The Quilty Barn Along!

I truly love old barns, so much so in fact that I wish we had one on our property with a loft in it that I could convert into a sewing studio! Anyway, enough of the daydreaming! When I saw the Quilty Barn Along with Lori Holt from Bee In My Bonnet blog, I knew that I had to join in on the fun! So here is my first block! I am so smitten with it, can't wait to get started on #2!  Here is the link for the tutorial if you want to go check it out:
http://beeinmybonnetco.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-quilty-barn-along-tutorial.html

Snowflakes are falling!

It's so fun to have a quilt just for winter/Christmas! I am finally posting about this quilt that has been done for ahile now but just haven't gotten around to writing about it yet!  This quilt has 90 snowball blocks in it so it took me a little over a year to get it pieced together because sewing that many blocks get a little monotonous!  This was my first attempt at the starch applique method for putting the snowflake points on after I got all the layer cakes snowballed.  I have to say I was really leary at first but I like how it turned out.  Here is the link for the pattern: http://www.modabakeshop.com/2010/07/snowflakes-are-falling.html it's by Piece N Quilt using the Fruitcake line by Basic Grey from Moda.  My awesome longarmer, Val did the machine quilting using an overall with various snowflakes of all different shapes and sizes, she can be found here:  http://www.onawingquilting.com/Location.html  I used wool batting so it's nice and snuggly on these cold Minnesota winter nights.  This morning we woke up to -20 below and that's without the windchill added!

Sierra's quilt

Here is the quilt that I made for my niece, Sierra, who just turned 16.  This is the quilt that I did as part of a zig zag quilt along with www.mommybydaycrafterbynight! I did have to inform Sierra and her mother that it was not a blanket, that's an insult to a quilter.  Hehe.  This one was a lot of fun to make and I even quilted it myself on the big longarm! I chose the quilting pattern, sticky buns.  I hope Sierra cherishes this quilt for years to come!

Pillows & shams oh my!

Remember the four-squared quilt I made for my DIL Tonja? Well it was her birthday July 11th and I made 2 pillow shams and three decorative throw pillows to go with her quilt.  I was so excited to send them to her! It is so fun having another girl in the family!

Embroidery-Birds

I just wanted to show off my latest embroidery project that I completed.  I have been working on birdie for a little while now and am happy to say that it is done.  Trying to decide where it's home will be, decisions decisions.

Great Granny quilt along!

I won 2 1/2" batik strips last spring at quilt camp and decided that I am gonna make some granny squares with them! Can't wait to see how they turn out! Not going to use white though for my background, not sure what color yet!

Sewing with a view!

I drug my sewing machine all the way up to my bedroom on Saturday just so I could sew outside on my balcony and look at this gorgeous view.  I am currently on a quilt along with http://www.mommybydaycrafterbynight.com/ doing her zigzag quilt.  I didn't get as far as I wanted on the quilt because lo and behold I had to do some chores.  Darn!