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Quilted Table Topper

Ok, here it is! The table topper I made for a good friend as a going away present. I will be giving it to her tomorrow. I used the double nine patch method for this quilt. You can't see any quilting from this angle. This is the most quilting I have ever done on a project and I had sooooo much fun doing it. I am very pleased with the outcome. Shane is very impressed as well and he's a hard audience to please :) I used alot of free hand quilting on this quilt. By the time I finished I had really gotten good at it. This is really one of my better quilted projects. I really enjoy making things for people. Click on the pics for a larger view.

Here is the back...yes I know the top half is darker. When I went to get more backing they had a new bolt and the dye lot was diffrent. It's more obviouse in the pic than in RL. And my little tag at the bottom :)

I quilted little X's in all the tiny blue squares and hearts in all the medium white squares.

In this pic you can see the heart border in the blue.

Here is the design and stippling in the large white blocks. I just so love how this turned out.

Closer Angle.

Future Quilter!

Here is Trin on my bed looking at my quilting books while I was finishing up the table topper. She was looking at the pictures and telling me what I "needed"...marking pens, saftey pins....lol. It was so cute. I told her to hold on and I went to grab the camera and this is what I got.

Skirting Around

Ok...here is a skirt I made tonight. It was one pannel that you buy and it has the instructions on it. I had to piece it, put a zipper and eye and hook in, and put the waist band on. My hubby gave it a thumbs down :( Said he wasn't feeling it. To be honest I don't know if I'm feeling it either. It seems a little long and "to" flowy. It's almost like a poodle skirt. Let me know what you guys think. Should I wear it or get rid of it? Oh yea and I used a rolled hem stitch on it...which came out pretty good but not perfect.

Picture of the side seam with the invisible zipper.

Sneak Peek!

Here is just one of the squares of my "going away present". I wasn't gonna give a sneak peek then decided, hey why not? Actually, I was just bored...lol. This is one of my favorite squares. It reminds me of a wholecloth quilt. Which is what Shane wants for his quilt when I do it. I love the stippling in this quilt. I can't wait to finish this project and see the end result. I probably won't have it finished by tomorrow, but hopefully by the end of the weekend. This still has the quilting lines in it.

Yay...

...I'm back in business! I got the rest of my stuff to finish my going away present for my friend. Hopefully I will have it finished by Saturday. The kids have VBS all this week so I'm gonna have extra time to sew. I will probably have it finished before then, but you never know what kind of hang ups there are gonna be!

I'm still here...

Just been so busy this past week with vacation and all. Hopefully I will be finishing up some projects soon. I need to get my going away present finished soon! I just need to get some more backing and the batting. I'm looking forward to quilting that project. Can't wait to start on Mycah's quilt. It's gonna take some time, but I'm looking forward to the challenge. I wanna try to get them finished up because I have hopes of making quilts for Christmas presents this year. We will see how that goes and how much time I will have. Considering I will need to make around 7 or so.
We have been discussing having our third baby and when we are gonna start trying. It's dependent on a few things that have to happen first, but that should all work out just fine. If things do go according to "our plans" we will start trying in Feb. and have a baby by Christmas next year. We got some of our baby stuff out yesterday. Only because we were having to clean out the storage shed and we both couldn't believe how much baby stuff we have...lol. But it would only make sense since we have two other children. I guess you just forget how much stuff you "need" to take care of a baby (or think you need). Plus I still have ALL my boy stuff from Mycah. I think we pretty much have first names picked but are working on middle names for both sexes.

Grandma's Finished Quilt

Here is a pic of Grandma's finished quilt. My sister and I made this quilt for our Grandma. She was in a serious car accident and almost lost her life. But as of today she is recovering wonderfully and is doing so good for all that she has been through..including brain surgery. I was able to give the quilt to her today and she loved it. I think her favorite square was her families pic in the middle. I think she was very happy to have her family with her all the time. I used the turn and tie method for finishing off the quilt.

Here is a pic of the back. It's made of flannel. You can see a little bit where it is tied.

Dragonfly Dress

Here is Trin showing off her new little dragonfly dress. It's the same pattern as the one I made last year with the oranges on it.

Here is a closer shot of the front.

Here is a pic of the back. I love these little criss cross dresses for summer time.

Here's a pic of the teal bloomers underneath. I love the teal color with this little dress.

Woody's Pajama Bottoms

Here is Father's Day gift #2. It's a pair of pajama bottoms for Woody. It didn't take me long to whip these out :D I used my overcast stitch to "serge" the edges so they won't fray. My wonderful friend Doreen mentiond to me that my machine can do this. So it was really nice to be able to finish it off this way.

Lunch Bag

Here is one of Woody's Father's Day presents. It's a lunch bag. I made the design myself. It's on the larger side so he can fit all of his lunch (tupper ware) and snacks in it.

Here is is with the flap open.

Inside view.

Here is is from a side view laying down...lol.

Trinity's Knitted Hat

Here is Trin showing off her knitted hat. This yarn is so soft. It's such a cute little hat and I love the colors. I'm hoping to make a ribbed scarf to go with it. This set will be perfect for this winter.

Here is an upclose pic of her hat.

Quilt Square #6

Ok, here is block #6. Yea, it's a pretty disfunctional block. But, I still think it looks cool. I just hacked up some strips and sewed them randomly together and to make them the right size I added a not symmetrical border..lol. The block looks cooler in person I think.

Quilt Square #5

Here is quilt block #5. I used the Streak 'O Lightning method with this square.

Quilt Square # 4

Well, here is block #4. It's a little gimped :( I tried to change the block size from the original pattern, and well....it didn't work. But it's still a really pretty square. The orange fabric looks a little funky in these pics. I used the nine patch method for this square.

Quilt Square # 3

Ok, here is quilt block #3 for my Grandma's quilt. I'm not quit sure about it. I appliqued some scriptures and pics from another fabric.

First Two Squares

Here are my first two squares for my Grandma's quilt. This one is of Trin's hand. K, I left room around it for you to embroider. Let me know if this isn't what you were thinking. (the colors are a little off in these photos)

Here is Mycah's hand.

Mycah

Mycah with his new hat and Trin.

Mycah showing off his new hat :)

Vintage Baby Quilt

Here it is...my latest baby quilt. I really like the different prints in this quilt. It took me a while to finally decide how I was gonna finish it, and alot of seam ripping, but in the end it came out great. I am really happy with it. It has a few flaws that I would of liked to have been better, but nothing serious. I used the turn and tie method to finish off this quilt. The ties ended up coming out better than I thought they would. Shane was very impressed with how nice they look on the quilt.

Here is the back of it. It is made of green and white stripe flannel with a border of the soft pink plush.

Closer pic of the fabrics.

Up close pic of one of the ties.

Here's a pic of the corner back. This quilt has soft plush border on both sides.

Mycah's Knitted Hat

Here is a pic of the knitted hat I've been working on. I ended up not making it into what I originally intended for it. It was suppose to be a hat for Shane with an image on it, but that didn't work out. Doreen was kind enough to point out to me that it wasn't gonna fit Shane's head...lol. So it is now a hat for Mycah. I will post pics tomorrow of him wearing it. It's just a simple hat in the stockinette stitch.

Quilted Makeup Bag

Here is a quilted makeup bag (or a bag for anything, really) I made for my mother in law for mother's day. Yes it's late I know. I had a really hard time getting the zipper in. This one was the third one I put in. The first two were invisible zippers. After alot of thought and failure I figured out I probably needed a regular zipper. Sure enough it worked. I'm glad I finally got the zipper in it and working...lol. Shane will probably give it to her sometime this week.

Just another outside pic diffrent angle. Trying to get the coloring right and no light shinning on it.

Inside pic...with zipper open.

Another pic of the inside.

Knitted Purse # 2

What's more fun than knitting with one yarn?...knitting with two! This is my first attempt at intarsia. The method of knitting pictures into fabrics with two or more yarns. This bag design is completely mine. I drew the graph for my flower and knitted it in the tan suede yarn. I was so happy when the intarsia came out right. I did learn a few things about drawing my graphs so next time my intarsia will be better.

Farther away pic.

Up close pic of the flower.

Here is an upclose pic of the handles. I have been thinking and debating for a while what I wanted to do for the handles for this bag. If I should buy some or make some. After looking and thinking some more I came up with these hand braided ones. I think they fit the bag perfectly. When I first made them they were all tan, but the bag needed more blue so I put just a few strands of the yarn the flower was made out to give it that extra color.

Here is a pic of the fabric inside. I got this fabric off he dollar rack at Walmart. It goes soooo perfectly with this bag. I really like this material.

Here is just a pic of the outside and inside both.

Here is a pic of my graph I drew for my flower. As you can see in my pic the flower is more rounded vs. when I knitted it. Now I know I need to make some of my points more defined to show them better after knitting.

Selected Fabrics

Well, here are the fabrics I got for my Grandma's quilt that my sister and I are making for her. These will be the main colors, plus any others I may throw in...like the blue for Mycah's hand.