I saw material that reminded me of Jenny's new dining room and decided to make her a table runner and place mats to go with her new house.
I also made Christmas place mats for the kiddos. I realize that Andrew does not need one yet but he will want one eventually. I still have to make another turkey one since I made those last year before there was an Andrew!
Jenny mentioned that she wished I could put the kids' names on the quilt I had made for her last year. There was no way to do that - a finished quilt is pretty much a finished quilt. So, I just had to make her a new one! How lucky can a quilter mother get - not much luckier than that! I was thinking a medallion quilt with the names in borders around it but could not find a pattern I was happy with. Then I saw this star pattern and thought it was perfect! I bought all different grunge fat quarters for the stars and white for the background. I used some black and white "word" fabric for the back and pieced it with the left over grunge. I used spray basting for the first time and loved it! It really kept the layers together as I folded and refolded and refolded as I quilted! I quilted it on my new Sweet Sixteen and am pretty happy with how it turned out. Still having some tension issues but over all I am getting more comfortable with the machine. Think with more practice I will get better and better. I will give the quilt to Jen for Christmas.
Jenny decided that she really liked having a table runner on her coffee table during the Halloween season, so she has asked for one for every season! Here is the Christmas one that I will take over other today.
The quilting looks pretty good on the top but there are still some bad tangles on the back but much improved over my first few attempts with my new quilting machine. If I keep improving I will be a happy quilter before long!
I have also been making stockings for the Children's hospital. Need to get back to that for the next few days so that I can hand them over on Dec. 1st.
About 3 weeks ago I purchased a Sweet Sixteen quilting machine. It arrived when I had company and then I was off to Austin to nurse my son through knee surgery, so I haven't had much time to use it. And I can tell it is going to have a definite learning curve attached to it! I've been having trouble with the tension though it was better on the Christmas table runner that I just finished. Not wonderful yet but better. Think I will really love having it once I get proficient at using it!
Have a finish today, but not a quilt. Marie and I were at Quilt Country last week and saw this kit and I decided Jenny needed it. And since I'm leaving in less than 2 weeks, I had to hurry it up! The yarn for the hair is really wild - makes the witches look cute but I'm not sure how well it will hold up. Of course, I have enough yarn to replace the hair 100 times or so!
I finished the blue and white quilt for Andrew! Only a month old and he already has 2 quilts. I had started the cars, planes and trains quilt for him when Jenny sent me a picture of a blue and white quilt she had seen on Pinterest saying it would go well with the baby's room. I had a set of blue and white fat quarters, so there is now a blue and white quilt for Andrew. I did find though that blue with white was easy to come by, white with blue not so much! And since, we did not know his name when I finished his transportation quilt I put his name on this one! I quilted this on my home machine trying something new. Each block is quilted separately, and each row has a separate pattern.
I finished this quilt yesterday. It is for Everett Joseph, who is my neighbor Helen's great nephew who was born a couple of weeks early yesterday! Great that I finished his quilt the day he was born! Quilt 90 is the quilt that I made for Everett, since I am an honorary Bear (Helen's family). This is the quilt that his Great Aunt Helen is giving him!
I love the way I made the tag - it is only attached by the binding so it is kind of like a taggie! I will definitely continue making tags that way!
After finishing Spike's quilt yesterday, I finished Matthew's today. The girls aren't getting new quilts with the birth of this baby brother but I'm pretty sure Matthew is going to have a hard time no longer being the baby boy! And besides that he is really into monster trucks these days! Can't believe that Spike will be here a week from today and hopefully they will have a real name to put on his birth certificate! Though I believe that Spike will stick as his nickname! I backed this quilt with fleece so it is nice and cuddly!
Finally finished the quilt for my new grandson who will be born in 10 days! I think he will like it when he gets old enough to know that it is his with love from Grandma! I bought the pattern in Paducah but modified it by putting a couple of train engines on it since trains are big with the Starke clan! I'm just glad that the quilt was finished before Spike made his entrance!
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I even made the train track different from the roads on which the cars and trucks are driving.
First quilt of 2015. I saw this flying geese pattern in a book about using precuts. I had the blues that I had bought quite a while ago and decided to buy a light neutral package of strips to go with it. The blocks went together fairly quickly which was a good thing since I had decided to make it as a house warming gift for Jerry and Lori, and I was meeting Lori for lunch this week! So bought the border material last week, got it all put together over the weekend, quilted it on my home machine ( couldn't use Marie's longarm in time), and machine bound it today. I even made a label for it - something I rarely do. Took pictures and washed it and it is ready to go to lunch on Wednesday!
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