More Projects

I am trying to do as many home made gifts as I can this year. I really enjoy making things and really it's the only thing that's keeping me sane right now. Christian travels so much and I am always alone. When Jellybean is sleeping I am always making something! :)

Here are a few recent gifts I have made-

My niece Madison's birthday was this weekend and she had requested a watch. I made her two bands she can trade back and forth.

Savy's birthday was last weekend and I sent her this bag with the crayon roll I put on her a while back. This was my first time doing applique. I thought it tuned out really cute!

This is a necklace I made for my sister in law Alisa. I am really loving the charms lately! I made a random pattern which I am so proud of. Random is so hard for me!

This is what I made for Rookie. She loves birds and I was so excited I found these charms.

Now for my quilting. Man this quilting business is a lot of work! It is really time consuming as well, but I love it! I found a foot so I can sew accurate seam allowances but it is still hard. Practice is the only way to get better. So I will keep sewing away.

This quilt is one I finished piecing today. I have it all laid out to be sewn together. 80 blocks will keep me busy for a while. The pattern is a disappearing nine patch. I am not sure what size it will be when I am done. Hopefully close to a lap size.

I got the idea from this tutorial.

I made my first stacked coins baby quilt. I love the pattern! You can use scraps for a really random look. I used two charm packs in Swanky by Moda. The white sashing looks really good once it's quilted and looks all crinkly.

This quilt is almost done. It has a really cute border that I haven't tackled yet. This is one of my favorites! I love all the bright colors. I'm not sure I can give this one up.

I got this crazy idea to make two log cabin baby quilts. I get ideas in my head and I can't move on until I try them out. These babies are interesting. Each section of fabric sewn you have to iron and square up. Ugh!

I really like this quilt style because you can combined so many different kinds of fabric and have it look great.

I used the left over fabric from Shanda's baby bedding and added two more scraps I had from making bags for this one. I just decided to applique flowers in some of the corners so I am not all the way done. I always seem to add more work for myself.

Here is a close up of the flower.

I need some quilts for boys since I don't know anyone having a girl. Here is my first boy quilt. I think I might need to save it in case I have a boy one day. I really love the color combination.

I used this tutorial for both quilts.

I have lots of quilt tops but none of them are finished. I really want to learn how to quilt all the layers together on my sewing machine. I would love to send them all out and have them done on a long arm, but that would brake my bank. So I have been reading up on it and I ordered a foot for my machine so I can start with the basics. If anyone has any tips on quilting I would love any help I can get!