‘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

long time….no post!

Well, the only excuse I have is that I’ve lost my camera….I’m thinking I may have left it at my mom’s house at Christmas. We didn’t have Christmas with her until the middle of January, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it must be in her basement….anyway I sure hope it is. I’m going there on Saturday, so we may be back to somewhat regular posts soon! I found our old camera and am using it this time. The pictures turned out okay for the most part.

This is a fun one I’ve just started. It’s 3” finished basket block. Another scrappy quilt, and I’m really starting to like the looks of them. Bonnie Hunter is inspiring me! I subscribe to her blog and I love her use of scraps. I’ve got about 20 of these made so far, and if I make a very large quilt with these, then I’ve only just begun…..The other picture below shows how small these really are with the shot of my hand in the picture.

I used my Christmas present (EQ7) to size these basket blocks the way I wanted them. I was very proud of myself that I actually figured it out!

These are more Bonnie Hunter inspired 3” finished spool blocks. I am using these as my leader/enders when I’m sewing. What fun! I’ve got almost 100 of these made so far. I’m wondering about putting them in the border for my mini basket quilt…What do you think?

I’ve been working on a flannel throw for my daughter Karmon. She’s been bugging me about making her one for quite some time, and I figured I’d better get started. I only have to add the two side borders and it will be ready to quilt. If you look at this picture too long you just might get vertigo! (due to using my old camera!) I’m using leftover flannel from my mom, so didn’t have to buy a thing to get this one done! My kind of quilt! I think you would call it: Wonky Squares…..They are 10 1/2” unfinished blocks. This is a very fast and easy quilt, it would be great for beginners, no matching seams or points to accidentally chop off.

The baby quilt for my next grandchild. I bought this fabric almost a year ago and loved it as soon as I saw it, I bought the center panel and then the cloth book to go with it and cut the book up and used them as blocks around the quilt. The book is basically the beginning of  Genesis and what God made in the first 7 days. I added the 9 patch and star blocks also.

The bottom half…Love the colors and how the animals are drawn.

I’m going to add another red border and then it will be completely ready to quilt. I’m using a companion print for the back and the yellow color for the binding. So even if I haven’t been faithfully blogging, I’ve been faithfully sewing…..

Have a great day!

Happy Quilting, Kris

Vacation equals a week of sewing!

I’ve been on vacation this past week, and didn’t do much but sew. I did take my mom to Kearney one day, but other than that I’ve been being pretty lazy.

We are having Christmas at my mom’s house this afternoon. Quite a few of my family members won’t be able to attend. It’s not the same when everyone isn’t with us. I’ll miss everyone who won’t be there.

I made three table runners for the auction we have….

Bear Claws that look like fall leaves made out of batiks….

Embroidered Snowmen red work…..my favorite!

Canning jars….this was fast and easy.

This is a project that I embroidered a couple of years ago and finally decided to finish it and give to my sister Susi for her birthday. She loves the color red and she appreciates anything I make for her….This is a pattern from CrabApple Hill and is a finished size of 30”x30”. I had all the fabric on hand for all of the above projects, so it was an inexpensive week of sewing. I did order some Weeks overdyed embroidery floss from Joanns. They had it on sale and I love that stuff! It’s very pretty and I love how it’s variegated, much prettier than plain embroidery floss. The main problem is that if it gets wet it will bleed. I had another one of the Winter pattern that’s above almost completely done when I spilled some water on it. The red bled so bad I had to throw the whole thing away. That was very hard to do since it was almost done. I will have to be extremely careful the next time.

And my 9th Primitive Garden Wool BOM is completed! Woo hoo! Only 5 months left to go.

Have a great week everyone! I don’t have to go back to work until Wednesday! I think I might be ready to go back by then. Having 11 days off in a row is very nice.

Happy Quilting!

Kris

Finally! More sewing time…..

Well, it’s after Christmas and things have settled down a bit. I’m still very busy at work, but not quite as many hours. I’ve been hiding in my sewing room whenever I get the chance and I didn’t realize how much I missed my sewing machines! I’ve gotten the idea of making some table runners and I’ve gotten carried away as usual.

This is the one I’m working on now, it’s a bear paw that kind of looks like fall leaves….I’m making it out of batiks, I’m anxious to get these sewn together and see how they will look.

And my jar quilt table runner….this was very fast and easy. It was lots of fun too….someday I’m making a larger quilt with jars. I have plenty of fabric for it too!

As you can see, I quilted the word ‘Ball’ on the jar….

The ‘Amish with a Twist’ BOM I’m doing…..it doesn’t look so good now, but just picture this with black fabric….looking better already isn’t it?And here is my Primitive Garden BOM….I love doing this hand work, This one is almost done, about another 45 minutes and I’ll be ready for the next one.

I’m on vacation next week and three days of the week after that…Oh Happy Day…I am so ready to just stay home and do whatever I feel like doing.

Happy Quilting everyone!

Kris

Winter Embroidery Table Runner

I haven’t gotten too much sewing/quilting done this past month. My job as a FedEx courier has kept me pretty busy this Christmas Season….very long days and not too much extra time to go to my sewing room and have some fun. I worked almost 14 hours Christmas Eve and got all of my packages delivered! HO HO HO….

This is a pattern from Bird Brain Designs entitled ‘Snow Happens! Table Runner #568, I made this for the 'auction’ we have at my mom’s Christmas Celebration that we are having on January 12th. We hold an ‘auction’ and have lots of fun, one of the family members volunteers to be the auctioneer, everyone brings ‘things’ that we auction off….My mom has a stack of play money for each person, and then will ask questions of everyone….Who is wearing glasses tonight? Who has gray hair? Who has shoe laces? Etc. Etc. I think you get the picture….Well anyone who answers yes, gets some more money. After about 10 questions the bidding begins. It’s lots of fun and you come home with some nice things. One of the items I’m bringing this year, is this Table runner. Even with all of the embroidery it didn’t take too long to complete.

I also was very happy to get EQ7 from my husband for Christmas….and it’s sitting on the new printer/faxer/scanner/copier that he bought for my desk also! What a great guy! He even cleaned off the desk for me….

I pray that you had a great Christmas this year….and remember that we celebrate Christmas because Jesus Christ was born on Christmas day! Happy birthday Jesus!

Happy quilting, Kris

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!

Only 12 more days of delivering packages before Christmas, It’s only Monday and I’m already anticipating this coming weekend. I get absolutely nothing done around the house these last few weeks, I come home lay on the couch for an hour and then go to bed…get up the next morning and do it all over again. I am so thankful for good weather and roads that aren’t icy or snow packed. Thank the Good Lord for that. Although it is rather cold this morning….-1 at about 7 a.m., though it’s supposed to reach a high of 41 today.

I’ve been doing a little hand sewing, but really not much…I’ve got two borders sewn on my grandmother’s flower garden quilt…..only two more to go and then the applique in the border…..Love it so far….

As you can see in the picture, things look a bit crowded in my living room, we are removing the popcorn ceiling from our family room and have moved all of the furniture upstairs to the living room…….so the living room is rather full now. We have started to prime the ceiling, so the worst is done. 

The only present under the tree is for me and I know what it is….EQ7 Electric Quilt 7, I’m anxious to try it out. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a computer program to help design quilts, blocks etc.etc…..Hopefully I won’t have too much trouble with it and it will be easy to use.

Well, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!

Happy Quilting ,

Kris

It’s the busy time of the year!

This time of year is very busy for me…especially with the job I have of delivering packages! I have to really work at not being in the ‘bah hum bug’ kind of mood for the month of December. I work long days in the cold and it’s very stressful. I’m sure I won’t be getting much done in the way of stitching for the next 30 days or so. I need to stop and think about the reason we celebrate Christmas….Jesus Christ was born!

We put the tree up last weekend because we were baby sitting our grandson and we thought that might be something to entertain him. I started putting the ornaments up and he got tired of that in a hurry, I haven’t done another thing to it since then. Hopefully this weekend I’ll get it done.

The many projects I’ve been working on these past few weeks……

This hexie round is made of 1/2” hexies….you can tell by the pins hanging this one up, that the hexies are very small.

I only have to sew on four more hexie flowers and I’ll be ready to start adding my borders and applique. It’s much larger than this pictures shows. These are 1” hexies.

 

And my 8th BOM in my Primitive Garden wool quilt….this one isn’t done yet, but doesn’t have too much further to go.

This is the new BOM I’m starting this month. It’s made using all solid fabrics…very simple blocks and some applique in the borders….not horribly expensive either. The first BOM came with a plastic tub to store everything in as you go….I thought this was a great idea…Way to go Regina and Jamie from ‘Stitch up a Storm’…..

My latest purchases…..I love Kim Diehl books….love the way she designs. Got everything for 25% off, so I couldn’t resist.

My friend Kelly Kreft from Colorado sent me these fruit fabrics…we are both collecting to make a ‘jar’ quilt….so we’ve been sharing our ‘fruit’ finds….Thanks Kelly! 

Have a wonderful Christmas Season…and please remember why we celebrate…

Happy quilting, Kris