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!