for her and her love

A dear friend of mine was getting married. I had been helping her learn quilt. "I want to make you a wedding quilt! What type of quilt would you like?" I asked. As she looked through my collection of books, we admired colors and patterns and what her love would like. "This one!" she exclaimed. It turns out she really likes unicorns. And she really likes pink. So the quilt was made with love for her. Now she is  a married woman. Even though it's a little girly it should keep them both warm.

 

Name: Cheyanne's Quilt

Design:Daydreams by Cheryl Arkison, from the book Sunday Morning Quilts

Quilted: Me, spray basted and quilted in a loopy design with my Brother

Size: squarish lap size

It was really fun to piece the top of this quilt. I think I really like working with girly colors. The unicorn fabric was the first fabric choice, and it was fun to pick out 1/8th and 1/4 yard fabric for the stripes (my stash does not have much purple or pink).  My least favorite fabric I used was the grey, I'm starting to think that grey can be a tricky color. Does anyone else notice this?

The basting was done with spray; I like it so much better then using pins! My free motion quilting still has room for improvement but I like it. The backing is a light purple print, found at the Fabric Depot outdoor sale. Some of the fabric outside seems to be a little lesser quality, but this fabric is nice and soft. The backing washed well too.

The quilt is bound with a nice purple fabric. I hand stitched the binding to the back, which reminded me how much I LOVE to machine bind my quilts. It's faster and the binding seems so much more secure. Plus my fingers are not so tired when I use my machine.

Besides quilting, I have also experimented with baking. True, I used an at-home kit, but we did a good job shaping the pretzels don't you think? The funny looking ones were made by my husband.

Hope you are keeping busy too

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ps I am linking up to Finish it Friday

Some Finishes

I think having goals has been helping me get things done! Of course I have been busy . . .

 

January started with a vacation to Newport (and a trip to the Tillamook Cheese factory)

 

 

January has been super busy with service in freezing cold weather (literally)

 

 

And we had an amazing assembly program (with funny photo of me and T)!

 

 

But I digress . . .  Here is finished project number one for 2013!

 

 

Quilted with wavy lines 

 

 

Pretty backing fabric too

 

 

Name: Purple Stars

Design: Martha Washington Stars

Quilting: Me

Size: Large Lap

Completed January 2013

 

I am also making good progress on my other plans . . .

 

 

 

Talk to you soon!

 

Who-lee-uh

 

Preview of 2013

A new year with many new projects to start! It seems like every week I get an inspiration for a new project to start. Before I begin making more messes, I need to finish some of these beauties. Here are some of my works in progress to be finished (early) this year:

1) Modern Leaves: A modern log cabin I am making for my mother dearest. The fall colors are some of her favorites. I can not wait to use the panto I especially ordered for this quilt :) It will be BY FAR the most difficult pattern I have attempted to long arm.

2) Martha Washington Stars: A Sandy (Canby Quilt shop owner) inspired green and purple quilt. I have the recipient picked out but I have not decided on a pattern. This one will also get long armed due to the size and very slight wonkyness of the outer boarder. This was my second quilt class at Let's Quilt

3) Hip to be Square made with Kate Spain fabrics: Made for a very special friend. I love the colors so it was very easy to work with. All of the squares are pieced, but not the top is not completed. This quilt also needs a better name. Hum . . .

4) Buzzn' Around: Sawtooth blade style quilt made for my father in law. It has very masculine colors. Even with the shortcuts in the pattern, these pieces are very small! But I only have a few blocks to go!

5) Amy Butler Cosmo bag: You should know I am not good at things that don't lay flat. That's all I have to say about that.

So here's to a good start to the new year!

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