Saturday, December 4, 2010

12 pocket purses











I accidently ruined a purse I made, so needed to make a new one. An improved one. So I did. My own design I need to say. It has 12 pockets-6 on the outside, 6 on the inside. I place a firm bottom piece in the purse so it doesn't sag-and the is 4 3/4 inches by 12 inches!. What is neat is the outside pockets. Themes. I've done lighthouses, mountain view, horses, sheep, flowers, firefighter, acorn and possum. Each outside pocket is trimmed in black, has a black fastener and black handles. I try to find a button that looks good with the theme pocket. I now have some black print fabric to do black/ black & white with red trim. I think that will turn out nice. It should, I just did 10 purses, much smaller than these for my daughter. Unfortunetly I don't have photo of all that I've made but here are some. I only do about 6 of each theme.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Life in general

I've been busy with work and making snowglobes out of fabric. It is for a swap I'm doing on scratchingpost yahoo group. The house cleaning is a hit or miss-nothing as changed with that! LOL Plus I need to square up my 6.5" hearts for a swap I'm doing on justquilting and I need to find a star pattern or two for anothe swap on a different group and get cracking on making them! Plus finish putting the blocks into a quilt for a commissioned quilt with applique cats on it.

I'm also working on a 12" applique of the stain glass that is above our tabernacle to place on my priest chausible. I've done a 22" version, so this is just a little bit challenging, but it gives me an excuse to sit in front of the telly with my feet up and be creative.

Megan has a website now to sell her photos on. www.megankhris.smugmug.com She has several more photos to post. She has some beautiful ones. So take a look.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Family vacation II




Here are the rest of the pictures.

I have 5 fancy windows. 2 that are alike are colored textured glass in blue, green, yellow, pink and the cente oval clear with a 'frost design'.

The Palladio window above my sewing 'studio'. Then we have the Fleur de Lis window which sits at the bottom of my 20 step staircase and the spiderweb window which is Adam's room.

All of them needed to be scrapped, primed, glazed and painted.

I forgot to add the Adam came in from VA TECH and Lena his girlfriend came in from Remington VA which made the weekend that much sweeter.

We used a 40' ladder for the roof and all the windows. 2 8' ladders and 1 6' ladder for the Porte Cachere. With the loan of some tools and the 40 footer from friend Ron and one 8 footer from my next door neighbors.

Family vacation











A few months ago I emailed my brother Bill in Michigan to ask him how to patch a leak in my roof. Well guess what!? He came for a working vacation! He brought his sweet wife Kellie, precious little girl Erin and Mom. Then brother Shon from MD came for an overnight visit with his two great kids Kirstin and Brian and then later my third brother Jim from DE came for an overnight visit. And everyone worked. Bill and Mike got the roof patched and tracked down a few more leaks, Kellie was scrapping, priming, painting my 5 fancy windows, with Bill reglazing. The Porte Cachere was scrapped, power washed, primed and painted also. I am truly blessed with a wonderful family. And for the first time ever, I cried when they pulled out of my driveway to go home. I hated straightening up my house because it was removing evidence they were here. Here are the photos, probably in two parts.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Lilacs

I made this quilt using 4 different lilac prints for the Stanley & Isabel Bristol Family Reunion raffle. My mom won it! My friend is helping me hold it up. The partial body is me. This was from a couple of years ago. I'm going to make another one in this pattern but using flame fabric.

Regina's Monet

I finished this quilt top at the retreat this past March. It's for my friend Regina. It is Monet's Countryside. I had enough fabric to make one for Megan also. The Pattern is called Summer Window from a defunct block of the month website that they graciously left the patterns up. www.sewquilty.com Go take a look at the patterns!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

teaching


I taught two of my friends the basics of quilting. And they started out with hand piecing. I did! and it was a great learning tool. The larger quilt was made by Pam, the smaller one by Joanne. The borders and sashing is by rotary cutter and sewing machine. I'm not that heartless!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Alley Cat Angels


My backdoor neighbor is Alley Cat Angels. They capture feral cats, take them to Angels of Assisi in Roanoke where they are spayed/neutered and rabies shot. They survive on donations. The first quilt I gave them they said it helped many many cats! Their second one is at my LAQ in Oklahoma, so here is their third one. I won these cats from a Block of the Month drawing on my yahoo group justquilting.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

The Delicacy and Strength of Blue


I finished this quilt last night also. It just needed the final border. It is for my son's girlfriend Lena. She is such a sweetheart. We really like her. And thank goodness she is didn't mind the state of my house the first visit since I was elbow deep in quilting. LOL I showed it to her today, her bday is in June, but I might not have it back in time since I have 2 rush jobs ahead of that. So we are shooting for August

Boy Scouts of America


Here is a quilt that my friend help me finish last night. Thank you Joanne! It measures 80" square. I designed the layout. Her husband Ron helped with the final placement of the framed boyscouts.

Monday, March 29, 2010

and more




I started the blue one about 10 years ago. Can you believe that!? And I didn't misplace the pattern or the fabrics is what impresses me. I had the applique finished, just needed to make those HST (half square triangles)




The other quilt believe it or not, a tablerunner. The star block and the framed flying geese go the two ends of a tablerunner. When I was working on it, I thought, this would be a great quilt. So I drafted away and was pleased with the results.

eye candy keeps on coming




Well! The photos still don't post in order. So I will persavere.




The vibrant one is blocks I won from a Challenge Fabric contest. I made the Maple Star-left side, 3rd block down if I remember correctly. I call this "When Pigs Dance" (I will win! LOL, and Salliejean made the dancing pig)




The other quilt is my Hotair Balloon. My friend PatL send me 3 fat quarters of fabric, a yellow, a tealish, zigzag balloon. I found the hotair balloon fabric at Walmart, took all the fabrics and a graft paper (grid paper) to my friend Trink who was in the hospital and said "Please design something for me." and she did! The pattern is called Disappearing Nine Patch. Very easy to make, very easy to misrotate the cut blocks. LOL.

more quilts




These two were pieced before I left for my retreat. One is I Spy a Farm. I won 38 blocks ranging from 3" to 16" square. It was planning the layout. It went together really easy believe it or not. I measured all blocks, drew the size on graft paper with size and name, then transferred them to a large sheet of graft paper-taped together.




The second photo is "My Daddy's Maple Leaves". When my dad died October 2005 my Justquilting friends sent me 6.5" Maple Leaves in memory of him, I received 16 leaves. The center leaf I made March 2004-it was with Challenge Fabric contest we do on JQ, but I never sent it in. I designed this a few weekends ago and put it together.

Quilt Retreat 2010 & then some


I'm back from my 2nd quilt retreat. This time my friend Joanne came with me. We had a great time sewing. This year I remembered to bring my machine oil! My sewing machine was so happy. I finished 3 quilt tops at the retreat. I did some finishing of other quilt tops before I left. I was on a mission along with watching Stargate Atlantis DVD's that kept me sewing along!


Since I can't seem to get the pictures and writings to match, I'm going to do one at a time.


This first one a Paperpieced thimble signature exchange I did with my yahoo group Justquilting. I had this in my bag to bring, but pulled it one and worked on it before I left!