April

April has been a very productive month for me. I made this cute Easter/Spring table runner.

When I was home for Easter my mom and I tied this quilt to put in my car. My great-aunt and my great grandma made the top and since I'm the quilter in the family, mom thought I'd appreciate it the most.

I also finished this Valentine's quilt from . . . last year?

I did give in and start on the Chevron quilt, but I'm waiting for my walking foot to come before I go any further with it. It will involve minky . . . and I'm a little nervous. The lady at the fabric store said to pin a lot and that a walking foot is helpful. In the meantime I've been working on other long forgotten projects trying to get things done. Go me.

Chevron

On my list of quilts I'd like to make is a Chevron Quilt. I think they are ADORABLE and I don't think they look too difficult. There is a big debate going on in my head. It goes something like this. side 1 "Don't start a new project you have 15 that aren't finished" side 2 "BUT THEY'RE SO CUTE AND EASY YOU'D TOTALLY FINISH IT!!"

I have a feeling a happy medium can be found. Maybe I'll make a deal with myself. Finish 2 (putting me a head for my one a month) and then you can start a new one.
I'm really in a go through all my fabric mood. I guess it's better than a "let's go to the fabric store" mood.
This week is looking very open maybe I'll get stuff done. Run and quilt. Sounds like great Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night plans.

Here are the two Chevrons I just love. Which to do first . . .

I love the colors in this one here and it's very summery

And this one is very . . . peaceful?

p.s. remember how I was never really engaged and it was just an April Fool's joke? I remember that. :)

As of late

As of late, I'm a slacker. It happens when you get engaged. I saw it in my friends and now I see it in myself. Oh well.

I did manage to get a couple things done though while Jordan was working on a group project.

My new year's resolution for this year was to finish one quilt a month. I failed in February so we'll see if I can make it up in March. I finished the binding on this quilt which is actually one of the very first quilts I ever pieced. There's a lot of pink going on. :/ Oh well it's nice and cozy.

And here's my table runner for March. We won't talk about the fact that I finished it on St. Patrick's day. It still works for the entire month of March it will have 2 weeks of glory on the table. I think I don't like how I quilted it, but what can you do?

Now to try and get another quilt finished and maybe an Easter table runner done. Do I think it will happen? Depends on how often Jordan has school and work. ;)

Holiday projects

Our "dining room" always looks so awfully empty so i make these table runners to try and help it out. I don't know if it really works, but I like them.


This is what I do with my Thursday nights. Make a new table runner and watch 6 episodes of Merlin. My life is awesome. Don't be jealous.

New Year's Resolution

I have quite a few quilts in various stages of being done. So one of my New Year's resolutions is to finish one quilt a month. I think it sounds manageable. :)

Christmas gifts

I finally finished. The quilts that I started TWO YEARS ago for my brother and sister finally made it to the recipients this year. Pretty sure they would have won best gift if my brother Kevin hadn't made us sweet Tron jackets.

I gave Kevin's to him two years ago for his birthday. He was taking a nap so we just put it on him for the picture.

Fall

So our table was quite barren and we didn't have a table cloth so I made this table runner and then today while I was waiting around to go on this date I was really excited about I distracted myself by attempting these pumpkins I saw on pinterest. I think they turned out okay and I plan to make a couple more.


I made this Halloween quilt last year and quilted it on the quilting machine in Wyoming. I love how it turned out. I don't know that you can see it very well but I quilted it with a pumpkin design and was and still am quite proud of it.

This has nothing to do with fall. My roommates sister in law had a baby back in August and I finally got it bound and it's now ready to be given away.