Girls Camp Quilt

I finished 2 quilts for our church's Girls Camp which takes place at the end of this month. They are using the color green and Frogs as part of the theme! I found ALL kinds of frog fabric this year...who knew frogs were so popular??!!
The big picture!
Close up of some of the cute frog fabrics
Of course I had to quilt frogs!
Close up of frogs. Cute huh?!

I chose plain muslin for the back so everyone can sign the back and then we put all of the girls names in a hat and draw out 2 lucky names :o) Good luck girls!

I used my new Accue Go Cutter to cut out the shapes....LOVE it! I sewed the pieces together and then sewed the longs strips together on the longarm machine and then quilted as I went.

Hope they like it =D

Anne's quilt

I finally finished this quilt for Anne and her husband. I really like the fabrics....they just say 'FUN!'

I used the Yellow Brick Road pattern and Flamingo Sunset as the quilting pattern.

Mary's Daughter

Mary, a returning customer, brought me her daughter's first quilt! It is the Yellow Brick Road pattern. I just love that pattern. It's quick and easy and it never looks the same! You can purchase the pattern here.

I was only able to get one picture because my camera's battery died! I meandered the quilt top.

Thank you Mary for allowing me to quilt your daughter's quilt :o) She really did a very nice job!

Amy's Quilt

Amy, who is a friend of the family, sent me a beautiful quilt. She really did a nice job piecing it and she chose Ribbon Dance for her pantograph. Nice choice!

Here is the front.

Here is a close up of the quilting.

This is the back of her quilt.

Thank you Amy for letting me quilt your quilt top!

I Love Scraps!

I love scraps and scrappy quilts! Bonnie Hunter came and spoke to our quilt guild last year and I really enjoyed her lecture and trunk show of quilts. This is one of her quilts in progress... I started doing the things she suggested and then bought her book 'Scraps & Shirttails'. I wanted to include one of her links to some information that I didn't want to loose and would be able to find quickly.
Here are some of my scraps....
I have these in my sewing room and Gordon asked "What are these?"
Me - "Oh...those??....they are for a quilt sample I am making for my business for a Memorial Quilt. I didn't think you would want me cutting up your shirts!!" I'll post pictures as I make my scrappy quilts!

Projects I have finished

Hi Everyone,

I have finished a few projects so I thought I would share. This is a quilt that was a consignment from a lady that liked my display quilt at the Liberty High Craft show. I finally finished it! I machine quilted this quilt for someone else.
This is my second quilt from her! woohoo! Hopefully I will get more quilts from her in the future. I finished these little scrap bags last night. I will use them next to my sewing machine and cutting table for the thread scraps, etc. I thought they turned out cute.

This is my next project...a sample t-shirt quilt for Jomax. I will be teaching this class in March! I will show you the results.

The week before Christmas...

I have had a busy couple of weeks. I finished my first customer's quilt and a friend, Deon Tait, finished her daughter's quilt, and I did baking with Tricia and a new sister in the ward, Mary Halsey. This picture shows my portion! So you can imagine how many cookies we actually made!
We also went to my work party at Turf Valley, went to a Christmas party at Seaman's in the ward where we had a 'White Elephant' gift exchange. I got "Mr. Bill" (oooohhhh noooo!) and Gordon got the humongous TV remote! (You will be seeing more of Mr. Bill in our future travels!) We had a good time. Last night we had dinner with other friends, Taits, Stephens, and Bettridges of Hampstead ward. The food was yummy and we played Hit or Miss. It was a nice evening.

Today was Sunday and we had fun in Nursery as always :o) We did sticker Nativity sets and gave them reindeer candy canes that I made plus we had taken their pictures earlier and made their parents ornaments using their pictures. It was a fun day!

And the winner is.........(drumroll)

It's me! I won the Judges Choice award for the quilt challenge Tuesday night at my local quilt guild, Four County Quilt Guild! woohoo!! The challenge was to make something from something that inspired us. This is what I chose.....

This is what I created! Cool, huh?!
Close up of one of the cute bees!

I won a $20 gift card to a local quilt shop! Yippee!!! I've never won anything for any of my quilts. Of course it might help to actually enter something into a contest!

Tomorrow, I actually have my first customer quilt to quilt. Actually....I have quilted for Ginny Hurt and my Aunt Janet. But this is a quilt that a total stranger is entrusting to me.....scary! I will post pictures when I am done.

Here is another little quilt I have recently just finished. It is a quilt-as-you-go type. so when you are done sewing it, it is quilted also!

Oh....oh....I also got my first consignment to make a quilt for someone! She wants me to make her this quilt -

I had it as a display at my craft show and a couple of ladies asked about buying it and one came back asking me to make her one just like it :o)

I haven't put up any Christmas decorations yet...too busy. But I did manage to get up my snowman quilt and needle punched snowman. So let it snow!