Quilty Fun Sew Along, Week 19

I have tried my best to keep up with this weekly Quilty Fun Sew Along, and have been successful!

Sometimes I've had to make the block a week or two ahead of time because I've been out of town, but it worked for me :)

I have pinned all of the block tutorials on my "Quilty Fun Sew Along board on Pinterest, although you do need the book for all the measurements.

I've really been looking forward to this "bumblebee" block.  

I used Kona charcoal for the bee's head, I had already used the same fabric for the "spools" block.

The bee's body is yellow "Vintage Happy" and a black gingham.

The wings are "Polka Dot Stitches".

I traced the letters onto the block, using my light box.

I embroidered the letters, it took about an hour and a half without interruptions.

I usually use red for letters, but decided to stitch in orange instead.

I am a little disappointed because the letters would show up better if they were in red.

Red always "pops".

I'm not disappointed enough to start over though....

I sewed the border on, and the bee came alive!!!

While I was at it, I decided to sash the rows together, creating the center portion of the sampler.

Now I'm ready for Lori to show us how to add the borders, on Monday.

I hope you're enjoying this Quilt Along.

I've loved following other blogs who are doing this same sampler.

I need to give a big "Thank you" to Greg at Grey Dogwood Studio for helping me with my iron issue.  

He suggested using spray starch, which was great advice!

Amy from A Quilting Sheep gave me similar advice, thank you so much!

I can hardly wait to see what borders everyone will be choosing :)

Doll Clothes

There are so many commercial patterns for doll clothes, these particular ones are for 18" dolls.

The instructions are very detailed and easy to read.

From this pattern, I made party dress A, the tee shirt, tights and jumper H.

I made the pajamas and slippers from this pattern.

I wouldn't mind a dress like this :)

I used some "roses" machine embroidery on the ribbon instead of topstitching it to the dress.  

I should have used a different color thread because the white doesn't show up at all!

I made the tee shirt and tights from a new "Susan G. Komen 5K Race for the Cure" tee shirt.

The jumper matches it perfectly.

I machine embroidered some bows on the hem, I like the look :)

I made a little set of pajamas, with matching slippers.

The Hello Kitty fabric is from another set of pj's that I repurposed.

That's a working pocket on the pj top, too.

My doll Red Rose is going to model the clothes.

I wrote a post about Red Rose if you're interested, you can see it here.

I made these clothes for my grand daughter Charlotte, who will be 4 years old in a couple of weeks.

I saw a little package of eyeglasses that I am going to buy for Charlotte's doll, and a pair of pink shoes to match her dress.

I love the bow on the back of the dress.

By the way, isn't this dog the cutest?

It's the closest I'm ever going to get to owning a real one :) Lol

Thimble Baby Qullt, WIP

I was on my iPad a couple of weeks ago and saw a notification that my daughter in law pinned this quilt on Pinterest.

You can find it here.

Her baby, our 10th grand daughter, is due on May 20th.

I have been wondering what kind of quilt to make her for the baby, and I got my answer! Ha ha!

I bought Lori Holt's Thimble ruler a few months ago and have been looking for an excuse to use it.

I have also been using Lori's method of stash organization and have accumulated a lot of 5" squares.  

I painstakingly cut out all of these thimble shapes, in softer hues.

I love the scrappy look :)

I sewed them all together.

I am looking for the perfect "minky" to back it with.

Should I quilt it a straight outline stitch, or an all over stipple or swirl?

Don't forget to keep in mind that I will be using minky for the back.

I'm a little worried about it, but have been reading some tutorials and they say to use spray glue to keep the layers together.

Quilty Fun Sew Along, Week 18

This week was the "Posie" flower block.

There were a lot of little white squares to cut out for each flower!

4 for the flower and 4 for each leaf.

This particular block was pretty time consuming, but I love choosing the fabrics and seeing the blocks come together!

I have been having "iron" issues.  

I haven't been using steam at all, but don't like the way my iron is pressing.

Any suggestions?

T

Modern Instabee 2014 (March)

I wrote about the Modern Bee I joined, last Monday.

Nancy chose the Triple Star block for March.

She wanted 2 complimentary colors and a white background.

She preferred pinks, yellows and greens.

She wanted us to use a little bumblebee from Heather Ross's Briar Rose line of fabric.

Nancy sent me a piece, enough so I could use some on one of the stars.

I chose the rest of the fabrics to compliment the little bee, in pinks and yellows.

Isn't she adorable with her little kerchief and apron?

This is the second layer of the star.  

The third layer...

I love the triple star block!  

It was great fun choosing the prints :)

Go to Instagram and look up #moderninstabee2014 and #moderninstabeehive11 for more photos.

Tee Shirt Quilt, WIP

I'm still working on this quilt for Sean :)

You can see my first post about this quilt here.

I had hoped to be further along that this, but I have been working on other projects.

I am a procrastinator when it comes to difficult things!

I appliquéd Sean's soccer number to some Kona fabric to replicate his soccer jersey.

Now I am squaring it to 12 l/2".

This is the top row of the quilt.

The two #32's are his "home" and "away" soccer game shirts.

I added a little bit of quilty color to the left of the Vikings :)

Those blocks are the leaves that I didn't like from the "Quilty fun Sew Along".  

I put them to good use :)  Ha ha!
I have a small box of "orphan blocks".

The purple and white arrow to the right of the white Vikings are some half square triangles that were left over from my grand daughter Kylie's wall hanging I made for her over a year ago.

These cougar and BYU embroideries used to be on a knit beanie.

I just cut around them and topstitched them to navy blue fabric.

Progress!  

We are moving this weekend, only a few blocks away :)

I am going to try and get this top sewn together today.

Wish me luck!

Quilty Fun Sew Along, Week 17

It's Week 17, not many more to go, in the Quilty Fun Sew Along.

This week, it's the mitten block.

There were a lot of different sizes to cut out of the white.

I really like this deer print, but it was a little tricky making sure all the deer were facing the same direction.

I love this swirly orange, it almost looks like frost :)

Pink, this is the color of my skin if I've been out in the cold too long, Lol!!!

My mitts are complete, but do you notice another mistake I made?

The deer are upside down!

I have a lot to do these days, and I'm trying to sew quickly!

Did I tell you that we're moving to another house in a few days, a few blocks away, and that my son is coming home from his 2 year church mission in 5 weeks and 1 day?

My grand daughter's 4th birthday is coming up and I want to make her some doll clothes for the doll we gave her at Christmas.

So many sewing projects, so little time.....

All is not lost, I think the mittens look better this way.

Thanks for letting me share all my sewing projects with you, it's really nice to have an audience :)