Sister Photo Memory Quilts

 These two t-shirt quilts are great. The lady I made them for was by far the most organized person I have worked with. She had all the clothes she wanted to use, and she had pictures of her daughters printed onto fabric for me to sew on. It was awesome!

Because of how organized she was, or maybe because I am getting close to my moving date, I really worked hard to get these quilts done for her. This purple one was easy. She did not have a lot of clothes for her oldest daughter - who is 17 - she we filled in with purple fabric. On those purple squares I sewed the fabric photos on. It was fast and cute. I sewed them on with a simple zig-zag stitch.

I wish I would have taken a picture of the back because I pieced two baby blankets and then did a purple border. Anyway, just imagine a super cute back! 

Her other daughter - who is 5 - she had a lot of clothes for. Because of this and because of the different sizes of logos and print we did less of a squares sewn together quilt and more of a puzzle one. At least it was a puzzle for me to try and figure out how to place everything so that it fit. It worked pretty well, except we are not quite square. But she was okay with that thank goodness!

She had two sheets that her daughter used and I used those for the pictures on this quilt - and for the fill in where I did not have clothes that would fit a certain spot. I sewed these pictures on with pink thread because it was sort of a theme here and I had some that matched perfectly! I also used one of the sheets for a border. I personally like a border because I feel like it pulls it all together.

I just love this picture here. If you cannot see it, the little girl is kissing her mom's pregnant belly. I sewed this one onto the outfit that she is wearing in the picture. It is just precious.

These two quilts were fun because of the huge gap in the age of the girls. It was great to see clothes from recent and then clothes from a while ago. The different trends and colors we put kids in now verses then is pretty drastic! 

I hope that you all have a fabulous weekend! I will be cleaning out more for the move!

Purple Baby Quilt

In my preparing for the upcoming move I have been cleaning out stuff, and trying to finish a few projects as well. The finishing of projects is not going so well, but I did finish this quilt.

I had the top almost all done, but I did not have a need for a purple baby blanket. So it sat in the pile. But while I was talking to my friend about her t-shirt quilt this somehow came up and she wanted it. So I quilted it up and sold it to her. 

This is the first time that I did a 'pieced' back. I really only sewed a strip down the one side because I could not find anymore matching purple. But I really like how it turned out!

I also made up a cute little tag - nothing fancy, just a little iron on with twill ribbon. But I like it and she thought it was a good idea.

Anyway, now I am on to more cleaning out and dr. visits this week!

Baby Clothes Quilt

Even though I have not been on here as much, I have still been sewing like crazy. I have finished almost 9 t-shirt quilts and I am going to start posting them on here for you. 

I also decided that with the next one I make I will make up a tutorial for you so that if you want to make one you can, because they are not as hard as you might think - but they are time consuming, just remember that!

This quilt here was a little bit different from some of the other t-shirt quilts that I have made. This lady asked me if I could make a quilt out of her son's baby clothes. I figured that it could really not be that much harder then any other one so I said yes.

And not it was not much harder, but it took twice as long - because baby clothes are just not as easy to cut because they are smaller - not as much room for error either!

I ended up using almost 150 items of clothing for this quilt. I am always a little bit worried about what my customer will think of the quilt when I get it finished, but she posted on facebook that it was exactly what she had imagined!

 So far I just do a simple zig zag stitch between all of the shirts, but I think I might try something different. If it works well I will share exactly how to do it! (That is not a fold on the back it is the seam, but this picture does not really make it look that way!)

And can you believe that it is May already?! I have a feeling that my move is going to sneak up on me quicker then I want it to!

Wedding Dress Quilt

I know I have been gone for a while. But I have been busy. Conan was out of town for work for 6 weeks and I've done the whole 'single parent' thing before, but I was super busy this go around! And to top it all off we are going to be moving in just over a month! Now I really have my hands full!

But I wanted to share with you something that I finished a little while ago. I had this friend contact me about making her wedding and bridesmaid dresses into a quilt. She really just wanted them made into something she could cherish.

Of course I told her I would, but I did not think it would be so hard for me to cut into that dress. I had it for a full two weeks just sitting there.

She wanted me to cut up her wedding dress!

Well I did some planning and drew up a pattern, and then I did it - I cut into her wedding dress!

When I had the top all done I posted this picture to facebook to show her that I actually was making some progress.

She loved it. She said she teared up just looking at it. And that made my day. I really wanted her to love it.

I finished it all up and tied it up pretty for her. And she loved it even more!

I have been making a few t-shirt quilts that I will post later - that is if I do not get sidetracked by life and the moving thing!

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!