Farmhouse Blocks

Having so much fun making "Farm Girl Vintage" Farmhouse blocks!

 

 

and from mostly Walmart fabrics!

 

That's right, I said "Walmart!"

 

could you just die?

Can't wait to do the next one....

Embroidered Pin Cushion!

I found this book recently. "Patchwork Loves Embroidery"

so many super cute things in it!

 

I immediately made a pin cushion. I do love a cute hand embroidered pin cushion!

How long does it take to do the embroidery? Only about two hours. Not bad at all.

Vintage Rose Quilt - Grandma Wins

 

 This month on mother's day would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday. It's a good time to share some of her quilts. When I first saw these vintage, antique quilts, I thought: "Wow. Grandma wins." These are the most gorgeous quilts I've ever seen! I am making a wedding quilt for my son. His fiancé asked for pink flowers. I remembered that my grandmother had made some flowers quilts and thought I'd like to see her quilts for a pattern as to how to place my flowers and vines. I asked my aunt for some photos. I felt immediately as though my grandmother was doing a little quilting show and tell with me like I do with my friends now. She wanted me to see her quilts. I feel her watching over me as I make my sons quilt.  I'll post that in July, after I give it to them. I even used her thread (on an old wood spool) as it was the only pink I had that matched these vintage colored fabrics. It's been a neat experience.

 

This is the famous rose quilt. ;o) It's all hand turned applique and hand quilted. Apparently, it was a pre-printed kit. The other quilts were expanded off that idea.

 

 

I love the quilting and the neat binding.

 This one is called the "Dogwood" quilt.

 

 

beautiful feathering and crosshatching....

 

 

the "Poppy" quilt

 

Pansys

 

My mother made this a long time ago. It's quilted with polyester instead of cotton so it's puffier. It really shows off the quilting!

 

this is my mother's rose quilt she made many years ago.

 

spectacular hand quilting...

Easy Shabby Chic Texas Star

 

 The Pattern "Sweet Starlet" by Basic Grey inspired me to try the texas star. I choose some gorgeous shabby chic fabrics.

 

Love these fabrics!

 

 

 

I free motion quilted swirls. pretty pattern...

 

Here's a bit of a tutorial....

Sew your strips together staggered...

 

cut on a 45* angle using the 45* line on your ruler lined up with the edge of the fabric.

 

do this with 3 different strips. assign a number to each of 5 fabrics. 3 is the middle one.

123

234

345

 

Sew them together being careful to match the corners.

 

To avoid a difficult Y seam here...

 

add strips to the bottom of each diamond like so.

 

the pieces go together like this.

 

Then like this. with corners added so it's now a square quilt.

 

Gorgemous!

 

 

 

 

Butter Churn

I saw this Butter Churn quilt pattern in an American Patchwork and Quilting magazine feb 2013 and just had to make one!

 

 

Here's mine. I love it. It's beautiful.

 

I used an easy construction method... In rows instead of the awkward corners there would have been in  in individual churn dash blocks.

 

 

I quilted with a walking foot around each block to define the churn dash blocks better.

 

and on the diagonal in the middle and on the borders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valentines Day....finished "kissing booth" just in the nick of time!

 

I finished my Valentines quilt just in the nick of time. It's almost Valentines Day!

I started this quilt a few years ago, got frustrated with it and put it away. I was recently inspire to get it out again. It's not so bad....

I was trying to think of something to do with my "Kissing Booth" Valentine Charm Pack by Moda.

 

I ended up arranging them imitating one of the fabrics in the line....

ON LINEN. love it...

 

There's some burlap behind the hearts. It got more frayed than I wanted. :P

 

Fancied it up....

 

I put a key in one spot...

 

and a key hole in another....

this is the best part.... the yo-yo's....

 

lots of buttons, lace, flowers, beads......

 

 

 

 

 

Decorating Stairs at Christmas...Christmas quilts too...

 

                    I decorated my stairs this year! I don't always because it's a lot of effort. ;o)

 

lights at night

 

 

I love the pomegranates and frosted berries, nut garland,

and some other strange bulbous fruits...

I also used some "nuts" that fall from the bottle brush trees around here.

lots of berries and ribbon....

 

 

 

My Christmas quilts so far.....

 

"Holly jolly"

"Friends for Christmas"

Figgy Pudding fabric. my own pattern.

"jovial"

 

Nancy Halverson Christmas