My recent project has been to create this really sweet memory quilt for a family out in Germany out of all of their daughter’s first year clothes. The mother wants all of the baby’s things preserved in a quilt in a throw size done up in crazy quilt blocks.
The finished quilt will be about 48″x60″ [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Memory Quilt – Blocks 1-4
Posted in Miscellaneous, Works In Progress, tagged babies, baby, blanket, blankets, children, craft, crafts, fabrics, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, vermont on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Turtle Quilt – Finished
Posted in Miscellaneous, Works In Progress, tagged children, christmas, craft, crafts, fabric, fabrics, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, turtles, vermont on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I managed to finish up the turtle quilt and mail it off to my client in time for Christmas. The outer border and the backing are the same lovely batik from Robert Kaufman and you can see it here. Here are some final shots of the quilt with just the binding left to be completed. [...]
Playing Catch-Up
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged children, christmas, family, fun, sleddin, VAST trails on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For anyone who has been wondering, we have not fallen off the face of the Earth – we’ve just been busy! As you can see, the boys were having tons of fun last week-end with the 25″ of snow we got in 3 days. Let’s just say that when you are only a little over [...]
Merry Christmas!
Posted in Funny, Miscellaneous, tagged christmas, Funny, happy, transformers on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Aaah.. The sweet smell of Transformers on Christmas morning!
Happy Holidays!
Turtle Quilt – Day 13
Posted in Works In Progress, tagged children, craft, crafts, fabric, fabrics, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, turtles, vermont on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The turtles now have eyes and the inner border is finished. I really like how the green has swirls of the same blue as the “water” in the batiking. You can also see that all of the applique is finished. My customer did not want the spots on the flippers, but really wanted the eyes. [...]
Memories
Posted in Works In Progress, tagged babies, baby, children, craft, crafts, fabric, fabrics, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, vermont on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last three days, my husband and I have been deconstructing some baby clothes for a memory quilt for a little girl. Her mommy asked me to take all of the baby things she has outgrown from her first year and make them into a crazy quilt! How cute is that! ?
I will have to [...]
Turtle Quilt – Days 11 & 12
Posted in Works In Progress, tagged craft, crafts, fabric, fabrics, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, thread, turtles, vermont on December 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I finished up the smaller turtle this morning and am thrilled with how the turtles are coming out. I really like how the colors are coming together and the threads look fantastic with them.
The next problem I have to face is what to do with the detailing on the turtles. The pattern calls for eyes [...]
Turtle Quilt – Days 9&10
Posted in Works In Progress, tagged craft, fabric, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, turtles, vermont on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I was able to fuse the first turtle onto the quilt background and start the satin stitching around the edges. Tonight I finished the main turtle and hope to finish cutting out the pieces for turtles 2 and 3.
On a slightly different note, we are getting a rather nasty mix of rain, freezing rain, [...]
Turtle Quilt – Day 8
Posted in Works In Progress, tagged fabric, fabrics, handmade, quilt, quilts, sewing, turtles, vermont on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The seaweed is finally done and I can now move on to making the turtles! I cannot believe how long it took me to put together these pieces of seaweed, but I am glad they are finally done. Tonight after I finished the seaweed, I have worked on applying the wonder under to the fabric [...]
Turtle Quilt – Day 5
Posted in Miscellaneous, Works In Progress, tagged craft, crafts, fabric, fabrics, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, seaweed, sewing, turtles on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I worked some more on outlining the seaweed. I finished the mottled one on the right and the green in the middle. The orange fan shape in the center is partially complete. In some of the shots, you can see where I had to stop partway through sewing. This is because I have to [...]
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