If you know me, you know that my daughter Shelbie is a fabulous and prolific knitter. I'm always after her to make things for me. And she does. Isn't that wonderful? This is Shelbie with one of the several shawls she has knitted this year. I love a shawl. Don't you? You just wrap it around and go. Shelbie uses great quality yarns so they wear wonderfully.
I got the idea that I wanted this shawl and sent shelbie the link from Rita at Red Pepper Quilts. You
Over the Thanksgiving break I finished making all my blocks for my Pam Kitty Morning Love quilt. And I also began sashing my blocks. I've had a lot of fun designing and sewing the blocks. So now putting them together and seeing my ideas take shape is a big pay off. This is just a little sneak peek. Since Pam's yardage IS OUT!! I ordered my outer border from Fat Quarter Shop. FQS has all the packs and yardage. I'm so excited to get my flimsy to
Lori has row 7 up on her blog. The new block is a modernish leaf. It was easy and quick and I made no mistakes. I chose fall fabric colors for the leaves. My stems are from an open weave looking quilt fabric. I used some vintage fabrics for some of the leaves. It was a fun weekend project.
I hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving. Now bring on the Christmas craziness.
-nanette
I really love templates and rulers. So I was very excited to get the scoop on Lori's new set of circle rulers put out by Riley Blake. Lori has 3 sizes of rulers: these circles, thimbles and half hexis. It is exciting to have circles that you can actually use with a rotary cutter. Above are the circle rulers in 4 sizes, perfect for using with precuts or just about anything. I was lucky to get an advance issue of them (so excited). You can buy them from
At the end of September my sisters and nieces came to my house for our little yearly quilt retreat. Several of them finished their 2012 project, which were from my Freda's Beehive quilt pattern. The tutorial for the blocks is here. It is really wonderful to see my family making quilts together. It gives me so much satisfaction to see the finished products. I know Freda would approve. This large version is my sister Michelle's quilt. It is queen sized and I think she's going to put it
Sometimes the quilts I make get given away. Some get stacked onto shelves to look pretty. And sometimes the quilts get used. Yesterday Whitney took a stack of quilts and made Allison an big fort under my long kitchen table. I think she used 7 quilts, chairs, benches and dishes to anchor the fort. Whitney decorated the inside with pillows, blankets and (pumpkin) fairy lights so little miss Allison (dirty face) could play with and watch Buzz and Woody (her favorite movies). This was one of the quilts
Lori from Bee in My Bonnet has put her latest block instructions up and I was anxiously waiting for them. Last week I made the flying geese and then last night I completed the cups. I'm on track. This photo is really hard to see but I edited from my iphone so it looks far away. You can see my mix of colors, anyway. Lori's method for flying geese was something new to me and the best method I've ever tried. I didn't cut off one single point.
Update from photo on Halloween Day. This is a photo of Lizzy on a blanket her mother had made for her. Whitney purchased this really nice quality Moda houndstooth flannel from one of the Cotton Way lines. She cut it to size, prewashed it, and then put the wrong sides together, zigzagged around the edges and then straight stitched about 4-5 lines diagonally across the fabric to keep it stable during use and so the 2 sides don't pull apart. Whitney machine appliqued an L for super Lizzy
You know I've been blogging for 5 years now. Hard to believe. I've come to enjoy a whole community of quilters and friends that exchange ideas and so much more together. Some of them I've become sweet online friends with, some of the bloggers I've met, and some of them I consider best friends. I know a lot of you are familiar with many of those friends but I want to talk a little more about these 3 today. All the of the 3 are really giving, lovely