The Finished Product and the aftermath.......

So the quilt is wrapped and ready to go out the door. I took a photo and looked up at my sewing table strewn with little bits of fabric and even the ball of tape that was used when I sewed in the straight lines on the pillow shams. What a mess, but what fun it was!

Four Alarm Frenzy? Fire It Up? Oh I can't decide!!!

This is quilt number 2 for Mrs. Thompson. She is having another boy and using the same fabric I needed to make another quilt, different enough that they would be able to tell them apart. The first one was all fire trucks and the quilting was all fire trucks. This time I quilted flames into the quilt. So the first one was TFD#1 (the fire department) and this one is the fire. I hope that it isn't indicative of their personalities. This one is backed in red, and the other in blue so there should be no question as to which is which. She also asked for a pillow sham, so I made two because there will be two boys and I've learned from experience that they argue over things and they will both need one.

Here's the message I attached to the quilt:

I made the plain sham first, and then realized that my boys fight over everything and if there was one there had to be two. I found some scraps from the last quilt and used those to make the second sham – which actually matches the first quilt nicely. This way there are two quilts and two shams. When I made the first quilt the fire trucks were very much in my mind, this time it was the fire. I made flames and little fires all over the quilt. When I was done I realized that this really reflected my boys personalities, the fire and the one who puts them out. Thanks so much! It was so fun to work with the same fabric and do something completely different with it. I hope you love it as much as I do!

Bibs, Bibs and more Bibs

As fast as I can make these little bundles they are out the door. I moved on from just the bib of the month, where you get 12 bibs, one representing each month. Now I do dozens for girls, boys, Christmas, summertime and more! It's crazy. I used to use scrap fabric to make these, now I have to go hunt for novelty fabric that's got patterns just the right size for the bibs. I actually enjoy hanging onto them as the bib turns the corners and you can feel the fabric pulling. I really like sewing.

In The Garden

It's so rare that I actually use a pattern that I have to give thanks to my source, probably my favorite quilt book "Tesselation Quilts" by Christine Porter. She made a similar quilt called "Saturday Market" and I never had any intention of making that same quilt but I had gathered the fabrics to make a quilt and when I saw the pattern it fit perfectly.

Colors of the Sea

It's been a while since I did a big project, so this is big in size, but actually went together super fast. It's a panel from Hawaii, all I did was sew a border on it, make the backing, and quilt it together. Easy. The big part was it's size, it's a nice roomy twin size quilt. It's on it's way back to Hawaii next week, I finished just in time.

It's Summer! Maybe i'll get some sewing done.

This is the July wall hanging of the month, notice that June is absent. Where did the time go? I have a couple projects i'm working on now, so with the kids tracked back in we'll see what I can get done. This one was really fun, it's a moda panel and I snipped around the edges for a frayed border. I really like the effect.

A Dozen Bibs

It seems like lately I can't get anything finished. I have lots of UFO's at the moment but nothing complete. My only finished project is a stack of a dozen bibs for boys, in assorted prints. Although the achievement here is that I made 3 dozen, but only sold 1 dozen. So i'm ready for next time, unless I need girl bibs.

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