Purple baby quilt for Carmen

Here's Carmen's quilt, quilted and bound and with a label too!  It took me longer to quilt it than I had planned...I had to fight with my machine.  I finally took it off the frame and quilted it with my Pfaff at the kitchen table.  I just can't seem to get the hang of the Brother machine.  I'm going to sit down with it and have a nice long chat with it.  I piddled around with it for about 3 hours and quilted a little bit that I had to take out... Now, I can make a diaper storage and I'm even going to make a mug rug for her. I'm not going to call it a mug rug though...I'm going to call it a bottle rug!  I had two flowers left over from the border and these will be just the thing to hold her bottles or for her Mama's tea cup or whatever!  Anyway, I'll be working on those this week.  The shower is this next Sunday so I'll be ready.  I love not having to rush.  I want to make some receiving blankets with a little bit of crochet around them before she makes her appearance. I want to make some sheets for her crib and the bumper pad too. I have another month before she's supposed to be here so I'm sure I'll get it done.  For now, here's her quilt:

Sewing on Sunday

This afternoon, I got to sew a little bit more.  I finished up three more turtles for community service....As it turns out, these are bigger than I first thought. I was just guestimating the size when I told you last. I measured these this afternoon and they are 28" long and 20" wide.

I put together last week's Civil War Block

and I put three more blocks together for one of my UFO's...

This is my purple quilt with some of the almost flower blocks around it.  I say almost because I ran out of white fabric and will have to buy some before I can finish these blocks.  I'll also be putting the leaves around it too.... this is on my design wall right now waiting for the white fabric to put the finishing touches onto the flower blocks.   

Another little quilt on the design wall is my Disappearing 9 patch.  I put this one together Friday night. I've decided it needs another row before a border so I have to make 4 more blocks.  I'll be doing those this week and finish this one up too.

  Anyway, that's all for now, more to come later.  Have a great week and happy sewing!