WIP Wednesday - 09/05/2012

September is so busy already and my calendar just keeps filling up!  I am surprised I am getting any quilting done at all!

Yesterday, I made this little table topper for my 4 year old's night stand.  

I pieced the background then basted the quilt.  I quilted a simple cross-hatch pattern through the squares.  Then I ironed on some shapes I cut out with my Go! Baby using Steam-a-seam 2 Lite.  I proceeded to machine applique the quilt shapes down using a buttonhole stitch, quilting through all layers at the same time.  Then I finished it off with a decorative stitch in the border.  

As you can see, I still need to stitch down the binding.

Today, I pieced some more log cabin blocks.

Tomorrow I am working so I think the next time I get some sewing time will be on Friday night.  I should have a finish posted for TGIFF though, so stay tuned!

Linking up to WIP Wednesday

Color My World White

I am a few days late with my challenge block... the color for August was white.

This was definitely the toughest color yet.  Once I got to looking through my fabric though, I was inspired to call this my winter star.

I know it is very hard to see, especially in photos, but the center and points of my star are a snowflake fabric with a tiny bit of glitter in it.  I think it will show up a lot better once all of my star blocks are together in a quilt.

This block looks better in person.  I took a few photographs but these were the 2 best ones.  

I used fabrics with different tones and prints.  

I am definitely glad this one is done and excited to move on to September's color which is orange!!  

I also realized last month that I haven't told you where I got my patterns for my blocks.  Most of them are from a pattern of a class I took back in 2000 called Century Stars.  I also pulled a few from the book called Around The Block by Judy Hopkins.  All of the fabrics have come from my stash with the exception of the black star, where I had to borrow a piece from my mom.

You should go check out M-R's white block.  She got very creative I think!

Some hand work

I needed some hand work to finish off the summer and my mom had 3 quilts ready to bind.

I offered to bind this beautiful Batik quilt for her.

 Isn't it gorgeous!

My mom has an awesome collection of batiks and I think this quilt is just beautiful!

close-up of quilting and back

Also, I just finished registering the girls for gymnastics for the fall.  My 6 year old is starting pre-competitive gymnastics at a new club.  So, I was thinking I need some hand work to bring to all these practices.  I decided to dig through some UFOs and found this stained glass piece.

I don't even know when I started this... I think it is at least 10 years old!

I think i can finish it before Christmas this year.

Yet another baby quilt!

This is the baby quilt I was working on here and here.  

The top is finally done and it is now gone to be quilted.  I should be binding it some time next week.

I just love how it turned out.  The fabrics are all by Me and My Sister Designs for Moda.  There are a few different collections mixed together.  It measures 51"x58".  I got the pattern at Moda Bakeshop but changed it up a bit and added some blocks and made the borders bigger.  The lady who is buying this quilt really wants a quilt her new niece can use when she will be a toddler.

I also wanted to share with you some cute little charms I won.

Bethany from Make Me A Quilt had a giveaway on her blog and I was the happy winner!!  Yay!!

Aren't these fabrics yummy?  I can't wait to start making something with them!

Thanks Bethany!

School starts on Tuesday so I am hoping to have more sewing time and more time to blog as well.  I am going to have to keep busy so I don't miss them too much!

TGIFF

Already Friday!

My finish this week is only a quilt top.

I have been loving all the different "cross quilts" out there in blog land and really wanted to make my own.

My quilt group decided to have a challenge this year where we all had the same fabrics and made a project of our choosing.  I thought this fabric would be great for this kind of pattern.  I only added the solid black for the inner border.  I designed it myself using good old graph paper and a pencil.  It turned out to be a large lap quilt at 62"x72".

My husband LOVES this quilt!  The last quilt I made for him was a wedding gift and we've been married almost 11 years.  I think it's time!

He has an office/music studio in the basement which still needs quite a bit of work (removing carpet, painting, putting in laminate flooring...), he has however said that he would love this quilt on the wall as a wallhanging that would be very useful also to absorb sound when he is playing guitar.

I am so pleased with this quilt!  Now I am trying to figure out how I am going to quilt it!  Any thoughts?