First finish 2012

 This is a Serendipity quilt from Moda Bake Shop and Missouri Quilt Company.  I sewed the binding on last night.  This is going to Oliver's new baby brother who is due any day now.

Here is a picture of one of the grands wearing a tie that I made for the boys for Christmas.  He looked adorable in it and even wore it for their official Christmas photo with his two sisters.  This is Braydon, sitting with his daddy and cousin Madison.

 Here is Oliver loving his new Elmo doll.   Elmo  is his favorite thing right now.  I hope he didn't get overloaded with Elmo.

I seem to have lost the other pictures I uploaded.  :(  

I got a new little camera for Christmas from my Hubs.  What a surprise that was since we don't exchange presents.  What a difference from my old camera.  I am hoping this will motivate me to post more on my blog! 

Happy New Year everyone!

Little Christmas projects

 I have been working on Christmas presents and get side tracked by little projects.  Here are three of them.  This is an elf I made for my daughter.  I got the pattern from Sewing in No Man's Land.  I was going to make more than one, but honestly it was more time consuming than I anticipated and turning those skinny little arms and legs right side out, then stuffing them, was no fun!





















I also made these adorable bags.  I followed the tutorial for the Gathered Clutches at Noodle-Head.  I have made these before and even taught my little quilt club how to make them.  They are fun to make and really cute when finished.  These will be gifts for my grandkids' preschool teachers.

And there is one more project to show you.  I had a request for Christmas ties for one grandson, so I made them all some.  I made 6 ties from a tutorial that is great.  I used this same tutorial to make an Easter tie earlier this year.  They were easy and fun to make.  The grands all loved them from the 2 year old to the 9 year old.  The tutorial is from Very Homemade.  I am hoping all the boys wear their ties for a Christmas photo at my house. I only took a picture of the last two I made-a matching set for brothers.  They all have the velcro closure around the neck.  The pattern was only for little ones, so I did have to enlarge it for the older grandson.

Scarecrows, pirates and such

 Here is a Disappearing 9-patch Halloween quilt.  I used Riley Blake's Halloween fabric and some other prints that I had.  I quilted it in spiderwebs with glow-in-the-dark thread.  Only thing with the thread is you have to have a black light for it to glow.  I will probably buy one just to see how it looks in the dark.

 Here are a few of my favorite people.  Batman:

 The scarecrow and the pirate:  ( I made this costume-turned out so cute.  We had trouble keeping the tulle from crinkling.)

 Shy Thomas the Train:

 And the vampire:

Roll Roll Cotton Boll and other Bonnie Hunter mystery quilts

I realized that I had pictures on the blog about gathering the fabric and working on this quilt, but I never posted the finished quilt.  Now that a new Bonnie Hunter mystery will soon be starting, I thought I would post the mystery quilts of hers I have done so far.  This one is Roll, Roll Cotton Boll.  My grandkids love this quilt.  There are pieces of Cars in this, as well as owls, santas, and just about anything else that was made into fabric.  They like hunting for their favorites.

This is Carolina Christmas that was together, then I took it apart, and now have to put it back together.  It still needs to have borders made for it too.

This one is Christmas Lights.  This was a mini mystery from her column in the quilting magazine.

And this is Double Delight.  I copied another quilter's border for this that I fell in love with.  I am sorry, but I don't remember who that was.  I had it posted with my picture that was on the Yahoo's site, but it is no longer there.  

The new mystery is starting in November.  I have so many projects that I really need to get finished and then clean up my work space so I am ready to go.  I have not been disappointed with any of Bonnie's mysteries.

Triple delight

My quilt club decided to make three charity quilts in one shot.  One for my charity-a local group that sends care packages to our troops overseas, one for another quilter's charity-to support a young man with lymphoma, and one for a charity we have been supporting for a few years now-a local Special Olympics chapter.  We made three patriotic quilts.  We used Dorothy Young's Tamara's Choice for our pattern.  They are all scrappy, with the borders a little different.  I quilted mine with stars and banners, sort of.  The back of my quilt is a patriotic fabric that fit my theme very well.  I was going to try to describe it, but a picture is much better.  Here the back is.

And so long as I am adding pictures, here are the stars.

I hope these worthwhile groups are all able to make some money for each of their causes with our quilts.

Warm/cool baby quilt

 Here is the warm/cool quilt that I made for my grandnephew.  He will be born soon and I finished it just in time.  I am pleased with how it turned out.  I used a lot of juvenile novelty prints-trains, cars, frogs, mice, alphabets, etc.  It should provide a lot of visual interest for the little guy.

Here is a better picture of the Prince Charming quilt that was going to be the grandnephews.  This is a beautiful line of fabric.  The large panel at the top is a tortoise and a girl on a swing hung from a tree branch.  The middle panel are the paisley frogs.  The bottom is the raindrops.

Warm and cool plus giveaway news

I am working on a baby quilt for my grandnephew due this month.  I am running way behind schedule.  I was going to give him the Prince Charming quilt but that didn't work out.  I am going to give him a warm/cool quilt.  I started out with purple in it, but didn't get the definition I would have liked to between the colors.  Here the partial layouts are , first with the purples and then with out.

Black Creek Primitives is having a nice giveaway.  Check them out.