Onnies Hands

Quilt guild Challenge

At my quilt guild we had a challenge.  You were to bring 3 fat quarters in a brown paper bag with your name in the bag and place in the center of the room.  Each person would pick a bag and make something with the three fabrics adding your own fabric.  After the project was completed it would be returned to the person who placed the fabric in the bag originally.  This is what I made with someone's fabric along with my addition.  It was nice to make me move out of my box.

Quilting List

List....List..... I have to have a list. Then I get frustrated with myself because I guess I feel like maybe one list is not enough so I start another list.  Before I know it I have nothing but list and I have not got any work done.  I don't know if it is my love of the fabric, pattern or what that makes me think I have to make one of every pattern or quilt I see and guess what that creates a list of things I want to make.  My all time favorite is making things for other people.  I love to see the joy on their face, and hope that they will love the fabric and pattern as much as I did making it.  I guess what this really brings up is that May is almost over and my May to do list is still there.  I don't know if that means I am really slow or that I take such pride in my work that I spend excess time with each project.  How do you keep all your projects in order????

Quilting on Memorial Day

What did you do on Memorial Day?  I quilted.  My sister in law Anna and my niece Amanda came over to help me work on a quilt we are doing for a fundraiser for my niece Angela's softball team.  I feel so blessed that I have the freedom to stay home all day and do one of the things I enjoy.  I love the American flag and want to make a quilt of the American and Texas flag one day.  This is what Angela's team quilt is being made of     I did not get the top done today, but I do not like much.  I hope you all had a great Memorial Day and thank you to all that have fought and are fighting for our freedom. 

Disaster

    I do not know about you, but I can not operate if things are out of place.  I will say that due to my ADD I tend to start several projects at a time and the end result is this......
 The room I have to do my work in is not that large to start with so it just takes a few things out of place to look like a mess.  On the other hand what I am dealing with now is a full fledged disaster.  I tried to make a to do list and of course I strayed off of it.  I did not get Angela's team quilt done.  So I will just have to pull an all nighter.  Before I can do anything I will have to clean this mess up and get in some type of organized fashion.     

Trip to Dallas

Well I got half of the garden tilled.
37 blocks done.
All the posters for the playoff game. 

Today I have to take my youngest daughter to Dallas for some more test on her heart.  I will have to take a project with me to keep my mind off of things.  If I get back in time I will try to complete my items from yesterday.  Wish us luck on all things the test, drive, playoff game and my task. 

Quilt Work

I have been so busy.  It has rained almost every day here and the ground is saturated.  The good thing about the rain is that I stay indoors and get a lot of quilting done.  Today no rain.   WOW!!!! My garden looks like a weed garden.  Today I plan to

• Make 50 blocks for a top
• Till the garden
• Make poster for the softball playoff game
• Make menu for the week

 OH my husband is bringing my chicken coupe home today.  It is a good thing because they are getting to big for the cage they currently reside in.  I will post my progress.  Wish me luck.  On my list should be clean the sewing room because it is a WRECK, but I will save it for a later day.

 

Get out a pen

Get out a pen and mark one off.   I finished the Lady bug quilt.  Here it is
This quilt was blast for me. I was challenged by this quilt because I had never done any applique and I don't know that you can call this applique.  I tried some different things with my basting.  I put a lot more pins in and I used hairspray.  It did great, and did not gum up my machine.  Now for the stitching.
and a close up

I had so much fun with the colors that I had to make more baby things. 
It really brought back memories of when my girls were little.  Man how time just passes by so quickly.  

Sunflowers

On the blog that I visit several times a day someone put a post up that they were looking for fabric with sunflowers on it to swap.  The fact that I am not very computer savvy has moved me to post a picture of the fabric on my blog, because I have learned how to do that..... Maybe the fabric is something she can use.

Mark one off!!!!

I have completed Kenzie's quilt.  I had so much fun with the quilt.  I love the colors, they make me feel carefree and fun spirited.  My friend Wade (Kenzie's grandfather) is going to see Kenzie this weekend.  I was so glad that the quilt was done and he could take it with him. A little proud of myself I guess.  I know pictures.  I hope they turned out well enough to see.  The color is purple and it look more like blue in the pic.  I will try to show you some of the stitches.  I thought I was a big girl and could free hand butterflies.  They turned out ok.... I guess I just wanted it to be perfect because the quilt is for such a special little girl.     This picture doesn't even have the butterfly in it.  This is my binding.  I love striped binding, that and pieced binding. 

Well that is Kenzie's quilt and I hope she enjoys it and knows that she is a special little girl. 

Tutorials

   

I am going to post some tutorials.  I know I am not a professional quilter; however, I am a quilter that has made many mistakes and learned a few things to make it easier for me along the way.  When I made my quilt for Angela ( my niece) I have a great friend Juanita who was kind enough to come and hold me by the hand and show me how to pin the quilt.  I want to share with all of you what I have learned.    Come check it out.  The first tutorial will be on binding.  I had a love hate relationship with binding.  Then I learned a few things that has changed my relationship.......