Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Done and (piecing) Done

A table runner I piece from scraps shared by my quilting BFF.
Title: Wildcat Victories
 
Jelly roll strips of 30's prints, this will be a crib quilt for my
grandbaby!
I have plans for the table runner, it was made specifically for the center island in my kitchen. With fall colors on the top for November and then if I flip it for December, it's backed in a green stripe, I can use for Christmas too!!! I was thinking on this piece ;-D All of the hand quilting I did while watching my Kansas State Wildcats win some close and not so close football games. I poked my fingers several times on the OU game, but the Cats prevailed!! I hand stitch a lot during football games it relieves the tension for me. I <3 college football!!
On the crib quilt, I'm not sure yet what I want to do. Should I machine quilt or should I send it to a friend with a long arm machine and have her do the quilting????????
 
And lastly I'm still plugging away at the house blocks but finding I have very few novelty prints small enough for the window piece, a 5/8" square! What I do have, I'm repeating the item, in the little window more than I'd like. The windows have morphed into a bit of an I-Spy block! I can just see the grandkids some day playing find the   ?   in the window!! I just love the scrappy look of these little blocks! I guess I'll have to send out an SOS to my quilting BFF and see if she can add some variety to the windows. 
 

Saturday, October 20, 2012

A new critter! ribit ribit

 
Meet Jeb or Jed, I haven't decided yet! But he's the new doorstop for my bedroom door. The fabric is very vintage, it's cut from the painting smock my mom made, for me, when I started kindergarten! That's OLD!
My great grandmother use to make these back when I was in grade school, or maybe junior high, that parts a bit fuzzy, but she sewed up several for all us grandkids. My mom found a few of our frogs still around the house and decided to create a frog menagerie of her own, but couldn't find great grandma's pattern. So she tried her hand at drawing her own, but wasn't quite satisfied with the outcome, I did a little searching on line and found one that looked pretty similar so made copies of the pattern and we both went about sewing a frog with personality. Mom's are so much more expressive she added tongues and put a bug button on the tongue, plus felted toenails and then like me added a hat. These were so fun to make and I can see sewing up a few more in a bit smaller size, for a bean bag toss game, for the grandkids, someday.
 

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Busy Busy Busy~~Not

While I have been somewhat busy I also have not had anything to post about~~I think I've had writers block! ~~~~~~~~ I'm sure it's the time of year, nature slows down, so do I!  Autumn is so colorful, cool (it's been down right cold we've already had our first frost), and reflective. Plus lots of other stuff to do to get the outside ready for winter. Winterize the pool, put away the outdoor furniture, bring in plants, harvest whatever is left of the underwhelming garden produce, mostly peppers! Oh but we did get a pretty good pumpkin crop, before the freeze, approximately 20! So while we did get some produce from this years garden it's just no where near our past garden output. So sad :(
I have been sewing, sewing, keeping the machine humming making baby gifts for DD! I want to take a photo of the crib quilt, that I made with the 30's prints. It was the jelly roll one that my friend and I each started while she was here visiting. It's all pieced and ready for some batting and backing then quilting! I may try to do it myself or maybe send it to a friend with a long arm machine, I'm undecided! I want to take a photo outside in the sun, but whenever I think I should go out and do it, I get side tracked and forget, then it gets cloudy!! hummm I really need the dry erase board hanging around my neck to write down what I'm doing so I can remember between here and there!!!! lol
 
I'm writing this post from the coffee shop where I just paused to have lunch. I'm in town today running errands, shopping and goofing off!!!!!!! So better get on my way, finish up and treat myself to a pumpkin spice latte for the drive home! :-p