Progress on my Quilted Jacket

I've been spending a lot of time on my quilted jacket.  It's very scrappy and it looks like the coat of many colors!  Everything I used in the jacket has a special meaning to me.

These are all the pattern pieces.  Two sleeves, two fronts, a back and a collar.

On top is the collar, I made it out of Ruby Star Society selvages, because I love those designers and their selvages are so cute! The two bottom pieces are the two front pieces.  I made some economy blocks and used an "orphan" Pineberry block.

All the center squares in the economy blocks are special to me. Dwight Schrute from "The Office" TV show.  That's not my favorite TV show, but my kids all love it!  The orange meat cans is fabric that I made for my grandson Bridger's scripture cover. The little cowboy is from a quilt that I made for our oldest grandchild Bridger when he was born, almost twenty years ago!  Next is Anne of Green Gables. Both of my parents are from Prince Edward Island and I spent most summers there as a child and teenager. There are more, but maybe I'll talk about them in another post.

Some American Jane squares, I have a small collection of that fabric that I've been hoarding for years!

This is the back of my jacket, it's all quilted.

I'm using this Art Gallery flannel for the lining.  At the bottom, I've added a strip of Ruby star fabric, including the selvage.  When I have the jacket on, I will turn up the cuff and it will show.

This is the other sleeve.  I love the Union Jack block.  It used to be Canada's flag until 1967 when Canada turned 100 years old. I had to draw that flag a lot in Elementary school and it was really difficult!

That's what I have done so far. My goal is to have the jacket finished by the middle of February, so I can wear it to Quiltcon which is in Phoenix. I hope I won't be embarrassed to wear it, lol!

Quilted Jacket

I'm going to make this pattern, there's a tutorial on Riley Blake you tube.  I watched it and all the seams are finished with binding.  I also like the collar.

I have wanted to make a quilted jacket for years. I thought it would be fun to make it scrappy and use up some of my orphan blocks. 

This beautiful red fabric were leftover from a quilt I made and gifted. I trimmed the pieces and sewed half square triangles and trimmed them again and made this!

My youngest son Sean is 31 years old and father of two. When he was 7 or 8, he shared his bedroom with my sewing room for a little while after our oldest daughter moved back home. He embroidered a baseball player, drew the picture and everything! He wanted to make it into a pillow but never did. I couldn't bear to get rid of it, so am going to use it on my jacket!

Here's some beautiful Ruby Star that was left over from a quilt, it's going to be a sleeve.

I had this Union Jack block left over from a mini Jumping Jacks pattern. I'm going to use it as the other sleeve.

I'm so excited about creating this jacket, I hope it doesn't look too crazy!

Have a great week ❤️

Village quilt pattern

 I joined a swap group using these little houses in Heather Ross fabric.  I have a small collection of her fabric that I've had for quite a few years, so I was very excited to join! 

Rusted Silo Studio on Instagram, is hosting the swap if you would like to join too! The deadline is March 31 which leaves lots of time for busy people! This "Village" pattern has been on my wish list for a while, so win win! If I remember correctly, there are 134 houses in this village. 

I'm so excited about this, it's right up my alley! Aren't these fabrics cute together?  I forgot to mention that the doors need to be fussy cut fabrics which I'm so happy about.

I'm fussy cutting the adorable little bees in this yellow fabric and using the rest for houses.

I only had a fat quarter of this little ballerina fabric and was able to get about 33 little ballerinas from it.

My friend told me about this swap and she makes the cutest quilts.  We are also swapping some of our house blocks with each other. I can hardly wait to show you my finished quilt which won't be complete until May at the earliest. 

Let me know if you join the swap :)

Reindeer Xing quilt

This quilt is Reindeer Xing by Lela Boutique. There are 13 reindeer I think, the middle one is Rudolph. See his red nose? 

Here's Rudolph. See the beautiful machine quilting?

I had the perfect label for this quilt, and see the gorgeous, velvety pinky?

The pattern showed lots of gray prints from the Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning fabric lines.  I chose to add a little more color in my quilt. It took forever to make the antlers, lol!

I collated fat quarters after Christmas when they were on sale.

This quilt is perfect for a queen size bed.

I made this quilt while I was on a four day quilt retreat before Halloween. It took me the full days to get it sewn together. I mass produced. I made all 26 antlers first, then created the deers' faces, then on to the half square triangles, etc. 

I'm thrilled that this quilt is finished, I've had it for about two years! 

Thanks for stopping by ❤️

Maileg Mice Jewelry Box

 I made my grand daughter Lucy, this little miniature fun box for Christmas.  She has a love for any stuffed animals, so I'm pretty sure she'll love these mice! The are Maileg mice, made in Denmark. 

I bought a jewelry box and gutted it, and ironed heavyweight Pellon onto some cute Christmas fabric. I placed it in the bottom of the jewelry box and added some trim to the top of the box. I made a little pendant banner and a skirt for the big sister.

I also made the cutest little quilt from 1" squares. 

Here is the big sister, she's dressed for winter.

I didn't knit the sweater, most of the miniatures I bought from Temu.

Cute little kitchen miniatures.  The lid opens too.

An adorable teddy bear waffle, with another waffle mold that can be replaced with four heart shaped waffles!

This is under the lid!  A china set, plates, toaster, snowman hot chocolate pitcher with mugs, a Santa book and plate of cookies for Santa, and some broccoli to cook in the pink pot.

The top tray is removable, revealing more cuteness!

Inside the suitcase, under the knit blanket, is an adorable little baby ❤️

I'm pretty sure that Lucy will love this, although I'm having a very difficult time parting with it 😩

Special thanks to my friend Nedra, who took all the photos ❤️

Thanks for following, see you next week!

The Holland Pouch

I love this Holland Pouch pattern by Centerstreet Quilts.

When my family comes to visit, I always try and make the grandchildren something special.  This time I made something for the parents as well ❤️ I'll fill them with some little tasty goodies :)

 

This one is cute, little hedgehogs with pink trim.

I love the toadstool charm!  I thought hedgehogs live in the forest with toadstools everywhere!

This pouch is for someone whose favorite color is yellow.

This one is so happy!  The flower power fabric is designed by Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!  You guessed it, Maureen McCormick.

This one is for my daughter. Nothing but the best, Ruby Star Society all the way!

My son in law needed something masculine, but I don't have much of that. I really love this cactus fabric, it almost looks like a photograph of cacti. 

That's a wrap!  Happy Thanksgiving everyone ❤️

A Quilt for Bela

 Bela is a sweet 16 year old girl who was born with heart problems. She has had many heart surgeries throughout her life. Finally, her heart was failing really badly and she had to go to the hospital to wait for a new heart. She had been in the hospital for a month when a heart was made available! My friend Nedra had made her a blue heart quilt a year ago, because blue is Bela's favorite color.

Bela is home from the hospital now and working on getting stronger every day. Nedra had the idea of making a heart quilt to celebrate Bela's new heart. Some of us got together and sewed the heart blocks and nine patches for a new quilt.

Nedra made us a beautiful and delicious lunch. Here we all are, holding some blocks.

Nedra sewed the blocks together, Terri machine quilted it, and Nedra bound the quilt.

It feels wonderful to do something like this for someone ❤️