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I chose these fabrics to make my daughter a Dresden table topper.
These fabrics are mostly Heather Bailey and Amy Butler.

I know that she loves mint green :)

Have you ever made one of these dresdens?

I put the petals on the design board in the order I want them.

I sewed all the petals together and placed them on a linen background.

I stitched the petals and center circle onto the background fabric with a little zigzag stitch and some invisible thread.

I prepared the block for machine quilting.

I used my favorite thread, Aurifil.

I stitched in the ditch on the dresden petals, did a pebble stitch on the back ground, with a little swirl in the center.

The name of the mint green solid is Kona pond.  

I really like it!

I love the back too :)

These dresden blocks are a lot of fun to make!

Tee Shirt Quilt, finished!

I have been working on this quilt since January, 5 months ago!

I cut strips of fabric for the binding, then the quilt sat for about 6 weeks.

I had too many other things to do....

Sean recently asked me when I was going to finish his quilt.

I put everything else aside and sewed and pressed the binding.

I sewed the binding onto the quilt and hand stitched the binding to the back until I was finished.

It took about 3 days.

The quilt is really gorgeous, I'm very pleased with it :)

I can tell you the meaning of every tee shirt on this quilt, it has been a walk down memory lane.

I put the quilt on Sean's bed while he was gone.

When he came home, he went upstairs to his bedroom.

He came down shortly after with the biggest smile on his face.

Then he gave me the biggest, longest hug!

It was worth every moment of hard but enjoyable work :)

I haven't seen Sean's bed look like this since, but the quilt is finished and he loves it!!!

Thimble Baby Quilt

I posted about this quilt here, a couple of months ago.

I smoothed it out on the tile floor and pinned the front to the back.

I backed this quilt with a really soft minky fabric.

A tutorial told me to use spray glue but I thought it would be too messy.

The slippery tile floor helped!

It was late at night and I used my chin on my iPhone to take this photo of my machine quilting :)

The green fabric will be the binding for this little baby quilt.

 The binding is Polka dot stitches by Lori Holt, it is the perfect shade of green.

Yay, the quilt is finished!

Here is the soft minky that I backed the quilt with :)

Paisley Louise will love her colorful quilt!!!

Scrappy Happy Summer

Hi everyone! I have been so excited to start Lori's new sew along, Scrappy Happy Summer :)

Have you seen the movie Frozen?

There's a snowman in the movie named Olaf.

Click here for the cutest song about "summer".

I will be a month late in showing you my progress, because I am leaving to visit my children and grandchildren for a few weeks.

I bought my pattern and have no idea yet, which fabric I'll use.

Sewing Kit and tutorial

I made my 5th sewing kit that I've made, I made my first one here with a tutorial and a giveaway.

I made the 2nd sewing kit for my son, you can see it here.

The 3rd sewing kit that I made was for a sweet young woman, and it was my most viewed post ever!

You can see it here.

The 4th one is here, I made it with a Japanese theme :)

Now to get to my latest sewing kit.

I made it for a young man who is going on his two year church mission, to Portland, Oregon.
I just love this fabric called "12 steps to iron a shirt".
It actually lists the 12 different ways and has them numbered :)
Great fabric for a missionary who will be wearing a white shirt six days out of the week!

Daniel went to BYU for a year, so this fabric was perfect!

The colors of the Oregon flag are navy and yellow, that's why I bound the sewing kit in yellow :)

Here's a better closeup of the fabric.

I stocked the sewing kit with supplies.

The pocket on the left contains iron on patches, buttons for shirts and dress pants, and some fray check.

Lots of different sizes of safety pins, straight pins and needles.

I put some washi tape on the little black scissors so they could easily be slid out of their pocket.

The pocket on the right contains clothes pins (you never know...), a tape measure and some thread with another needle.

Daniel will be an exemplary missionary, I'm looking forward to hearing about all of his experiences in Oregon.

See you in 2 year Daniel :)

Mini Medallion, Finished!

I finished my Mini Medallion, yay!  

I think the colors are happy and I love the Aunt Gracie prints.

I am also in love the fabric on the back :)

Little vintage girls from the 1950's.

I grew up in the day when you could only wear dresses to school.

Thankfully, by the time I reached high school, the rules had changed and you could wear pants and even jeans (gasp!) to school.

If you are interested in making a Mini Medallion designed by Corey Yoder, all the information is on my Pinterest board here.

The mini measures 24" square.

Dresden

I love the dresden quilt block so much!

I always thought it would be so difficult to make one, but they really aren't that hard.

I made this dresden mini, or tabletopper, for Teresa Coates, whose birthday is in May.
I'm just a little late.....

Teresa is a fellow member of our Handmade Birthday Club.

She loves neutrals, particularly grays, with a touch of butter yellow.

I chose my fabric and was able to make each petal a different print.

I appliqued the butter yellow center and safety pinned the block, in preparation for machine quilting. 

I am really excited about the background fabric, I think it sets off the grays really well :)

Ta da!  I finished the machine quilting!

I stitched in the ditch on the dresden, added a swirl in the center, and pebble quilted the background.

I always like to show off how pretty the back looks, quilted.

This is the binding all stitched onto the block, ready to hand stitch on the back.

Here's a closeup :)

Here's another closeup with a few untrimmed threads!

Yeah, it's finished!

I really want to keep it for myself, but I'll try resist the urge :)

The back could be used as a table topper too if you want a change.

I have a Pinterest board dedicated to dresdens, if you want to check it out here.

I have some tutorials on how to make a dresden block on my Pinterest board, random tutorials, but you will have to sift through a lot of other tutorials to find them :)