I finally sat down and did some editing, and marked down some of my stash 🙂 I need to make more room , or get more storage~~ so I decided to have a sale! 🙂
I hope everyone is well and your finding sunshine out there! I’ve been busy working on my Snails Trail Quilt, its coming along great! It so super happy and colorful in multi colored. Just loving it!
Super Fun Quilt coming up! Very sharp pattern, and some super fun bright fun colors!
I’m starting with one color at a time, and going through the shades. In the end we will mix them all up for a really fun quilt! These colors are better than the original quilt I started with.
It was so much fun for me! Once I started I couldn’t put it down! Once I started I just wanted to keep going and now my lawn is so long I dont know how Im going to mow it! Quilting does that to me, sometimes I get lost in the fun. and pretend I dont have others things I SHOULD be doing. haha.
This Fabric Panel It is a Digital Print and is whole cloth. ( not patchwork)
They are very sharp with the custom quilting. I have done these prints before but never in this size. They come in 45 inch, 60 inch, and now this one was 108. Super sweet. After the quilting and washing it measures at 96 X 100.
By the time I finished, I was running out of different ideas for the petals. There are a LOT of petals.
I quilted each flower petal differently, used several thread colors throughtout, and just had a blast doing this one 🙂
Its going to make someone’s room very happy and bright looking.
So I was lucky to have found this digital Floral panel BEFORE they sold out. ha! This project is a special one.
I have done many of these panels by Kauffman, but it has mostly been the 44 inch or the 60 inch ones. This one is 108 inches!
and is quite different because of the scale of the petals. These are so much bigger its allowing me to do a variety of motifs, on each one~ . So I decided I would take time and smell the roses with this one. I have no plan other than to do each petal different 🙂
Going to be a beauty to see it finished. I may update on this one before its finished, as its taking me longer to decide the quilting as I go. It will be up for sale soon, and……. I did get 1 more just like it. sooo I might take a custom order for it, but I only have the one. ( for now) I will keep looking back as the have another colorway of dark purples and blues. but I haven’t gotten one yet. They sell out fast/
So Im enjoying quilting this one graffiti style and just have fun 🙂 We all need more fun, and less doom… LOL anyhoo….
I might be here a while… ha!
But I also have 2 new patterns going, Doubly Charmed, and Ripples.
and 1 new almost finished Irish Chain. ( listed soon this week)
Doubly Charmed: in multi colors/ haven’t decided what the borders will be yet, or how big it will end up>< but the pattern is so sweet, and would look great in other color variations. I will try to get a listing started for this one soon, so it can be custom ordered also.
Irish Chain Finishing soon~ Also I have this one ready to be bound on the edge, and washed, which means …it will (should be) be up listed this week. It measures Before washing: 102 X 106. So it will be King size. but i wont know the actual size until after I wash it
I have been wanting to try a differnt motif, so there would be more than one options on this beautiful, simple, classic design. I finally made it happen. Sooo many quilts i want to do, sooo little time! 🙂 I will update the listing with these new photos.
2 ~ And then this one going on this week is a Red White and Blue Patriotic one~~ that is my first time doing this pattern~ ”
Ripples” Another Deb tucker pattern. very sharp patterns.
Super fun, and lots of open space for some creative quilting. This one still has a ways to go this is just the center . It will be getting a lot more white and 4 more stars on each corner. and isn’t actually bright white, I like my USA quilts almost always in antique white so it has a more vintage look. But could be ordered bright white. and it would be nice in other color ways. I will soon have it listed on made to order when I have more completed pictures.
So as usual, I have several things going, everything always gets finished, but not always in the order I started.
and focusing on just one at a time isn’t how I do it. ha! Keeps me from getting bored. Try to keep up! LOL
Sooo.. next couple of weeks some of these will be listed and finished.
Whew what a interesting New Year! I’m sure we all have our stories of how the crazy has been crazy!
I have had lots of changes, including basically shutting down my main business. As a hairstylist for over 30 years, I had to
make the decision to shut it down. It just simply isn’t worth being open any longer. With people afraid to come in, Stopping the services they were having, and now with the added expenses of trying to keep a brick and mortar open, just became too much expenses, and not enough business left/ I really tried, and with my quilting I was able to stay open longer than some other stylists, but It didnt make sense to keep paying all the bills and watch it just keep declining. Sooooooooooooo onward and upward!
So sadly That’s it~ and now I’m home working on quilts. Which is something I just love doing! I hope I can keep at it. I have lots of customers out there, and I always seem to keep busy. So here’s to new beginnings, even when it means there has been a new ending at the same time.
Anyhoo~~~~~~~~~ This beauty is finished and ready to ship ~ I call it Summer in The Park
It measures 92 X 110 and is super fun and soft quilt.
I also was able to get another cute Irish Chain quilt finished. This one would look great in a kids room.
It has a poly Batting and has great lofty feel. I did a graffiti style quilting on it. Paisleys, pebbles, spirals, all in a random all over design. Super cute!
The last couple of weeks, I decide to go through some of my unfinished projects,
and see how many I could get done in time for Christmas. Some of them are cute throw sizes
that are trial runs on patetrns I have offered, some are some I just used all scraps.
I was suprised how many odd projects I had let stack up.
I was able to finish up these latest ones, and a few more will be done in the next couple of weeks.
Here’s the links o the newest listings in my store. (Click on the photos to take you to the listings.)
I hope everyone is having a great Holiday, I have some extra time off from the salon this year for the holidays, so I look forward to getting several great quilts finished up soon.
This is turning out to be a fun pattern. Once you earn how and where to place the colors.
that’s a skill that is sometimes learned as you go. ( after I made a bunch of units with the white not in the right spot) ha! But Im going with more of a vintage feel to this one. I’ve always loved quilts that look like they have had a history.
I had added a dark tan color but then decided it was too dark, so I’m transferring it out. That’s the fun of making quilts, you can decide things as you go sometimes based on what you see.
I will be offering this on a made to order soon, If your interested in one made for you, feel free to send me a message/comment.
So I struggle with all the extra scraps and cuts when making so many quilts.
Its a serious job to keep up on them! Its easier to use them if you can, when time allows~~ but there are too many, eventually you have to do something with them!
I like making the table runners, but I don’t have enough tables! LOL
So my new project is to make these very simple ( no pockets or zippers) quilted bags.
I find it relaxing to do simple projects~~~ and who doesn’t need another bag!
anyway~~~ in between orders I try to make good use of my time, these have been fun to play around with 🙂
I plan on taking them into my Salon for great Christmas gifts!
Back to the sewing room!
Also coming up soon a Multi color version of my Irish Chain quilt
Almost finished up with this King size Migrating Geese quilt.
I’m finishing up the border quilting this week 🙂 In between yard work ~~which I have given up on, the lawn mower wont start~ and the leaves are turning and falling now~~ yay mowing the lawn is done! ha! well until the snow flys! Least I know the snow shovel works.. 🙂
I finally got this collections of blocks put together as a whole. The story behind this one is 3 years long. I thought it would be a good idea to teach myself this star block by making 1 in every size. Well when I was done I wasn’t sure how to get them to all fit together, so I sorta lost steam, and set it aside. for 3 years. 🙂 Whos idea was it to make one in every size?? LOL
Its been a very busy few weeks! Getting quilts to the finish line is always such a good feeling.
The hexigon quilt measures 90 X 100 which makes it a nice queen
The Flower Quit is one of my favorites. They recently came in a larger size, and Ive been working on how to make them a bed size. I have another one in the works right now, done in pastels it should be coming up soon!
These Flower Quilt Panels are one of my favorites. Made by Robert Kauffman, and it is a digital print. Beautiful!
They recently came in a larger size, and I’ve been working on how to make them an actual bed size. Which I had many requests to do. I have another one in the works right now, done in pastels it should be coming up soon!
Here’s a couple peeks at the pastel one coming up soon: its all pinned and ready for the actual quilting :)))) My favorite part! I hope all is well in your neck of the woods, and I will be back soon! Sew ya later!
So this week, I have finished this beauty. Hexagons with greens and reds~
This pattern comes together nice at the end. So many when they first see the blocks thinks is ” busy” or “wild”
but one of the things I love about quilting is to see and know the beauty before the finishing.
This is my 2nd time making this one, and it is just as beautiful as the first. The echo quilting I have on this one makes it a very unique textile, and will be around for many years into the future.
