Blogger's Quilt Festival 2012

An old friend, a part of the family, a cherished piece of the whole. That is what this quilt has become in my family. Made with no batting*, pieced with love, this quilt was made awhile ago and never properly introduced. * Earlier I wrote that this quilt had no batting but was rereading an original post and realized it does actually have a thin layer of batting. Whoops.

And so....

I introduce this quilt, unnamed, but so very loved. So many purposes, so many roles. 

And so many favorite fabrics in there. Underwater Sisters, Amy Butler prints, an old feedsack, other Heather Ross prints. (Heather if you are reading please reprint our beloved Mendocino...please. I beg of you.) 

This quilt is monstrous in size. I compensated by justifying no batting (its a coverlet) and shoved this baby in my machine with force, choice words, rolled, smashed, sweat beading on my forehead...for days.

This is what a quilt becomes, a place for chubby, silky baby thighs to rest, a comfortable place for tears to soak in, the passing tides of time, graduations, moving homes, births.

A part of the family.

HST Eye Candy

With an overcast sky, the time was right to hop on out and get some good photos of this girl while there was a chance (In a fit of excitment I posted some, may I confess, horrible photos of this quilt in blaring sunlight in a previous post, I know, I know...)

Anyhoo...Linking up to the Half Square Triangle Quilt Fest over at Canoe Ridge Creations, well because I slaved n slaved over all these HSTs and anyone who has done a HST quilt this size, and trims all their squares down, can feel my pain. Heck I know any quilter can ;)

Its totally embarassing that I am sharing this quilt (again) with the binding hanging off, threads a hanging, like its approaching February and the tree is still up...gulp...

but there is no way to salvage any hand sewing time lately, and I am not machine binding it...I'm just not that good at it...and I am NoT practicing on this beauty:) 

*I might or might not have gone a little crazy saturating this one on pixlr* but doesn't it just shine here?:)...

Photoshop got wiped out of my computer when I upgraded my OS system..grrr...anyways I found a free program like it, pixlr and its awesome!! 

And did I tell you that Jeni from In Color Order picked a photo of this quilt (in its design wall stage) as a favorite? Yeah that was fun to see!

Have fun checkin out all the other quilts in the festival and big thanks to Canoe Ridge Creations for hosting:).

Thanks y'all for stoppin by. Have a great week!

(boo it wouldn't let me put the Festival of Half Square Triangles button on this post...oh well check it out in the sidebar;)

W.I.P. Baby and a finish

I finally got this quilt top all nice and pieced and just have to baste now which I keep putting off because that would mean cleaning my kitchen floor:)

It has a bunch of my current favorite fabrics in there and I love quilts with black.

And then I finally attacked my Warm/Cool quilt with binding. I just have to hand sew it down and that'll be ready to go. *shhh* but it has gotten a fair amount of use around here even unfinished.;)

It was a difficult decision to go with a cool binding instead of warm. But the flannel backing is in the pink family so it needed to be cooled down.

With sick kiddos this week I have hardly been able to look at my machine but I did manage to sneak some sessions in to make the hubster a birthday pillow. "You've never made me anything." he said awhile back. Hmmm I guess if you don't count the lap quilts and pillows we curl up with when we watch movies or the huge quilt on our bed. Anyways any excuse to get quilting!

Oh Yeah

I am entering this bundle for a contest over at I'm a Ginger Monkey. We are picking twelve fabrics as if we were chief bundle maker over at Pink Castle Fabrics (wouldn't that be a dream job?:)

Here is my entry!

Linking up to the contest

xo

Also a big ThAnK YoU to Miss Beau Jangles for awarding me the awesome...Liebster Award!!

It is an honor *as I bow and curtsy*..Thanks so much!
UPDATED*
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1) Sew. Quilt.Explore.
2)Practically Pippy
3)This Crafty Fox
4) Kelsey Sews
5)Ramblings from A Novice Quilter

Quilty Projects

I made this cute little pillow for the sewing studio. It's comfy and fun to have around. I am in love with the retro looking yellow flower print..I forget what line its from. And the sleeping princess under hanging flowers in the center makes me smile. It is hard to see but those are little mini-Courthouse Steps blocks flagging the center.

I backed it with one of my all time fave fabric lines.

 Steadily makin progress on this quilt project...in fact the whole top is done, just haven't been able to nail down a photo. Love the text prints in it and the very graphic quality the black colors in it lend.

More to come on that and a nice mail delivery for some eye candy...

As always, thanks for stopping in!

Have a glorious day;)

Linking up at Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it Up Friday:)

Pretty lil' Needlebook

I do alot of handwork such as binding quilts and pillows, handquilting quilts and needleturn applique on a long term Hawaiian quilt I am working on. With kids in the house it was starting to get tricky leaving my little sewing station on random places around the house so I thought I would whip up a little needle book for my handsewing notions. I found this adorable tutorial from lots of pink here.

It was fun to make and brings joy to something that makes me so happy...workin away, my thimble and I:)

I added a little crewel embroidery just for fun.

This makes me happy!

Happy Sewing and thanks for stoppin by!

WIP Wednesday

My first WIP Wednesday! Yeah!

My goal for 2012 is a quilt a month. Its a somewhat loose goal, like I won't stress too hard about it but am using it to keep productive. So far I've gotten up around 3 am and 6 am on a few days *uh I mean nights* to work on this next beauty.

So far just a bunch of HSTs on the table and ten minutes here and ten minutes there (two kids, if ya catch my drift;) and middle of the night and early mornin marathons. Just me and Downton Abbey. Happiness~*

                                                 
Thanks for stoppin in!