I love the little pop of holiday cheer this brings from the colorful snowman to the Christmas tree.
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Quilts in My Home - Christmas Tree Hanging
I love this little Christmas tree hanging. I believe my mom won it in a silent auction at one of the area quilt shows a few years ago.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Quilts in My Home - Christmas Angel
My grandma made this Christmas Angel quilt in 2001 for herself. It was handed down to me when she passed away a few years ago and I hang it up each Christmas in place of my Welcome Home quilt, using the same quilt hanger.
I love the simplicity and classic feel of this quilt. It is one I can hang up each year and will always treasure since my Grandma made it.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Project List Update
I have been crafting and finishing some projects this past week or so but nothing on my "official" project list has made much progress so I won't post the whole list.
I covered a bulletin board in fabric for our kitchen, made B some alphabet and numbers wooden flash cards, tried out several knit booties patterns (and found one I like finally) and got several more blocks of my Christmas quilt sewn together.
I have been working on this Christmas quilt for 5 years off and on and have 9 more blocks to sew and then I can start sewing the rows together! Each year I work on the quilt for a little bit, saying that I will get it done this year for Christmas but then other projects come up and it gets pushed back again. This year I might actually get it done. I have 54 of the 60 blocks sewn together and the other 9 are cut out and organized and ready to be sewn. Then I need to lay out the design and decide if I want to do 6x10 block design or maybe 9x6 or 7x8 or should I use leftover fabric and try to make 3 more blocks and go with a 9x7 block design. The original pattern called for 42 blocks but I wanted to make the quilt larger so I aimed for 60. The original intent was to take it from a full size quilt to a queen size quilt but since then we have switched from a queen size bed to a king size bed. I know I don't have enough fabric to make it king sized and since I bought the fabric as part of a kit from the 2005 Houston Quilt show, I doubt I can really find the fabric anymore. Now I will put everything together and have a nice large lap quilt for our couch during Christmas time.
The timeline for this quilt is below:
July - Finish all blocks
Aug/Sept - Piece top together
Oct/Nov - Baste, Quilt and Bind
The quilt will be machine quilted by me on my Mom's professional Long Arm Quilting machine.
I covered a bulletin board in fabric for our kitchen, made B some alphabet and numbers wooden flash cards, tried out several knit booties patterns (and found one I like finally) and got several more blocks of my Christmas quilt sewn together.
I have been working on this Christmas quilt for 5 years off and on and have 9 more blocks to sew and then I can start sewing the rows together! Each year I work on the quilt for a little bit, saying that I will get it done this year for Christmas but then other projects come up and it gets pushed back again. This year I might actually get it done. I have 54 of the 60 blocks sewn together and the other 9 are cut out and organized and ready to be sewn. Then I need to lay out the design and decide if I want to do 6x10 block design or maybe 9x6 or 7x8 or should I use leftover fabric and try to make 3 more blocks and go with a 9x7 block design. The original pattern called for 42 blocks but I wanted to make the quilt larger so I aimed for 60. The original intent was to take it from a full size quilt to a queen size quilt but since then we have switched from a queen size bed to a king size bed. I know I don't have enough fabric to make it king sized and since I bought the fabric as part of a kit from the 2005 Houston Quilt show, I doubt I can really find the fabric anymore. Now I will put everything together and have a nice large lap quilt for our couch during Christmas time.
The timeline for this quilt is below:
July - Finish all blocks
Aug/Sept - Piece top together
Oct/Nov - Baste, Quilt and Bind
The quilt will be machine quilted by me on my Mom's professional Long Arm Quilting machine.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Grinch fabric!
Maybe I am little late to this but I discovered that Robert Kaufman is putting out Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas fabric! I LOVE the Grinch and am very excited about Grinch fabric. I am starting to make a list of what I am going to make with it.
1. Bedding for son's room
2. Potholders
3. Aprons
4. Quilt
5. Placemats
6. Coasters
7. Bag
Those items can go with my Grinch stuffed animals and multiple Christmas tree ornaments. Trying to think what else I can make with the fabric. Any ideas?
1. Bedding for son's room
2. Potholders
3. Aprons
4. Quilt
5. Placemats
6. Coasters
7. Bag
Those items can go with my Grinch stuffed animals and multiple Christmas tree ornaments. Trying to think what else I can make with the fabric. Any ideas?
Monday, April 25, 2011
Finding Time
Isn't finding time the problem for everyone? Time to sleep, time to exercise, time to sew or knit? I somehow managed on this busy Easter weekend to find time to sew for about 30 minutes. In between all the cooking, cleaning and Easter basket prepping I went upstairs and sat in front of my sewing machine.
First I had to clean or and organize my sewing table again. The problem with a nice giant sewing table is that it can get filled with clutter very easily and fabric, yarn and interfacing get pushed to the outer edges and it slowly creeps back towards the middle. I decided to put away some of the fabric and yarn I had recently bought because I wasn't going to get to it this weekend so it would be better stored than lost in a giant pile.
Instead of working on a project with all the new materials I had bought, I decided to work on a quilt top that I started 5 years ago. This is a Christmas quilt kit that I bought at the 2005 International Quilt Show in Houston and the over the past few years I had worked on it on and off all while finishing several other quilts and other craft projects as well as getting married and having a son. Since it is a Christmas quilt I would push it aside and say to myself that I would finished it this coming Christmas. Several Christmas's later, still no finished quilt. The fabric is all cut out and half of the blocks are sewn. The other half are organized and ready to be sewn. I doubt I will finish it all right away but my goal is to finishing sewing the remaining blocks before I work on other sewing projects. I guess we will see what happens and it I will have the quilt for done for Christmas 2011.
First I had to clean or and organize my sewing table again. The problem with a nice giant sewing table is that it can get filled with clutter very easily and fabric, yarn and interfacing get pushed to the outer edges and it slowly creeps back towards the middle. I decided to put away some of the fabric and yarn I had recently bought because I wasn't going to get to it this weekend so it would be better stored than lost in a giant pile.
Instead of working on a project with all the new materials I had bought, I decided to work on a quilt top that I started 5 years ago. This is a Christmas quilt kit that I bought at the 2005 International Quilt Show in Houston and the over the past few years I had worked on it on and off all while finishing several other quilts and other craft projects as well as getting married and having a son. Since it is a Christmas quilt I would push it aside and say to myself that I would finished it this coming Christmas. Several Christmas's later, still no finished quilt. The fabric is all cut out and half of the blocks are sewn. The other half are organized and ready to be sewn. I doubt I will finish it all right away but my goal is to finishing sewing the remaining blocks before I work on other sewing projects. I guess we will see what happens and it I will have the quilt for done for Christmas 2011.
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