Tuesday, July 7, 2009

One more top almost finished


I had originally purchased this pattern to be Joey's bed quilt, but now have second thoughts about it. I have added a black and rainbow batik border to try to tone down the pink, but it still is a fairly girl looking quilt and Daddy is grumbling about it being on his boys' bed...
So it may end up being a present for someone who needs a rainbow! You never know...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Pajama day rocks!

We had a massive size change over here at chez crafty and Jimmy came up on the short side for pajama pants. I let him dig through my fabric and made him a few new pairs.

He loves to wear his pajamas all day!


He now has quite the variety to choose from.


This was a great stash buster! I forgot I had this lizard fabric...

Saturday, June 13, 2009

I finally finished the embroidery on the whole cloth quilt for Camas's baybee!
I think after all this embroidery in a row, I might not need a thimble to quilt it, the callus on my finger is getting so thick!
Now I just have to settle on a quilting pattern. I have been staring at it too long close up, so this is currently hanging on the wall until I get ready to mark the quilting. probably later this weekend...

You can click on the picture for a closer look.


I also got two wall hangings back from my long arm quilter. I finished binding this one today. Tomorrow I can put the label up and hang it on my poor empty wall!
This is from Mount Redoubt Designs. With my own modifications of course...


I am looking forward to getting the rest of my quilts back from quilting, and have to decide which color of my two color wall hanging to bind it with... decisions, decisions!

Friday, May 1, 2009

A gift for Baby K

There is a bun in one of my favorite ovens and it will be done in three more months...
Time to get stitching!

This whole cloth quilt is using the patterns from this book.
I'm almost half way done with it...
I still haven't decided if I will have time to try to quilt it or if I should tie it...


Cute baby animals and little crawling things play all over this quilt...


Friday, April 24, 2009

Mama's been painting

Sorry it has been so long since I posted here, but there has been much going on in the way of moving. I am just getting back into the crafting groove. The first thing to be done in out new house was to paint.
Jimmy asked for a jungle room and we picked out this mural from Elephants on the Wall.

This was great fun to do and I really enjoyed adding my own touches to it.


Jimmy says that the monkey dancing is the Mama, the hanging monkey is the Daddy, the swinging monkey is Jimmy and the climbing monkey is Joey...

So among other things (like a river, fancy nails and lips) the Mama and Daddy monkey have wedding rings on.

A look into this corner where there is a mini-mural, connected with a free handed bird of paradise in bloom and other plants along the bottom.


And off to this corner where I extended a branch around the corner to add some parrots at a later date. I also added a red ti plant and you can see where the river flows off into the distance...


Joey's murals were from Moppet Murals on esty. The train mural is just ast the pattern intended with the exception of a blue sky- I thought it was redundant on a blue wall...


Joey also has a city scene. This is the as far as the pattern goes. I am currently expanding it down the wall and have added a park and a hot air balloon. I will be adding in a bike trail and our family on bikes and a trio of wind generators in the background. I am still trying to cope in my little green heart that there are three exhaust billowing cars going down the road... maybe I should add little "H's" to them to show that they are hybrid or, even better, hydrogen powered and those billowing clouds are water vapor? We shall have to wait and see.


Remember you can click on any of the pictures to see more details. I highly suggest that you do!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Daddy's quilt

For the longest time I was planning to make my sailor an ocean waves quilt, so he could sleep under the ocean waves while his boat was under the ocean's waves. This tickled me to no end, but then I thought a star quilt would be better. Sailors and the stars have been such good friends for so long and my sailor doesn't get to see the stars on the submarine, so a star quilt was the best way to send him some stars to bring him safely home from his voyages, even if only in his dreams.


This quilt is long and skinny so it would fit on his rack on the boat. The block is called the Wyoming Star, the quilt pattern is called Stars in the Valley and was in the latest "Quilt" magazine.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

finishing up before I move...

There has been a mad crafting spree around here. While the husband's away the quilter can play...
Really I am trying to get to all the things I had in the "Ideas and kits I have everything I need for" pile taken care of...


This top I actually bought online and I sent it with everything else to my favorite quilter.

I may have posted this one before, but is a throw quilt I made with a panel and other fabrics mostly from the clearance table...


This was a kit, but I added the border with the scraps and a fat quarter from my stash.


The pieced corners were fun! Two are like this..


The other two look like this.


Jimmy asked me with his big blue eyes if he could have a special quilt just for his own to cuddle in in front of the TV... I let him pick out the main fabric and I found a couple of complementary prints and found a pattern that he liked.


This pattern was for an odd shape so I squared the corners and added two borders. I also pieced a couple of the diamonds.


I added just one more kitty to the bottom corner...


I also have finished two wall hangings and another quilt for daddy to have on the submarine, I will have to post that later. I have another quilt kit, a baby quilt to embroider and also the first packet of Dear Jane blocks came the other day, so I have plenty to keep me busy for the next two weeks before the move!