Striped Diamonds

See, I had a LOT of fun with that fabric.

Strip heaven.

I made paper pieced diamond strip blocks out of them.

And I used the same fabric for the backing as the giraffe applique quilt. 

Look at all those happy strips. :)

It is also in the shop.

Giraffe Love

My brain is stuck in baby mode. 

It doesn't matter if it's a boy quilt or a girl quilt... it just ends up being a baby quilt in my head. 

I'll have to force myself out of this streak sooner or later... 

My mom has an obsession with giraffes and buys all sorts of giraffe baby stuff for my kiddos so I can't wait to show her this one!

Cute little modern stylized giraffes.

Love.

The fabric is from a fat quarter bundle sent to me by Joyce at Jellen's house of fabric for some sewing fun. 

And believe me, I've had fun with it!

Applique up close.

Hanging out.

Ready for snuggling!

For the backing and borders I went with an "In the Beginning" dots print. 

They remind me of googly eyes. 

In the shop.

Googly Eyes

Rifling through the old pictures on my hard drive I realized I never even posted this HUGE finish. 

It was right before Christmas last year so I suppose it was just forgotten in the chaos?

A very nice and wonderful person, I mean REALLY nice, contacted me to make this as a custom order right after I saw this amazing circle piecing method.

It eliminated the raw edge applique problem with heavily used quilts. 

She provided all of the print fabrics and pattern and it looked sooo cute that I really wanted to make this for her.

400+ hours later (these are EXTREMELY time intensive and I'm not entirely sure that I'm exaggerating here, HAHA!) there was a twin sized quilt to show for it!

Lots of Moda, Timeless Treasures, and Michael Miller cuteness in there.

This is probably my favorite boy quilt that I've ever made. 

Seriously, she picked AWESOME fabrics.

Striped binding. :)

63 blocks later... I do love this quilt and I still think it was worth it to have made it.

She also requested pillowcases. 

I can't imagine how cute her little man's bed must be with all of these adorable fabrics.

Looking at these makes me want to make another one for my ball-obsessed little guy. 

It'll be a while before he gets out of the crib.

Maybe I should rephrase that... I'm sure he'll be able to climb out very soon, but I plan on putting a "lid" on the crib when he does and waiting to get him a real bed.

hehehe!

The Baby Wash

I love having conversations with little people. 

On Saturday my little who went with me to a baby shower. 

She asked me as we were leaving, "Mommy, why can't Kayson and Daddy go to the baby wash too?"

Anyway, I made another scrappy baby quilt for it. This time squares.

Fabric was random left overs of who knows what that all boiled down to a BOY quilt.

Baby shower was Saturday. 

Made it Friday morning.

Fast.

In one sitting.

Only stopping to hand drinks and food to kids.

She really liked it too which makes me happy :D.

It's funny to step out of the quilting world and see what people think of quilts. 

Things like, "Wow, this must have taken so much time." and "Did you sew this on a regular sewing machine?" and "I could never let a baby spit-up on it." 

Really? 

And here I was thinking, "Wow, that was fast and easy. I should make more of these just to be ready for future showers. And it's GREAT for baby spit-up since stains won't show easily on all that color." 

HAHAHA! 

Some little stuff

I've been entertaining myself with lots of little projects lately in addition to the larger stuff I'm working on.

The Heather Bailey pattern for pincushion/stuffed animals starting with the elephants:

Some old scraps elephants for a two year old birthday partygift.

Michael Miller Elephants for my little who.

I've got some more of these in the works.

I really really was terrible at making softies the first few times I tried.

So I quit trying.

Who knew that a pattern could help so much.

HAHAHAHA!

I rarely sew with patterns, but I learned my lesson on these...

Nostalgia hot pads.

Nostalgia Coasters.

Bar Harbor Coasters.

In the shop (except for the elephants).