Wasting Time

What a yucky day! It has been raining all night and is still raining at midday. Really shouldn't complain, we don't have to water the plants for a couple of days now!

So instead of sewing I have been playing around on my blog. I FINALLY learned how to add a banner and put my title on it!! I have another banner that I will hopefully learn how to add a picture to it and I could interchange the two of them. We'll see!

I also changed the font. Please let me know if it is easy or hard to read! I'm on the fence with it right now.

NOW I am going in my sewing room for the rest of the day. Have a good one!

Sew til next time...........


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Memory quilt #2

I asked the 3 girls what their favorite color was before starting their memory quilts. As you could tell from the previous post, Caitlyn chose purple. Jillian's favorite is ORANGE. I was so surprised at how much orange fabric I had. I only bought one piece for this quilt, only because it screamed Jillian to me!




I did a lot of stitch in the ditch to secure everything because of the weight of the quilt.




Then I just did whatever came to mind. None of the quilting was planned except the "sailboat".
Besides the t-shirt blocks I made, I also chose a different block for each quilt to showcase their dads shirts and khaki pants.




The light colored fabric on the back is the only fabric I purchased for this quilt.




All wrapped up and ready to give.




I couldn't wait for them to come for their Spring Break so I could give it to them. I think she likes it too!
Memory Quilt #3 is coming up soon!

Memory Quilts Finished And Given

We have 3 great nieces that lost their dad a few years ago when he lost his short battle with cancer. Their mom asked if I would make them each a quilt from their Dad's shirts and pants. I was so honored to be asked to do this, so I started my journey with Caitlyn's Memory quilt. As you can see her favorite color is PURPLE, so that's where I started. Each quilt had their favorite color, a special block, and t-shirts. I used their dads khaki pants for the backgounds in each block. Rohn, their dad loved to sail, so I found a free quilting template of a sail boat and quilted that on some of the t-shirt blocks. I also used sections of the shirts that were "paint stained" to make some of the blocks. After all, it is a memory quilt!




This is the whole quilt.




The yellow block has the quilted sailboat.








Backing and quilt label




Ready to be gifted.




I like she likes it!
One down, 2 more to show. I promise to be back soon!

Making Quilt Labels

I needed to make 4 labels today for 4 quilts that I am working on. Actually, I have 2 completed and ready for their label, one is almost finished, and one I haven't started yet, but hope to by tomorrow.
I made the labels using borders and fonts found in my American Greetings program. I ironed freezer paper sheets onto white fabric, cut the fabric the same size as the paper sheets and ran them thru my inkjet printer. I will let the ink dry for a couple of hours, then peel the fabric off the sheets and press with a dry, HOT iron to set the colors. Sorry, I don't have pics of the process, only this one after the printing was done.


......and voila, 4 labels ready to be cut and used!

Sew til next time........

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Easy Street -- Done!

Well, I'm done unless I decide to put borders on!




It was very cloudy outside, so this pic didn't come out so great, so I put it back on the banister and took this pic. These are the true colors.




I am very pleased with it. It was a great "mystery" from Bonnie Hunter. Thanks Bonnie!
Sew til next time..........
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