Vacation

Sunset Beach, N.C., they call it sunset beach for a reason.... sunflower in Brookgreen gardens...... they are like sunshine on a stick :0).

Vacation

Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina..." Ever changing. simply amazing"
is a National Historic Landmark. What a beautiful place to walk, relax and enjoy the beauty of nature. Visit www.Brookgreen.org for more information.

Nine patch

I already had these 9 patches made up so when I saw the darling vintage pattern
on the Moda Bake shop I decided to put these together into a baby quilt. I think it will
look terrific with the baptist fan pattern quilted on top just like the little vintage doll
quilt.

scraps

My string quilt is coming along and I think at this point I may add some sashing to separate the blocks and call it done and use it for a baby quilt. I am thinking about adding the name of the recipient in the borders using the freestyle letters I so love from Tonya.
It sure is a fun and mindless block that goes together quickly. I actually used a light colored fabric for the foundation which is the middle strip of each block.
This is my first try at string blocks but will certainly not be my last :0). Bonnie has so many great ideas on her site for string quilts.


This baby block and little ribbon tab baby quilt are my interpretation of the project over at the Moda Bake shop done by Nicole this week. She of course used new and delightful Moda prints but I used some scraps. I used a piece of scrap Fleece for the backing and she used the baby friendly minki, but the idea is the same. Which is to have the ribbon tabs sticking out so a baby can play with them. I highly recommend the Moda site for great ideas and tutorials. http://www.modabakeshop.com/.

New baby and visitors

Another crumb quilt was mailed today to my friends 3rd grandchild....
Clara :0)...both her parents graduated from Michigan.
I had a skunk and a deer grazing together in the back yard this afternoon :0), think they are friends?

scraps and the end of summer

I am ankle deep in scraps up in my sewing room.....time to sew some of them up and get them out the house. Have you noticed that scraps never really get used up they just keep multiplying?
I love the beauty of a perfect morning glory
One of my shade loving peonies going to seed. Yes, these are the true colors.

Its been a very wet cool summer here in Pokeytown, the vegetables didn't produce much, we had no tomatoes and no summer days with temperatures above the 80's. And now its nearly over.

Another top finished

Shirt pockets left on...........
sewn right into the top
And its done :0).......into the pile waiting for Debby to quilt .
Love this top, I was going to give it away but I may have to keep this one.

shirt-stripe boxes..the layout

I'm playing around with the blocks trying to get an even flow of color across the top.
Some of these blocks are made from shirts but some are also made from my stash of shirting fabrics, the orange shirt survives uncut :0).

shirt-stripe boxes

I'm ready to put these blocks up on the design wall......yep 273 blocks.
I'll be doing that while watching the US OPEN tennis from NYC.
I've also got to get to a birthday crumb quilt.......it will be my last in a series of 6.

Tiny toy Elephant

This 4.5 inch elephant is on the hunt! I made this for my dear granddaughter Lily to go with her elephant quilt for her birthday. Its from "Sewing tiny toys" by Carolyn Vosburg Hall. Her book gives the best directions with pictures. I enjoyed sewing this by hand, I stuffed it with leftover pieces of wool batting........isn't he cute?

Little wall hangings

Happy scraps :0) made into a little log cabin..the logs are .5 inch finished, this hangs upstairs in my hallway and is a 24" square
This little tumbling block quilt was made in 1989 completely by hand, it is a 22" square. I remember dragging these pieces around to my childrens activities to keep me busy while I waited.

Winding Ways

I made this for friends to hang in their livingroom when they moved to their lovely new home a year ago using all their colors.

Little log cabin

I love this little quilt, it hangs in my powder room where the 28 inch square does not get lost in a big space. I quilted it by copying a pattern on tracing paper then stitching by machine through the paper then tearing it away.
On non-quilty subjects I've had laryngitis for nearly a month and believe me it is getting old !

Uggs give away :0)

Give away at Regena's

Another blogversary give away
at
http://quiltfever3.blogspot.com
I'm lucky number 202........hope you join in.
Happy Sewing,
Kim

shirt-stripe boxes

Oh how I love this orange striped shirt......so much so that I hate to cut it and I got it for FREE!
It is a brand new Brooks Brothers 100% shirt!
I keep debating with myself should I add it to this quilt top or use it for something else?
Keep shirt-stripe boxes as shown in Kaffe Fassett's book "Passionate Patchwork" or add some
pizzazz? Should I just go for it?

Happy birthday Lily Kate

My granddaughter turns one today! This is the label for her Elephant quilt
How I wish I could be with her......Happy birthday Lily!

Bunny Hill BOM July

My little woolly sheep is celebrating the 4th of July. In Ireland they were wondering everywhere in the country side with their black faces I remember the Irish call them "killer sheep".

Bunny Hill Bom.... June

Bunny Hill BOM June........love these blocks.

Pick and Choose....still talking?

Everything but the kitchen sink is in this scrappy top. Directions on how to make a fabric book from a panel, scraps sent by Erin, reused pieces from my top swing your partner, and left over bits from various other Bonnie Hunter mysteries. Somehow it just doesn't feel finished. Lazy Gal pointed it out to me and I have the left the top out to study it a bit more.........maybe it will tell me what it wants.......I'm listening :0).

Pick and Choose take two

So I added the border.....is it better or worse? Well... it is done. This is how it will stay :0)
It has everything in it, the turquoise is from a shirt, the directions for how to make a baby book are in there too, you know the stuff they print on the side of a panel.......and almost everything in between ......this is truly scrappy. I even have a few pieces that Erin send me from her leftover Pick and Choose. :0)

Pick and Choose

So when does a scrap quilt become just too scrappy and start looking like a jumbled mess.....this quilt is right on the edge of being that mess......I'm going to try adding a border of two constant colors, still following the pattern and see if that helps.

Christmas lights clue #2

Another part of the mystery completed and only one more clue to go.

Micah's hand label

Micah's Birthday quilt

This quilt is for a dear friends little girl.......she is turning 13 this week! I made the label by tracing her hand then transferring it with stitches to the label, adding some embroidery from my new Janome 6600, then writing Happy birthday and signing it in my own hand with red ink.

Elephant quilt for Lily

Lily Kate is going to be 1 year old in a couple of weeks and I just finished sewing a sleeve for hanging on the back and finished the binding today.
It will hang in her room. Happy Birthday little Princess, Love, Grandma :0)

"Scraps & Shirttails"

Yesterday I got to do some free shopping at my friends thrift store.........she gives me 100% cotton shirts if I use part of them for a charity quilt.....which I do in the form of a QOV.
Some of these have never been worn!
I'll be looking at " Scraps & Shirttails" by Bonnie K. Hunter for some inspiration.......but I do have a few ideas too. Happy Sewing!

Best of Show

Okay so I could not stop looking at this fantastic quilt. Made by Ronda Kae Beyer of Tualatin, OR. Ronda was inspired by a trip to Darwin, Australia.. This is an original design. It was Best of Show at the "Maine Quilts 2009" 32nd annual show in Augusta.
Hand applique, machine applique, long arm, with a stitch regulator, with a machine quilting frame system. It is an 80 inch square. " Loving traditional in a nontraditional way..."
It was so evenly quilted with original quilting motifs.
The backing fabric had all the colors repeated on the front. What work of art!

Wedding ring

This wedding ring quilt was given to me by my Mom who thought it was made by my great Aunt...my Dad's uncle's wife.......but sadly there is no label, no dates, no clues. It is true a beauty though....a 78 inch square work of fine quilting and stitching.
I'm off in Augusta, Maine with my friend Debby...she is working and I'm stimulating the economy at the quilt show this weekend :0). I left this post for you to enjoy in my absence.

Two completed QOV's

Debby and I have been busy piecing and quilting two more QOV'S


I hope whoever receives them will know how much we tried to thank and honor them with our work.