Sunday Sewday

Started out this morning sewing the binding on a quilt for a customer. I then made a trip to my local quilt shop dropping off 3 quilts for customers and picking up 2 to quilt. When I got home, I started working on my en Provence mystery quilt, again. I now have half of it completed. I'm slowly completing this top.

I went to a quilt show last week Saturday with my friend and picked up this awesome decal for my car. I'm sure I will get a lot of questions about it and I am hoping for some new customers too. Have to make sure I replenish my business cards in my car tomorrow morning.

 

 

My online quilt group is doing an orphan block challenge for the month of April. An orphan quilt block is a random block that doesn't have a home in a quilt. I don't have very many but I did have these stocking quilt blocks. 20 of them to be exact which was the perfect amount for a lap quilt.



 

 

I dug through my stash found some unbleached muslin for the sashing strips, green for the cornerstones and a candy cane print for the borders. These blocks were from a swap I participated in many years ago. I'm going to guess at least 5 years ago, if not more. 

 

 

I really need to stop making tops and start quilting some of my own quilts. I think I have at least 5 of my own quilts waiting to be quilted. I'm off to load another customer quilt. Hope that you had a great Sunday Sewday!

 

 

 

Progress is progress.

Things have been moving a little slower in my sewing room than what I would like but progress is progress. I almost have another 1/4 of my en Provence mystery quilt all pieced together. I'm hoping to finish up this section this weekend.

My grandmother-in-laws quilt is all quilted. I plan on delivering it to her this weekend sometime. I did continuous curve in each of the diamonds with white thread. I wish I would have counted the diamonds, there are a lot of them. Quilt measures 77"x101" and she will be binding it . She likes to keep busy.

 

The next quilt I loaded is for a customer who made a Quilt of Valor. If you don't know about Quilts of Valor Foundation,  you can get more information here. On this quilt I am using Glide thread in the color Mocha and then Becker's Shooting Star pantograph which is perfect for this quilt. She used a navy blue fabric for the backing and the mocha thread will stand out beautifully on the back of this great quilt. 

 

 

 

Currently I have 5 customer quilts waiting to be quilted and I received a couple of phone calls today with more quilts. My customers definitely keep me busy.

 



Sunday Sewday

Yesterday I started quilting a quilt for my husbands 94 year old grandmother. She hand pieced this quilt using up her scraps and even cutting up her old clothes, some that she had made for herself, to make this wonderful quilt. I hope that at 94 I will still be quilting. I worked on it off and on throughout the day. Almost done.

You can just catch of glimpse of my longarm machine Lulu. She is a 2015 APQS Lucey.

First thing this morning I made a new cover for my beagle puppy's bed. Henry likes to chew on zippers. He has a special ability in which he can destroy a zipper on a coat in just 5 seconds. It wasn't just his bed that he ruined, he also used his special skill on two coats. I haven't replaced the zippers on the coats yet, will be for the summer since they are both winter coats, however he now has a stylish new bed.

Here is the before. Not very stylish but it served its purpose.

 

The after. Isn't it adorable. Oh yes and Henry, he is adorable too. He is 6 months old and can be such a handful at times but he can melt your heart with just one tilt of his head.

 

The new cover doesn't really match our living room but I love it. The canvas print fabric I purchased at Michaels. It was on sale for $3.99 for one yard and the yellow canvas fabric I used on the bottom is left over from when I made my son a firefighter costume for Halloween one year.

After the dog bed makeover it was skirt making time. My daughter has a music program coming up for school this week and she said that her music teacher said she could wear a skirt. So I went to this simple skirt tutorial by Dana Made it and got to work. Very cute skirt and she is happy.

I also made significant progress on my en Provence mystery from the wonderful Bonnie Hunter. This was her most recent mystery quilt and I hate to admit it, but I was not a fan of it at first. So many pieces, which is expected for one of her mysteries but now that I have a 1/4 of it assembled, I am in love!!

Sew I had an absolutely wonderful Sunday Sewday. Hope you were able to do something crafty today.

I'm being invaded........

Invaded by UFO's. UnFinished objects that is. Here is my current list of UFO's

Allietare - needs binding

Gravity - about half way done assembling the top. 

Snowman embroidery - TBQ (to be quilted)

Barn embroidery - still hand embroidering blocks. 

Flag Quilt - TBQ

Scrappy pinwheel - TBQ

Spiders den swap blocks - this one I am trying to decide in either making more blocks or alternating blocks. 

Bargello - TBQ

En Provence - assembling blocks and dashing

Katelynn's Quilt - borders

There might be more UFO's lurking in my sewing room but that is all that I have found, so far.  I'm not even going to mention all the kits I have stashed away. 

It's time to sew sew sew. Tomorrow I will work on the en Provence quilt. Have a great night!

Circle skirt for KK!!

Last night I put KK to bed and got to work making her a circle skirt. I used this awesome Circle Skirt Tutorial from DanaMadeIt.Com. I love her website and all her awesome tutorials and patterns. Check her out!

I hung it up on her closet door last night and she saw it this morning as soon as she woke up. When I walked into her room she was pointing at it saying "Is that mine? I want to wear it."  Hope that she doesn't expect to see something new hanging up there again tomorrow morning. Although it was great to see such a big smile on her face early in the morning.

I have had this fabric for a month now and bought it to use with this tank top. Only the plan was to cut the tank top and add the fabric to it and make a tunic. Well, it never happened and I am glad because I love this look! We put it on and snapped a picture by the fence before we left for work.

Oh and look, there is part of our new blacktop driveway. Love the look of the neighbors old fence with the ivy growing in it.

SBS is a top!!

My Sylvia's Bridal Sampler is finally a top. I started this quilt back on January 1, 2011. I had to get my parents up on ladders so that I could get the whole quilt in.

I am sending this qult to my great friend Shirley over at The Sewing Cave to quilt it. She does an amazing job!!

My first purse with a ZIPPER!!!

I just made my first purse with a zipper yesterday. Went smoothly until the handles. Don't know how I sewed them on wrong but I did, but I digress. The bag turned out wonderful! I enlarged the pattern just a little from the original recessed zipper shoulder bag pattern, but it is still not quite big enough for me. Still have a kid in diapers. So I think that I will give this one to my mom.

I added lots of pockets on the inside.

Now to make a larger bag with a zipper for me. Wish me luck. I have a pattern that I like and I am going to add my own zipper without instructions. Shirley over at The Sewing Cave insists that I can do it, and I think I believe her. Check out her blog, she does amazing work!

A quilt for Payton!!

My youngest niece starts preschool next month and she needed a small blanket for nap time. Well not just any blanket would do, so I made her a quilt! She loves it! She was so excited to have something with her name on it and a quilt just for school.

I used the Yellow Brick Road Pattern and the letters came from The Quilter's Community. I pieced the backing, great way to use up fabric from my stash.

In the last picture, you can see my sister's head over the top of the quilt, Payton of course in the green shirt and then my daughter, Katelynn, in her new swimming suit. She has been sick and missing going to the beach.

Yeeeessssssss!!!!

All 140 blocks of the Sylvia Bridal Sampler are done!! It has taken me a year and a half to complete it. I would work on it here and there and just this last week I have really pushed myself to finish. Here it is!!

Next will be the borders.

The start of a zoo!

I saw this tutorial for this adorable crochet giraffe on the Lion Brand so I got out my yarn and hooks and made her. The kids have named her Mrs. Giraffe. To get the pattern you will have to set up a FREE Lion Brand account and they have many free patterns.

Then since all zoos need a lion.......

Meet Big Daddy Lion. Found the pattern for him here. She has many more animal patterns there and I am sure that I will be using many more of them because the kids just love these two!