasters and mug rugs for said friend.

I hope to get back to blogging a bit more often this year. Thanks for sticking with me.

Have a great day.

Kona Solid blog hop

Hello, hello Everyone!

Thank you so much for stopping by. If you're new here, I hope you like what you see and come back :)

A big thank you to Samm for keeping these great blog hops going. And to Carol, our wonderful cheerleader this go around.

I had this beautiful FQ bundle sitting in my stash, just waiting for the right project to come along.

I thought something radiating...maybe stars of some sort. So I started searching around the web for inspiration and came across this adorable  starburst mini quilt from Canoe Ridge Creations. And thats when inspiration struck!

I wanted to use this star pattern, but expand it and make it like it was radiating outwards. I thought it would be great if I could use my FQ bundle, and have the colors gradient outward also, along with a few other colors.

So I got out my paper and pencils, then went to my EQ program and I came up with this.

By this time it was the middle of December, and I was busy making Christmas gifts. There was no way I was going to get this pretty quilt made.

So I scaled it down and used the colors that I had in my stash, and came up with this little wall hanging. It's 32"x32".

 I knew that my dh would really like it, as he loves the bright lime green and the orange. So I gave it to him for Christmas :)

I had the perfect backing in my stash too.

I used my walking foot to do some straight line quilting on most of the quilt.

But then I put on my darning foot and did a bit of free motion quilting.

My first time doing some stippling.

And yes, I DO plan on making a full sized quilt like the one I drafted sometime this year :) I'll be sure to show it to you when I do.

Thanks again for stopping by! Don't forget to look at all the beautiful blog hop stops. Here are the Ladies who are sharing my day.

January 9

Ridge Top Quilts

Marjorie’s Busy Corner

A Stitch In Time

Freemotion by the River

                                                                     Everyone Deserves A Quilt



 

ALOYF 2013 recap

Hello Everyone,

I want to thank Melissa and Shanna for such a fun year of goal setting!

 Here are the finishes I had for 2013. I didn't know about this fun event till March, so thats when I started. In order to qualify for the final year finishes prizes, you have to have 6 finishes and posted about them, over the year. I JUST made it!

March goal finish.





April finish.










 

June finish.






July finish.




October finish.




November finish.




And they are doing it all over again for 2014, it's a fun way to make a goal each month, and the prizes they give help to keep me on track :)

Now I need to think of a goal for January!

New Years Eve

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year! I can't believe today is the last day of 2013. Like so many others, I feel this year has just gone by waaaay too quickly!

I was able to get my Christmas quilting finished in time :) But I was in a rush to get them mailed, so did not take finished pictures of them. Sigh~ I have asked the recipient to get pictures of them too me, so hopefully I can show them to you soon.

The one Christmas gift I made that I DO have pictures for, you will have to wait till Jan 9th to see it. It is my project for the Kona blog hop, and my day is the 9th. So I hope you all come back and see what I made. You can find the full schedule here.



As for the New Year, I don't do resolutions, but I do like to make goals. At the beginning of 2013, I told you my goal for the year was to get some of these quilted.

This is just a small portion of the quilt tops that I need to quilt. Well, I did not quilt ONE of these tops!! Instead I made new projects and learned how to free motion quilt.

So, my goal again for this year, is to start getting this pile of tops, turned into quilts. We'll see if I can manage to do a few at least :)

What about you? Do you make resolutions? or goals, or both?

Have a Happy New Year, I hope it's full of good things for you. And thank  you readers, for sticking around. I hope to have more quilting and designing going on this year. I also hope to start putting a pattern or two out there for sell. We shall see what the year brings!

Merry Christmas

Wishing you and yours, a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

May your day be filled with Family, friends, food... and some fabric :)

Thanks so much for reading my little blog and keeping me company.

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Christmas quilting

Hello Everyone,

Are you ready? Just a week to go. My 9yr old is bouncing off the walls. We have some decorations up. We have our tree picked out (we'll be cutting it down off our own place), but wont cut it and put it up till this weekend. I have a feeling my toddler will be a big nuisance with it. He loves the lights and pretty colored balls.

I have got some of my Christmas sewing done. Here's just a small snippet of a picture.

 

Here's something else I've been working on. I wont be able to show you the finished product till January though. It's my project for the Kona solids hop.

The picture isn't true to the colors. They are rich, vibrant purples and bright, almost neon orange and lime green.

Boxes are coming in by mail and we have shopping to do on Friday. Getting down to the wire.

Hope you are all enjoying the Christmas season.

December catchup

Good morning Everyone!

Didn't mean to be silent for so long. The days are just flying by so quickly. Yet it seems that I get nothing accomplished. Some Christmas decorating has been done. And I really want to start making some special holiday cookies, just haven't done so yet.

Although I have been practicing my fmqing, on some Christmas gifts.

I have a long way to go before I am any good. But I'm having fun...

And thats what is important right? Just keep practicing...

I got my first set of X and + blocks from Pat :)

And we got our first snowfall of the Winter. Isaiah had a great time walking around looking at things that are half buried.

He liked to sit in it for awhile too. And then he had a snowball fight with 2 of his siblings :) And yes, he does have mittens ;)

I hope to come back soon and so you some more stuff I'm working on.

Have a great day!