Quilt and Nursery Pics

Ok here is what the nursery looks like...

And here are a few pics of Jake's Quilt. I got the pattern from and episode of Simply Quilts. The first is an overall then a coule of close ups of the quilting - the quilting in the star was intended to look like flames radiating from the center:

And You Thought It Was Going To Be More Belly Pics...

...But believe it or not I have actually been getting some quilting done!!

This is a quilt I did for a coworker, Apryl. She wanted a quilt for her son, Nassir. Hope they like it! It was very difficult due to all of the set-in seams but not as hard as I thought it would be - I guess it was more time consuming than anything. On top of that we had a VERY hot summer and so I was not exactly jumping to spend time in my sewing room that gets extreamly warm. But it's done...
Here is the whole quilt:

And here is a pic of the fuzzy backing I used:
I also made a small pillow out of the left over backing fabric. :)
Oh and the quilting was done using the ABC's. I had enough room for each block to have an uppercase and lower case of each letter of the alphabet. The bottom row are the numbers 0-9.

A quilt for Gabby

I made this quilt for my neighbor's daughter Gabby. It was a kit so it took very little time to complete.

Miss Eve and Her Quilt

She loves her quilt!

Baby Quilt

Well I have just finished a baby quilt that I made for my neice. I made it entirely with fabrics I got at the new quilt shop in my area, Evergreen Quilting. I am so very excited to have a quilt shop so close to home! Here are some pics of the quilt! It only took me about 4 hours to complete after I had the washing done (mind you this was spread out in 20min - hour long spurts over several weeks). The part I liked the most about making this quilt is that I did not have to put any batting in it and therefore I did not have to quilt it as heavily as I would have otherwise. The first photo of course is the entire quilt. The second one (below left) is a close up of the moon quilting I did, and the third one (below right) shows the super soft fabric I used as backing. I think it's called Minky or something of the sort.

Feburary Goddess Girl

Ok so I have been working on another Goddess Girl for my Fairiegoddessmothers quilting group and FINALLY got her finished. I would have had her done MUCH sooner had my cat not pissed all over my fabric stash! I am sorry but I can't help being vulger about it. She really really made me mad at her and fortunately for her I am not the sort to resort to violence (allthough it SERIOUSLY crossed my mind).
So anyway...here is the block for Feburary...the theme was love.

Eve's Quilt

Well, it's finally done! Quilted and bound. D-U-N DUN!
Brian did a great job picking out the fabric, designing the quilt and doing all of the piecing. When he finished he gave it to me and I added the borders, quilted it (in a 4inch grid) and bound it.
We bound it in red, and it is a little hard to see in the photo, but I assure you it is sharp and totally completes the quilt.
We hope that Eve will enjoy crawling on it and later when she is bigger, snuggling up under it.
Oh, and just for fun, here is a pick of the Kiddo at Christmas (I think she was somewhere around 3 weeks old at the time).

One more star

Well I finished another feathered star on Sunday...I guess 18 hours of football is good for something right? Sooo here it is...looking much the same as the others, just with different fabrics. Last night I cut the fabric for Star #4 and have started piecing that one too. I just hope I don't get distracted like I did with this one and forget all about it for months on end. As before here is an overall and then a close up of the fabrics...The block looks slightly distorted because it's not on a totally flat surface.

Hand pieced feathered stars

Here is the first feathered star that I made. The second pic is a close up of the fabric.
It went together surprisingly fast but I think that is because I was so eager to see it done. Below are pics of the second completed block. I will post pics of #3 when I finish it.

Baby Quilt?

Well, yes it is a baby quilt. This is the quilt my husband designed and executed for our niece, Eve. Let's just say her parents aren't the pink and yellow sort...But this one we know will be used and not just stored away in a cedar chest. I only hope that Eve come's to love it too.

Did I also mention that Brian is the one who did the cutting and sewing? This is his third quilt and I must say he is getting pretty darn good at it.

Winter Fairy

On a typical Northwest day here in Washington some years ago my brothers and I were playing on Christmas day. We had opened our presents and downed a lot of candy and we were killing time between opening our gifts and going to Grandma's for dinner.Well that day my brother got a microscope for Christmas...boy were we having fun putting everything we could find under there and looking at it.Of course it wasn't long before we took the thing outside and started putting leaves and bark and all sorts of stuff in it...It was my turn and I had a nice brownish red leaf I wanted to see up close. I put my eye to the scope and just as I was getting ready to slide the leaf under a snowflake landed on the bed! wow was I excited to see a snoflake magnified. but not as excited as I was when I realized that it was no mistake it landed there.Upon taking a second look (for my eyes couldn't be trusted) I saw the Winter Fairy Goddess bringing life to the first snow of the year. Sure enough when I looked back up it had started to snow!I have preserved that memory and placed it on the block you see in the picture today.

Projects

Woo hoo! ok so it looks like I have figured out how to post a pic from the web...just not sure how to make it work out of my pic folder. Hopefully it will work better from my home computer since that is where I will be uploading from usually.
Anyway this is Harley Quinn the Fairy I am working on from the FairyGoddessMothers group. The fairy template was created by our Listmom Linda Pool (she has some good books out too - you should check them out if you are interested in quilting). Harley is still a bit of a brainchild but I have started to think about what her backround is going to be....I am starting to lean towards having her sit on a windowsill looking into a courtroom (throne room). I have some fun embellishments I am going to add too. I have some little jingle balls to hang from her hat and shoes and a couple of 'juggling balls' to put around her too. Next step I guess is to figure out how large to make the quilt itself so I can start drafting the backround.
Ok well, that's all for now I suppose...I'll post some more pics later tonight I hope - this is assuming I can figure out how to make it work.

Just some randomness

One of the Yahoo groups I belong to is the FairyGoddessMothers. It is a quilting group for people who have a love of fairies...that would defenitely be me. On top of that the ladies there are all a great support network. Plus we have lots of fun and encourage creativity and imagination. I'll post a pic as soon as I can figure this darn thing out...so far all of the pics I have tried to upload tell me 'your picture was not uploaded' Of course it won't tell me why...Sooo eventually I'll figure it out...