BQF: 2nd Entry: Drop!

If you are visiting from Amy's Quilt Festival...

thank you for stopping by!

I have one more entry for the Bloggers Quilt Festival

that is hosted by Amy's Creative Side.

I am entering my Drop quilt in the 

 Doll and Mini Quilts category. 

The quilt measures 20" x 20". 

Made from leftovers from my stash. 

(the tiny little pieces that I couldn't bare to throw away)!

It's machine pieced.

The pattern is from Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. 

I think it's the smallest quilt I have made to date!

Here is a photo of it on my office wall.

And here are a couple more organic pictures taken outside!

One day it will graduate to being an actual "doll quilt"...

and be in a cradle that I have... but for now I like it on my wall.

If you haven't entered into the festival, it's not too late! 

Voting starts on Saturday, so please go visit the rest of the categories and entries

and be a part of the voting!

BQF: Baby Quilt Entry, Sunflower Baby

When I was just new to blogging I remember entering

the Blog Quilt Festival... 

I can't believe that it's been five years now!

Amy at Amy's Creative Side

does an amazing job putting this event on!

I wanted to enter a baby quilt that I made for my first grand child.

The pattern is called Sunflower Baby by Ashton Publications

 and the size of the quilt is 42 x 46.

I used Pam Kitty Morning fabrics along with some background fabrics

from Carrie Nelson aka Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. 

The pattern said (read) to round off the Dresden blades on the

corners of the quilt... but I just couldn't do it!

I experimented and found a way to save them. 

I hand blanket stitched around the face of the sunflowers, leaves

 and the corner Dresden blades.

Two of the sunflower faces have freckles and two do not...

representing mom and dad and the possibility of 

Evie taking after one or the other parent.

Side note:

The binding was started and stopped at each edge and the

Dresden fans were faced with another set of fans.

Then the backing was turned under and stitched.

The blanket has been washed no less than 50 times and is

holding up perfectly well.

Take a look at the other quilts in the festival here.

and don't forget to be there on voting day!

Under Construction

The quilt fairy didn't show up! 

I went ahead and started the re-organization by myself.

It is not unlike a demolition.

This is the start of day 1. Closet 1.

I'm going to go by my LQS and get some more empty

bolts for the larger cuts of fabrics in my stash.

My hallway is
still passable... but I have a feeling that it won't be
as this progresses.
I had to keep it out of my sewing room for fear I would have
a complete breakdown.
(and knowing that it wasn't going to stay contained in there anyway)
I am trying to group things into
flannel/wool
backgrounds
Fall/Primitive
Spring/light
Contemporary
Batik...
and maybe narrow it down from there.
hmmm, messiness.

The railing is stacked with mostly quilt tops.
Some are from long, long ago.
Most are more recent projects and shop samples.

If you see the grass that needs mowing outside... just ignore it...
I did! How does it grow that fast anyway? I just cut it last week.
However, I did manage to wash my car!

 

 I also played with my Crumbler quilt some more.
I had it very "organized"... alternating print fabric, white background...
but for some reason... I changed it to this.
Do you think it was a reflection of my sewing room?
hmmm, modernness?

Oh, there was one more thing I played with this weekend...

We had some "Evie time"!

Can you believe that she is nearly 14 months old?

Sweetness.

I'm Swooning Too

Now that I finished a zillion and two other projects...

I pulled my Swoon quilt out from beneath the rubble of unfinished projects.
I had 5 blocks done and 4 to go....

I got them done... and it feels so good!
I saw a few other Swoons out there in blogland today too!

I saved the half square triangles from the flying geese units.
I was toying with adding them, making an outer border on it...
but then again, they could just be used for something else.

Have a great weekend!