Dec 30, 2012

Mary from our YOSH QOV group presented this quilt to the her father in law on Christmas day.  Her father in law is 96 and served in WWII.  I love this photo.....

This is what it is all about,  joy, warmth, love and happiness! Our group presented 123 quilts this year. Yippeeeee...

Thanks for looking.

Dec 30, 2012 Bracelets

I took a little break from quilting to work on some bracelets. The pink and green one are going to my sister.  I need to make a blue one to wear with my jeans. 

The red one is for a dear friend of mine. I sure hope she likes it.

Have a safe new year!

Merry Christmas!

Dec 25, 2012

Merry Christmas ! Stayed up late last night hand sewing the binding on this quilt.  These are QOV orphan blocks. These were made by Gene from Florida, he made enough to do 2 quilts.  This is the second quilt we have made from his blocks.  The scrappy stars were made by sewing random angles on the sashing pieces.  Sue did the quilting in a overall pattern of stars.

I love the material on the back of the quilt also.

Have a Blessed Christmas and New Year.

December 17, 2012

It has been busy for everyone this time of year. What have I been working on? Here is a sneak peek at the latest orphan block quilt. The squares were orphan blocks and the quilt was designed in EQ6 (awesome software).

off to make Christmas cookies. Thanks for looking.



November 10, 2012

Finished piecing another orphan block top, it goes over to the quilters on Tuesday. Here is a sneak peek.

I will share more photos when it is done being quilted. I hoped to get more than 3 pillow cases done. 2 of these are for matching quilts and one is for our stash, When we get quilts that don't have a pillow case to go with it, we take one from our stash. I hope to have 15 made for the stash pile. The pattern for the pillow cases is magic, it only takes 3 seams and all the seams are finished. Yikes, lets see how close I get.

We are also in a process of making a group quilt, each one of us will make block and they will be sewn into a group quilt.

I still have a pile of orphan blocks, so I am off to design another. Thanks for looking.



November 10, 2012

What a busy week.  I completed the binding on the witch wall hanging for my girlfriend.

 

I used a new tool that is out called the Binding Thingy. 

 

Here are a couple of mitered corners that I used this tool on.  I think I will use this a few more times before I pass judgement on it.

I made a purse for my mom, hope she likes it.  The pattern is Margo by Lazy girl designes, it has a zipper closure and 6 inside pockets.

Our quilt quild The Scappers are making Christmas stockings for charity.  These stockings that I made are so cool.  They are lined and the seams finished and all done with 1 seam, another magic way of layering your material. I was going to post the link here for you to see, but i can't find it.  If anyone wants to know how to make these leave a comment requesting it and I will post the instuctions.  I left the ends of the ribbon long so we can tie some candy canes to them.

check out the other pages to see what else has been happening around here.
Have a great day.


Oct 27, 2012

If the hat fits is finished.

I finished the quilting on this wall hanging, here are some photos of the quilting.

 

I used 80/20 batting, bottom line thread by Superior along with 70/10 needles. The back is batik and the front is cotton and homespun with wool applique.

Once my friend has it hanging on the wall I will show you the finished product. I can't wait.

On to the next project.

Thanks for looking

If the hat fits - first block

It sure has taken me a while to get the tension right on this. I am using bottom line thread by Superior. 

Not sure I like the dress, it blends into the background to much. HMMM, I'll have to do something about that.

 

Thanks for looking. :)

Red Work

Here are a couple of items that used up some of my scraps, and boy do I have a lot of scraps.

I used my embroidery machine to do the red work, trying out some new garden designs.

Have a great day.

Blue Work

Everyone loves redwork, I do to.  But I wanted something a bit different, so I made a quilt in Blue. The designs were made with my embroidery machine and it was quilted by Calico and Canvas.

Have a great day.

If the hat fits

Oct 28, 2012

We had a perfect day at the Franklin Library today, sewing pillow cases, and getting care packages ready to be sent out for Christmas.

Katheryn pinning pillow cases for the sewers

Lots of goodies for our soldiers. Cookies and more still need to get ready.

Thanks for looking.

Oct 28, 2012

We had our sewing day in Cedarburg at Ye Ol Schoolhouse yesterday, what a insprational place to quilt. Today we are going to Franklin to have a pillowcase sewing day . I hope to have some good photos to post. Talk to you all later, off to quilt in Franklin.

Thanks Dick for taking the photo.

Sept 2, 2012

Mr. Eagle and a beautiful blue strip quilt were presented to a couple of hero's Sgt 1st class Wesley, served WWII, from 1942-1946, and and his son Spc 5 Terry, served Vietnam War from 1969-1972.

Cedarburg Aug 26, 2012

The 4^th Saturday of every month (except Dec) we meet at “Ye old school house quilt shop” in Cedarburg, Wi. Our creative leaders are Dick and Tink Linhart, they do a awesome job keeping track of everything. Check out thier facebook pages :)

We had a nice turn out for the quilting day, lots of talent and creativity. I can't wait until next month.

Here are some photos of the quilts that were completed for our soldiers. Sorry for the blurry photos, these quilts were beautiful and these photos are not doing them justice. I promise to have better photos next time.

Mr. Eagle

It is so much fun to see all the different ideas, patterns, color choices, ect. that everyone comes up with.

Renee



In June I went up to Madeline Island in Wisconsin for a weekend of quitling to work on some Quilt of Valor (QOV) projects. We had a great time and finished 3 tops.

Here is a photo of one of the finished quilts. This is pattern by BQ called Maple Island Quilts - how fitting we were on Madeline Island when we quilted these.

This quilt is made from orphan blocks using the same BQ pattern. Last weekend was the Midwest Quilt show in Oconomowac Wisconsin. The quilt was displayed in the QOV booth. A huge THANKS to Tink and Dick for everything they do for QOV .

The third top we completed that weekend we named Mr. Eagle, I will post a photo of that later this month.


I wanted to take a moment to share a quilt I am quilting for a friend.  The pattern is called If the hat fits. So here is a sneak peak.

Isn't this cute, the legs are free haning. This is layered and ready to quilt. I will be using Superior thread bottom line. I will update you on the progress.

Have a great day.