Table Runner and Crayon Rolls

I made this table runner from Moda Rounierres.  I really loved the pattern and colors in this line.  I used charm squares for the middle and some yardage for the borders, binding and back.  It's off to a friend in New England, hopefully it will coordinate somewhere in her home.









Also in the package I included a few crayon rolls for her kids.  We got one of these as a gift and love it.  They go together fast and easy and make coloring not at home so nice.  They hold sixteen crayons, though you could make them bigger or smaller.  So enough colors to have variety, but not so many that we are losing them every where and finding them melted in the car.

Project Linus Quilts

We did some quilts for Project  Linus for Disney's Give a Day, Get a Day program they have up and running right now.  Each family member over the age of 6 needed to make a quilt.  So I taught Nate and the kids to sew a straight line.  Harder than you would think.  Jack likened sewing to driving a car.  Having to keep you eye on the fabric and keep track of pedal speed.  Bella loves to sew and would do it all the time.  Nate did great until he got toward the end, then he would panic a bit.  It was fun for me to watch and share some sewing with them.

Polka Dot Bubbles

This quilt was a labor of love.  I saw it in a past issue of Quilt's N' More.  The fabric however, a Prints Charming print, couldn't be found anywhere.  I looked all over the valley with no luck.  While on vacation in spring of 2008-cause who doesn't shop for fabric while on vacation-we stopped at Rosie's in San Diego.  And there it was, the bubble fabric I had been looking for.  So I bought some, brought it home, and started stitching.  The circles are all hand stitched with DMC pearl cotton.  There are sooo sooo sooo many circles. I tried to stitch them in between other projects, I find I need frequent breaks from hand work.  So, this quilt sat in progress next to my sewing desk for almost two years!  Yikes!  I had periods when I worked on it a lot, and long periods of ignoring it.  Finally, last week, I stitched the last circle and bound the quilt.  I am very pleased with how it turned out.  I don't think pictures really depict it terrible well.  The quilt measures 40" x 48".

Old Red Barn Scrap Quilt

I am finishing things up left and right around here.  I participated in the Old Red Barn Quilt-Along last spring and was left with some scrap blocks after putting together the quilt.  I didn't really want to incorporate them in the quilt back at the time, so I saved them waiting for a project.  Finally last month I put together this little quilt top.  It is baby sized quilted with a small stipple.  I love the way the colors pop on the white.  And feel much relief to have finally used the extra blocks.

Dress for Me

I made this dress about two years ago.  It was all finished except for the zipper, which I put in last week-sad I know.  It is mid-calf with a cross-over top.  I made an attempt to take a picture wearing the dress, attempt being the key word there. 

Pink Lemonade

I started this quilt about four years ago.  I began collecting pink and yellow fat quarters.  I had intentions of giving it to my daughter when she got a big girl bed.  Well, it got pushed aside and the top lay finished while we moved and then for a few years after that.  Finally, I found a back that I liked and quilted it.  It's a bright and cheery quilt. I am sure the girls will use it on their beds.  It is a twin size.  The quilting is loops and flowers.

I used the spare blocks on the back.  I love doing this, it relieves any guilt I have about orphan blocks laying around.

Done!

Sophie's stocking!  Finished!  Complete!  Ready to stuff.  This is her third Christmas though.  Nonetheless, this unfinished project was weighing on me and I really needed to take it off the UFO list.

Also, I have new niece!  She is a darling little thing!  We were so excited to go meet her yesterday.  The kids were very excited to have a new cousin. 

Anyway, I put together this pink and black quilt.  I always refer to this as a wall paper pattern, I don't know if I have seen it called that somewhere or not.  I used Minkee for a few of the stripes and various cottons on the rest.  I love making baby quilts.  It's always quick gratification.  My sister-in-law liked it, which is of course the best part. 

I have no further sewing projects between now and Christmas, which seems kind of weird.  Not to say that all my UFO's are all gone, I just don't need to get anything sewn for Christmas specifically.  I did a lot of knocking things off my unfinished list.  I am hoping for an uneventful January where perhaps I can knock out a few more.  Then I need to start and finish some new things as a stash reducer, more specifically, a scrap reducer.