New Material

So here is a look of some new material I purchased this weekend. I have so many ideas for these material and I just can not wait to get started. I will keep you posted with my creations. 

This is defiantly one of my favorites(the one above). I think I might save it and maybe one day make baby bedding from it!

And yes I realize it is mostly baby and children material but........it was on sale and I could not resist stocking up.

Busy Busy

Well it has already been a week and a very productive week for me! I finished two quilt tops and I also got to buy a whole bunch of material. 

This is what the back is going to look like. Well a part of it. It is actually done but too big for me to take a photo with just me and Trev here. Yup we have out grown our little apartment. But this will also mark the first time that I have ever done something with my backing, making my quilt reversible. 

This is a photo of it laid out before being pieced together. 
And this is the top done. Now I have to quilt it and I have not decided what kind of quilting I should do. So until then it is going to hang on the back of my chair.

So this little project started like this on a sunday morning and......

........ended like this. Well I would have to say that I love it! This is a perfect fall lap quilt. Will I ever have to many quilts? Probably not. 

Baby Blankets

Well we had a great weekend and the weather was beautiful. I gave myself a "quick project", well what I thought would be a quick project. We were heading over to meet our cousins new baby girl and I though I would make some cute baby blankets from a book called "Last Minute Patchwork Quilted Gifts". They turned out really nice and I will defiantly be making more. They are made with 100%flannel and so so soft and cuddly. 

We also got to pick some apples when we were at Trev's Aunts house this weekend. They are so lucky to have a couple apple trees in there back yard full of delicious apples. So I am thinking I am going to make some apple crumbles and apple pie! mmmm 

Today I am going to work on a new little project Melissa gave me. Good thing for Melissa she sure keeps my schedule busy!

 

It's done!

Alright So I have finished Melissa's lap quilt. And I just love it. It is so cozy and the colors are warm and remind me of fall. I know it will have a good home with Melissa, Jason and Colin. So here is a picture!

I also started working on another quilt. My mother in-law came over this week to hang out with me and start a new quilt. We bought the material awhile ago and decided to finally start it. I used the portobello precuts from Moda. At first I was not sure about this material but now I love it. It is very french with the blues, reds and creams. I also bought some twall material awhile and I think it is going to be perfect for this quilt. I think I might just finally get a quilt for my bedroom. Her are some pictures of what it looks like. 

Simple blocks made with a Jelly Roll and a charm pack. Total blocks made is 52.

I also thought it would be nice to post one of the one I made for my mom. This is her lap quilt that we started together when I was visiting her. 

Well I hope everyone has a great weekend!

weekend

Well the weekend is over and I did not get any quilting done. I find that since I am no longer working that I spend the weekends with Trevor and the weekdays quilting. 

So what did we do this weekend......... Well we had a great weekend. Friday night we stayed in ordered Pizza watched movies and made popcorn, a very relaxing evening after such a hard week at work. lol. Then on saturday we went to Trev's work to make a gate for our little house guest. It seems that Rocky was sick and he threw up on our carpet and stained it. Eww. So we thought it best to contain him to the tile area, which he did not like. Then we went for a small hike to Light house park. This place is beautiful it is a small hike to a cliff then you can climb done this cliff and sit on a rock by the water which overlooks all of Vancouver and some of the Islands. Then today we went for another hike up to Dam Mountain. We have done this hike many times in the winter with our snowshoes but this was the first time for a summer hike. We were really happy to have the chance to do this as we have tried all summer. 

I wish I had some photos but we forgot our camera yesterday and the battery was dead today.

Well Melissa my goal is to finish your quilt tomorrow and ship it out to you on tuesday. Wish me luck.

Starting Out

Well I am finally starting my first Blog. I have been talking about it for a while as well as following many other blogs which have inspired me to start my own. I find other blogs to be both inspirational and motivational, in saying that I hope mine will be too. I am also starting this blog to keep in touch with my friends and family that are far away. 

My first project that is going to be recorded on my blog is my sister Melissa's lap quilt. I started this quilt with her about 3 weeks ago when I was visiting her. It is almost complete I am just working on the actual quilting part. It is a 45 degree angle grid and I hope she likes the end result.