Happy Birthday Mom!

Made this for my Mom's birthday next week. The woman in the middle is meant to look like her. On Sundays when we eat together there are 10 of us around the table, (The 10 hearts over her head). She always wears an apron. I gave her the fabric for the apron she is wearing. The words are the way we describe her when we talk about her. I am excited to give it to her.

6" ~12" mini quilt swap

You're smiling aren't you? Carol made this cheery, bright, happy quilt for me! I just love that bunny, and those carrots are SO orange it makes me sigh in contentment. She name this quilt "9 Carrots." Pretty clever if you're asking me!

I am thinking Easter candy ... Thanks Easter Bunny, bawk, bawk.

6" ~12" mini quilt swap

This is a mini quilt I made for Carol in Wisconsin. She was tired of the cold and ready for some spring and was feeling like she'd lost her creative mojo. I really wanted to send her some joy and the result was this mini.

I was inspired by this tutorial girl on a swing by comfortstitching. I changed it up a bit ... can you believe I created that girl doing a cartwheel? I was pretty excited that it turned out the way I saw it in my head!

Happy Stitching!

An Apology

I cannot for the life of me figure out why my font sizes are different. It frustrates me to no end that I can't solve this blogging eyesore. When I create my post, it looks great until it publish and then I get this font mess.

So I am sorry for the gigantic print in these posts. xo

Sewing Olympics ~ 2010

I am participating in the 2010 Sewing Olympics! My application was recently accepted. My first event is the binding ~a~quilt event. This event requires a steady hand, a good eye and even stitches. Wish me the best!

Valentine quilt made with Accuquilt GO! Practice included applique by machine and echo quilting....

This is the quilt

that I am using in the highly anticipated event! You can see the echo quilting. 02.13.10

My "coach" checking the underneath to be sure not one stitch goes through to the top. This is a difficult competition, we aren't taking any chances! in progress 02.13.10

WooHoo! Gold Medal in this time consuming event! I'd like to thank my coach for staying by my side throughout this challenge!

Random Catching Up

This the quilt mini sent to me by QuiltinKimmie for the January swap . The theme was rainbows. I feel so honored to have this beautiful quilt.
This is the quilt I sent to Kimmie.

This wonderful table runner was from Erin in New York. She and I did a Valentine Swap. I sent her the bird and heart quilt shown in the last post.

The AccuQuilt GO! cutter helped me make this last minute Christmas Eve gift for my SIL.




And finally, a picture of a birthday present for a friend. I took this picture a night and the colors are washed out. It's actually a bright and sunny little table topper.

Happy Stitching!

Workin' on Sending Out Some Love 4

Thanks everyone for the encouragement and fun today. I was able to finish my project. Now I can move on to the next quilting project! Yay! Too tired to do anything else tonight, so I am calling it quits!