WIP

  I was on fire yesterday. Quilt top is done, I pieced the back and quilted the beast. I went with straight-ish lines about an inch apart. Her

WIP

 What’s happening in the cave…   Her

June - Part 1

I feel like I’m in a bit of a roll and don’t want to jinx it!! 

June is the month when we get to out the first 1/2

This quilt is going to be something else!! I’ve realized I have 2 blue/brown chunks and kind of feel like I’m going to have to have a third closer to the bottom to keep thing balanced. I didn’t stick with colour palettes for May’s blocks and I may be regretting that at the moment. Guess what?!?! I’m not changing it! It will be fine. 


I hope to get this put together tonight and on to July this week!! 

Happy Monday

ME

Finishes

 Hello ladies,

I’m sharing pics of Ivy’s rag quilt and my rag quilt fresh from the laundromat. Mine was an idea quilt that was a little too skinny so I added some strips and ragged it. Disappointingly there was no random kookums to chat with. Also, a pic of Ivy making scrap bookmarks for herself. Her

May - Part 2

Here are the remaining Wedge Blocks!! 

I love all the bright colours!! I think I was suppose to use 2 colours! Oops!! 

You’ll have to turn your head sideways for this picture!! 

Happy Saturday! 

I’m off to watch Jack’s hockey game!! 

Me

Sweatshop at Aunty’s house

 A few pics from a six hour quilting marathon in the quilt cave. It was a great day. Her

Uncle Andy watched the ‘controlled auntie chaos’ from his Lego station.

May’s Block

Well … half of it anyways!! 

There are two parts to this months block. This is the smaller block! 

This is a paper pieced block that is super easy!! 

Happy creating

Me

April’s block - Evening Star

I finished up April’s block called Evening Star. I didn’t appliqué the way it was suggested in the pattern. I tried to but it didn’t look nice. The lining fabric kept showing through. Obviously, this is a skill I need to work on! Or maybe not!! 

Of course my 2 helpers had to be in the picture! 

Happy Sunday

ME

2023 to do list, maybe!

Hey ladies

My goal for this year is to not start anything new!! Here’s my list of quilts I want to finish this year: 

Two of this quilt

There might be more but I think this is a good start!! 

ME

Christmas 2023

Another Christmas has come and gone and so are all the projects!! This year I was asked to make t-shirt quilts, pillows and ornaments. 

Jessie, friend and high school PE teacher/basketball coach, has asked me to make her a few t-shirt quilts. She came to me with 2 large garbage bags (not the body bag size, the one smaller) and asked me to make a quilt for her sister. The bags had all of her nephews clothes that her sister had saved and gave to Jessie. I loved how this one turned out - so did Jessie and her sister!! 

These two quilts were made for young kids. Quinn, mom, saw a quilt I made for a grad gift and loved the idea. She went home, collected kids clothes (that are cooler than I wear now) and some of her’s and her husbands for each quilt. She included the kid’s receiving blankets (beautiful linen ones). I had such a hard time making myself cut them up but I did!! 

Here are the results: 

This is Lennox’s quilt. The back of this quilt was the challenge. I didn’t want the receiving blankets to stretch so I sewed them to a sheet and then to the quilt. It worked out pretty good. This quilt is heavy!! 

This is Frankie’s quilt!! I wanted it to have lots of colour!! Quinn told me what the kid’s favourite colours were so I was able to use them as I made the quilt tops. 

Kelly, a parent of the grade 5 student who I called Mr. P - he liked the Pittsburg Penguins) lost her mom last summer. She asked me to make 16 pillows, 16 ornaments and a quilt out of her mom’s clothes. The pillows and ornaments were going to all children and grandchildren. Kelly had a quilt made for herself.

The pillows were 20 x 20 and looked great, i I do say so myself!! The one stipulation was that each pillow needed a square of her mom’s purple coat and there was one of two saying on the pillow (Now we’re cookin’ or That’s nifty)! The other request was to put the Gramsicle on there pillows for Kelly’s 3 boys. I took the shirt down to Crown Advertising and had them put the saying on it 2 more times. It turned out perfect!! 

This is Kelly’s quilt. I have always wanted to try quilting as you go and a doubled sided quilt so I did both!! I loved both techniques. I think next time I will change the direction of the second side. Maybe do it vertically or on a diagonal. This quilt is like you are being wrapped up in a giant hug. The weight is perfect for those chilly days or those days when you are missing that special person. 





I wasn’t sure how to finish the edges. I tried a binding but it looked silly so I went with the ragged edge. The only problem is the batting was glued down so I couldn’t remove it before ragging the edges. 



Now time to move on to this years projects!! 

Happy New Year! 

ME