I’m sewing and loving every minute of it!

I’m on vacation this week and I’ve been in my sewing room 10 hours every day….It’s been wonderful! I finished my Vintage Tins quilt….and have started a new B.O.M. called: Prairie Rose with fabric designed by Jo Morton. I also dug out my Farmer’s Wife Pony Club Quilt blocks and have started in on those….I’m over the halfway point now, I think the reason I enjoy doing these blocks is that anything goes. I’m using all kinds of fabric scraps and just having a fun time deciding what to use for each block…some I’m not so happy with the colors choices once they’re done, but I’m not changing any of them. I think once they are in the quilt, it will all look good together. I think I’ll end up sashing it in black. I’m still crocheting in the evenings before I go to bed…I’ll be sending about 50 hats to my sister in Iowa so she can sell them  in her store.

I love my vintage tins quilt…instead of using all black, cream and white, I threw in some red and golds….I am very happy with how it turned out. That was a lot of embroidery too!

These are the first three blocks of my Prairie Rose BOM….I love the fabric…it reminds me a little of civil war fabrics and I’m in a  love relationship with civil war fabrics right  now! As soon as I walk in a fabric store they start calling my name.

These are the latest blocks I’ve made for my FWPC quilt….there will be 90 of them and they are 8 1/2” unfinished. I think I’ve gotten 50 of them made now….

Have a wonderful day! and Happy Quilting

Kris

Baby Blankets and more….

My goal of sewing a block a day for my Pony Club Quilt has gone out the window this past week. I’ve decided it was time to get a bunch of baby stuff done for my granddaughter who is due to arrive on August 23rd. We are having a shower for my daughter the end of June and I want to have some things done for her by then. So I’ve been making burp pads and receiving blankets…..

I’ve got over 20 burp pads made and about 13 flannel receiving blankets made….I give a lot of both of these away whenever I know someone whose had a baby, so I usually try to have some extra on hand. The next item on the agenda for my new grandbaby is another quilt, which Lesley picked out…It will be a chevron quilt.I’ve been embroidering in the evenings while I’m sitting in my comfortable chair….I’ve got two more of the large blocks and two more of the smaller blocks to embroider and then I’ll be ready to start on the piecing of my Vintage Tins quilt….

I’ve also been doing some stitching on my wool quilt, “Primitive Garden”….only one more border and it will be done! I just got the last one in the mail about a week ago….This border is the one on the left side…..Now only the top border to get done and it will be ready to send off to be quilted!

Happy Quilting! Kris

I won the battle of the curves!

I redid the curved block and I got the job done! It’s not perfect, but it will definitely work….I was pretty frustrated on Friday when the first one I attempted turned out awful, this new one I finished will look fine in the quilt. These are the latest in the FWPC blocks….I have about 58 left to make….some of the next ones coming up are pretty crazy….tons of little pieces in each 8 inch block.

I’ve been having a great time working on my Vintage Tin embroidery. My finger is pretty sore, once I get going on an embroidery project  I go at it until my finger bleeds. I eventually get a hard layer of skin on my needle pushing finger…..this really does help the situation.

This really won’t take me too long to do….these motorcycles will probably take the longest to do of all of the embroidery blocks. They are small compared to a couple of the other ones, but there is a lot of detail in these. When I start piecing the blocks that go in this quilt I’m going to be adding some very dark red fabric. The pattern is shown in black, cream and beiges. I think some splashes of red will be quite stunning!

It’s raining outside…I was going to mow the front yard before I went to work today, but that’s out of the question now. I’m wondering if the country roads will be muddy, I just might be sticking to the highways today.

Happy quilting!

Kris

A busy sewing week….

My vacation is almost over, but I’ve  gotten quite a bit done this week.  We went to St. Joe Missouri to visit our daughter and her husband, and while there Lesley and I went shopping. It’s funny how our tastes in fabric are definitely not the same. My niece who is also pregnant is not sticking with traditional ‘baby’ colors either. As long as I know what they want, it’s not so hard. I’ve got two baby throws done for my soon to be little granddaughter….nothing fancy but very soft and something that will be used a lot. Lots of Minkee in the them…..

I started working on my Farmer’s Wife Pony Club quilt about two weeks ago, and I’m up to 30 blocks done, so only 60 more to go! I’m really enjoying working on them since they are all different and I’m using up my stash. They finish at 8 1/2 inches per block. I will repeat the fact that unless you are very experienced with piecing you will have nothing but trouble with this book. Lots and lots of set in seams and absolutely no instructions…you just have to know what to do. I’m working on one block right now that I’m going to be throwing away and trying my hand at again. It’s got a bunch of curved seams and they are giving me fits….I usually don’t have any trouble with curved seams, but something is just not right. I’m a bit frustrated right now!

I got out my Vintage Tins pattern last night and started doing some embroidery, this one won’t take me too long to finish. The embroidery blocks are all pretty small and most of the blocks aren’t too intricate….(except for the motorcycle block!) This is the first one I grabbed and I almost finished it last night while watching T.V. with my husband. I love to have handwork laying around so I can just grab it and work on it whenever the mood strikes.

Well, it’s back to work on Monday and I’m going to miss having all of the extra time I had sewing this week. Oh well, I’ve got to earn money so I can buy more fabric….

Happy Quilting ! Kris

‘In The Beginning’ Baby Quilt

I just finished this baby quilt for my daughter Lesley, who is expecting her first child in August. When I saw this fabric it was love at first sight.  I loved the bright colors and the theme of the fabric which is Genesis and the things God made in the first 7 days. I bought the center panel and the cloth book panel and cut the book into 6 1/2” blocks, and then filled in with a 9 patch block and a star block. The red and yellow fabric were not companion prints, but filled in very nicely.

I bought the new Crab-Apple Hill Studio’s pattern, Vintage Tin….of course lots of embroidery which I love. Don’t know when I’ll get started on this, but I doubt it will take me too long to get it done.

This is the 10th BOM from Primitive Gathering’s Primitive Garden pattern. I just got the next one in the mail, so I guess I’m a bit behind in this BOM….but I should be caught up in another week or so. This flower pot design will only take a day or two to finish. Then only 4 more months, which are all 4 borders and I will be done. I’m sure I’ll be sending this to my friend and machine quilter Kelly Kreft in Colorado. There is no way I want to tackle this on my sewing machine. It makes me nervous even thinking about trying to free motion quilt this myself.

Hopefully it won’t be such a huge winter storm that they are predicting for Wednesday and Thursday. We need the moisture, I just don’t want to be driving during the blizzard.

Have a great week, and Happy Quilting!

Kris