Where I live

I live in the coolest little city.

Check out these retro signs. 

The coffee cup-always busy.

We have lots of little antique stores here.

The Boulder Theatre, it used to show movies when I first moved here many years ago. 

The bowling alley has 10 lanes I think. I haven't been there in years. The lanes are all original. It's a very cool place.

Lots of places to eat down town.

Walking Dead

I love this show! It's the only one I watch.

placemats

More placemats.

I made 2 of these identical-the shoes are flannel fabric leftovers.

I used some leftover hst in this one.

Love the quilting in these.

Quilt label

This is the quilt label that's on the back of the bikini table runner. 

Bikini Table Runner

I started this bikini quilt probably 10 years ago. It was going to be a wall hanging for my sister.

She has a beach house and I thought it would be so cute.

Well it turned into a table runner because she mentioned that she doesn't like to hang things on her walls. I quilted belly buttons on each block.

I quilted necklaces on each block too.

The backing is leftover flannel that I put on the back of another quilt that I made for her 10 years ago. I had enough to piece it and use it here.  I'm calling this "Navels and Necklaces".

placemats for boys

Here's another scrappy placemat for a boy. I made this from summer fabric scraps.

This is another placemat with a baseball theme. I cut the bat with my silhouette machine. This one isn't so scrappy. I actually like the scrappy ones better. They are so fun to make. 

placemat

Strips from my scraps.

Sewed them together.

Trimmed and added some larger pieces, quilt and bind.

Place mat

Finished scrappy Yum placemat.

This is how the above placemat started out. Find some random strips in the approximate same length. Sew them together and trip to even them up. Add a few more larger pieces, throw a word on and quilt and bind. Scrappy binding too. I'm going through the scraps like crazy. 

Kids aprons

I've been meaning to sew a couple of aprons for my great niece and nephew. I finally did it this week. I didn't have a pattern I just winged it. Put a pocket on the nephew's apron.

I put a ruffle on the niece's apron. I also curved the bib part of the apron.

They turned out pretty cute. I hope they fit okay.

Easter Pillow

These are scraps that I cut to 1.5 inches, then sewed them together into a large rectangle. I used my silhouette machine to size the bunny design and I printed it. Then I used heat and bond to make the bunny applique.

I used my silhouette machine to cut the letters out of fabric. My blade was dull so I had to snip some parts by hand. I made 5 eggs and put 2 layers of batting and one layer of tear away interfacing on the back side and did a zig zag stitch around them to make them puffy. Turned it all into a pillow. 

Easter Wreath wallhanging

 I threw this together last weekend. I used some scraps and some new Easter fabric that I got on sale at Hancock. The pink dot was on clearance. I used it for the bow and binding.

 I machine quilted it with my regular foot.

                                                            Close up of quilting.

I used this Easter Egg fabric from Hancock for the back. It's very bright. There's the pink binding. I hung it up as soon as it was done.

Placemats

 I used nothing but scraps for these placemats. Scrap batting, scrap binding and scrap bits and pieces for the random piecing.

I did random quilting as well. I used my silhoutte machine to cut the letters. I made them one day for my friend at work for her birthday. I gave them to her to use at lunch time. She took them home and said they were too nice to use at work. I thought that was a very nice compliment. 

Pillow

I silk screened this pillow for my friend for Christmas. She is an avid reader and she is retired so she stays up till all hours of the night reading. I saw this phrase on pinterest I think.

Christmas tree panel

 This was a Christmas tree panel that was in a stack of Christmas fat quarters. I added white, then the candy cane stripe.

 Here I added a second white, then random lengths of green strips. then green with red squares and finally longer green strips as the final border. I love how it turned out.

I think I'm going to quilt this one myself as it is a manageable size to work with. 

Christmas Cactus Quilt

 I started this quilt before Christmas and finished piecing before Christmas too. I went together really fast. It's a queen size. I have to make a backing for it and have it quilted.

This is a view of it with the borders. I used the reds and greens from a Christmas fat quarter stack and some other greens and reds too. 

Plaid quilt

 I saw a photo of a plaid quilt in a magazine and I figured "I can make that".  I gathered fabrics. You need a large quantity of background fabric. I probably had 2 yards. I cut large rectangles from the light fabric then I cut strips of blue. I cut the background rectangles maybe 3 inches up from the bottom and sewed on the blue strip and sewed the cut off background back on to the blue strip. 

 Then I cut sliced off about 3 inches on the left side of the blocks and put in a different blue strip of a different width.  

I did that a total of 2 vertical cuts and 2 horizontal cuts. The last blue strip was skinny and it was my sashing and I used it vertically and horizontally.  I love how it turned out. I think I will quilt it myself with straight lines to mimic a plaid design.

Feathered Star

 Here is another finish from probably 17 years ago. I was in a Christmas quilting club. This was one of our projects that I never had quilted until now.  I have the binding on and the swirl quilting is fantastic. 

I need to get better at taking photos.

 This is the back of the quilt.  I just got this fabric to finish it. I love how the swirls are in the quilt top fabric from 17 years ago too.  I'm keeping this one for my square coffee table. It could be a wall hanging as well.