Some fun, quick and easy finished projects!

Here are some projects that I've been working on last week.  I finished this quilt  and I really like it.  I don't normally like square quilts but I like this one because of the beautiful flower fabric on it.  It really looks like Fall to me. 

Here's three other table runners I finished.  These are for Christmas this year. I'll keep one and give the other two to my sweet daughter-in-laws. 

 

These are the table runners I made at the guild workshop I went to on Saturday last weekend.  This pattern is referred to as a 10 minute or 15 minute table runner and is by Utah State University.  There is a link to the pattern on the bottom right of my blog in the tutorial section.  This is a fun and easy pattern to make and you can use holiday fabric. I plan on making a St. Patrick's Day runner also so I'll show you that one when it is done. 

 

This is the other item I made at the guild workshop. It is a handy basket made from fabric and was quick and easy to make.  I plan to make more of these also. 

 

 

That's all for now, more to come later.  Have a good week, happy stitching.

A finished quilt, leader blocks and summer blocks

Here's the latest quilt I quilted.  My MIL made this a while back and  I quilted it and bound it for her.  It is a gift for a friend of hers that's having a birthday in September....Happy Birthday to Barbara.

Thursday night was my small group's annual picnic.  I have no idea why it's called that, we never sit outside, go to a park or anything but it's always been called that!  Anyway, it is the time when new officers are named and our annual dues are paid and we vote on new rules or programs for the year.  We always make the current leaders blocks as a way to say Thank You for their leadership.  These two blocks were for the current leaders.  They are the same blocks but with different themes of fabric.  This one was with 30's fabric and Bev is a scrap lover so all the squares were different.  

Deanna likes Balis or Batiks and only 2 fabrics were called for.  Isn't it funny how the same block can look so different?

Along with making the leader blocks we always have a summer block to win all of the blocks.  This year was this vase or jar block...I made two so my name went in twice to win more blocks.  Unfortunately, I didn't win, ;( .....But, that's ok, I still have the pattern and can make a quilt if I so choose.  This was a fun and easy block to make.

By now, I guess if you've read me the last few times, you know I've been having trouble uploading my pictures to my blog.  I switched to Google Chrome and the problem is solved.  I can now upload and carry on.  I have to get off now and get busy sewing so have a good weekend and I hope you get lots of sewing time or family time or whatever time you want in....

Happy Stitching, 

Blocks, pillows, table runners, two little quilts and some tatting.

I have been working on my sewing room today trying to get it reorganized.  I finally gave up and decided to sew a little too.  I made some 4 patches and some half square triangles for a swap I'm doing and worked on some other blocks too. It is so hard to concentrate on my sewing when I feel so disorganized....Hopefully, this week I can get my room a little more like I want it....

I went and sewed with friends yesterday.  I got three blocks put together from my first swap on Thursday.  Here's what the blocks look like so far.

My friendship group is doing the Sunny Lanes quilt out of Pat Speth's book, Nickel Quilts.  I love this book and all of her books.  There are 20 of us in this exchange.  We are making 4 patches and half square triangles to exchange.  Then we put them together ourselves to make the blocks...We exchange 24 4 patches and 24 half square triangles each month and that is enough to make three blocks.  Lots of fun.

 

I also finished 5 heart pillows today. My friendship group always make heart pillows every February for breast cancer patients.  Thursday night we got together and finished  stuffing the pillows at our meeting. I brought them home to package them up, count them and get them ready to give to the hospital and the American Cancer society.  Here's how many we did. There are 130 pillows altogether! 

 

They are now packaged up and ready to go. 

 

I have a few other things to show too.  Some of my finishes that I haven't shown you yet....

 

I finished this table runner yesterday. This is a pattern from Jenny Doan's site, Missouri Star Quilts.  I used 5 inch charms to make this.  I bought the charm pack from Missouri Star too.  I used all but three of the charms.  This was quick and fun to do.  Jenny has a video on YouTube you can look at to make this easy table runner.

 

 

I made two of these table runners too. These are 60 degree table runners.  Lots of fun to do too. 

 

 

 

 

This was a quick and easy small quilt to make. I used 6 1/2" squares to make this.  It is a charity quilt. I just wanted to make something easy and quick without having to think about it. I just pulled some squares out of my stash  and started sewing them together into big 4 patches.

 

 

Here's a close-up of the quilting I did on it...

 

I made this cute Minnie Mouse quilt for a friend of mine that had her first baby.  Quick and easy to do from a panel.  She loved it.

 

 

 

Last but not least, here's some of my finished tatting.  I still have to put the closure on the bottom one to make into a necklace. 

I did these three crosses too.  The middle one is from a Mary Konoir book, the outer two are from Gina Butler's tatting pattern available online. 

 

 

 

Well guys, that's all I have for now. Our weather is getting bad here and I hope I get to stay home tomorrow. Maybe I'll get some more sewing time in.  Until next time, stay safe and warm and happy stitching.

A few Christmas quilts

I've been trying to finish some Christmas gifts and haven't had time to post anything. Here are two little quilts I've done for family members.  The first one is just a panel of Minnie Mouse. I didn't add to it or anything. I just quilted it like it was.  Very simple and easy for my youngest granddaughter. She loves Minnie Mouse and this will just be a little snuggle quilt for her. 

 

 

This next one is for her sweet mother.  She is a Marilyn Monroe big time fan. I found a panel earlier in September when I went on the Quilt Across Texas shop hop.  The panel was horizontal and I wanted it to hang vertical. So, I cut the panel apart and used some black and white fabric to sash it with and I am very pleased with the results.  I hope she likes it and if she doesn't my husband said we can keep it because he loves it just like it is....

 

Well, that's it for now.  Gotta get off and bind another quilt.  Christmas is almost here and I'm still a long way from finishing some projects.  I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and I'll try to post again soon. Merry Christmas to all and happy stitching.

I'm back and have a few things to show.

Well hello everyone. I haven't fallen off the face of the earth.  My computer died. I had to buy a new one and I have not had any fun learning it!  It is totally different and not user friendly and it has taken me forever to figure out what to do....But, hopefully, I can get back to blogging and share some things I've been busy with.  I have so much to say and show you and I can't do it all at once so I'll spread it out over the new couple of days...please bare with me...

I made this cute mitten block this week. It is for my small group's Christmas block raffle.  Each year at Christmas, we make blocks and some lucky person or persons  win the blocks for a complete quilt.  This will be a really cute quilt I think. 

 

I also finished this block for the church quilt.  Each year my small group make a quilt and give it to the church we meet at as a thank you for letting us meet there.  The church uses the quilt to raise funds for things they need. We are grateful to have a lovely place to meet and they enjoy the quilts too.

 

Here's a top I finished putting together Monday.   I bought this kit when I was on vacation in September. My husband and I went to Fredericksburg, Texas for a few days and then we went and visited 19 quilt shops for the Quilt Across Texas shop hop.  We had a good time and met some lovely people along the way. I'll tell you more about that later.  I got this kit from a shop in Savoy, Tx.  called the Savvy Quilter.  Great shop and great people.  I don't usually make square quilts but this one spoke to me when I was in the shop and I just had to get it...My husband loves it. I hope to get it quilted soon. The pattern is called Samsara and is a free pattern from Blank quilting.  

 

 

I finished this charity quilt this week too. It was just a real quick strip quilt and we are having a guest speaker come to our group on Thursday, it will be going to her then.  I'm doing another strip quilt today to give to her too so I need to get off and get busy.

 

 

I have a lot more to share and will try to post more in a few days.  Please come back and visit and I hope to catch up with all my blog buddies now that I'm back online.  Have a great day and happy stitching.

Easy Projects and some more finishes!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter holiday.  Mine was great. I got to see my kids and grandkids,  color and hunt for Easter eggs, eat and sew  too.  It was a very fun weekend.  We went to church on Saturday night and this allowed us more time on Sunday to be with the family.  This is the first time I've ever gone on a Saturday night for Easter services.  It was strange but good too. 
I went and sewed with friends on Friday night at the church and on Saturday at one of the girl's homes.  I had some quality sewing time this weekend. I didn't take a machine with me Friday night, I just took the cupcake quilt and Lighthouse quilt to sew down the bindings.  I only worked on one but got it almost finished before I left.  I did finish it up Saturday after church and the other one I finished up Sunday night after everyone went home from the Easter egg hunt...

Saturday at my small group, we worked on two things.  We worked on a project board to safely carry our projects with us and a machine skirt to hold our tools.  I don't have a picture of the project board but I will have one later  this week  and I will also share how to make your own.  It is very simple but will come in vey handy too.  Here's a picture of the tool machine skirt we made.  This one isn't mine. It was someone else's and I just took a picture. I will also share with you later about how to make one of these for yourself. These are easy to put together too. I finished mine but I'm going to make another for my MIL and I'll share the instructions at that time.

I was able to quilt 3 quilts over the long weekend.  I finished up a quilt for my MIL and two quilts for me.  I finished binding the last one last night while watching TV and listening to the rain.  It was storming so badly I did not want to turn on any of my machines....We needed the rain but my dogs sure didn't like the storm!  This is the butterfly quilt I finished for my MIL.   I didn't have anyone around to hold it up for me so I just laid it over the rocking chair....

 

Here's a close-up of some of the butterflies.  This took me quite a while to quilt. I just did a simple meander stitch on these blocks  and swirls on the sashings and borders...This was a fun quilt to work on and my MIL loves it.

I finished my little cupcake quilt. This was a block exchange last year with 11 other ladies.  We each did our own cupcake blocks and then traded them. These were easy to do as they are all ragged edge blocks.  Sorry, I can't think of the proper term but they were not traditional applique, we just sewed them down and didn't turn under the fabrics.  Easy, quick and fun, my three favorite words....

 

I won this kit several years ago at a quilt show and put it together  but I never quilted it. It's been hanging in the closet forever and I just decided it was time to make it not be a UFO.  Very simple quilting on this one.  I have wavy fabric on the back of the quilt (like water)  so I decided to do wavy line quilting on the blocks.  Another quick and easy quilt to finish. 

 

I finished my Christmas present quilt this weekend.  I'm so excited to display this for Christmas.  I will be putting it behind my Christmas tree but not until after this Thursday night.  Thursday night is my quilt group's Christmas party and we were asked to bring Christmas quilts to show and tell. This one's going to that first.  I made this earlier in the year but just finished quilting it last week and binding it Saturday night or should I say Sunday morning around 1:30...Anyway, here's my Christmas quilt and I named it Sew Many Presents.

 

 

 

Sunday afternoon, I put the binding on this little quilt. This one will go for community service. This was just a little panel and I just quilted it and bound it....I thought it was cute and some little person might like it.

I hope you had a good weekend and got some craft/sewing time in. I'm working on Yoyos for a small Christmas tree and I'll show you that when it's finished.  Til next time, happy sewing!

 

Some finishes for December

Hello everyone and happy holidays. Yes, my posts have been very sporadic this year and I apologize. We have had so many changes at home, it is hard to even think about blogging.  We have had a lot of power outages at the house due to weather, wind or whatever excuse the Electric people can think of. I've had to reset my computer, clocks and everything else so many times, I've just about quit doing it.  Yes, I have a lot of excuses for not blogging but  I still plan on it so please bear with me if you will.  I have been busy elsewhere and I have a lot of finishes to show you...

So, I'll try to catch up some now and a little later too.
I did finish binding my little quilt I showed you in my last post and it is so cute.  Here's the finished product.

 

I quilted this little quilt next. This is just a small wallhanging. I got the pattern out of an older but precious book from Little Quilts.   I love these books as they have so many quick and easy projects to do that give you satisfaction quickly....

 

Next on my list is a quilt I made all from scraps from another quilt. This pattern was called Le Jardin and it was very simple to do too. 

 

This one is a Yellow Brick Road quilt I made for my youngest grandson.  This one has animals on it and will fit his twin bed. I should have taken a picture of the back of the quilt but you would not have been able to see anything else after that as it would have put your eyes out...It is bright yellow animal print but I think he'll love it.

 

I made this one up from a panel. I'll give this one to my youngest granddaughter.

 

These pillows are for my oldest grandson's bedroom. He has animal prints and horns and skulls all over his room and I think he'll like these.

 

I made a large iron caddy for me so I can take my iron to retreats with me.

 

This is a small quilt I did for community service.  It turned out so sweet.

 

On Friday, last week, Dec 6th, we had ice here in Texas and it was so bad that I got to stay home and have a rest day.  My electricity was off for 22 hours but I had my little ott light and a great fireplace and I sat around the fireplace and knitted the two scarves in the middle and right.  I finished the scarf on the left side last night and it is a Christmas gift for a friend I'll be seeing tonight.  The silver scarf is a gift for one of my Doctors and the brown, furry one is a gift for my oldest granddaughter.  These are so fun and easy to make. I've just stared another one and I have about six more to do for gifts for the office.  I'll show you those when they are all done.

 

I made this sweet little man Sunday. He stands about 18" tall and was fun to make. I have been pulling stuff out of my stash and trying to finish things I've been wanting to make for years.  Why?  No reason, just needed easy things to do when my inspiration was lacking....Anyway, I do have some other finishes to show you but that's all I have time for right now. I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season and you are not too stressed out yet. 

 

So, happy holidays and I'll show you more later this week. til next time, happy sewing!