Happy Birthday America!

Happy Fourth of July!

Have a wonderful time with friends and family and have a great weekend :)

Blessing gown, WIP

I have been making a fancy band with French cotton lace.

Now I'm adding a row of Swiss cotton lace with entredeux.It is attached using a zigzag stitch. The 

needle goes into everyone if those holes, a very painstaking procedure :)

I've completed the fancy band, each stitch was sewn with much love for my new grand daughter, Paisley.

I'll show you the completed slip, dress, and smocked bonnet soon :)

Quilt Humor

Burp Pads

I made some burp pads for Paisley Louise.

I lined this one with some super soft minky, the same fabric that is on the back of Paisley Louise's baby quilt.

Don't you just love Little Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf?

I like this one too, there's a lot of bright colors and fun things going on!

Japanese fabric is so soft.

I backed on with chenille.

All wrapped up and ready to give :)

Quilt humor

Modern Instabee 2014, June

I've posted about this before, but I belong to Hive 11 of the Modern Instabee.
I found out about the group on Instagram.

There are 13 quilts or quilt blocks in this book.

There are 12 members in the hive.

Each member chooses a month, mine is October.

You tell the hive which block you want and what colors.

Sometimes one of the members will send us a square to use for the center of the triple star block.

The triple star block has been the most popular so far.

This hive member wanted her block in orange, yellow and a mossy green.

I made the block a little differently this time, I hope she likes it :)

Usually, you rotate the colors.

I made each layer of points the same color.

The finished block, the triple star.

DresdenI

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!