Happy Fall

My  quilted pumpkin instead of a wreath on the front door.  I made my little
quilt this week so I will show it off over at Amanda  Jean's   Finish it up Friday

Fall in the south  is much different than the north :0).

My front maple is changing colors

View from my front porch rocking chair, life is good.  Happy Sewing,   Kim

10 little dresses

Time to get ready for Christmas......really?

Here are 10 little baby gowns made for our local NICU, aren't they cute?

I belong to the Sea Trail Grandmas ( Sea Trail is the name of the development where I live) which delivers thousands of items every year to our local hospitals.

Since this is my only finish this week I'll share it over at Amanda Jean's
Finish it up Friday :0).

10 gowns ready for Christmas preemies

Happy Sewing, Kim

Lori's sew along

Lori has started a new sew along over at Humble Quilts  This quilt is her blog header so jump over and look at how adorable these blocks are in a quilt!  Come on, try one you know you want to :0)
Happy Sewing, Kim

The beginning of the block on the Lori's sew along.  I used this brown plaid as a border since it was lying on
my sew table from the Halloween quilt I just sent to my granddaughter.  

Happy 1st day of October

It can either be a table runner or a bed scarf for Lily's bed.
I took a Halloween charm pack and cut the 5 inch squares into quarters, this turned out larger than I first imagined
but I think it is still fun. 

the top of the B says " Happy Halloween Lily"  and the bottom has a spider, on the outside edge
I wrote" Love Grandma"

This letter O has a spider tangling from a spider string

This O has a web and a spider coming down to the web.
In the mail it goes this afternoon :0)

Happy Sewing, Kim

Lily received her bear and runner and is sleeping with the Boo runner :0)
I'm linking up with Amanda Jean's finish it up Friday because not only did I get this done
I got it mailed in time!  

Lily's tooth bear

Lily has started kindergarten so it will not be to long before her little teeth
start falling out.  I saw this on Martha Stewart's web site and thought it
would be the perfect little tooth bear for my granddaughter :0).
I did not finish a quilt this week but I'll post Lily's bear, before he gets mailed,
over at finish it up Friday with Amanda Jean.

The little tooth goes in the pocket and the tooth fairy replaces it with dollar bills :0).

Happy Sewing,
Kim

Cherrywood surprise

Look at these scrumptious colors!  My friend sent me many pounds of 7x10 inch pieces of
this amazing hand dyed fabrics.  Never seen or better yet touched it?  Oh you are missing
out because it feels even better than it looks. Cherrywood fabrics is wonderful!
 Thank you so much Adelaide, what a lovely gift, I miss you too.
Happy Sewing, Kim

Oh boy I am going to have fun with all these colors!

Brookgreen Gardens 9-18-13

Trees

  by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see   
A poem lovely as a tree.   
   
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest   
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;   
   
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;   
   
A tree that may in summer wear   
A nest of robins in her hair;   
   
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;   
Who intimately lives with rain. 
   
Poems are made by fools like me,   
But only God can make a tree.

Brookgreen Gardens is a National Historic Landmark located just south of Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet, S.C..
These magnificent  trees are hundreds of years old, this year they are underplanted with thousands of caladiums.  The gardens moto is " Ever changing. Simply amazing."

Happy First Day of Autumn, Kim.

Caladium of every kind along side of a beautiful woven fence to cover an irrigation pump.

Beautiful! 

Orphan block table runner

Cherrywood hand dyed fabrics with wonky stars made at a Gwen Marston retreat.

I kept over lapping the star arms on my first attempt at wonky.

I've got to practice my free motion quilting so I can do something besides this wave line :0)
This little table runner is off to a doll swap partner after we agreed to a runner instead of a doll quilt.

I'm going to link up with Amanda Jean, you should drop by and see all the amazing finishes on her blog :0) on Finish it up Fridays!
Happy Sewing,
Kim

New Placemats

After 20 years of use these placemats have done their time  :0)
But honestly isn't it fun to see these so well loved?

new placemats and runner delivered to my friend Carol

A grateful friend 

Good friends since 1972

Scrappy placemats and runner

table runner

Four matching place mats

Uplifting messages on each one, this is the runner

The placemats messages are: laugh, love, relax,enjoy :0)

I quilted them with a wavy decorative stitch setting on my Bernina.

I think my girlfriend will enjoy these :0).  Happy Sewing, Kim

Since this is my only finish this week I'm linking up to show it off with Amanda Jean,
come have a look at what everyone is up to. :0)

Can YOU help?

My friend Victoria over at Bumble Beans is busier than I ever want to be,
but she always manages to come up with a quilt when the need arises.
Now she is collecting anvil blocks  and she has a tutorial on her blog for the block plus the address
of where to send them if you would like to join in.
This block is on the way Victoria :0).  It is my little way of helping.
Happy Sewing,  Kim

Anvil  Block for Victoria

Jackie's blogger of the month

Jackie had this great BOM with blocks designed by a different blogger each month, some bloggers you might recognize.  Well after starting it, moving and finding it again I am happy to say I have the top
finished :0).  The free patterns are still available on her blog, just hit the Jackie link.


Now to  quilt  it.

Jackie's Blogger BOM

One corner of the top

Another corner.

Matching doll quilts

My girlfriend gave me some fatquarters this summer  so I cut them all up into 1.5 inch strips.

I found a nice bright fabric to use as the center squares and made some
log cabin blocks.  

Backside of of one of the quilts

Now these are all ready for my girlfriend to take to her adorable little granddaughters who love to play baby dolls together.    And since this is the only thing I finished this week I will link up with Amanda Jean to show them off :0)..........  Happy Sewing, Kim

Doll quilt swap

I enjoy belonging to a doll quilt swap online, here is information if you'd like to join this group.

This is the doll quilt I received this month from my swap partner Diane in Minnesota, the
theme this month is "nine patch".   Diane made me a disappearing nine patch in lovely  shades of pink and violet then machine quilted it, it is pretty darn cute isn't it?

backside

Happy Sewing,
Kim

Coddlers

I've been busy making coddlers for premature babies in our local community along with
my group called the Sea Trail Grandma's.
If you have a premature baby in your life you can go to Michele's blog and
get plenty of free patterns to sew something tiny.

Happy Sewing, Kim

coddler

Baby soft fleece for a premature infant.

Lily's quilt

Lily's quilt before I pack it up to send to the birthday girl.

Back of quilt

Back of quilt with label 

Back of Lily's quilt with a Dick and Jane reader panel, perfect for a little girl just about to read.