Mollie Top's Wild and Crazy Finish

Made with my red, white and black scraps...have you ever noticed that pile of scraps never gets smaller?  Hmmm...

Mollie Quilt

Here's a look at my current project, a baby quilt.

All red and  black and white... :)  Working on finishing it up, baby will be here soon.

Christmas in July???

Here's my newest project... not intended to be Christmasy, it seems to have turned out that way.  "Why are you making a Christmas quilt?"  the family keeps asking. 

Like most of my projects, it started out as one thing, and morphed into another.  I'm going to call it Christmas is Coming, Tra La Tra La;  my mom always sang that little ditty to us as kids when she had something mysterious going on during the Christmas season, I'll probably put the title in the back of the quilt.  Have I mentioned lately, flying geese are my favs???

Skeletons in My Closet

Here's the quilt back for Dia de los Muertos!  I sent the quilt off to the quilter this afternoon. YIPPEE!

A pieced back using leftover blocks and scraps from my stash... I'm very excited to get this done! 

In other news, I am working on completing 5 quilt tops for a friend.  They were made by her mother-in-law years ago and I'm getting them finished up for her.  She requested "simple" backs so here's what I chose, 5 yards of each.  (Notice the brown - ahem) I took 3 of them to the quilter on Monday and have some work to finish up on the last two.  Here's the fabric I purchased for the backs...25 yards in total.

I am really hoping that red qualifies as simple, I did my best!  I'll post pictures of the quilts when I get them back, they are old scrappy quilts, how fun and special to be able to finish up someone else's treasures.

And lastly, Happy 10th Birthday to my little guy Cort!

Precious Stolen Moments

Just a few stolen moments of stitching this week...

and I put them to good use! 

 I will sit down for just one quick seam when I get the chance.

I used the little eyeballs for the background and lime green for the lettering. 

"Fussy" cut dancing skeleton...

I find I begin a project with just a few fabrics, but as I continue sewing get more adventurous.  Only 4 fabrics so far...  no worries, that will soon change.

Looking forward to Friday.  ;)

Kassi Quilt

Another T-shirt quilt finished yesterday, and it's off to a new home this evening... I added letters to this one!



A PLAIN white binding!

Kassi is a setter on the Utah State volleyball team.

Free Pieced Letters

Pieced Back!

Hope you all had a great Tuesday.



Nadin Quilt Finish

It's dooone!   For my new girl Nadin.  Made from the scraps of the Lone Star Quilt.

Front

Pieced Back (As Quiltdiva Julie says "is there any other kind?)

A little closer...


Shhhhhhh, don't tell anyone, I like the back better than the front.

Love Grandma Kat!

Nadin Quilt

We have a new granddaughter; her name is, you guessed it Nadin!  Our oldest son Beau married in February, so in addition to a lovely new daughter-in-law Merry, we have our first grandchild.  Beau, Merry and Nadin (4) live in the Philippines and we witnessed their wedding on Skype!  We are impatiently awaiting their arrival in 3-6 months. Hurry up VISAS!!  Welcome to the family Merry and Nadin.  PS, there is a great picture of them on my sidebar, about halfway down. 

Quilting Away

Between picnics and beaches, I did get some time in the sewing room this weekend... and came up with this.  A small quilt for another neice with a new baby.  (already a month old, yikes.)

Wonky letters, of course!

And even got a little quilting completed.

off to sleep now, Happy 4th!

Wonky Letters, Thank You Tonya!

Thank you, thank you, thank you Tonya.  You are the inspiration for these wonky, free pieced letters.  If you have not visited Tonya's blog, Lazy Gal Quilting, I suggest you check it out!  I have been visiting on her blog anonymously for years (I have to admit), but now am able to thank her appropriately.  I have used free pieced letters in several quilts, and I think they are especially fun for kids and babies.   Tonya also has a book if you need a bit of help with those letters. So without further ado;

I added little triangles in the corners of the curved letters for help create more realistic looking letters.  I think it helped, not so blocky and chunky.

Here's the a and e.

And finally all sewn together. (Made a little error on the tail of that E, but just patched it up and went on!)

The A kind of looks a little funny, but I think once I get the fabric sewn on the bottom, it will look fine.  I am completely out of the pink polka dots, so I'll have to figure something out there! You can already see the little scrap I had to put in over the A and I was piecing together small pieces over that N to eke out every bit of the pink polka dots. 

And there are a lot of vowels in this name, k-A-I-t-l-I-n, phew!

As you can probably tell, this is part of Horsey Quilt 2.0.  (My kids just love that I name my quilts, they think it is hilarious!)  Happy weekend.

Quilt Back

I am contemplating the quilt back for the Horsey Quilt, and thinking back on my other quilts.  Do you like to a pieced back?  I enjoy using scraps, extra blocks, or even extra fabric (imagine that) on the back of my quilts.  Here's some pics of my Flower Power Quilt Back, it is a Jan Mullins pattern.  This pattern also taught me about the principles used in free piecing letters; many of the same processes. 

        

I quilted this myself, the quilting shows well on the back... the quilting seemed to take an entire summer!  It is machine quilted as you can see, one of my first efforts.

And then properly labeled, like all my quilts.... well at least this quilt has a label.

I am off to my kids softball and baseball games in 40 degree weather, doesn't that sound thrilling.   Here's the front:

Happy Saturday!