Dog Quilt quilting

Here is the final quilt all laid out! Minnie is inspecting it to make sure I have it all smoothed out, so there weren't any wrinkles!

(I made this one before my long arm, which is why I laid it out to pin it)

Dog Quilt - design wall

I am sure I sound like a broken record when I talk about my design wall.  But I just love it so much!  We have lived in our house almost 3 years now, and I still love my design wall (and don't know how I lived without it!

This quilt is all dog fabric.  It's for my birthday swap I did (three years ago! I know!) I was having a hard time trying to decide what I was going to make, and then I thought, she has dogs, why not use some of this dog fabric I have, and make her a quilt!

I used a variety of fabrics, so it was hard to make a set design, but I tried to space out the lights and the darks.

I am linked up at design wall Monday

I am linked up to Monday making 

Sewing weekend

My best friend & I have known each other since we were 4.  In high school we both took sewing, and were bit by the bug.  In high school we used to get together at one of our houses and have sewing parties.  Even in college we would get together and sew.  

It's been a little more difficult since we've "grown up" and moved apart.  But we have still made time to sew together.  We visit her at Thanksgiving, and quite a bit of that weekend usually involves sewing.

Well that weekend wasn't enough for us.  So I started going to visit her during my fall break.  I got a lot done this year!

This was something I started to use up some of my 2.5" squares.  I saw a quilt like this on facebook and ran with it.  It went together fairly easy. The inside blocks were 4.5"x 8.5".

We stayed in a hotel room, which was nice for laying things out.  Here is her Allitare quilt by Bonnie Hunter.  And my scrappy rail fence.

I also started this quilt.  I got the heart all pieced, and now I need to finish the other rows.

She finished this Christmas top.  I love how it looks and how quickly it went together!

I also made some microwave bowls for an upcoming craft fair.  They sold pretty well at the first craft fair I had them at.  The black one is the "standard" size I have been making.  The white one below it was actually an accident.  I cut the batting too big, so I just used a larger piece of fabric, and voila! a bigger size, which is something people asked for.

Round Robin 2017

Some of the ladies I did the round robin with last year decided we would do it again this year, there were only 3 of us, but it was fun. 

I added the flying geese to this one to kind of look like trees to match the camping fabric.

I wanted a way to pull out the colors that were in her bear claw block

And here is what I received back! I don't know what I am going to do next to add to it.

Sewing weekend

It's my fall break, and last year I came to Texas & visited my friend Christine (that I visit for thanksgiving).  She's my favorite person to quilt with!

I made some microwave bowls.

Christine is working on a Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt.  I am working on some quilt tops.  I have finished this one in the picture, and almost a second & third.

Craft night aka finished my bowtie top

I found a scrapbook store near us that does crafting nights.  So I signed up!!!

 

I love my little featherweight with the table my MIL got me.

Here is the top!!

 

Laid out.

 

Here is a close up of some blocks.

I am so excited to have this top done! Although now I think maybe I need to make it a little bigger.  I was kind of thinking about putting it on my bed.  If you click here you can see all my bowtie posts.  I cannot believe how long it's been since I have started it! It was a GREAT and easy leader/ender project.

Bowties

I decided in December 2012 I wanted to make a bow tie quilt.  I wanted to use it as my leader and enders.  And I have been.  I used other things too.  But I liked making this one because I was able to cut up a variety of fabrics, from projects I was working on to use in it.

Here is a link with all my bow tie progress posts. I have currently sewn all the rows together, next shall be putting it together and quilting it.  This quilt is for ME! And I don't have to share it if I don't want to!

Joy Banner

I had found a pattern with the little stars a long time ago.  It's been at least since 2014. It was supposed to have the words JOY with it, and I think stars all around it.  I couldn't find the pattern, but have recently started something with the moda alphabet blocks

I can make it with one row of stars

or two.  I haven't finished it yet.  So I don't know which one I will choose.  

Scraptacular & some kitties

Minnie loved helping me with the scraptacular quilt

Here is the binding I used on scraptacular, I figured the quilt was scrappy the binding was going to be too!

And these two loved helping me sew!