Quilting and a Pillow for Technology

You'll have to thank my oldest daughter for this post.  I was working on my quilt and she said that I needed to take pictures and blog it, as well as an iPad pillow I made.

First the quilt...

This is for my room.  I fell in love with this fabric online and was so glad they had it at the quilt shop in town.  It's Moda's 3 Sisters Etchings collection.  The pattern I'm using is Eleanor Burns's make a Quilt in a Day log cabin pattern.

It's really simple once you get started.  At first I was a little confused because I'm not use to following quilt instructions and had to make sure I was putting things in the right order.

Here is the layout for adding the 2nd Dark Fabric.  She just adds the already sewn pieces to the strip as she goes.  I am a pinner so...  

Next step is easy, just sew 1/4 in. seam down the strip.

Last I use my ruler to cut the blocks apart.  

I'm really enjoying this quilt.  I could be a line worker somewhere.  It suits me :). 

Okay Ang, how are my colors?  If you like them I picked them out, if not Greg did!

Pillow for the technilogicly advanced... and not so advanced :D.  

My mother-in-law will be having knee surgery soon and I wanted to give her something for her time of recuperation.  She is not technilogically savy, but my brother-in-law gave her an iPad several months back, so I thought she might play games on it or do some reading the modern way.  I came across this great pattern on Pinterest and loved it.  It was increadably easy to make.  Below are the pics of the one I did.

Quilting Youth

Before we left on our Colorado trip,  the teenage girls at church got together to make two quilts.  We gave 10" blocks to ladies and girls at the church who either embroidered, painted or wrote on them.  Then a few of us ladies pieced the quilt together.  The teen girls did the quilting.

The one pictured first was for our Pastor's wife, Mrs. Hoyle.  Her birthday was the day before the trip.  Sorry, no pics of the finished quilt. 

 This is the second quilt.  It was for Mrs. Thornsley and we took with us to 

Colorado and presented to her that Sunday.

The girls really enjoyed doing the quilts and it was a blessing to work with them.  

Quilting

    

Blend Fabrics LLC

Anna Griffin has come out with a new fabric company!  It is a blend of talented artist with different styles and designs.  I came across this company via Charlotte Lyons blog House Wren Studio.

Below are some of my favorites, just click on the pictures to be take to the full collection.

Out with the Old in with the New

Out with the Old... I am almost finished with a skirt mentioned here. I'll be glad to be done with it. It is a nice look but I don't like the directions. Below is the finished look and pattern number (Simplicity) if your interested.

In with the New...
I came across a free log cabin paper piecing pattern (can't remember where) and loved it. They are so easy to make and great for using up those scrape pieces. My two favorite are the upper right and the bottom left. Not sure what they will end up as, but I have a few ideas.

I'm still working on the bible case pattern. I'm currently focusing on the embroidery that I want to include for the pockets.

UFOs

Now we all no there is no such thing as UFO's however,
there are if you have UnFinished Objects lying around your house!

These are some of the UFOs I'd like to get finished within the next week (or so ;-).

1. *Warm the Heart mini quilt. (Lower Left)
   
2. Mini embroidery case to go with my larger pattern. (Lower Middle)
   
3. A Bible case pattern. (Lower Right)
   
4. Teapot wall hanging I made about 5 or 6 years ago.
   It was my first attempt at quilting and I never finished the binding. (Upper Right)
   
5. Patchwork Thank-you cards. (Upper Middle)
6. Potpurri tea warmers that I started about 8 years ago! (Upper Left)

I still have several others that are not listed, but these are ones I hope to get finished. Maybe making a public declaration of my UFOs will help me to complete them.

*Oops the mini quilt is called "Follow Your Heart". Not a term I really like. After all... "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9