I've got my mojo back...

Got the binding on this today...between haircuts. We've had snow and ice the last 3 days and I had enough cancellations today to do some sewing.

I made this quilt top...well, I don't even remember how long ago. 2 years? 3? 

I finished it for an auction that our Missions team is having at church on Sunday.

I THINK I used "Happy" by Me and My Sister designs.  I do remember that I made it from part of a layer cake.  It measures approx. 48x56 and was made with HSTs.

I used this one to practice some new free-motion designs.

And then while I was putting on the binding, my pretty brand new iron (I hadn't even had time to get adhesive on it yet!) DIED.

So, I improvised...

 

with my flat iron. Luckily, it worked.

 

Baby boy quilt

 

Just got this one delivered tonight.  Baby boy isn't due for a couple more months, so this is definitely a first for me.

Super soft minky for the back.  A fun loopy free-motion quilting design.

I used a half of a Pure jelly roll and some neutral tan for background.

The inspiration for this pattern came from Jaybird quilts hexagon QAL.

It was really fun to make.

 

 

Rewind to 2012

2 years ago, my sweet husband (who is extremely supportive of my quilting) bought me a Gracie Start-Right frame and a Juki TL98Q.

I was so nervous to "play" with my new toy so I thought, I'll just use a quilt top that I don't really care that much for and then it won't matter if the quilting is bad, right?

I just THOUGHT I didn't care for this one.  It had been hidden in a closet for, oh I don't know, 2 years or so?

So I put it on the frame and gave it a go...turns out, quilting was all this baby needed to find new life!  I love it!  AND I love my Gracie and Juki...of course, I love hubby, too.

This was another top that I had tucked away, not because I didn't like it, but because I made it with nobody particular in mind.  Then a co-worker had a baby girl. I used this tutorial for the blocks and it was SUPER fun and SUPER easy to make.



In April 2012, a very close sweet friend turned the big 5-OH and I knew I just HAD to make her a quilt for her birthday.  Her favorite color is blue and I found this pretty blue and purple peacock fabric that was just perfect for her.  The pattern is called Winding Ways.  It was my first time to make, quilt, and bind scalloped edges and it was actually pretty fun.

In July, our Pastor and his wife celebrated 20 years of being at our church and my gift to them was this quilt.  Each block has the name of a Sunday School class machine-embroidered in the middle and then I went around to each class to have as many people as possible to sign the blocks.

There was more in 2012...

Another day...

A break from quilting...

My sweet mother-in-love is having a birthday on Monday. I made her this. It's the best thing EVER! It's a purse organizer :)

A must-have for any girl who changes purses often and likes to keep things extremely organized. I LOVE mine and I know she'll love it, too. 

It has a clear ID window and credit card slots, a zipper pocket for change and a slot for bills/checks, pen loops and lots of pockets for phone, keys...whatever we girls like to carry with us!

I got the pattern from Studio Kat Designs. They have some of the cutest purses and organizers of all sizes. I have bought several patterns and just love them all!

And the winner of the "Worst Blogger" award is...

So, yeah, um...it's only been about 2 1/2 years since my last post. Imagine my surprise when I typed in the address and found that I still HAVE a blog. I have no good excuse. I could say my life is just very busy. Or, you know, I DO work a regular day job. Well, I do. But the truth is, I simply lost my quilty mojo for awhile there. I mean, it was GONE. And I couldn't seem to find it anywhere!

It WAS an eventful year. We had a wedding and a grandchild born last year. Another grown child decided it was time to live on her own and, luckily, only moved about 2 blocks from us, but still...

My mother-in-love moved from Michigan to Ok and lived with us for a few months before getting a place of her own. My father lost his battle with cancer and passed away a week before his 64th birthday.

I DID do SOME sewing through all of that. As I have for the past 3 years, I made a quilt for our Missions Conference at church.

Also, one of my hair clients asked me to make a t-shirt quilt as a graduation gift for her grand-daughter.

And remember I said we had a wedding?

As I have been searching for these quilt pics, I found some 2012 quilts that I made but never posted about...you know, because I'm the worst blogger.

I'll try again tomorrow :) 

 

Calling all "wannabe" quilters...

Hello friends and followers, I would love to welcome you to a Wantobe Quilters Campaign over here...http://www.stashmanicure.blogspot.com/

They are having quilting supplies to giveaway 5x a week for 12 weeks.

Supplies that will have you quilting before you know it...From sewing machines to irons, to die cutters, to mats, to rotary cutters, sewing baskets, scissors, batting, needles, rolled sewing machine bags, patterns, books, magazines...everything you could imagine to assist you in being a NEW Quilter.

Even if you are already part of this community you can win quilting stuff too...Tuesday and Thursday are days for us.

All you have to do is send me an email (stylin.master@yahoo.com) with your name and phone number and email sew I can submit this to the organizer, because if you win anything I can win something too.

All you have to do is be my follower and a follower over at http://www.stashmanicure.blogspot.com/...

That is all!  There are over 49 sponsors involved.

I am pretty excited to be part of this, sew should you.

I love being a QUILTER!

 

(p.s.  you will not be eligible to win anything if you do not register with a blogger where you see this message.)

I still had some questions regarding just how this campaign was going to work and I found a post over here at Stitchin' By the Lake that answered all of my questions and probably some of yours, too.  So click on her link and if you still have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment and if I don't know the answer,
I'LL FIND IT!

What I've been up to...

A few of these...

A couple of these...

Some of these...

But mostly, I've done a whole lot of work on this...

This is just the bumper.  I also made a dust ruffle, and a ruffled pillow for sweet baby Breanna.  I've been working on this set for about 3 months now...my "real" job totally cramps my quilty style ;)
Here's the whole thing all put together...

I wish the crown hadn't turned out so blurry.  It really is spectacular!  The only things I can take credit for are the dust ruffle, bumper and pillow.  Breanna's mom did all the rest.  Isn't it beautiful?! 

I know it's been awhile since I've updated my blog, and the only excuse I have is that I had missed WAY too many deadlines and have too many projects "hanging over my head" so to speak.  The truth is, I didn't want the friends waiting for those projects to be finished to see everytime I was side-tracked by something else.  Please tell me I'm not the only one!
I have 1 quilt top to finish and send to the long-armer for quilting and I will officially be "caught up" on those projects...Yay!  I hope that blogging about it will maybe help me to keep this motivation that I'm feeling right now.  I will keep going and make my goal to finish that top TOMORROW!