Some Christmas pictures....

I haven't been able to blog lately.  I can't blog at work anymore and I have been too busy at night to blog.

Here are my beautiful grandchildren.....We had a great Christmas. I love spending time with my kids and grandkids during the holiday season.   They make it so special for me.

Here's some knitted scarves I made and gave away at Christmas.

My oldest granddaughter and my sweet MIL....

I have done very little sewing this month.  When I was in the mood, I didn't have the time and when I had the time, I  wasn't in the mood.  Hopefully, the new year will bring some much needed rest and I'll want to get busy too. 

I was going to have some drawings this month and just haven't gotten it together. I will celebrate the new year and have some giveaways in January.  Please bear with me while I get my momentum back!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas or holiday season and that you will have a prosperous, healthy and happy new year!

Until next time, happy sewing!

Steph's Graduation Quilt and Pillowcases

Ok, I couldn't stand it. I could not give her the quilt without making pillowcases to go with it...I couldn't find the background fabric to match but I went into my stash and found some that would do...I even pulled the fabric for the band of the pillowcase out of my stash. I didn't buy anything extra for this project. Here's the pic of the pillowcases I made. There is a pillowcase pattern in my tutorials and the pictures are pretty good on this site. I deviate from the pattern in that I do french seams. I'll explain that at another time. This is an easy and quick pillowcase pattern. I make pillowcases with every quilt I give away, even baby quilts. I make baby pillowcases to go with the baby quilts, regular sized pillowcases with all other quilts except Queen Size and King Size quilts, I make King Size pillowcases to go with them. You can make a pillowcase in about 30 minutes. Very quick and easy...Ok, I'll be quiet, til next time....

Steph's Graduation Quilt

Here's Stephanie's Graduation quilt, quilted, bound and with a label. Steph just moved into her new apartment today and I'm going over there tomorrow to give her her quilt....See, I waited just long enough so she would not use it to wrap her furniture in for moving! Anyway, here's a pic and I hope she likes it. I was going to make pillowcases to match but not enough fabric and the two quilt shops I went to were sold out of the fabric too. I saw a label by another blogger and used it as a guide for my label. I hope the Gypsy quilter doesn't mind me doing this but I really liked her idea of care instructions as well as advice...til next time.

Stephanie's Graduation Quilt

Not a great picture but here is Stephanie's Graduation Quilt. Just finished putting the borders on it and now it is off to the quilter's. Judy is doing a rush job for me so I can have it this next week to put the binding on. Steph graduates next Saturday. Nothing like waiting til the last minute, huh? I'll put the finished picture on when I give it to her...

I have to say thank you to Saska for putting it on her blog. I saw this and just knew it was the right pattern for Steph...thank you so much Saska for your help on this pattern. Saska's blog is this one and she has some great ideas: http://oklacookiemaker.blogspot.com/2008/04/many-many-hearts.html

Heart Quilt for Steph-no more a surprise!

The surprise is blown but I'm glad....I've been working on a graduation gift for Stephanie and it's almost finished. I made alot more blocks than I needed and will be making a small quilt with the blocks I didn't use in her quilt. She saw the blocks tonight and said they were great. She asked me who it was for and I told her no one in particular. She looked at me and knew I wasn't telling her the truth....So.....I let her pick out the blocks she really wanted in the quilt and she laid out the quilt like she wanted. She is now so excited. I was disappointed that she saw them and figured out it was going to be for her but....I'm glad too because she is excited about seeing it go together. She asked me when I had time to make all the blocks and was surprised there were so many cute blocks. I've gotten 6 of the 8 rows put together tonight and have used all the fabric from stash!!! I will have to buy fabric (a hot pink or purple) for the border but that's ok. I used alot of fabric in this and the leftovers I cut up in strips for future scrap quilts. I felt really good about using my fabric. Every block is different and I made 48 blocks for this quilt and I have 23 leftover blocks for another quilt! I got started and couldn't stop!

A friend of mine is a LA quilter and she is waiting for me to bring it to her to quilt it. Hopefully, I can have it together by Friday night. (I have a meeting at the quilt store tomorrow night and won't be able to sew). Shelly, the shop owner wants me to make some more samples for the shop. These are new things she found at Spring market. I have to go check out what she got tomorrow. Oh boy, new toys! Anyway, I'm getting off the subject here, I will take pictures as soon as the top is done and post. Almost there!