Dr. Seuss Aprons and Chef Hats

Don't you just love these Dr. Seuss Chef Hats and Aprons !!!  

I looked around for tutorials and found this great tutorial by Joanna Armour you can find it here if you would like to make some Chef Hats and  Aprons of your own. ( www.stardustshoes.blogspot.com)

 This one is for my nephew and the others are for his boys. They cook together as a family quite often so I thought it was the perfect gift. All of the fabrics you see on the aprons are funky Dr. Seuss pockets.

Look what I made !

This is my first pillow start to finish. I have assisted on a pillow before I just quilted the front and my sister put the rest together to match her daughters wedding quilt that we also made together.

One of my friends brought thispattern to our Sisters Quilting Weekend and I wanted to make one too. Hers was made using wool and it was a kit. I just worked with some scraps and came up with this.

I love it !   What do you think???

Halloween Tablerunner

Christmas Door Hanging or Table Runner



Shyla's Doll Quilt

When you are a Grand Aunt like I am you want to spoil these kiddo's rotten and let them do fun things.  Well while recovering from my surgery I am staying at a neices house. Lots of family has been visiting and Shyla wanted to make a quilt for her doll.
I had her pick out the fabric....which was already cut into scrappy strips and away we went. This particular neice is a thumb sucker....and they are trying to get her to stop. Well I told her she could sit on my lap and help if she didn't suck her thumb..... I gave all of the appropriate lectures of warning.....but ....that needle went into her finger so FAST !

If I had just let her suck her thumb her hand wouldn't have been any where near the needle....Darn it !

Needless to say the Grand Aunt Guilt sunk in rather quickly....and what was going to be a small doll quilt is now a "huge" doll quilt. But I hope she will use it for more than a doll quilt which I'm sure she will. It measures 36 X 40. I think she did pretty good picking out the fabric.....What do you think?

Baby Quilt

One of my sisters made this baby quilt.   I LOVE it !

Kyia's Elk Quilt

Kyia based this design on a quilt that she saw and loved.  

Quilted Scrappy Quilt

The question is should I do more quilting on this ?

New Quilt Top

Decided to share a pic of the top.

My FIRST commisioned quilt !

Did that sound fancy....I'm really not some elite quilter and got this fantastic commission for a quilt. Nope I'm just me....and a childhood friend asked me to make it for her 3 year old grandson....I was nervous and also excited to get started. So I posted the beginning of this quilt a while back in September and wanted to show you the finished product.

It is my first I - SPY quilt and my first commisioned quilt !!!  YIKES !

If you know me you know my backs are never boring....

My Sister says she almost always likes the backs better than the fronts.

This is a Wonky Back I was trying to make it look like WONKY PIPES !

I used the Dinosaur uproar and Leapin Lizards collections for the back

I just love the binding I believe it is from the Dinosaur Uproar line

Quilters Anonymous 1ST Year Anniversary



This quilt was made by Colleen I love the colors !

This quilt also made by Colleen "The Daisy Quilt"

This Dolly Dress Up Quilt by Marsh is the first of many to come but how can any  of us measure up?
This quilt she and her husband hand quilted ?  Yes can you believe it ?
Not only that but she wanted extra fluff so she made a double decker sandwich !



My sister Nancy's gift to my Mom ! I think it is so beautiful....I think she is finally a true addict !

Nancy made this from a box of free fabric that I put out at our March Meeting.

Nancy also made this it is a gift for her sweatheart for christmas. Shhhhh !

My talented cousin was invited for our Anniversary Celebration. This quilt is all hand quilted (CRAZY)

Two new potential addicts !!!!

QUILT RETREAT

Well I went to my first official "Quilting Retreat" this last weekend and had a BLAST ! It was very well attended 28- 30 depending on the day. Met some old friends and made some new friends. The G-Town Girls were a good group to have sitting next to my table. We all kept each other a laughing....who knew quilting was soooo much fun !

I signed up for 3 classes prior to the retreat and ended up taking 4 classes. The retreat was well run.....hats off to the "Stitches" crew for all the hard work!Here are some pics of the gang

The Scene

                                

Meet Chloreena
 I love this woman
she kept us all in "Stitches"
 most of the weekend.

Sharon & Jan

 This retreat is held in a old Church and this is the gym/cultural hall.

I'm not sure we could have fit many more quilters in here  

Thanks Again to Stitches

                     

                                       

Checker Boards

For our Family Reunion we have a auction each year to raise funds to pay for the next

 Family Reunion.

Last Year I made Checker boards out of wood that were really cool !

Now that I'm a quilter so I wanted to do checkerboards out of fabric.

 This one is a very scrappy and very cute checkerboard. The labels were attached later due to a " Name that Checkerboard" contest. We needed to conceal the winning names for the big announcement and prizes. I tried to make each label unique either with a scrappy border around the label or something. Next time I will make the labels a little smaller...they just seemed too big for the board.

This was the most girly of the Checkerboards.

Each checkerboard comes with its own coordinated bag to hold  the checkers in.

.I love the fabrics in this one !

 I hand painted each wooden car wheel checker...this was a very long project from start to finish

The sock monkey checker board was made from the 5 Funky Monkeys Line by Erin Michael for Moda You can pick some up here HERE ! The sock monkey and Boy Scout boards I added Tic Tac Toe to the back of the board/quilt

 The Sock Monkey was definately a favorite and brought the most money of the checkerboards !!!  YEAH !

 The Scout Quilt was also a Huge favorite since I am from a big scouting family.

The Scout Quilt was also made mostly from the Boy Scouts of America fabric line by Robert Kaufman.

Here they are all packaged for the ride up to the Reunion !

Don't they look cool all bundled up !

As usual the fabric I purchased from the wonderful Fat Quarter Shop !