A new bed for Roxie

We decided that our puppy Roxie needed a new bed.  I pieced and quilted the top, and just added a plain back.  She loves it which makes me so happy.  She no longer is sleeping in the recliner in our room, she has slept on her new bed since I finished it.  I am very happy that she likes it so much.  I just ended up stuffing it with old bed pillows which I think adds to the "comfiness" of it.

Birthday Bag

I can finally show you the bag that I made for my mom for her birthday.  I have a pattern that I based it on.  In the end though, I changed a lot of it.  I am very happy with how it turned out.  The bottom two pictures are the most accurate when it comes to color.  I used 6 charms from a Moda line for the stripe in the middle, a solid brown for the bag, and a brown and white polka dot for the inside.  I am very happy with how it turned out and my mom really loves it too.

Nordic Bo Peep and Long Lost Sheep Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

Are these not spectacular!  I am so in love!

Nordic Bo Peep and Long Lost Sheep Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

Helicopter Quilt

I have been working on this quilt for a couple of weeks now.  I made it for Dustin's boss's new baby.  We went and dropped it off today and he loved it.  I was so excited how it turned out.  I added up my hours spent on it and it was close to 25 hours.  Wow, lots of love went into this quilt.

 I love how the stripes that I used as the binding borders the quilt.  I think it adds just the right amount of "punch" to it.

The secret has been revealed

My Grandmother asked me to make a purse for her sister, Marilyn's, birthday.  I have had it finished for quite a while now, but could not post it for fear of her seeing it.  Her birthday was this last week so she has finally received it and I can finally post about it.  I am really happy with how it turned out.  It was quite easy, I will definitely make more in the future.

Lots of new fabric

We have been out of town for a few weeks on a much needed vacation.  While gone I got to visit 3 different quilt stores and came home with 3 huge bags of new fabric!  How great!

These are new fabrics for a quilt that my husband picked out.  He picked out the pattern and fabric.  (with a bit of help from me and his mom.)  He has been wanting me to make him a quilt, but he wanted to wait until he found the "perfect" pattern.  Well he found it!  Now I just have to find the time to make it. 

The rest of these are just fabrics that I fell in love with and NEEDED to add to my stash.  The list of projects continues!

A bunch at once

Since this is a new blog for just me and my crafting (my other is for my Daughter) I have not put on all of my projects quite yet, but am slowly working on it.  These are preliminary pictures of a lot of my stuff.  I have all of the quilts shown now finished but have not taken "finished" pictures of them yet.  I will plan to enlist my husband to help me with that soon.  But for the time being, these will have to do.

This is the first quilt that I completed.  It is on it's way to be donated to the NICU in our local hospital.  When my daughter was born she was in the NICU for 5 days and received a quilt while she was there.  That was such a glimmer of happiness during the hard days that we encountered.   I wanted to give that to other moms so I asked my mother in law for help.  Being a quilter for last 30 plus years I knew she was the one to turn to.  This is the reason I decided to start quilting.

The first quilt that I made for myself.

Another quilt for the hospital.  Try to ignore the spot in the middle.  It was wet from me trying to get a chocolate hand print, graciously put on by my daughter, off of it.

This was the first bag that I made.  I am happy with how it turned out, and now we use it as a swimming bag for swimming lessons each week.

This quilt was made for my daughter for her 1st birthday.  It screams "little Girl" and that is exactly what I was hoping for!

Yet another quilt for the hospital.