Folly Beach & 1st Hand Stitched Road Trip Project

Here is our view for the next 10 days from the deck!!  Sunny, warm ocean and sand!

I finished my first One Pack Doll Quilt for the Challenge by Vickie of Mid-Ohio Quilter.  I took the final stitch in the car as we were pulling into Charleston.  It's not perfect by any means, but I did get a lot of hand piecing and hand quilting practice.  The charm pack is Spirographics by Bernatex.

Here is the back:

These photos were taken on the deck here on Folly Beach.

Now on to my second doll quilt and Joseph's Coat.

The last of the Swanky

I still had some Swanky fabric left so I made a gift for Jordyn's first birthday.

They are little rag edged letters of her name along with a tote bag to carry them in.  I'm going to mail them off to her in Chicago tomorrow.

Sugar Baby and Turban

I got sidetracked from my hexagons and Joseph's Coat.

Back on June 1st I won this wonderful fabric from Janelle and Kylie at Threads of Friendship. They had made a cute tote bag and I won everything that was left which included yardage, cut squares and prairie points.



I wasn't sure what to make until I purchased Ladyfingers & Sugar Baby bags pattern from Stephanie at Loft Creations.

Here is my version. The only change I made to the pattern is to make one long strap instead of two short handles. The Dresden's (my first) were fun as was adding the beads to each tip.



I have plenty left for a table topper or tote bag. Thanks Janelle and Kylie!

Then I received a request to modify a turban for my Mother. She wears a wig and likes a turban to keep her warm at home when she is relaxing. Forget the alteration - I made her a new holiday style turban using the pattern from Sewing.org.



Now it's back to my regular schedule which includes knee surgery tomorrow and our annual road trip to Charleston on Wednesday.

WIP

I have been stitching but no finishes so I will show what I am working on.

The first two are little hexagon dolly quilts that I worked on while traveling to Florida and back. They are for "One Pack Doll Quilt" Challenge by Vickie of Mid-Ohio Quilter. You will see these again once they are all together, quilted and washed.



I'm not very fast with hand stitching, but I got quite a bit done while I was gone.



And since I've been home, I've been trying to catch up with Kellie of Don't Look Now on her Joseph's Coat quilt along. I am using Lila Tueller's Santorini and Kona Chocolate for the background. The photo is yellow as it is taken inside this evening. The colors are actually pretty cool looking.

This will be a long, long project!!

Unexpectedly Unavailable

With only one day notice, flew to DC with my sister and road tripped to Punta Gorda FL to help her finish furnishing and decorating her new condo. This is the view from the Lanai!

It is HOT, HOT, HOT here and sunny! The only sewing is some hexies that I will show next week.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

Stitch in the Ditch around 429, yes 429 Flying Geese

I am all finished with my Geese in the Forrest designed by Anina of Twittletails! Thanks for the great design Anina! It was quite the process and I am so happy with the results. I did the whole quilt from start to finish by myself.


I was not sure about borders or quilting, so I took my time. I decided on red Ta Dot from Michael Miller and then darkest green in the quilt with solid red binding.



For quilting, I stitched in the ditch around all 429 geese with red, green and white variegated thread, then also around the red dot border and finally three rows of green in the outside border fabric. And then I quit!



And here is the final finished quilt. Zoom in to see how crinkly sweet it is after washing and drying!



For those of you who have followed this Geese in the Forrest progress, you may remember that I had 46 blocks that were the wrong size and I needed to make them over. Well, here is how I used them - on the quilt back!

I've Got Mail

Ann from Noodlehead wrote a great tutorial for a zipper wallet and then had a giveaway of one of her creations! I won this one made of two awesome Amy Butler prints along with these two Halloween pony tail holders. So cute. Go check out Amy's blog. I think she creates something new every day!




Julie from Jewel's Arm Candy did a tutorial on some cute star blocks I wanted to try and then I won nine jelly roll strips of Simple Abundance!! How cool is that! Now I can try the star blocks. Go check it out - you may want to make some too.


I won this beautiful one yard piece of Aunt Grace 30’s print from Melisa at Sweet Home Quilt Co.. It will be so much fun deciding how to use it! Stop by and check out Melisa's blog and see all the great stuff she has in her store too.