Some Are Easy, Some Are Hard

This one was easy!  This is my quilt for the Kona Charm pack challenge for my guild.  It's a relatively simple design, but with big visual impact

I've been toying with the idea of teaching some quilting/sewing classes once I move to Franklin and I'm thinking I may use this as a sample pattern

I used a print from one of my favorite designers, Kelly Boyd of Ann Kelle Designs!

This was another easy one!  This pillow was listed in my etsy shop for a few minutes until Kaelin bought it!  It is SO gratifying when people I consider very talented in the quilting/sewing community actually BUY something I made!  Thanks Kaelin!

This one was not so easy.  This quilt was a custom order baby quilt for a friend of mine locally.  Lets just say if I had to do this again, I would paper piece it!

And I got a little surprise in the mail this week from Hadley!!!  I gushed over a few other keychains she made and she, very sweetly, sent me one of my very own!  It's even teal!!!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! 

Makeover!

My blog and etsy shop just got a little makeover thanks to my friend, Stefanie!  Did she come up with a cute design or what?  I'm also getting new cards AND fabric labels for my quilts and such!!!!!  She is just now starting to offer the labels and I'm excited to one of the first ones to try them out!  I'll post pictures as soon as they come in!  If you're in the market for any stationery, check out Stefanie's shop and email her if you have a custom request.  She even made our quilt guild cards!

Festival of Scrappiness!

Rachel is holding a Festival of Scrappiness contest over on her blog so I'd thought I'd enter a few of my recent projects made with scraps!

First up is this mini I made with some HST scraps my friend, Jen sent me!  Good Folks makes the best rainbow!  I added a little border to bring the size up to 10.5"x14"

A little hand-quilting just to make it extra special!

And we can't forget the voile backing!

Next up is this toddler sized quilt I made with the scraps of my Herringbone quilt:

I added some Quilter's Linen in gray around the sides and top of the patchwork, but I kept the patchwork off-center.  Then I used organic wavy quilting lines to create a super hip quilt for a super cool little boy!

I've shared this one before, but this mini was made with the leftovers from my Wonderland quilt, plus a few scraps of Half Moon Modern.  Even the binding is left over from another project!

So there you have it! My entries into the Festival of Scrappiness!  I love working with scraps!  They always seem to end up being my favorite projects!

His and Hers

Whoo hoo!  My first quilt for our bed is almost complete!  Yes, I said first!  I've made almost 100 quilts and I have never made one for my own bed!  Scandalous! Anywho, this is made entirely of the super yummy AMH Folksy Flannel line and I made a simple brick path pattern.  This allowed me to have a "his" and "hers" side--which was important because my hubby would not have slept under a pink quilt.  He has his standards.  :)  The back is ENTIRELY VOILE!!!  You heard me!   Almost 8 yards of delicious AMH Little Folks voile!  I promise to have more pictures soon!!!  I'm so excited for this one!  P.S. It was a freaking b*&$h to quilt this sucker!  Me + queen sized quilt + straight line quilting = misery!

UPDATE:  here a few other pictures

French Kisses (and a Giveaway)

My sweet friend, Tracey, asked me to pattern test her first pattern and this is my finished quilt top! Cute, right?  The pattern is officially for sale in her shop!  So hurry on over there and get one!  Check out her blog because she is giving away a copy for free (if you've already bought the pattern she'll refund your money)!!!  She's also going to host a quilt-a-long for those who purchase the pattern!  Tracey's a busy, busy bee!

This pattern is so adorable and looks great in a lot of different fabrics!  Tracey shows FOUR different versions on the pattern itself and her blog has a 5th!  I love it when I can see what the pattern will look like in different fabrics, don't you?  So hippity hop on over to her blog and check it out!  Feel free to tell her Kelly sent you!

A Stained Glass Weekend

Just playing around with some old and new Flea Market Fancy.  This will probably end up in the shop as a quilt as soon as I can decide on the final size.  

I'm pattern testing for my friend, Tracey.  I'm still waiting on border fabric and I have plans for the scraps leftover.  More to come on this quilt soon (including where you can buy the pattern!)

Hot Town!

Hot town, summer in the city....ok, that's all I know of that song!  Unfortunately, I kept singing that line over and over again when I was making this!  That song always reminds me of that Sex In The City episode where she dates the comic book store guy and they eat fried chicken on the balcony of his parents' apartment.  Sidetracked, sorry!  I bought some Summer in the City scraps from a Flickr friend, never really knowing what I would do with them since I didn't own any more of the line!  They had already been cut into rectangles so I was a bit limited from the outset.

(I'm trying to remind myself to take real pictures and not just rely on Instagram, but it's so darn convenient!)  Anywho!  My quilt addicted friend, Sara, loved the colors in this line and left the design up to me--love that girl!

Go simple or go home, right? :)  I quickly sewed all the rectangles together, added a border in a Free Spirit solid (sorry, I don't recall which one), and bound in some Just Wing It.  Ta-da!

The quilt is small (around 34x27), but it's the perfect size for all those cutie pies Sara takes pictures of!  Can't wait to see my quilt in action!  Speaking of which, you all can check out some of the work I've done for Sara HERE.