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...

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!

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.

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!

My Christmas Quilt

I have been calling this quilt the "Kiss Me Quilt" because of the mistletoe print. I still have to decide if I want to embroider "Kiss Me" on one of the squares or just call it done. I still can't believe all those little squares. They finish at 1"!



I used this decorator trim as the edge treatment instead of binding. Boy, it took a long time, but I think it was worth it.


I am excited to start my Baby Jane journey in January and have a few other projects to get finished before the move. I hope I have time to get them done! Wish me luck!

This turned out so cool I can't BEAR it!

Tying up loose ends

Hello everybody!
I have a few projects finished in preparation on our move ( we still don't know exactly when or where yet... dontcha love the military!)

I picked up this table cloth for $2 and added a remnant of snowflake fabric as binding. I also used up a 1/2 spool of green variegated thread and several partially full bobbins of random colors.


I had fun using the different decorative stitches on my machine.


I also made another little portable pincushion to go with the cathedral window quilt I am working on.



I picked up some short little applique pins to make working with all the turned over sides easier on my hands.


I've made quite a bit of progress on this one lately. This is only about 1/4 of the row I have almost finished. It finishes about 80" long, I don't know how many of these rows I will make. We'll see!


Here is a finished but un-decorated present for Christmas.


There's a tablecloth, place mats, a table runner and napkins with rings.

I made or altered everything, down to the napkin rings.


I had fun with the napkin rings.


I also had fun with the macro setting on the camera while I had some beads out.


So Pretty!