Fire quilt #2

This is quilt #2 for the victims of the Hot Springs fire a couple weeks ago. If you look close you can see the kids holding it up.

Gift Chat #2

Here I am again...pinch hitting for SarKarNor at #quiltchat. Anyway, this time i'm making recieving blankets.

You will need:

1 1/4 yd each of 2 co-ordinating flannels

approx 6 yards of lace or other trim

Step 1: Place pieces of flannel right sides together and square to same size. Pressing at this stage will make pieces stick together and may help.

Step 2: (optional) using plate or bowl, trim corners to a curve. This helps prevent catching the lace in the seam at the corners.

Step 3: place lace in between layers-be sure to point the lace to the inside so you catch the unfinshed or "ugly" edge in your seam. I dont pin...you might want to.

Step 4: begin sewing layers together but leave about 2 inches of lace free at your starting point. At corners you will need to put a little pleat in the lace to give it enough fullness if you did not curve the corners. Leave a gap of at least 6-8 inches when you get back to the starting point.

Step 5: Turn right sides out. Press if desired.

Step 6: Topstitch all the way around making sure to close your turning gap.

quilts for sale

These poor quilts have been homeless for much too long...they are tired of the shelf in the closet and would like to be loved. So i'm taking them out to my shop where they will sell them on consignment. I will probably not get what they are worth but i need the room for the new quilts i keep making. So off they go!

this wizard of oz meets groundhog day

Last fall i was trying to use up my fall prints and colors because i really dont like them much. So i made Yellow Brik Road quilts. 7 of them....i gave 2 tops away to local charities. These are the other 5. I'm taking them to the shop where i work hoping to sell them. The worst part is i still have enough fabrics to do about 3-5 more of these fall quilts! Thats where the ground hog day part comes in..its the same thing over and over and over and over!

Fire quilt #1

Last week we had a nasty wildfire about 30 or 40 miles away. It burned 35 or so homes to the ground. This quilt will go to one of those familes. I'm hoping to get several more done in the next few weeks because i know there will be more fires before the summer is over. I used the BQ2 pattern from maple island designs.

round robin

These are before and after pics of a round robin group i'm in. This was a HUGE color challenge to me cause of the variety of colors already used. It was getting a little wild and i hope i've toned it back down.

birthday gifts from Iraq

My birthday was yesterday, and this is my gift from DH. I thought it really funny cause its black hills gold and silver(and beautiful) but he was in Iraq when he bought it. We live in the black hills so the necklace was UPS'ed just across town from the jewler to me. But my mom siad it was a long trip from one side of town to Iraq to the other side of town. The wonders of the Internet......