Tee shirt quilt finished!

I am so so happy with how this tee shirt quilt came out!! 

I decided to use the same fabric for the sashing for the binding. 

Tee shirt quilt - quilting

I got the tee shirt quilt on the long arm!  I chose to quilt it with a meander and grey thread.

I managed to get it quilted in one night!

Up next, trimming and binding!

tee shirt quilt 4

I am loving how this is coming together!! I have the two pieces almost all done so I can sew them together! Then I need to add strips to the top and sides, and then quilt it of course!

Tee shirt quilt 3

Things definitely changed from my last picture!  I have started adding some sashing to the blocks.  I also added a few smaller blocks to make it look a little more irregular.  I am definitely enjoying how it's coming together!

tee shirt quilt 2

I knew the customer wanted the blocks to not be in straight lines, so this is my first go of trying to arrange them so that they didn't look like they were just in lines.

Casting Cats Part 3

Tails are almost done.  I realized after I put the tail pieces up on my design wall, that the purple kitty body needs to be redone!  Oops!

Casting cats Part 2

I have all my cat heads and bodies sewn together!! Now to attach the tails!

Tee shirt quilt 1

I was hired to make a tee shirt quilt.  She wanted a "puzzle" type quilt.  Which was a first for me (but totally doable!)

I cut out and interfaced all the shirts in one night (I love my heat press!).

Then I spent another few nights trimming the shirts.  I started with them all being the same size width, and I left some of them longer than others.

This is my first picture of just laying the blocks out to try to figure out how I was going to put them together.

Casting Cats mini quilt

I signed up to do a swap on instagram.  It's like a white elephant gift exchange.  You don't know who you are making for, because people get to vote on which mini quilt they want!  I did a informal poll on instagram, and most people wanted cats.

So I went with this pattern, casting cats by Cate Tallman-Evans, of blank designs.  I honestly don't know where I found the pattern, it was a free PDF download.  I have had it saved for quite a while!

I am not following the pattern with just three colors of cats, I decided to do pairs of two with contrasting fabric.

November 16th - craft fair

I am excited to be a part of this craft & vendor fair this year, I was a part of it last year also!

Bowl cozies

I was busy tonight! I finished 7 microwave cozies!

And I used a new fabric I haven’t used before (the Harry Potter ones at top)

Sewing with the cats

I have been sewing in my living room lately.  I put my featherweight on a TV tray.

 

One of my biggest struggles in my sewing room is the cats! They want to cuddle with me ALL the time.  Which I am NOT complaining about, I love cuddling with them.  But I cannot get work done while they are cuddling with me, they generally try to sit in front of the machine so I cannot sew!

Well they LOVE it when I sew in the living room, there is room for both of them on the love seat with me.

I was working on microwave cozies.  I have a few new patterns and some others I have ran out of.  They aren't 100% done, so I don't have pictures of them.

November 9th - Craft fair

I am SO excited to be a part of this craft fair this year, I found out about it last year!  And made sure I applied this year!

craft fair set up

My mother in law and I had a craft fair last weekend, and here is our set up (we had two spaces)

I feel like we're getting to the point where we can get it set up well, fairly easy.

And I had electricity, so I was able to work on a few things!! I finished 5 microwave cozies while I was there! (it's also a good conversation starter)

Fall-o-veen

I have an event this weekend!

The pictures are both links to the facebook event.  I know I am going to busy this week making some 

Table runners

I don't know how it's been so long since I have posted! Life gets so busy that I don't have time to sew let alone post!

I have some halloween table runners that need some Christmas backs, so I put up the designs on my wall to see which one I liked better.

I kind of like them both, but lean towards the second because of the spacing with the white.

Falloween - first craft fair of the season

I am excited for my first craft fair this weekend! I have been preparing for craft fair season all year!  I did not make my goal of 10 microwave bowl cozies each month, but I did make quite a few.

I also used my cricut to out/make new price tents, that I hope will look good.

I also made a bunch of new pot holders!

Here's to a successful weekend (it's 3 days). I will share pictures once I get my set up done!

Fabric Coasters

I have a lot of 5" squares, so I have been trying to find things to do with them.  I thought I would make coasters!

These are sets of 4.  They're not 100% waterproof, but I like them, and they are so cute!

Spools Quilt

This is not all the blocks just some of my recent ones.  You can kind of see what I have been working on! a lot of pinks!!

This puts me at about 200 blocks!!

Earbud pouches

I went a little crazy cutting out earbud pouches. .

So I had to sew them all up!!

Here are some of the beauty and the beast ones I made.

These are the Mulan ones I made.

These are the doctor who ones.

And I am not sure if you can tell these are the larger size.

I just need to put keychain rings or clips in these for my craft fairs!

Shower gifts

My brother in law is getting married in October. And I decided to make a lot more of the gifts I give.

For the shower for his fiancée, I made her some potholders.  (the whisks one is just one for my craft fairs).

I hope she liked them!  I did not make the potholders.  I bought them!

I also made her this shirt.

College set

I had two students that I have known since they were freshman (and they are twins) that invited me to their graduation party.  I didn't want to show up empty handed!  I could have just gotten gift cards, but I wanted something unique! 

So I made ear bud zip pouches (from dogundermydesk) and a larger sized one also.

Then I made them each two microwave bowl cozies.

They both enjoyed them!  I wish I would have though to take a picture of the inside.  For the Zip pouches I used fabric that had Eiffel towers on them.

Tee-shirt Quilts

Tee-shirt Quilt

A friend lost her dad a few years ago.  Her mom gave me some tee shirts that has been her dads.  And I made them into a quilt.

Here are some pictures of the quilting I did

I also pieced the back (but not from my stash)

I am linking up to Midweek makers

I am linking up with Monday making

Border

This is what I got done at the Thursday group I have joined at the library. 

Here is a sampling of the border on my design wall.  I don't normally like to do borders, because when I get a quilt top done, I just want to finish it! But the quilt this is going on, needed to be a little bit bigger.

I have linked up with my Quilt infatuation

I am linking up with design wall Monday

I am linking up with Oh Scrap!

Scrappy trips

 I finished my two scrappy trips quilts in April.  I needed to use up two bobbins that had purple thread on them (I also need to buy more bobbins!)  So these were perfect.  I used up whatever I had at home to make the back.

The quilting actually didn't take long.  I think it's because I usually make bigger quilts.  But I got this one quilted in under and hour.  (That does not include loading it)

I did wavy lines going the same direction as each block.  Something different than a meander!

Baby Blue quilt

Here is the finished Baby blue quilt.  I am very happy with it!

Here is the little boy it was for and his family!