Projects I’ve finished lately…

This is a quilt I made for some friends who used to be students at Baxter.  This was my first attempt at “free-motion” machine quilting.



I’ve been wanting to make a “pillowcase dress”.  You can make these out of actual pillowcases, and I do want to find a pretty vintage one.  But this dress was made from cute Sesame Street Halloween fabric I found at Hancock Fabrics here in town.  This one is for Georgia!

Nolan Ford White is here!!!

He entered the world on Saturday morning at 10:39.  Kinda surprised us by coming a little early.  He weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz and was 21 inches long.  He. Is. Precious!!!

So, without further ado…meet our sweet grandson, Nolan…

  Here’s mommy and daddy:

And finally, big sister, Georgia…reading in her mommy’s bed.

One Thing, One Week:1 Finished

Update:  I got this pattern from the following site: http://www.ucquilts.com/bommarch2006.htm

Last week I took the One Thing, One Week:1 Challenge from over at Amy’s Creative Side blog.

Click below to see what others have completed this week.

My goal was to finish Nolan’s quilt. He’s my grandson who is due the middle of August.
Well, I reached my goal and just last night put the last of the millions? of hand quilted stitches in the Kite quilt, using the Chirp Collection by Katie Hennagir.
I cannot wait to meet baby Nolan and give him his quilt!



I’ve left out the day on the tag below…I’ll have to carefully stitch that in when he gets here!

Little Artist

Georgia is so creative.

She loves to paint.

Ooh, look at all the colors!

She likes to paint herself, too.

Look at the nice picture she painted for Mama and Daddy.

And now?.....

Bathtime!

Luke & Georgia Enjoying Being Together

"One Thing - One Week Challenge"

Next week, I'll be posting pictures of the newest grandbaby quilt! I'm participating in the "One Thing - One Week Challenge" from Amy's Creative Side. So, I plan to finish up this baby quilt by then. Just a little more hand quilting to do. Here's a little preview...

Blogger’s Quilt Festival #3

Amy over at Amy’s Creative Side has organized another online quilt festival.  You can click on this button to get to the list of, so far, 475 links.  Each one will take you to an individual blog, showcasing one quilt and the story behind it from the blogger.  I can spend literally hours at a time reading these posts and drooling over the quilts.  But what usually happens is this:
I click on a link………I read the post………I look at the quilt………Then I start reading everything the blogger has written!  Suffice it to say, it is taking me a while to get through that list!
Here’s the quilt I made for our 13-month-old granddaughter, Georgia:

The first completed square --  6”, machine pieced, hand appliquéd and hand embroidered

I made this quilt while my husband and I were living in Honduras.   My sweet daughter-in-law picked out the beautiful red and pink fabrics and gave me free reign as far as the pattern.

  

Finished top.

I decided on a very traditional pattern, “Grandmother’s Fan” because my daughter-in-law and son love all things old.  (Guess that’s why they love me!)  I liked how it turned out and loved doing all the hand work on it.

So, now it’s quilted and washed and ready for Georgia…she loves it!  Can you tell? :)

Now she’s happy!

Mother’s Day…Remembering

Thinking of my sweet mama on Mother’s Day. She’s been gone for 33 years and I still miss her so much.

AQS Paducah Quilt Show

Friday I drove to Paducah all by myself to attend the 2010 American Quilter’s Society quilt show.  I’ve lived in Kentucky for 21 years and this was my first time to ever attend this show…shame on me!

But, I did have a wonderful day (wish it could have been 2 or 3 days) looking at beautiful quilts, drooling over all the gadgets, fabrics and a long-arm quilting machine, visiting the famous Hancock’s of Paducah fabric store AND taking a class on “Beginning Free-Motion Quilting”!  Whew!

I arrived home at midnight and sent Steve off to Nicaragua for a mission trip at 2 a.m.  It was a BIG day!

I want so badly to post photos of some of the quilts from yesterday, but I just read the Photograph Policy for AQS and it states that I can’t post photos online without permission.  (You can go HERE to see the winners of the Paducah show)

But….I can post a picture of the lovely reproduction 30’s fabrics I could not resist buying!!!  I didn’t go with a plan really, but before long…as I perused the vender booths…I realized I was drawn to these fabrics.  I just kept picking up little bundles and fat quarters of the pretty little “feed sack” lookalikes and before you know it, I had this (sorry about the shadow on the pic):

Now I have to resist cutting into them until I have finished a couple of other projects I’ve already started…including a baby quilt for the new little grandson due in August.  But I definitely see a quilt with these sweet fabrics in my future!

Here’s a sneek peek of Nolen’s Quilt:

And last, but certainly not least……here is my masterpiece from the free-motion quilting class I had yesterday.  I’m not very good at it yet – hence, the class…

Catching up with a few photos

So, it’s been a while since I posted any pictures, so here I go catching up a little bit.

Melanie’s Birthday

Easter Sunday (I made the boys matching airplane ties.  I actually made one for the baby, too, but then decided on the little romper with matching bib instead. 

The week after Easter, Georgia came up (oh, and her parents, too!)  I made Maddy and Georgia pink with white polkadot dresses.  They were so cute!  Unfortunately, my camera didn’t show the details (maybe operator error…)

Georgia’s 1st Birthday:

 

David’s 30th Birthday and Patrick’s (Maggie’s brother)