2011 Book

It came!!! I am so excited. It was an awesome mail week last week. I got my project 365 book from blurb. 52 scrapbook pages all in one nice little book. oh I just love it!

I know that it is almost the end of February, but in my defense, I was stumped on what to do for the front and back cover. But I got them done and ordered it at the beginning of Feb and it came last week! And my kids love it. They spent the afternoon looking through it and commenting on the photos with a remember this attitude.

Which makes me really regret that I am not doing it this year. I am doing something similar but just not the picture of the day. I did start taking more pictures of the kids after they loved this book so much.

And also last week in the mail I got my monthly scrapbook pages that I have done for the last two years. Yes I am a little slow with printing them, but I got them done. I printed them over at Scrapping Simply. They do great work and you should go and like them on facebook because they will have a sale here when they get around 20 more followers! And that means cheaper prints for everyone!!

Peacock Rag Quilt

Friday we had a snow day. They called it on Thursday afternoon before it even started snowing. But this was a big one. We ended up getting about 15 inches total and this is what it looks like out in my backyard from my upstairs window. I took this when I finished this quilt I am going to tell you about in just a minute - about 2pm, and it was still snowing this morning when we woke up.

I just finished up this beautiful 'peacock' colored quilt for a friend of mine. I was super quick and easy - which I love. I think it took longer for us to figure out when to get together and what exactly she wanted then it took for me to make this.

The back is the same purple as on the front. I added the purple to the front to help it tie in with the back.

She wanted a rag quilt, and I decided to use rectangles because I wanted to have as little waste as possible. She ordered the fabric and we did not have quite enough to make it a twin, so I tried to stretch this every way possible.

I was trying to decide to do a pattern for the fabrics or just do random. I asked Conan and he said the pattern was less like anything else I had done, so I went with it!

Anyway, now it is sitting on the bench by my door, just waiting to be picked up. It was a birthday present for my friend and I hope that she loves it!

Too bad all my snow days are not this productive. But Conan was home from work and we had put the kids to work on their rooms.

Monster High

Here is the finished version of my skull blanket that I made for a friend. Her daughter loves Monster High and is getting a room makeover for her birthday. I was lucky enough to be able to make the blanket!

It was not that hard, until I started to sew with the backing fabric. It stretched and moved around everywhere! It was not the easiest thing to work with.

On the back I had a little bit of extra fabric and so I put a small little skull.

My daughter loved this quilt. She really wants me to make one like this for her! What girl would not want something like this?!

I should have some more quilts to show you - if I get pics taken - I just finished up two here today!

Fire and Ice

I have been spending some quality time with my sewing machine lately. My sister who also loves to sew sent me this quilt top to quilt.She made this last year with her local quilt shop for their block of the month program. Makes me wish I had a quilt shop around me that did something cool like that!

This quilt is different than any quilt of mine. For some reason I really like the white background on quilts. This was a fresh different kind of quilt for me to work on.

I quilted it with mutilcolored thread and did stars randomly throughout the quilt. You can see it good here on the 'ice' squares.

Doesn't that quilt just look awesome!?

The quilting is harder to see here on the 'fire' squares.

But this quilt is now on its way back to my sister. This is exciting for her because she has yet to have any quilts finished! I think she will love this, I know it has me looking at branching out of my light colored backgrounds that I love!

T-shirt quilt

I have been sewing like a mad woman lately. A gal I know wanted a t-shirt quilt from her college days and other shirts that she has collected. Of course I told her I can do this.  I have the top all done as pictures here:

The only thing is she is moving in 2 weeks. I know that I can get it done, but having such a definite deadline I am not used to!

But all I have left to do is quilt it together - probably the most time consuming part, but I think I can get it done!

Guessing Game

I have a fun game for you to play today. Someone asked me to make a quilt for their daughter. This will be in the center.

Can you guess where this skull came from?

Stay tuned to find out and see the finished product!

Christmas Quilt

This is a quilt I made last year and I never showed you all. I love it - especially since it was just Christmas! And I was mia for a few months at the end of the year. But I am here now and have this great quilt that I love to share with you!

I got all these squares from a grab bag of fabric that I have had in my closet for a while now! Something like 2 years, but who is counting!

I had a pattern for this quilt that I used, it was quite easy - just sew all the squares together! The hardest part was finding something to use as sashing. I ended up using some pine cone bough fabric that I had in my stash as well. It worked well because it was light and did not distract from the squares.

I quilted it with a simple all over loop, and love how it turned out!

I love how the red binding really pops!

And I just finished quilting a 'Fire & Ice" quilt for one of my sisters, I hope to get some pictures of it before I mail it off to her and share it with all of you and share it with her to see!

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