my colorwheel

My colorwheel came home from the quiltshop!  It is one of my favorites.  I want to make another one and do it a bit differently.  I just love the vibrant colors paired with black.

I will change the quilting on the next one.  I need more quilting in the color portion.  I may work on that when I bring her home.  She is hanging out in my office at work and makes me happy.  For the backing I found a bit of Kaffe to use.  I love the brightness and richness of color.  I love this quilt!

Making Simple Things

So many things I would like to make.  I have an improv quilt on my mind but need more time to spend with my thoughts.  Those Transparency Quilts are haunting my sleep.  Right now with my intense work schedule and vacation just around the corner (I have not packed yet) I am settlling for some simple things.

Just an easy center panel with a couple of borders.  It is flannel and covered with monsters!  Our own little red haired monster celebrated his 2nd birthday on Christmas day so we celebrated when the holdays were done.  It is about 60x60 so a good size for him.  Most importantly for me is that it is a finish!!   It's nice to have a finish even though I don't have as much time to sew right now.

I started and finished these two doll quilts today.  Simple and fun and finished!  There is a little girl and her dollies that will love them!  A little yellow marble flannel for the back and some easy quilting.

I am hoping this little one loves these pink ballerinas!

Who doesn't love this Heather Bailey?  This is one of my very favorite prints.  Just love the big flower.

These are in the washer and will soon be ready to go to a new home.

So it is not always about creating for me.  Sometimes I just need to touch fabric, hear my machine run and every now and then get a very easy finish.  It's good for my sewing soul!

All Done

I did it!  This is my first total finish for 2012.  I love this quilt.  It is so soft and warm.  It is in the dryer as I write this and will be ready to go to it's new home.  I hope my sister in law loves it.

I had a little fun with the snowmen on the back.  Her grand boys will enjoy cuddling with her and the snowmen!

This photo is blurry but it is a photo of some little quilt labels my niece gave me for Christmas.  She ordered them off the net somewhere.  I think they are pretty nice.  Plenty of space to write the date at the bottom of the label.

I've got another quilt on the frame.  Have to have it ready for a birthday party on Saturday.  I'd best get busy!

Happy New Year!

Another year older....seriously, do I need to keep having these birthdays?  I really think I have had enough!!!  I just want to stay the age I am right now!!  No more aging.

For this wonderful day I quilted my first quilt of 2012.  This quilt that I have made for my sister in law is made from flannel......Woolies flannel from Maywood Studios.  If you have never made a quilt with Woolies flannel you have not used the best flannel of all.  Just my opinion of course but this flannel is nice and sturdy and the colors are rich.  This is a large quilt!  She told me she wanted to wrap herself up in it!  It is big enough for that.  Need to get the binding on tomorrow and finish it up,

What a perfect way to start the new year.  A quilt and the ipad my husband gave me for my birthday!  Life is good.

Wow...where did that year go!

It is New Year's Eve again.  I don't know where the time goes.  Do you have any resolutions this year?  I guess I have a wish list for next year...work less, enjoy life more, relax and be happy.  With that work less wish comes the sew more wish!!  I sew a lot anyway but I can always use more time in my sewing room.

I am headed somewhere warm in a few weeks and while I'm gone all I can think of is getting back to my sewing room!

Here's to less work and more sewing....enjoy your life......be thankful.....relax and be happy!

See you all right here next year with some new modern projects.....transparency quilts....on my mind.......

A Fun finish....or finishes!!

I have a friend who has two wonderful little girls which he adores.  Having a bit of weakness where little girls are concerned I decided to make them each the same quilt from different fabrics.  A couple of charm packs of the print and the solid and a Moda Bakeshop pattern "Windy Days", a few pinwheels and there you go!



I decided to take some leftover charm squares and make each girl a matching doll quilt for their dolls.

I decided to back both quilts with pink minkee and the doll quilts with flannel.  I cannot wait to hear how they react to theses gifts.  They were lots of fun to make.  Hope they like them.

Now I can move on to other things I would like to finish before the holidays!

Hope all of you have some finishes in sight!

Cleaning house....but wanting to sew.....

Thanksgiving is my day to cook for the family.  My husband and I are equals in the kitchen and we both put this meal on the table for our family.  First I have to pull myself out of the sewing room to clean my house.  I managed to do that for several hours but then found myself back in front of the sewing table.  How did I get back down there?  Hopefully work will be a bit slower this week and I can get home early enough to finish my dusting and such!

So I have a little console in my dining room and I wanted a little holiday topper to cover it, so I grabbed a charm pack and put this together.  A two hour table runner.

Then I ran the vacuum for awhile...and then I worked on some Bee blocks....almost done there.  I cleaned a little more and admired my clean counter tops that for some reason I rarely get to see,  Then I did this;

A little machine binding on a Christmas gift.  This needs to get in the mail this week for it's journey.

Here's how it looked finished

This Seeing Squares quilt sat close to the Cover Girl Squares and I like it amost as much.  The light brown paisley on the back is flannel.  Hope it keeps this little boy warm.  I quilted it in a kind of free form interlocking squares pattern.  The thread was Rainbows in a variegated blue/brown.  I like how it turned out.

Just a month or so until Christmas.  Wonder how many projects I can get done? 

Here's to the day where we give thanks for all of the wonderful things we are blessed with in our life.  My list of blessings is vast.  I count my quilting friends among the blessings.  Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.