Pillow cases and placemats

In a week I will be going on a Disney Cruise again with my daughter and her family. We went last Spring Break also and it was great. This year it is the Star Wars at sea cruise. So this years the kiddos get Star Wars pillow cases. Last year they got Mickey.

Then...after making the Valentine placemats at my daughter's request, I decided that she would like Easter placemats too. It is really hard to find Easter material. I like how these turned out BUT the material is not the best quality - hope they hold up for a few years. The first pic was my first choice for the narrow border - yuk!

So I went back to the store to try again. Much happier with my second choice!

 

 

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Birthday Table Runner

My daughter's birthday is on Valentine's Day. I had been eyeing a Birthday Pillow kit and when it was on sale because one of our favorite quilt shops is closing, I decided to go ahead and make it. Not into bench pillows though so I made it as a table runner or wall hanging - however she decides to use it! And since - in her household she is mommy, that is the name I hung on the "clothesline". I made enough letters that she can use it for all the birthdays!

I also made her a set of Valentine placemats. She asked for them a week or so ago saying the plastic ones she had for the kiddos were actually more trouble to keep clean than the cloth ones she could throw in the washer! I love making this type of placemat - they are really easy. Need to find some Easter material now.

 

I also made Valentine pillow cases for 3 of the 4 kiddos - Andrew does not have a pillow yet. But I have no pictures of those.

 

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Quilt 105

This quilt has been a finished quilt top for a few years - really can't remember when I took this class at the Quilt Asylum but I know it was a long time ago! Marie took the class with me and her top never got finished. I am so glad to have this finally in the finished pile. Still not very wild about my ability to quilt well but I just need to keep going - I assume I will get better with practice. At this point I am down to 3 finished tops that need quilting. My plan is to finish them up before starting any more projects! We'll see!

 

This is Judy Niemeyer's Deset Sky pattern. At the time I was amazed that I could make something like this but paper piecing really is pretty easy. Picking out the paper is a pain though!

 

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Quilt #104

I finished the quilt I'm giving to my son for Christmas. This will be his 3rd quilt - all lap size. He's my cold person so he uses them well! I enjoyed making this quilt - half square triangles are amazing. Love the way this turned out. The only difficult part was keeping it laid out so that I could sew the rows together correctly. The colored stripes are all from scraps. I quilted it by quilting two parallel lines on each side of the black stripes with black thread.

 

Marie and I went to Houston for the Quilt Festival which we didn't get to go to because of a wreck we were in the night before. I had to stop quickly because the car in front of me stopped quickly but the car behind me did not stop at all. We were fine but my car wasn't. Anyhow, my car is all fixed and back at home where it belongs which is a good thing! While we were there we went to a quilt shop in Old Town Spring and while we were wandering a classroom we happened upon some rings to use with a sit down midarm sewing machine like my Sweet Sixteen. I could tell they were something that I would love. So that night at Marie's I ordered them on line. And I was right. They make live much easier for me. They grip the fabric and have knobs to hold on to - much easier than just holding the fabric! I do have to stop and move the ring but I really think I was stopping with the same frequency just guiding the fabric with my hands. They just make moving the fabric under the needle much easier? Love them!

 

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Quilt #103

This year I decided to make a Christmas quilt for me. Marie and I were at the quilt shop and saw jelly rolls of Christmas fabric that we liked. I had never made a jelly roll race quilt so I decided that is what I would do. Now I can say I have done one and will never have to do another! Did not enjoy the process at all and I'm really not that fond of the finished product! But I have a Christmas quilt! I didn't realize that you needed to make the first strip shorter so most of my connections happen close to either side - maybe I would have liked it better if I had done it correctly! But I still wouldn't like the process. For the back I used some poinsettia fabric from the same line as the jelly roll. I quilted it with red thread in a big wobbly stipple. Still not very good at this quilting part!

 

 

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Andrew's stocking and Turkey placemat

Since my daughter and son-in-law decided that they needed a fourth child I had to get busy and make a stocking and a Thanksgiving turkey placemat since the other 3 kiddos already had them. So..here they are!

 

Glad to have them finished. I'm going to make 2 more turkey placemats because the othe 3 are all the same and this one is a little different. That way no one will be odd man out! Also need to make Santa placemats since the other 3 have those also

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Quilt #102

Helen needed another quilt for her boss's daughter - the older daughter this time having her first child - a boy. Baseball was the theme. Having made a quilt for Matthew (#44) that was a baseball attic window quilt, that is what I decided to go with. The baseball fabric I used for that quilt is no longer available, so I started hunting on line! Found some teddy bears playing baseball that would be perfect. And since this child's name is Theodore, whom they will call Teddy, it turned out to be better than perfect!

Since I put initials on the back of his cousins' quilts, I had to do the same thing with this one.

I'm still not good at my free motion quilting on my Sweet 16, guess I don't practice enough! Hopefully I will get better sometime!

 

 

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