Little Quilts

So my stitching is a little crooked.  :)  But I still love my little doll quilt I whipped up for my youngest girl.  I made it from a free pattern offered over at: http://nanacompany.typepad.com/nanacompany/2012/04/a-free-sweet-dreams-little-one-pdf-pattern-.html
We are doing homemade Christmas again this year and I have started with this project.  I love that the Fat Quarter shop now carries the little 2 inch pre-cuts! 

Happily, I finally managed to get this selection of fabric squares off of my cutting board and made into a little baby quilt/playmat or just a happy wall hanging.  I have yet to decide.  I am still also debating on what to back and bind it with. I call it my Square Chalk Box.  Quilting should be done by Friday as long as my littlest is agreeable.  :)  I love my little Cheerio eating monkey.  He captivates me so much of my time an I am more than happy to give him loads of my attention.  They grow so fast!  What takes you away from quilting?  

Look at my new "Love" canvas!  I won it from Carrie over at Believe Magic. She is truly the sweetest most cheerful person I have ever met!  My canvas has found a home on my desk.  It really makes me happy to look at. 

I have been struggling to catch up/finish projects and to take photos of everything...I am lacking a little in the photo department.  Far more progress without photo documentation.  At least there is progress!  The good news is I am all caught up in the Half Square Triangle Quilt Along over at In Color Order!

August Block of the month

September Block of the month

The first time I made this one I made a mistake!  Can you spot the difference?

I really hate when that happens!!

There has also been progress on the Apple of My Eye Quilt (where I am lacking the photos) and the my bee blocks from the modern quilt guild.  I am waiting on a few more blocks before I lay I share it.  But it is looking pretty fun! I need to get more stuff done.  I have a few quilt deadlines coming up.  Babies are due to be born and will need little quilts to welcome them into the world.  :)  Hope you are enjoying the beginning of fall!

Two Posts in One Day!

2 Posts in 1 day!  I think that deserves a double rainbow picture I took about a week ago.  The reason for the second post...I just had to share that I finished my purse today!  Wahoo.

I am not sure what I will do with it.  It isn't really my style but hey I made a purse and it is cute.  Does anyone else make things without an idea of how to use it.  My husband sarcastically told me to put lipstick, a wallet, etc inside it.  Thanks honey, but it doesn't match anything I own.  Ah well.

Late August - Catching Up Slowly

Admittedly, it has been awhile.  I have been working on things but very VERY slowly.  July I took a vacation from my projects to start on a quilt for my niece who was visiting.  It uses the Riley Blake Apple of My Eye collection.  I just love it!  I was teaching my niece how to cut, piece, and quilt.  I will be able to show off pictures of our project soon. 

I finished sewing the binding on my garden fence quilt the other night and am happy to say it is 100% finished now.  It will be headed off to my nephew soon.

I have continued to work on my Half Square Triangles for the Block of the Month thing over at In Color Order.  Below is July and August will be up soon.

I got together with Carrie from Believe Magic and stitched our quilt guilds charity quilt. I managed to contribute 3 blocks!  Yay!  She is super fast at sewing and so patient with me. *Carrie took the picture of the photo below*

Last but not least.  Our modern quilt guild has decided to do some Bee Blocks.  My month was this one and I chose a half-square triangle block that was featured on SewMamaSew awhile back (with a few modifications).  Here is one of the blocks I made.

I am keeping this one all to myself.  I have yet to make myself a quilt and decided it is about time.  I can't wait to see all of the other blocks.  I have been having fun finding all of my favorite fabrics and scraps for these blocks. I hope you all are finding time to fit in sewing.  Will share more soon.

Monday Monday

This past weekend I got several fun "I Spy" fabrics in the mail and one Alexander Henry Print from my LQS. 

I have already started cutting my charms. I only have to cut up 4 of these (I have a double spot).  I bought extra fabrics since it is hard for me to tell the size of prints online.  I just adore the Alexander Henry print with the happy farm items.  I might have to go back and buy even more just to back a quilt for my little boy. 

I made some progress on my purse.  I got the pleats stitched down, the interior and exterior sewn together and now I just need to add my bias tape.

I am making the bias tape purse from Prudent Baby.  It is so easy I might have to make a few.  I also got quite a bit of my binding hand-stitched on the garden fence quilt.  I also transferred my embroidery on to the fabric for the elephant dreams quilt.  Progress is always good.   

Saturday Night Update

I finally dropped off 3 quilts to the local chapter of the Red Cross.  I felt so shy and awkward about it.  I don't really have a lot of confidence when it comes to my quilts (I feel like an amateur compared to others) and I kinda like anonymity.  Truth be told, I haven't been sewing too much lately.  What I did manage though:

 I cut out pieces from some old Art Gallery Fabric to make a purse as well as some farmer's wife blocks.  I got binding put on the top of my garden fence quilt (picture was taken pre-quilting and binding):

Now I am on to hand stitching the back on.

I did a little work on my "Elephant Dreams" quilt.  Here is an old photo which includes the little drawing I came up for it:

 I plan to hand embroider him on this next week (fingers crossed).

 I also made a block for Kilah and got it mailed off.  I have a little girl who is about her age so this story really devastated me.   3 year olds are just so fantastically full of life and overflowing with personality.  I pray that her little spirit recovers as well as her body.  Quilts are so medicinal that I think this special one being made with so much love for her will help boost her spirit and bring a little comfort.  If you haven't heard about Kilah's story and the quilt project you can find out more about it here:

http://www.lintonville.com/?p=347

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Shhh!

I finally got  a little time to quilt!  My son took a nap that wasn't on me.  So while he was napping I caught up on my Half Square Triangle Block of the month Quilt Along blocks.

Whew!  But I also got the top-stitching all done on this quilt:

So if I can get it bound, it will be another finish for 2012!  Thank you Mr. Squishy bottom!

Here he is doing tummy time yesterday!  He is so tall - 98 % for his age!  What have you been up to?