Update, update! UFO completed!

WOW!  It's been a long time since posting and A LOT had been going on.  in Sept 2013 I moved into a house with my mother in town... we both have our own sewing room but we share our stash of fabrics... 

I've been doing a lot of quilts and have gotten more into patchwork quilting then I ever thought I would!

I shall endeavour to post pics of some of these quilts along the way, but my most recent completed UFO is my sewing machine cover and instead of the planned over the arm pockets I made a pad with pockets for in front of the sewing machine to keep things within reach.

Here is a pic of them both:

Sweet Dreams baby quilt

Wow what an incredibly busy year I've had so far... I've gotten several things done despite having severe pain in my right now... however I've not had a chance to really update my blog of what all I've been up to.

However today I have a treat... I've just finished the quilt top of a baby quilt entitled 'Sweet Dreams".  I think it came out beautifully so I simply had to share with everyone!

The center panel is cross stitched... a design from Pine Glen Designs it was then bordered in a 2" pastel stripe fabric and then the next pieces have Sweet Dreams which were printed on fabric with an ink jet printer and hand appliqued onto the fabric.  once those were all put together it was bordered with 6" strips of crazy patched pastel fabrics and then bordered again with the same pastel stripes fabric.

Sweet Dreams

This will then be quilted and a binding put on.  The angel will be hand quilted around and possibly the Sweet Dreams as well.  the rest will be machine quilted.

This quilt will be available for sale during a couple of local Native Pow Wows this summer.  I sure hope it is picked up by someone who can truly appreciate the work going into this quilt.

Tatty Teddy Completed!!

This past weekend I didn't get all that I wanted to done but I need manage to finish the Tatty Teddy wallhanging that'll be sent to my secret sister. :)

And here is the final picture of my Tatty Teddy.

And now to get to and make fruit pies for my Grandmother's 92nd birthday this weekend along with my block for my first Crazy Quilting Round Robin :)

Tatty Teddy continues...

Not as many seams completed last nite as I spent much of the time gaming with my son. We play one online game and that is Wizard101.com! I'm not one for video type games of any sort but I do enjoy this one with my son. I even got my brother into it.. but enough about that... on to the stitching! :)

Here are challenges:

#12 Beaded feather stitch

#13 Herringbone variation

#21 Detach chain half circle (with center bead)

Here is challenge:

#22 Beaded straight stitch

I added a few stitches here for challenge:

#16 Sheaf stitch

For challenge:

#23 Cross Stitch pattern

I made use of the empty evenweave fabric space to create a patterned line of stitches.

Tatty Teddy with weekly challenges

In my new favourite group CrazyQuiltingInternational we have weekly challenges. They are on week #52 but I decided to start way back at #1 and use them on the Tatty Teddy panel.

Here's what the whole thing looks like to date:

Now for some close up views of the newly stitched areas:

#14 Buttons!

These show the beginnings:

#1 Chain stitch

#2 Cretan stitch (which I then added detached chain/lazy daisy stitch to)

#3 Double row Herringbone (these I offset due to the way the blocks where sitting)

This one shows pretty much all the seams that I've gotten stitched. I decide to start in one corner and work my way out. Let's see added to the above there's:

#4 Chrevon stitch

#5 Semi-Circles (offset)

#6 Tied- Cross Stitch

#7 Woven stitch

#8 Angles

#9 Long & Short Buttonhole

#11 Pyramid buttonhole

I haven't yet done the #10 weekly challenge.

Now to show off my beaded dragonflies!

I hope you enjoy seeing what's been keeping me busy these days :)

Old Hobbies becoming New again

I've become interested in, and begun collecting stash for my new hobby. Crazy Quilting!

I've had an interest for a while and been looking and looking with increasing interest but hadn't done much about it until Dodiemom said she had some flannette pieces to drop off at our local clothing bank as they had been asking for small pieces of fabric. Sorry folks but I've claimed it all! :)

I've done sewing in the past and enjoyed it but haven't done much since I moved out of the one place I had (when my oldest was only 5) where I had a sewing room all set up. Since then it's been few and far between, giving away one sewing machine, buying a used one when I first moved back to NB and then selling it off cheap to a mother daughter team who were thrilled to get it :)

Then last fall clean up a neighbour had a sewing machine in it's own cabinet on the side of the road. I enlisted a friend to help walk it down to my home. Recently had it in for an maintenance costing me only $12 and now I have a sewing machine I'm once again enjoying using.

My first little quilt was inspired by the 2 little Winnie the Pooh pieces found in the box of fabric I received from Dodiemom. So I sat one night and pieced it together with pins. I took several short cuts by pinning it all down on one piece of fabric and then placing that on the batting and another piece of fabric and then adjusted all the pins to go thru all the layers.

I then did a simple zigzag stitch on all the edges, without even folding in the edges, to give it a scrappy look and feel. It still needs to the binding of the edges and I've pieced together a top for a pillow to go with it. This and the second one I've pieced together and pinned with the batting and backing are for doll quilts with matching pillow.

I hope to sell a few but those I don't sell will be wrapped into gifts for needy children at Christmas time. (Oh... just remembered about the leaving a toy to be found idea I came across a whilte back... another idea :) )

I've been inspired just now by Diane's Blog and love the work I've seen on her site. I hope to one day learn some of the many stitches I seen on her site.

I'll be collecting trims, laces, buttons and more.. where will I put it all LOL