Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Stack - n - Whack

Just after Christmas, my mother and I purchased a home quilting system between us.  My mom has been quilting for as long as I can remember! She is quite a perfectionist.  I had some ugly orange floral material sitting around for a long time.  I was thinking there must be something I can use it in!  I already had a Stack n Whack book.  The way you stack the layers and cut them to form the blocks to look like Kaleidoscopes was fascinating to me.  So early in January, I picked up the book and started reading through the instructions, it said somewhere don't overlook some of the ugly fabrics in bargin bins, they make the greatest Kaleidoscopes.  So I figured I would give it a try with the ugly orange floral print!  I was telling my mother about my plans and  with each stack n whack pieced together we were amazed at the shapes that took place!   I thought I'd make this quilt and it would be my first on the quilting system.  I was anticipating a very ugly quilt!  But much to my surprise, I fell in love with it!  Needless to say,  the home quilting system was a whole new learning experience!



I quilted an all over floral/butterfly design. 
All I have to do is find a better way to take pictures. 
The lighting seems terrible.


















Saturday, February 20, 2010

Blogging

This blogging is still all new to me! Some things I would like to do with the pictures and the layout I still have to figure out. All a learning experience! I will get it one day.

Deer Quilt

I have finished my wildlife quilt top. It is probably more of a wallhanging than anything else. I have it on my quilting frame now ready to be completed. I have a couple of rows done on it, hopefully finish it off tomorrow.







Quilting on my frame using a
tree outline.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Runaway Quilt

Last night I finished reading the first novel in the Elm Creek Quilts Album by Jennifer Chiaverini. The title is Runaway Quilt. It was a pretty good book. Kept my interest. Jennifer Chiaverini is the author of several Elm Creek Quilt novels that I have read over the past year. It is a series with the same characters which I enjoy!
My wildlife quilt is coming along, I am hoping that I will have the quilt top completed over the weekend so I can post a picture.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010



One of the two Winnie the Pooh Quilts! The other had a red border. It has the 6 characters machine embroidered and 6 nine patches.

February 16, 2010

Well, I can't believe how long its been since my last post. I had good intentions when I started this blog to keep it as up to date as possible. Well, I will try again. Yes I am still sewing, quilting, doing alterations and embroidery. Right now I am currently working on a wildlife lap quilt. Very tiny pieces, but I think it will look nice.

This past fall I sold my other wildlife quilt which had a deer on it, I also made a lovely Winnie the Pooh quilt which was embroidered. It was the first quilt I ever used embroidery on. It turned out lovely.

I also spent some time doing Christmas items and tried some redwork.