Stars and Moon Basket

I had promised my friend Amber a basket for do-dads on her changing table and finally got around to it this weekend.   (Baby Liam is almost 2 month old...yikes!)

And , here it is with my new baby, a garage sale find, works great... can you see me smiling?

Also, I had quilted a signature into the Stars and Moon quilt...

Have a great week!



Stars and Moon Quilt Finish

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Good Friday morning, look at all the nice Nevada sunshine today!  I ran out to take these pictures before work... I forgot yesterday morning.

I'll take some more quilting pictures when I have a kinder

 afternoon sun and you can see the texture a bit better.

I thought about a gold binding, but decided to stay with blue.

and... the back is a panel of the solar system, the stars glow in the dark.  I usually go with a pieced back, but fell in love with this panel!

Yay, a finish! and it's Friday!

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Stars and Moons FMQ

Well I FMQ'ed They're All Dalmatians and a couple of other projects, but I've never tried densely quilting a project before... I used two layers of batting, like I've seen on other blogs... and jumped right in.  Overall,  I'm not displeased, just need more practice.

The batting sure makes it pop!

Here's the back, it's a panel of the solar system.  My daughter looked at it and said, "Mom, use the dark thread on the back."  Good idea, why I didn't think of that??

Up next...FMQ

The Stars and Moon top is finished, 36" x 48".  Tonight I'm going to get the back ready and move onto the Free Motion Quilting.

Here's a few more pictures of the finished top.

It really is square, why does it photograph like that?

Yay, Wednesday already!

Almost There

Are we there yet?

I almost have the top of the Stars and Moon quilt pieced... one more row to go!

Did you happen to watch "Downton Abbey" last night?  SIGH!

I am so hooked on that show, I watched/listened to it again today while stitching away.

More Stars and Moons...

I have found the signature fabric for this quilt; when I found it online, I was somewhat reluctant to purchase as it was a little different from the rest of the fabric I had used, but it turned out to be fantastic.  Isn't funny how things turn out... sometimes I think I have the sure thing and when I sew it into a block,  it's a dud.  Well, this one certainly is no dud.

I started to sew the blocks together earlier this evening, so the top should be completed and ready for quilting in the next day or two.

Also, look what I found at Costco today... for $7.99 (or maybe $8.99 I cannot remember), six pairs... for gardening... no gardening here, I am going to use for FMQing. 

Tomorrow is a holiday, yea, and extra day in the sewing room!

Finally, FABRIC!

I turned the computer on this morning for a quick post.... message says "Installing 1 of 11 Updates."  1 of 11 grrrrrr, several hours later, here we go.

This selvage makes my heart go pitter patter.

All for the stars and moon quilt.

Does your sewing area ever look like this?

What a mess.

Looking forward to the long weekend.

Stars and Moons

A few more stars up on the bulletin board...

Oops......

TGIF.

Stars and Moons

The stars are twinkling on my bulletin board...

Here's a quick update of my last few sewing days... finished hand sewing the binding on one quilt, sewed the bindings onto two other quilts and working away on my stars and moon quilt.  I will have a couple of 2012 finishes to show off this weekend.

Looking forward to Friday!

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Over the Moon

Made my first few blocks for a stars and moon baby quilt, I love stars and moons so this will be a fun quilt.

And, as usual, I am having a great time picking out fabrics for this project.

Stay tuned, this is going to be a good one!

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