Kate's American Girl Doll Quilt

This all started with the thought...I think I'll make a barn quilt and copy all the barn quilts we saw in Iowa and Illinois last year....I researched the blocks and a lot of them were way too advanced for me and even paper piecing that I'm not interested in. Next I thought, "I'll make a barn quilt like a Farmer's Wive quilt a long." I got the book from the library and started pinning squared on Pinterest. I started making the blocks and decided.  I DO NOT want to make 111 of these. not even 10. I'm just not interested. With the left over fabric I decided to make Kate a little quilt for her doll. 

I love this LECIEN fabric. I love the roses. It's one of my favorites. I didn't use any of the green fabric.

I saw a tutorial for spiral quilting and I thought I would try it. It wasn't easy to make uniform so I just went with it. It was fun but maybe the perfectionist in my isn't liking it all squigly. Kate loves it and that's why I made it so...after probably 20 wasted hours....Mission Accomplished.

I hate house hunting

I really do. Why does this have to be so hard?  Seriously?  P.S. I don't even want to sew lately.   Help!!!!!!!!!!!

Change

I moved back to www.homegrownhalfpints.blogspot

I'll be posting my projects but also my feelings of being a Mother, Daughter, Sister, Wife etc. 

Fun Little Gifts

These are ongoing. I love making these for the new babies at church. I love Chevron patterns.  Can you tell I like Sarah Jane fabric. My sister Jenny got me into Sarah Jane's art a couple years ago. Now she has fabric. Could it be any better? 

 

For my friend Monica's birthday. She is from Taiwan. Her son is in class with Kate. They have a lot of fun together.

I made some of these for me and my  friends Whitney and Eliza.  Love the fabric.  I followed this tutorial 

My computer is fixed, bring on the blog

I'm alive! I have a couple finished projects and some works in progress. Here they are:

This is my dear friend Emily's baby's dress, a little late considering she's six months old. My girlfreind Angie helped me make it. She taught me some cool stuff. She came up with her own pattern. She is such an awesome seamstress. 

This is my oldest Nephew on my husbands side, Devin's blanket. He is 12 now and he is my facebook buddy. When we were visiting he said, "make me a quilt", ok :) I used all the old scraps left over from Spencer's blanket.  

 Super wrinkly hu? I love the houndstooth!

 Here is a wall hanging quilt I wanted to try. I appliqued the star onto the fabric. It reminds me of the cool quilt I have from my great great grandma.  This is for my friend Cissy from Uganda. I am going to miss her so much when we move in 4 months.

 I just picked up some fat quarters I loved from this new shop in Madison The Sewcial Lounge. The owner is just darling and the fabrics are so great. 

 I picked up these three fun upholstery fabric from Joann and used the Amy Butler Pattern from This Book. I sewed in a zipper, two of them :) I  was so scared. I conquered a zipper!!!!

 Here is Jess's cozy blankie. Kate has the same one but with blue

 I love these whales.

Here are the pages from my sister's kid's quiet book. It is there Christmas present...uh late. I'll post the cover when I'm finished.  

sheesh! I LOVE my new sewing machine.  One day I'll make something for myself.  Next I'm off to conquer a dress with a pattern. Wish me luck.   

Use it Up, Wear it out....

I'm trying to use up every little inch of fabric. Here are the quilts I made or am making and the 3 fun "leftovers" I get to use for 3 new baby quilts  

Jess's 

Spencer's 

New one I'm making for our room.
I'll keep you posted!   

I didn't disappear!

I have been working on some secrets, two of which I wrapped for the girls before I took a picture. You'll see after Christmas. 

 Here are my latest quilts.

Harvada's Quilt 

inspired from HERE

And the surprise quilt I've been working on for a couple months now (in secret)

Spencer's Bicycle Birthday Quilt

inspired from HERE

I'm not missing, I'm just busy making some fun stuff for Christmas.  I'll get posting soon!!!

Yay Frankie's quilt is finished.  I added to this quilt as part of a quilting bee at Margaret's Hope Chest

Harvada's Quilt top

Harvada is my dear friend who is one of the most courageous and optimistic people despite extreme trials.  Her husband has advanced inoperable stage 4 cancer. I'll post more when I finish. 

There is still time to Donate

100 Quilts for Kids

 is still going on this week.  I donated two One to Margaret's Hope Chest and another to Operation a Sister's Love  But you can still finish by this Saturday, October 15th and donate it to any

  charity of your choice. 

It is amazing how many beautiful 

Quilts have been made. 

Check it out HERE at Swim Bike Quilt or on my previous post HERE 

Halloween Quilt Finished

I used THIS tutorial

I added NO BATTING only a fun flannel back. Spencer and I went to the remnant section of Joann (yes Spencer will occasionally let me drag him around a craft store-it really saves him money in the end) and found the perfect size, no really, the perfect size. So cheap!  

I used my darning foot to sew this random pattern. It was fun and quick-I'm getting better.

I did the border with scraps left over from the Jelly Roll it is so colorful and fun!!! I think I'll do  scrappy borders a lot now. 

When I was uploading the pics I noticed Spencer snuck this one. See I'm in the Sun!!!! This Fall is breathtaking!!!

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100 Quilts for Kids

Here is my second quilt for 100 Quilts for Kids This is a great event my friend's sister in Law over at SwimBikeQuilt is hosting.

 Me and my daughters took this one to the Madison's Children's Hospital today in behalf of  A Sister's Love

LaRon's is the second one. You can check out his HERE