Who can resist??

Dr Suess and the Cat in the Hat??

I made burp clothes for a new baby boy in the family.

Some basketball too...

and Thing 1 and Thing 2!

I saw these for a little girl on another blog and would give credit if I had any idea where they came from???  Sorry about that.  If you make these use a "wonder under" type fusible webbing, what a difference that made once I used that as a stabilizer.  These diapers are a bit stretchy and difficult to sew on.  I made 5 more for a little baby girl as well. 

A little funny, my 17 year old daughter asked what that pile of white clothes was??  She had never seen or didn't remember cloth diapers!!! Yikes.

Also, on a little weekend get away and visited a couple fabric stores... new fabric, and a lot of it, coming soon!

Happy Sunday.

Quilt Gallery

My quilts on display, in my living room... my husband crawled around on top of a ladder for an entire afternoon to hang all those little wooden quilt holders, what a job it was. You can take a peek at my latest project on the design board on the bottom left.  I used my mom's new iphone to take the picture... these landscape pics are quite clever :)

From left to right...

Stars Quilt, Dia de los Muertos, Selvage Spider Web, Lone Star, Pschedelic Quilt.

Faris Quilt Finish

Here's the finish on the Faris Quilt.  

Front

Pieced Back :)

I learned to like solids making this quilt, solids really pack a punch showing off the quilting. 

The idea for the castle is from this Sand Castle Quilt at Chasing Cottons, another great blog. 

 Happy Weekend!

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Faris Quilt

Here's a project completed back in October 2012 for a niece, now almost 5 months old.  I wanted to keep the quilt simple and concentrate on the quilting. I attended the Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara last fall and used that for the quilting inspiration.  The fabric is some older Far Far and Away fabric that had been waiting for just that "right project."  My niece wanted pastels, not really my colors, but I made it work with splashes of bright pink and orange.

The checkerboards are really not that tough; it turned out better than I thought.  (That does not usually happen.)  I marked the straight lines and then used FMQ to quilt the straight lines.  I tried the walking foot and had some puckering and found FMQ the straight lines worked better.  The squiggly lines are just FMQed in after you have made the grid.  

You can see a bit of the walking foot puckering on this checkerboard.

I'll have a Faris Quilt finish for you later this weekend...

TGIF! (Sigh)

Pink and Zebra Quilt

These arrived today for the Pink and Zebra Quilt..

Gotta love pink zebras!  Not really sure how the zebra fabric will tie into the rest of the quilt, but that's the fun of it, right!

And another block...

Hope your having a great week.

Still Quilting!!!

Have you ever pinned your blocks to your pajamas?? I made myself chuckle this morning when one of these blocks was pinned to my lap!   It's a drizzly Sunday here in Reno, a nice change of pace as there is not a lot of rain in this arid high desert climate.  

This to be a baby quilt, a friend of ours is having a girl and I asked her if she had a theme or colors, when she responded with pink and zebra, I knew that was right up my alley.  :)

Thanks to Victoria Findlay Wolfe for inspiriation, her book is great if you do not have it yet!

Summer Vacation - Stashbusting Style

Just back from a restful week at the beach, and an entire week without a sewing machine!  Not my style, as I usually pack the machine and a project or two or more for the road.  With a lot of time planned to be spent on the beach, I figured I'd take a break...

However, I took a project, a real stashbuster!  It says that a 2' x 3' rug would use approximately 8 yards of fabric, but truth be told, it uses much more than that.  I took a kitchen garbage bag with a good chunk of fabric with me and used all of it for this rug.  Fabric is cut into 2" strips and then crocheted.  Very easy, I had never crocheted before.

PS.  This rug is also a workout for your biceps. 

It's so good to be Home, Sweet, Home!

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