Saturday, April 6, 2013

Quilty fun

I'm showing you guys some of the quilt tops that I have finished and need to get quilted. Hopefully they will be done sometime in the immediate future. I just have so many things coming up that I don't know how it will happen lol.

 This is a project I drooled over for a long time. It is a Sweetwater project called Intersection.
 I made it with the same fabrics used in their quilt, the Hometown line. I just love all their fabric
 lines and adore this pattern. I had some leftover blocks that were not the right size (don't
 know how that happened) so I just used them for the backing. I LOVE this quilt.



Next up is the cute little pattern by A Bright Corner.  This is one of her free tutorials and I must
say it was quite easy to follow. The directions were clear and concise and this was a lot of fun.




Here is another wonderful quilt design that I got from the moda bakeshop.  Starry Eyed used another wonderful fabric from the girls over at Sweetwater.  Did I say I love their fabric? 




This little gem sprang from and idea over at Cupcakes and Daises. This is my version of her crimson and cream snowball challenge.  Thelma is an awesome quilter and we both share an affinity for red. That's so funny because I never was a red person before and now I have somehow fallen in love with it.



Here is another quilt done with my all time favorite quilt line put out by Sweetwater.  It is called Sunkissed and I just could not buy enough of it.  It is done in a quilt pattern called Smitten by one of my favorite bloggers, Rachel Griffith over at ps I quilt. 

I hate to admit, but this quilt has been done for some time and I haven't quilted it YET!



I had planned on making it for my little girl when she was a toddler. She is nine now, just a little late huh?  The pattern is from the book below and it has so many cute patterns for quilts and pillows.  Oh, I do eventually plan on finishing it and possibly make the matching pillow.  Hopefully it won't be for my grandchild.  I could always add more borders and make it bigger, but then begins the trouble of trying to find just the right fabrics.  Me in a quilt store equals bad news. I really do try and limit myself. But hey you only live once right?






Here is a quilt I was just playing around with a new tool and decided to use up some stash fabric. It uses the twister template and was very easy to complete.  I love the inspiration fabric that I used, but not so crazy about the quilt. I got this cute little animal print batik in Paducah, Kentucky a while ago. Didn't know what I would do with it, just knew I loved it and had to have it.  Most of my fabric purchases seem to go that way.  I think I will just practice some new quilting designs on this baby and use it as a picnic blanket.





This little beauty is a gorgeous quilt designed by my LQS in Collinsville, Illinois. The store is
Cross Patches and I simply love this shop.  They are filled with wonderfully inspiring projects. please ignore my wheel of fortune pose lol.



Here are just a few close-ups of  some of the blocks.




Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Basting along

I bought this Simply Irresistible pattern at the AQS quilt show in Paducah, Kentucky about 3 or 4 years ago.




 I finally pieced it together a year and a half ago. Now I have finally basted it (with Mr. RX's help)
and she is ready to be quilted.




 still a little undecided about what color thread to use. I never want to go with regular neutral or white. That would be way too easy. I always want to do something different which takes a longer time to get started.


Here are a few close-ups of this baby. I so love this quilt. It has my favorite color, pink.  Maybe I'll quilt her with a light shade of pink hmmm. I just don't want the quilting to compete with the fabric. BTW the focus fabric is a is a wonderful fabric by Loralie Designs. The rest are from a quilt kit (I don't remember the vendor) and some are from my stash. Usually when I buy a kit, I like to mix in some of my own fabrics just to make it more my style.



Well, here's till next time. Happy quilting!
 

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Creative Chaos

It seems there are never enough hours in a day. I have so many projects that i want to accomplish but i would probably have to live until I'm 1000 years old lol. I finished so many projects while off from work, but they were all new ones (at least I was productive right?). I did not finish not one single UFO. Why does it always seem to go that way? Well, I decided to take inventory and show you guys what I needed to finish (what I was willing to admit publicly). I had at least 12 tops that needed quilting and at least 6 projects that were in varous stages of completion. Looks like I need more times off (wish it was that easy). Here are those quilts that are completed at least. Until next time.




 

Monday, March 11, 2013

my mom

Hi, i am her daughter triston, my mom is the best quilter in the world.my mom is going to sell american girl clothes.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Finally finished, for real

I finally got around to ripping out those pesky wrong rows (ugh) and put Radio Way together correctly. still deciding what to back this baby with, but i did decide on the binding. until next time.
 
 
 
 

Friday, February 22, 2013

Oops!

so my husband came home and i showed him my finish. leave it to him to find my boo boo. i flopped one of the rows the wrong way. guess ill be picking out stitches tonight. glad i didnt see it after i started quilting. until next time

Finish it friday



I finally finished piecing Radio Way now to pick a backing fabric and get this baby quilted.  Have a great weekend.