Baby Quilt

I finished this one today.  It is for a friend's relative's new baby. People wrote or embroidered or decorated a square, then  I embroidered two of the squares on my machine. Sewed it all together and quilted it. Fast quilt to make.  It got me into the sewing mode, so today I started working on the borders for my scrappy trips around the world quilt.

Dorm Quilt

 I finished up a huge quilt, 70 x 90. This is for a high school senior who is graduating.  Friends and family each contributed a fat quarter or larger of fabric that represented something about the student.  There was no coordination of  theme in the choices- just that they represented the student.  My task was to sew it into a quilt.

The front I added the black in the intersections. The back I wanted to make tamer in case he wanted to use the back of the quilt as the top on his bed in the dorm.  I embroidered the gps coordinates of where the student had lived, as well as the stripes being an interpretation of the flag of South Korea where he was born, and adopted from.

A community baby quilt that I am assisting in assembling was two blocks short... so Big Reg got into action.  Embroidery sure is fun.

What to do when...

What to do when you buy a new pillow and then when you are making the bed realise that the pillow is not the standard size?  Answer: grab a piece of Hoffman and sew a pillowcase.  I used to wonder how people were able to topstitch so precisely at the edge.  Answer, #5 foot, needle over one position to the left.  Easy.

Little project

Just in time for 2013- I made a journal cover with embroidered initials and year. 

Cheating..

These are the two Asian fabic quilts I am working on. 

Stitch in the ditch foot.

Back of one of the quilts.

Yep, the new gadgets make it so easy that it is like cheating.  The stitch in the ditch foot makes it so that I hardly have to look to see where I am going. Having fun exploring the potential.

Pink Princess

In between a busy work schedule I made this for a little girl who loves the color pink. Great fun to make.