Barb's quilt is finished and delivered.  This was the one I made for my co-worker. She's in rehab now and on the road to recovery. 

 She loved the quilt

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A customer quilt. I quilted it with a large paisley in pink thread.

Great texture.

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Modern baby quilt.  I'm still stitching the binding down on this one, perhaps will get it finished tonight while the Pens game is on.

 the back, I got the fabric at Jo Ann's thought the owls were so cute.

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Today I finished putting Urban Pods together.  I added an extra row to the width and length.  The pattern only called for a top and bottom border (2 1/2 inches) but I put a 3 inch border on each side as well. 

It measures 66 x 75

I can't wait to quilt this one.

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As soon as I got Urban Pods off the design wall, I had room to put the blocks for Urban Birthday up.  I do have to lay them out sideways since my wall is not high enough. But I just take a picture and rotate it to "see" how the fabric placement is. 

This looks pretty good, may move a couple.

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I did sew together and quilt the 2 panels for my Scrap Happy purse but they're still waiting patiently on the other wall. It's made with all the little leftovers from Urban Pods. 

I cannot wait to get this one made. 

Perhaps next week....

I graduated

from the "Chicago School of Fusing"! 

Several guild members spent yesterday learning the fine art of fusing with Laura Wasilowski.  It was fun! I mean it was like being a little kid again and just playing with fabric and shape and cutting free hand (which was scary for the adult me) but the kid me was brave!

I made these two pieces at the workshop.

the third one (upper right in picture below) I made after the class and before the meeting and then this morning I got up and played around for a bit.

Sadly, I realized after I fused it down, that I had fused the background piece wrong side up (with the Wonder Under side up that is).  It's not usable.  

Oh bother.

I learned my lesson: Never fuse before coffee!

Stars and Loops

3 boys; 3 quilts 

all-over Stars and Loops

One down, two to go. 

Quilting--swirls -- stylized flowers

A customer quilt. 

All over open swirls w/Caramel thread,Essential Pro from Connecting Threads on top and Bottom Line #653 in bobbin (Beach)

I really like how this one quilted up.

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A customer quilt all over Stylized Flowers (ala the Pajama Quilter)

with "McWerleying"in the ovals.The ovals have the embroidered names and birth dates of the makers 3 granddaughters. 

Weekend sewing madness (seriously)

On Saturday our guild's group met.  I was asked to lead a demo.
So I showed these adorable fabric boxes.
They are addictive and take less than an hour to make one.




 Check out the tutorial, this is why I'm always bouncing from one thing to the other too many great projects out there!

....I saw this post from Kathy a few weeks ago and thought it would be a great block for our modern group to make a donation quilt for the guild.
You can find the pattern here .
 I made a couple sample blocks but changed the block size from 9 to 12 inches.

block on left I used 'made fabric

....Yesterday, I made two Star Fling blocks and
two 'baby' blocks with the leftovers...

The triangle pieces that get cut off are too big to toss.

 When you add the 2nd square,

 because this is a floating star, you get a 2nd HST that looks like the ones in the 2nd row of the picture below.

 I cut 4 background pieces and 1 center piece same size as my  leftover HST's

the big and the 'extra' laid out for sewing together

And 

Ta-da! 

 an extra wonky cute little star block.

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On the design wall. 

On the right is Urban Birthday, using the Little Black Dress fabric line.

 On the left. is Urban Pods. I found the grey fabric that I thought I was out of.

I love the Kaffe fabric I'm using for these blocks so I'm sewing them into strips for my new spring purse.

Urban Pods

This is what I did on the guild's annual retreat.

 I changed the assembly a bit. The pattern calls for sewing it together in vertical rows but since I was at the retreat and didn't have room to lay the whole thing out I just sewed blocks together. I thought they look like bowling pins but most everyone who walked by my space at the retreat said 'vases'.

I was thinking of making this one bigger but just remembered I only have a little bit of the grey left.  

So this is it. 

 

Yea!