L'Amour

The end of a long imprisonment.

Fabric jailed away for years waiting.

Waiting for the moment when it finally gets center stage.

And something happens in minutes! 

Okay, maybe hours. 

But it seems so much happier now.

One honeybun of L'Amour by Sandy Gervais for Moda. One wire wreath. Valentine rag wreath.

Love the texture and colors. And it even says love on it. 

In the shop. 

Pink Lily and Will Baby Quilt

Pink Lily and Will leftovers to make a baby quilt. 

Swirly quilting. 

In the shop.

Lost in the mix

Sugar Pop runner already in the shop, but it was quickly forgotten and never was blogged! :(
I got a little carried away with the walking foot and the straight quilting lines, but it makes for a wonderful texture.

All better. :)

S'mores!

Don't these colors look just like S'mores?

Why do I always associate fabric with food?

Could that possibly be healthy?

The hubs thought this was an exercise in self-torture.

But to me it was more of a challenge to see how small of an item I could make an entire charm pack's worth of fabric not throwing any of it away.

Pretty small.

34" x 15.5" and that was with the borders!

After having finished it and laying it on top of the "brown couch" (yes, we give our couches very creative names) I realized I should have made it into two matching throw pillows.

It would have been perfect.

Spot on color match with the light brown in the fabric line.

Mmmm, I wonder if I can get more of this.

Anyway, this one's in the shop.

Sugar Pop! Twin Quilt

I got another custom order for a twin quilt in Sugar Pop! to match the baby quilt.

Someone's going to have a cute room!

Turns out a coin quilt is not the easiest pattern on this scale.

Good to know... 600+ pieces later. Haha!

I love that backing fabric. Another finish - 67" x 87" - whew!

My tiny quilting muscles were barely adequate for maneuvering this quilt about... need to work out.

Yeah, well see. :o)

Baby Elephant Walk

Don't know how many people out there get the reference.

Sometimes I assume everyone will know exactly what I'm thinking all the time.

But you know what happens when you assume...

Anyway, this is my latest creation to go into the shop.

I need to share pics of something I made for ME later.

So a few details:

Appliqued elephant 38" x 38" Baby Quilt in Lily and Will II by Bunny Hill Designs for Moda.

The shop has more pics.

Now back to the lovely stash of fabrics to play!

Chrysalis

Had a little fun with a Chrysalis {by Sanae for Moda} charm pack.

I had wanted to try a "Kaleidoscope" type quilt block for a while.

The hot pad came about as a result of my inability to throw away even the tiniest little scrap from these great fabrics.

I think these fabrics would also make a great bag.

Anyway, the hot pad and table topper are in the shop!

Cappuccino

Cappuccino Quilt

I'm so excited to be able to post something new to the blog and shop!

Finally.

For it to take me a month to finish a lap-sized quilt is slow.

At least this one was pretty enough not to get sick of it in the interim.

I still love it.

Fabric is Hoffman bali batiks - Cappuccino - and it's listed in the shop if you would like to see more pictures.

I also plan on listing this as a pattern very soon too if you are interested in having one of your own.

Twirl Skort in Alexander Henry Apples

Just thought I'd share my opinion on this little pattern...

It's the Twirl Skort by Sew Sensible and it is definitely awesome.

My daughter (sadly) hates dresses.

She'll wear them only when it's "dress time" - like church (or any other event I can convince her is a dress only place to go).

So this is some perfect middle ground for her.

She loves the hiding shorts under the apples.

They look more like a second skirt layer which makes me happy too.

And I don't have to tell her all day that no one needs to see her princess panties... :o/

I really do have to tell her that a lot in dresses and skirts.

So I think I'll also make some of these with just the shorts so that she can wear them under other dresses and skirts.

Maybe she'll even decide she like dresses then!

I also made a matching apple appliqued t-shirt to match. And she looks so stinkin' cute that we had to take photos (all morning in this perfect 72 degree weather).

It's an Alexander Henry fabric... with a coordinating brown dot fabric (Tweet Tweet by Keiki for Moda).

Pink Lilly and Will

This is a large baby quilt for my cousin. She's (finally... after 2 boys) having a girl.

Pink Lilly and Will (Bunny Hill for Moda) is SUCH a cute line!

Love, love, love!

All half square triangles...


Damask print back in pink.

Plaid pink for the binding.

Hope she loves it!

A finished product I actually get to see!

Ahahaha! I actually get to see something I made in it's totally finished form since it went to my mom!

I made the tree quilt that's hanging (accidentally)... see previous post here.

And I did the bed quilt, and the brown and paisley accent pillows.

Of course, I'm a huge fan of color (my couch is red!) but for one that HAD to be brown, cream, and black...

I like the result.

And I have a super cute mom too! :o)

Neutral feelings.

I almost forgot to post this one - and what a work load it was!

A queen-sized version of my squared away quilt pattern.

My mom picked out all the fabrics so I wasn't too excited about them personally.

However, it looks stunning on the black bed (large headboard, footboard, and siderails) it was designed for and I actually ended up really liking it.

Nothing better than a happy ending.

Happy decorating Mom!

In Love

This one is in the shop already, but I just had to post a picture here. I'm so in love with this one that I'm working on another one for myself. I just love the puff of the appliqued leaves and flowers created by the background quilting. I've also been needing to add ric-rac to something - and mixing the quilting method was also on my long list of things to do. Not to mention that it is my personal goal to create something from every line Sandy Gervais puts out... I'll wish myself luck on that one as she's incredibly prolific. Life is like a box of Valentine chocolates, you never know how much you need something before you make it!

Snowy Sneak Peeks

In light of the fact that it is snowing outside, in Houston (I know, highly unusual weather) I thought I'd take the extra indoor time today to post some nearly done projects that will be making it to the shop soon. Just as soon as I go buy materials and get the fabric orders to finish these... waiting and waiting for online orders to arrive is very frustrating!

this is a custom ordered quilt that will be a queen sized tree quilt... this is just the background that the tree will be appliqued onto...

This is the Authentic by Sweetwater for Moda quilt that I have been taking my sweet time about finishing...

And since I'm without materials for these and it's snowing... I had to make some of these... Oh, darn the bad luck. ;o)

Happy snow day!