Paducah or Bust!

My little log cabin "Home at Last" is in Bloomington, Indiana right now for the Indiana Heritage Quilt show. Almost as soon as it arrives back home, I'll be shipping it off to PADUCAH!!! I just received the letter of congratualtions on Friday that it was juried in the show! I am SO excited!
And...I'm lucky enough to be able to go to the show ....with my husband! He is abolutely the BEST!
now to find a hotel.....

A New Year: In with the new, out with the old!

Well after perusing some of the new quilting catalogs, I'm inspired to start sewing!For me that means some of the new stuff I've just seen. Forget all those unfinished PHDs (projects half done). I've weeded through them and decided which ones to toss, which ones to pass on to friends and which ones to actually finish. Whew, there are quite a few that I really want to complete, so, I'm making time to be in the sewing room to do just that. I mean scheduling time ON MY CALENDAR to go into the studio and sew! I also want to make some clothes to update the old wardrobe, not just quilts. Can some one please put some more hours in the day, please?

Looks like another pretty spring day, I'm listening to the birds, robins and babies in particular,
just outside the window.
I've been getting some sewing done ! Yeah!! I have yet another tee shirt quilt (customer's) top completed and will begin quilting it tomorrow. I'm half way done on the crib size top for MY FIRST GRANDBABY! Pink and brown polka dots. My daughter will love it! And yes, it's a girl!
I was secretly hoping for twins, she is the generation afterall, but she didn't think it was as good an idea as I did. hmmmm.
The quilt is from the book, Quilts Made Modern by Weeks Ringle. I love most everything they do in that book even though I make mostly dark coloured traditional quilts.


 while putting this fun little quilt together.  It is machine appliqued using a decorative stitch. Now... how to quilt it...?

Home At Last

"Home At Last"

 

This is the finished little log cabin...

12"x12", 172 different fabrics, 1,344 pieces. I'm not a piece

counter usually but I've been asked again and again, "how many pieces are in it?"

and "how long did that take you?". The pieces I could figure out, but

the time.... I have no idea. I would sew a little at a time when ever I

got a few minutes. My little labor of love. I really love this quilt!

 

Man Pants!

Look what I came across on a "vintage sewing" search the other day! Oh my goodness! Like the mustache is not cheezy enough, the Man Pants have to be leopard! The funny thing is, I bought this pattern for a woman's pair of panties back in 1988 in a five and dime in Mississippi. Love everything (almost) vintage! Thought this was good for a chuckle, but not suitable for framing... share the joy with a sewing friend...

From a stack of tee shirts...to this...

A stack of tee shirts retrieved from the attic, add a little black fabric, some batting and thread and it's a tee shirt quilt for my husband! Which he loves by the way!A lot of fun memories brought back in a flash seeing those tee shirts again.The quilt  ended up being 90x68, quilted with a motorcycle design that I bought when I first got my longarm machine. I finally got around to using it on something! Even I like this quilt. The colors really pop against the black fabric and will hold up well for traveling to classes and demos on making tee shirt quilts. The first one is tonight at the library...lots of phone calls showing interest! Should be a full house!

Finished February!

This is the second little quilt for the Quilt-a-month Challenge. I love it! The center block doesn's show but but says "Be Mine" I'm really enjoying doing these little quilts. I'll grab a few minutes at a time to sew and magically they are getting finished!By the end of the year I will have twelve new little quilts to hang on the door! Hoping next month is something green!
now back to work...