Happy Valentine’s Day!

I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine’s Day!

Filled with lots of love!

And hearts!

And cupcakes!

New Quilt

I’ve started another quilt (shocker, I know).  So far, all of the pieces have been cut out and I’m now ready to start sewing. This project might take me awhile since it is going to be the biggest quilt I have ever made : a King size, perfect for our new bed!

Dimitri’s Blanket

My sweet kitty turned 5 yesterday!  We totally celebrated his birthday, because we are slowly turning into the crazy cat people of the neighborhood, and it was fun!  Anyway, for his birthday I made him a new blanket.  He absolutely loves blankets, all kinds of blankets, but really the flannel ones are his favorites.

It was a family effort to make this for him.  Dustin picked out the fabric and I did the sewing.  Then Sophie kept it warm for him (or in other words, kicked him off of it so she could lay on it.  Looks like I need to make a second one). 

I figured Dimitri wouldn't care if it had a crochet edging or a decorative stitch so I went with the fastest one.  I tried out a few new stitches (and even one that I might try for quilting next time) and finally settled on this one. 

He really likes it and I think Sophie is jealous.  I really think I will be making a second one of these in the near future for her.

PS- Double yay to the Jazz for beating the Lakers last night!   Even with all the injured players, they still were able to win!  What a game!

Moda Fabric

I’ve had several questions regarding the fabric that I used on the Double Take Quilt. Rather than trying to answer so many emails, I decided to just post it here. Hope that is okay.

All of the fabrics are from Moda. These are the numbers that were on the selvedge.

Solid Orange Fabric : Pumpkins Gone Wild Solid Pumpkin - #7521-282

Solid Brown Fabric: Pumpkins Gone Wild Solid Walnut - #7521-287

Orange Floral Print: Pumpkins Gone Wild Pumpkin - #17378-12

Brown Floral Print: Pumpkins Gone Wild Walnut - #17378-19

Good luck! I hope this is somewhat helpful. If anyone makes one of these, I’d love to see it!

Relay For Life Donations

Phew, I’m so fast! Look at me whipping out these quilts!

HA HA HA!! Just teasing! I didn’t make this quilt, although I wish I had. My mom made it! Isn’t it adorable?

She made it at our family quilt retreat. She wanted to donate it to my aunts Relay for Life drawing so she asked me to quilt it for her. This was the first time that I have quilted someone else’s project. Boy was that stressful! She just told me to quilt it how I wanted. I couldn’t decide, so I just went with the standard free motion stippling. I must say, I am still not a professional by any means, but my stitches are getting a lot better.

The backing she used was a purple polka dot flannel! FLANNEL! … For the backing! … What a great idea! I don’t know why I haven’t thought of this, especially with all the baby blankets I have made but I love this idea. It makes it so super soft and snuggly! And purple polka dots, how cute it that?

Each bug is an applique piece. (We learned how to do applique at the quilt retreat, so all of the quilts were applique.) And has embroidery for the faces. How adorable is this butterfly?

Well, this froggy might be slightly more adorable, but I can’t decide.

My mom is super talented and I love this quilt. Thanks Madre, for giving me the chance to quilt this for you!

I wanted to also thank Christina and Rebekah for their donations to the relay for life fundraiser. You girls are amazing!

Christina made these great bath puffs. She has such a talent for crochet and these are perfect. I’ve never thought to make these, but I think I might give them a try.

Rebekah made this adorable table runner with this cute Lizzy Dish fabric! I love this so much that I almost kept it for myself. No worries, I didn’t (I wanted to, but I didn’t). Isn’t it so cute?

Thanks girls! You are the best! Oh, and I had to steal these pictures from your blogs, hope you don’t mind. Silly me, I forgot to take pictures of them before I shipped them to my aunt. I was just a little excited to send them to her.

Satin Binding and Me are NOT Friends

I decided to try something different for the edging on a receiving blanket.  When I saw this satin binding, I thought that it would be perfect.   Little did I know that satin was not a friend of mine.  Boy is that stuff slippery.  Way to much pinning for my taste.

I used a pre-made satin binding and attached it to two pieces of flannel.  It turned out super cute and it is oh so soft, but this will most likely be the one and only time that I attempt this.  I just might have to keep this one since I will not be making another like this.

After I finished the satin edging, I decided that crochet edges really were more my style.  So I started a new one with a lovely crochet edging.  Oh, this made me so happy! 

One side is a flower print and the reverse side is a polka dot print that I just adore.

The edging is just the simple shell stitch that I have been using to make dish cloths and the placemats.  I really enjoy this stitch and think maybe next time I will do two rounds of it.

 

I’m off to put together a few more because we all know that I love them!

Knitting Progress

It is coming along slowly, but I am loving this yarn!

Hopefully I will be able to finish this scarf before warm weather arrives and I won’t need it.  But if warm weather would like to come early, I certainly won’t complain.