Happy Campers Baby Quilt

I gave this disappearing nine patch to my friend, Misty, as she is expecting her second child. I do love all the fabric from American Jane and this was no exception. I used two charm packs and some background fabric for the center of the quilt. For the quilting I opted for a simple figure eight.

Omaha

Here is the quilt I've been working on for the past two weeks. Each of the blocks is paper-pieced or includes paper piecing elements from Foundation Factory. This is probably the most intricate quilt I've made. I love it!

I slept under the quilt for the first time last night during my first night in Omaha. My first night was a bit restless and lonely.

Today I found a local quilt shop in the Omaha, chatted up the staff and got invited to a guild meeting on Monday night!

New Block

This may be my favourite block of the day. This is a housewarming/ homecoming gift for myself so the little house seems very appropriate.

I love this quilt!

Current Project

The big news around here is that I'm moving to Omaha in a little over a week. I've accepted a job at a small, private, Catholic college there. I fell in love with the school and the students; therefore, I'm very eager to start.

I've been wanting to start a quilt for myself, but waiting for inspiration to strike. The lightning finally struck a few days ago. I bookmarked this quilt a few weeks ago. I fell in love with the beauty and simplicity of the quilt.

Here is an EQ6 mock-up of the quilt I'm piecing in my signature colours of red, turquoise and pink. This will be my welcome to Omaha quilt and gift to myself. I've pieced almost half of the star blocks and I love the way they are turning out. This is one of those labor of love projects that keeps me up late at night and I just can't wait until I'm able to finish the last inches of binding.

Valentine's Day Printables.

From Handmade & Homebaked

Good Gravy's printable gift tags

From Tricia Rennea

Inside a Black Apple's sweetie pie valentines

Tribute

My mom belongs to the Civil War Tribute block of the month. She's had some problems piecing the blocks, so I've been trying to piece ahead of her to help her out.

While I do love the fabrics in the kits, I thought I'd use some of my own fat quarters. I saw a quilt at the Rocky Mountain Quilt museum that was predominately pinks and poison greens, and I fell in love with the colour combination. Looks like I'll be making my own Civil War Tribute quilt. Oh darn.

Geek

I'm reaping the benefits of dating a gadget geek. What I'd like to know is why on earth would a purse maker use black lining. I can never find anything in my bag because everything is black.

The one thing missing from the photo is my black Canon Elph, but it was busy taking the photo.

Gifted

This was a belated Christmas gift for Slane. I created the design myself using EQ6. I'm not sure that Slane understood that the quilt was for her, but her parents were thrilled.

Magic Blanket

I had a dream a few days ago that my friend Riley and I were trying to steal his Magic Blanket from a group of Carnies. It was a beautiful quilt, although I'm unsure what magical powers the quilt imbues its owner.

Here is a rendering of the dream quilt. The dream quilt was made with chenilles and other touchable fabrics, which is perfect because Riley is a very tactile person.

Any thoughts?

Christmas Cards

I just wanted to pass this along for those who have an abundance of Christmas cards! The ones you received, the ones you have left over, any!!! I thought you might want to know that St. Jude's Ranch encourages people to send their left over and old Christmas cards for the children to use to make decorations and recycle the cards to sell in future years as a fundraiser. Please pass this onto everyone you know.

Please send left over or old cards to:

St. Jude's Card Recycling

100 St. Jude Street

PO Box 60100

Bolder City, NV 89006

Craft Hope

Craft Hope helps to share handmade crafts with those less fortunate. Combining a love for crafting and desire to help others into a project to make a difference around the world. Founded by Jade Sims – craft hope has organised craft projects as far reaching as making toys for orphanages to blankets for homeless shelters. Their most recent project is craft hope for haiti – where they have set up an etsy shop with handcrafted donations and proceeds all being sent to doctors without borders

Periwinkle

I've been slowly working on this quilt for about six months. The periwinkle blocks were paper-pieced. Although I may never have a child of my own, I'm holding on to this quilt for hope.

I've always, always loved this pattern and it looks stunning in 30s reproductions. I'm not sure how I'm going to quilt it yet. Any suggestions?

Happy Campers

I made this fun little disappearing nine patch from two Happy Campers charm packs and some cream fabric I had in my stash. One of my girlfriend's recently found out that her eggo is preggo, so this maybe a baby gift.

I love doing disappearing nine patches for small quick projects. If I really set my mind to it, I can easily put together a top in an afternoon.

My current obsession

I've been wanting to do a Civil War reproduction Pineapple Quilt. I finally printed a paper piecing pattern and tried my hand at the blocks. The blocks didn't take nearly as long as I thought and I can use up a ton of blocksI'm in love. I can't wait to see the final results.

Pattern?

Here is one of the quilts I gave away for Christmas to my cousin's future husband (I find the word fiance to be pretentious). It was a super easy quilt to put together and used many of my strips orphaned by other projects.

Would you be interested in a pattern?