Mom's Quilt

I used a jelly roll and a charm pack to make a quilt for my mother for Christmas.

It is from Fig Tree and I think the colors will match her couch perfectly.  I used the same quilt pattern for Vanessa's quilt.

Emily's Garden in Blossom by Cotton Way.

The blanket stitch was pretty easy to do on my sewing machine.

18 circles are appliqued onto 18 squares.

This is the finished quilt.  I kept the colors in their groups....all the greens together, all the peaches together, and the browns together.

I like the appliqued flower with the nine patch center!

I machine quilted the quilt with a meandering stitch, or jigsaw pattern.

I love the back, it's from the same line and so is the binding.

I would highly recommend this pattern, it uses one jelly roll and one charm pack.  It is a lot of fun to sew, and is simple.

One thing I would suggest is that when you are sewing the strips together, rotate sewing from each end.  I didn't do that with Vanessa's quilt, and had to stretch it a lot to get it back into shape!

Vanessa's Quilt

I made this quilt 4 years ago.  

It takes a jelly roll and a charm pack.  I used the "sweet" line from Moda.

I made the quilt for my then 16 year old daughter Vanessa.

I always loved this line with its gingham, polka dots, stripes and roses.  I love the colors too.

The circles were so easy.....you trace circles onto wonder under and iron it to the wrong side of the square charm.  I cut the circles out and ironed them onto a square charm.  Then I stitched the circle onto the square with a blanket stitch on my sewing machine.

On Wednesday, I will show you a quilt I made for my Mom for Christmas using this pattern, but a different line of fabric.  

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I love seeing a pattern made with different colors and styles.

Paperdoll Block

These are Blocks 1 and 2, I completed them on schedule when I was taking the class from Lori in Utah.  Then we moved to Florida.

We had four grand daughters born within seven months of each other, and I was very busy making them all baby quilts, quilted wall hangings and very detailed blessing gowns with bonnets to match.

My paperdoll quilt was put to the side and I have just worked on it here and there since then.

Let me introduce to you, Rebecca Louise and Lindsay Leigh, my paperdolls named after my real life daughters who are only 16 months apart in age.  They are now 31 and 30 years in real life :)

I changed the dolls around a little and changed their hair color.  

Lindsay was born on Thursday, it's embroidered on her underwear.

Notice the detail?  Rebecca is wearing an old fashioned roller skate key around her neck.  She has a band aid on her elbow and her knee.  Her toes are painted red.  

The directions....the scissors are appliqued, and the rest is embroidered.  I remember as a really little girl, cutting out paperdolls.  Sometimes I wasn't too careful and cut off their tabs :)

This is Blocks 1 and 2 completed.  

FRIENDS 

all that

you

will need

is 

your

IMAGINATION

to begin

your 

many

ADVENTURES

together

All the blocks lying on top of each other and folded in half, waiting to be blocked and sewn together.

All 14 patterns are finished!

I still have more to show you next Friday :)

Angel Picture DIY

My husband bought an angel picture for our bedroom in the 1980's.  

Our bedroom was painted blue with blue flowered wallpaper, and angels were popular then.

After many years, we were tired of the picture.

I recycled it to the bathroom which had a huge empty space.

Wow, naked cupid angels in the bathroom :)

We moved again and this time there was no big "hidden" wall to hang the angel picture.

I told my husband that we should get rid of the picture.

He was more than happy to oblige because he hates clutter.

I took a second look and realized that the frame was really nice.

It has two different flower motif.

I have been wanting to hang a chalkboard in the house and this frame would be perfect for that!

The picture is matted, so I was just going to remove the matte and assumed the angels were printed on cardboard.  Not so!

The print was paper, and was only a little larger than the opening of the matte.  

There was a heavy cardboard on the back of the matted angel picture and it was all attached.

I took out the picture, matte and cardboard and painted spray painted the cardboard with black chalk paint.  So easy!!!

I painted the frame aqua, and rubbed a black glaze over the motifs.

Voila!  I got Sean to write his favorite scripture at the top before he left for his two year church mission to Brazil, two years ago.

Then I wrote a cute quote on the rest of the chalkboard.

I want to get a nice Thanksgiving quote to put on there.

This project was so easy!

Comforts of Home

I made this quilt in 2008 and 2009.  I made so many friends and learned new skills.  This is the most amazing quilt I have ever made.

"Comforts of Home" designed by Lori Holt.

This is the main block.  Everything centers around the home, and every room in the home is represented in this quilt.

The detail is incredible!

The "chair" block is my favorite.  Everything is appliqued, and accented with embroidery.

I love the tassels in the rug, the slippers and the curved satin stitch on the chair ruffle.

This was the same phone we used growing up and I embroidered our old telephone number.

I had a pair of roller skates exactly like these...they worked best with rubber soled running shoes.  There are 32 pattern pieces in this block, each one is very tiny.

This quote is so true.

When I was a two years old, I remember stretching up on my tippy toes and spelling out the word WESTINGHOUSE.  I could barely reach the letters.

Do you remember playing any of these games?

This word rang true for me when I was making this quilt.  I later sewed a green button for the dot on the "i".

Everyone I've shown this quilt to, loves this block!  My son used to watch the Andy Griffith show all the time.  I printed the photo onto fabric that can be put through the printer and then appliqued it in place.  We had a TV like this when I was little :)

I embroidered the countries where my sons served their church missions.  My youngest is in Brazil and I am going to add my sons in law, Spain, Baltimore and Italy.

Isn't this old fashioned tub cute?

We never had a radio like this, but my Mom did.

This always makes me smile :)  Donny Osmond was in elementary school, James Taylor was in middle school, and Led Zeppelin was in high school!

The finished quilt!

I forgot to take some closeup photos of the bed, with the pillows embroidered "Mr." and "Mrs.", and the cute clothesline, the crockpot and the fireplace.

Cindy did a phenomenal job with the quilting.  

I embroidered a poem on the back, and when I realized how much time I had spent on it, I used pigma pen to write about my family.

The embroidery really sets off the quilt.

Quilters make the best friends!

This is the day of our last "Comforts of Home" quilt class.  

Me and Lori.

Marianne, me and Betty.

Nadine (Material Girls) and me.

Beth and me.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my most favorite quilt of all!!!