Flower Market Quilt

A throw size quilt from the  "Flower Market" line by Martha Negley... love, love, love that fabric!!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80853706/flower-market-quilt?ref=pr_shop

A new project and some blocks...

I started these with my old machine, and excited to now be sewing with the new machine! It's making my sewing life so much easier...

The New Machine!!!

The Janome DC2011 - still in the box, sitting on the table. I'm too scared to open it! It came with 17 free lessons or something like that, so eventually I'll know my way around it. I'm very excited!

Janome 7330

So, I have an "old" Brother sewing machine and it's been acting very wonky for a while, so today when the fabric I was working with wouldn't catch on the feeder and the foot lever wouldn't go all the way up, I finally took it to a Vac and Sew shop... In the 10 years I've had it, it has never been serviced.... Anyway, the nice lady at the shop estimated it would be about $120 to have it fixed, but advised that I find a nice way to dispose of the machine instead... I've wanted a new machine for a while, so she showed me what she had for sale. This Janome is what I/m thinking of. Any thoughts??

Flower Market Quilt

I love this fabric! It's Flower Market by Martha Negley. This quilt top measures approx 50x70 - awaiting backing... thinking a light pink. Just need some free time from the boys (last week they were all in camp and I had 3 hours a day to myself to sew this up :)

Sherbet Pips!

This was a quick quilt to put together, and thankfully I had two long drives in the car to tie it all while hubby drove :)

Sherbet Pips

Sewing up my first jelly roll, strip quilt and Sherbet Pips. It's such cute fabric line. I'm thinking it should be backed with warm flannel or minky, and tied with yarn - in keeping with the scarf theme. A nice quilt for a fall baby...

Summer House Baby Girl Quilt

This quilt has sat unfinished in my closet for a few months, and I just took it down, and added some little button flowers in between the squares. I just love the colors and the floral fabrics - Dena Design's "McKenzie" - so pretty and soothing. Perfect for summer snoozes... I appologize for two of the pictures coming in sideways - I didn't photograph them that way!! :)

Calling all Cars! Calling all boys!

Here's a crib sized car quilt that's been on my long list of quilts to make. It's happy and colorful and now I'm wishing I'd made it bigger so that my own boys could use it.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/75968253/calling-all-cars-baby-boy-quilt

Dolly Dress Quilts

I just love these doll dresses! I outlined them all with white floss and they are all puffy and crinkley after washing.

A doll quilt and pillow

My first hidden 9 patch - I think it measures approx 18x18 - quick and fun.

Here's Daphne trying it out before I packaged it up to give her cousin Violet (my niece's doll that I made for her a couple years ago for Christmas)

Sunbonnet Sue and her Butterflies are done and for sale!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/75091301/sunbonnet-sue-and-her-butterflies-quilt

Okay, now that that's done (!!!) I'm going to finish up the dolly dress quilts and make a little doll quilt for my niece's 4th birthday.... and that gets me wondering if I should start designing doll quilts to sell with the baby quilts? hmmmm....

In the works...

Here's Sue with her new borders and still waiting for some appliqued butterflies to fly around the white border.

And here are two dolly dress quilts (the dolls are from the dolly dress cheater panels) and they've been sewn with the patterned blocks for ages, but I added the borders today. I think some pretty little flowers may be appliqued onto the white border. I hope these will eventually end up keeping twin baby girls nice and warm :)

Sue and her butterflies - Part 1

This is what I've been working on the last week. This is just the center of the quilt, which I haven't finished designing yet. I think it will have to have a very wide border with appliqued butterflies flying around... maybe some caterpillars? toadstools? ladybugs?

The butterfly pattern came from here - it was love at first site! http://fourwisemonkeys.blogspot.com/2010/08/tutorial-butterfly-block.html

lucky day!

It just "sew" happens that I had $47 left in my paypal account, and this morning I found a mother's day weekend coupon code at Sew Mama Sew for 15% off everything in your cart, and finally the long awaited Sew Cherry was available at their store... I bought  a quarter yard of each (minus 3) fabrics in the line, and minus the 15%, pluss shipping came to $47.80!! I hope the rest of my day goes that well. It's going to be a CRAZY long day with boy activities. Off to the first baseball game of the season!

What the heart and eyes want!!

yum yum yum... The gnome fabric is to die for (I'm crazy for gnomes) And the Sunbonnet Sue fabric is very timely as I'm starting to work on a new quilt with a Sue in the center, surrounded by butterflies and flowers... and the Sew Cherry is just awesome. I've been waiting a while for this line to come out - makes my knees buckle... Hopefully I will make these all mine :)

Birdhouse Baby Quilt

This one is finally done, and listed in my etsy shop. I love it, and wish I had a baby girl to give it to! Perhaps if it doesn't sell right away, I'll tuck it away in the attic and save it for a grand daughter... I'm crossing my fingers (but not for atleast 20 years since my boys are only 7, 4 and 3!)