First Post of 2012

So it has been a while since my last post but I wanted to show some of what I have made this last year. Below is Dexter and Hattie attacking my quilt pile. They really enjoyed playing on them.

I had trouble getting these pictures in the order that I wanted. Below is one of the quilt racks that my dad made me. Came out nice. He did a good job. Such a good boy!

Here is the 2nd quilt rack I bitched about till he finally gave in and made for me! I am such a burden on him.

My little Japanese wall hanging. I am still quilting it which is why the edges are not done. I picked a really detailed quilting job so it is taking me forever even though it is one of the smallest quilts I have ever made. I am making a 2nd one and will totally change the quilting on that one.
This was a challenge I did for my guild. We had to use the printed fabric with solids. It came out really good but the picture does not really do it justice.

A jungle child quilt. Loved the fabric.

This is my Northwoods quilt. It was a real pain in the back side. And I almost finish it and figure out the pattern was wrong and the borders were all off. Two hours and a lot of cursing later and I got it fixed. I was not happy.
Here is my beach/cottage quilt. I had it all cut out like 2 years ago but did not label it well. Big mistake. Took me quite some time to figure it out but once I did I think it turned out really well.
That is all for now. I hope to have more to show soon. I have a wonderful 3 day weekend and plan to spend at least part of it sewing all sorts of fun stuff. Like tote bags and window valances for my mom.

Little Quilts and Big Kitties

Well, I am a little slow in posting but better late than never. I made my mom another table topper for Christmas. She needed something for Fall. She just loves panda's so I found this cute fabric. She ended up putting it on my Grandma's cedar chest with her Panda collection. So now I need to make her another fall table topper. I wonder if I will get it done by fall 2010...maybe 2011.



I made the below tote bag for my parents to take with them on vacation this year to Aruba. Hard to see in the picture but there are little iguana's on it, so cute.




My friend has a daughter in the Girl Scouts so I made the big one for her then made a mini version for her little sister. I think they came out really well.

So this was supposed to be an easy project. But since I have never done anything like this before and the directions were crap it took me 1 1/2 days straight at a quilting retreat to get it...there was alot of sewing and unsewing till it came out right. The kicker is I could do one now in about 2 hours...
And after all that work, the darn little naughty kitty made it his home....

I made some mini quilts since I want to practice my top stiching, which is the sewing of the layers together. I am trying to get better at that part. Plus these are super easy and quick.

Coffee Table topper...looks alot cutier in person.

Mr Dexter after a long day of running around like a loon.

This is super small, they call it a candle mat.

Two more mini quilts.

My Kitties are pretending to get along....

Dexter shoved his fluffy butt into my step stool...

So Dexter likes to chase this toy in a circle over and over and then he gets so dizzy he falls over...and it is so funny....