Fabulous Pillows!

After seeing Randi's post about her cute pillow for the Pillow Talk Swap. I had to cruise on over and take a look. There are sooo many cute, cute, cute pillows over there! I really might have to join an upcoming round. :)

It got me thinking about doing a tutorial for a pillow of some sort. Anyone interested? I wouldn't have time until after the Holidays, but it might be fun to start off the year that way! I have a friend who is a beginning sewer and I told her that I would post some simple tutorials here to get her started with some projects. I think this would be a good little project for that.

Right now I am knitting knitting knitting away at a sweater for one of my nieces for Christmas. I am under a little time crunch for all I want to do for Christmas this year. I hope I can get them all done. I made pretty significant progress this weekend. I have the back of the sweater finished and one of the front side pieces about 75% finished. Still have to do the other side and the sleeves.

Then I am thinking of sewing an Imke shirt from this book for another niece. I have been drooling over this book since it came out a while back. I finally broke down and bought it a couple of weeks ago. I already had one of the patterns that is in it, but it is one of my favorite patterns to work with, so I figured I probably couldn't go wrong with the book. My only hesitation is that it works a lot with knit fabrics. I have never enjoyed working with knits, but I am going to give it another go. We shall see how that goes....

I Heart Mug Rugs!

I have been holding this post back because one of the recipients of these reads my blog. I didn't want to spoil any surprises. :) Every year my MIL, SIL, husband's Grandma and his Aunt and I all go and see the Zonta House. Usually we go out to eat afterward and kind of make it our girls outing for the year. It's a fun way to kind of kick off the Holiday season and support a good cause, too. The proceeds go to scholarships and to support battered women's shelters.

This year I decided to surprise everyone with mugs and mug rugs. These were so much fun to make and a good way to practice some of my quilting techniques. They are a great way to use up scraps, too. I made four of them, but I only have pictures of three thanks to my lovely kitties who knocked my camera off of the counter and caused it to lose some of the pictures. Here are the three, that I do have pictures of. I used Amanda's ticker tape idea for one of them.




Bloggers Quilt Festival


I decided to join in the Blogger's Quilt Festival. This is one of my favorite quilts that I have made. I made this for my MIL a couple of years ago for Christmas/Birthday (her birthday is in early January). I really fell in love with the batik fabrics that I used. I love the intensity of the colors. I also love that my sweet DH tried his hand at a little free motion quilting since the quilt was for his Mom. He didn't do a lot of the quilting, but did just a little bit. :) My MIL is such a wonderful person and really loves things that are sort of fun and random so I thought this fabric and quilt would really suit her. She's a great inspiration to me.

Book Bags

My nieces Mady and Claire are taking piano lessons and so their Mom asked me to come up with some bags for their piano books. So here they are! Inside I put a small pocket and a place for a couple of pencils, because anyone who has taken music lessons knows that a pencil is an absolute MUST! :)



Looking for ideas...

I am looking for fun, but easy ideas for a quilt made with blues, pinks and purples for a polka dot lover...
Any suggestions?

Wrapped in Hope



Margaret's Hope Chest is taking volunteers to make birthday quilts for children who have a parent in prison.
You can sign up here!
I just signed up to make a quilt for a young girl. I am on a mission to find cute polka dot fabric. :) I hope some of you will consider signing up for the other children!
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