Quilts from Christmas Past

This will be my last post before Christmas, and maybe for the year. We will see how next week goes. I thought is might be nice to show some of the quilts I have done for Christmases past. So here goes:
In no particular order, since my computer has way too many issues...

 Cherry Christmas fabric by Aneela Hoey. Made from a charm pack, this is still one of my favorite Christmas collections.

              A tree...Lizzy House meets Sherbet Pips.

 Two charm packs of a Sweetwater Christmas line Countdown to Christmas, and the sashing is yardage from the same line.

             A QAL done with Christa from Christa Quilts a few years back.

                   Fun fabric on the back of a pillow.

                        A Christmas table runner.

               My very first ever quilt. And yes, I still have it.

             Trees from some book I no longer own. This is an older quilt also.

 This was a gift for the boys. It has bean bags so you can toss them and play tic tac toe. Made from Aneela Hoey prints from Little Apples.

              My first Fair Isle quilt made in a QAL with Lee at Freshly Pieced.

                                   Fun reindeer heads.

                      My second Fair Isle made for my daughter.

                             Another from a book I used to have.

Houses in Christmas fabrics. Love this one.

A Christmas Ticker Tape pillow. Not Christmas fabrics, but the colors give the feel of the season so that's how this one came to be.
I hope that you all have a very Merry Christmas, or what ever holiday you celebrate. Love your families and enjoy any time you spend together. See you back here soon.

Friday Finish-A quilt for V

Today's finish is a quilt for my great niece, V. She is now in second grade and growing up so fast. When she was born, I sent her a baby quilt with sheep on it. A very sweet, small quilt, to be sure. V is currently living with my sister in her home, along with her mother and her grand parents. There are several quilts in that house, mostly made by me, but also a few antique ones my sisters rescued. When my sis came home from work one afternoon, she noticed the lap quilt from the couch was missing. She found V all wrapped up in it. She apparently "needed" the comfort of the quilt. Another day she was wrapped up in the queen size bed quilt on my sister's bed. So I decided V needed a new quilt of her own.

 This is the quilt top on the wall. It is the only shot of the entire thing because it is so wet outside right now and the indoor lighting isn't great. Lots of rain and clouds here lately.

It is made from a jelly roll of Aneela Hoey's Hello Petal that I won in a giveaway last year. The perfect thing for such a girly little girl. I quilted it in a 4 inch cross hatch pattern. I love the look the four line so close together give it. I put several random flowers in some of the blocks.

 It's not a bed size quilt, but I think it will cover her up nicely and provide lots of snuggles. It is so soft now that it is washed and dried.

 For the back I pieced together some of the flowered fabric from the line, along with the palest pink that has been in my stash for literally, years.

 Another shot of the back so you can see the quilting lines.

 I added a long strip of Kona in a pink shade to make the quilt wider. V is a big girl after all.

 The binding is from my stash. I couldn't match the colors perfectly, so I settled for using some yellow, pink and blue, alternated to give a bit more scrappy look to it.

Here is the pink binding. I quilted her name in the pink near the bottom of the quilt, but I can't get it to show in a photo. But I know she will love it. From her "Aunt Charlotte who makes the quilts". Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Friday.

WIP Wednesday

Maybe I should call this post WIPs Wednesday. I never have just one in progress. So many things to sew, so little time. Here's what I have going on:

 I don't have a shot of it on the machine, but I am quilting this one for my great niece, V. It is made from a jelly roll of Hello, Petal by Aneela Hoey. She is a girly girl and so is this cute fabric. Can't wait to show you the quilting on it. Maybe next week. It is a lot of quilting.

 I am piecing this cute woven quilt design from my wonderful Lizzy House Catnap fabric. I have had the fabric for almost a year, searching for the proper showcase pattern. This is my own design.

And lastly, I had to just trow these up on the design wall. These are my bee blocks from round 3 of the Sunday Morning Quilts Bee. I asked my bee mates for scrappy X and plus blocks in the spirit of the Sunday Morning Quilts book and so far, this is what I have. Still waiting on a few more before I finalize the placement. Hope your mid-week is going great. Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced.

Finally a Friday Finish

I feel like it has been hard getting to this Friday's finish. I started this before vacation, and it should have been easy. But things kept getting in the way. This week I decided to buckle down and get it done.

 This is a quilt top for a quilt for my great niece, V. This girl needs a quilt of her own. I made one when she was born, but she is a big 7 year old now and she loves to cuddle under quilts so much, she keeps "borrowing" other quilts from the household.

 She loves all things girly, like pink and purple and she loves cats too. This great fabric line by Aneela Hoey is all those things. I won this jelly roll last spring and was saving it for just the right project. When I heard the story of the quilts V borrowed and why she needed them, I knew this was it.

I was able to get a couple of yards of the flower print fabric to make the back. That's next on the list.
Hope you have a great weekend.

Linking up with Crazy Mom for finish it Friday.

A Friday Finish

Well, I have been working on so many things this week and I did finish more than one thing, but I am not ready to show some things off just yet. I did make one small quilt out of scraps and that is the one thing I am sharing today.

 I am making a quilt for my great niece from a jelly roll of Hello Petal by Aneela Hoey. I won this in a giveaway a while back and was waiting for the perfect quilt. I am making a brick style quilt and I had a bunch of small pieces left. So I made this for me to enjoy the fabrics too.

 The backing is a couple of scraps from another quilt from last spring and the binding is some scrap from trimming my grandson's quilt for binding. Both were just perfect for this project.

I was playing with the quilting on this and I love it! So I am going to do something similar on my niece's quilt. Nice to work out these things on a smaller scale first. Have a great weekend. Linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts.

Lots of Blocks

I am happy to have done my Sunday Morning Quilts Bee blocks already for June. I just packed them up to put into the mail. A good thing too, since they are traveling so far this month. Some to Australia and some to England. I love thinking of them going to live in a quilt in another part of the world. Here they are:

 Tessophia requested 16 patch blocks to put into a checkerboard quilt for her daughter. This is going to be a lovely quilt.

 Treewytch requested blocks like the Grass Quilt in the book (Sunday Morning Quilts) but in a different colorway. This is going to be a bright quilt.

And then,  Chelsea at Pins and Bobbins put out a call to make blocks for a Quilt for Aneela, using Aneela Hoey fabrics. So I dug around and found that I still had a few charm squares from Little Apples and Sherbet Pips and I made these to send:

If you want to make some blocks for Aneela's Quilt, go here for more information. Have a great day.

Quilt for Aneela

Chelsea over at Pins and Bobbins is heading up a campaign to make quilt blocks for a quilt for Aneela Hoey. Aneela is the sweet artist behind such fabric lines as Little Apples, Sherbet Pips and Cherry Christmas, just to name a few. Aneela is going in for surgery for breast cancer and Chelsea had the wonderful idea to make her a quilt to show the support of our wonderful community of quilting bloggers.


If you are interested in being a part of this project, visit Chelsea's blog here for more information. She would like to have the blocks by July 1 and all blocks will be made from Aneela's fabric lines. The directions on how to make the x and o blocks is also available through Chelsea's blog which has a link to the free tutorial.
Let's join together and show Aneela how loved she is in our quilting community.

At Last...Christmas Crafting Reveal

I can finally show you all the Christmas crafting and sewing I did.  This will be a picture heavy post and long I'm afraid.  Hang in there.

Remember these little wooden houses?  I made them from scrap wood we had in a crate in our shed from many projects.  I loved painting them and I have them in my kitchen.  I decided I wanted more.

 But I was out of scraps of wood.  So I had my hubby buy me a 2 x 4 and I cut it into the pieces I needed.  Like this:

 And I glued the triangles on the top with wood glue and let it dry overnight.

 Then I painted them to look Christmas-y and put them under my tree.  I gave some to my daughter to paint for her house.

I love these little houses.  If you want to make your own, you need to prime them and let that dry for 24 hours.  Then, it's like a blank canvas.  Most of these are 6-8 inches tall.

Now, for the sewing...

 I know I showed some of these things before, but a brief recap here if I may.  These are the TV cushions I made for the two older grandsons.

                                  I found enough castle peeps in my stash to do this.

                       The quilt I made for my son-in-law for the back of his office door.

                         The quilt for V...Still needs quilting, but soon it will be done.

 My Cherry Christmas quilt.  I used a charm pack of Cherry Christmas to make this.  It's small, but I will quilt it up and use it for decoration next year.

 These were the biggest job for me.  I cut them all out and sewed them when I had time.  It only takes me 90 minutes or so to make one now, not including the cutting and fusing.  They are phone wristlets from a pattern by Trillium designs.

 I made 6 of these babies and now, with the ones I made last summer, I have made nine!!

                                                All different, and all done!!

 I love this fabric and so I made a pillow for my sister out of it.  She loves it, as I knew she would.

                          Another print in the collection makes a fine back to the pillow.

 Here is another small quilt made from charm packs.  This one is Countdown to Christmas.  I had two of these from last year that I never used and some yardage of the green and cream stripe for the sashing.  This will also be quilted and used for next year's decor.

 Lastly, this is the quilt top for J.  I just finished it today.  Sorry for the trees shadows.  It was getting late when I took these.  After the sailing quilt and map for V, I wanted something similar, yet different for J.  Airplanes!  I found this awesome bundle of fat quarters at Fabricworm I think.  I'm sorry I don't know that was where I got them.

 And they had planes and another cool map that fit so well.  I fussed around to figure out how to best use each fabric and I even bought another half yard of the airplanes to feature it better.

I will take better pictures once it's quilted, I promise.  This is one awesome quilt, even if I didn't get it done in time for Christmas.  Thanks for sticking with me to the end.
See you soon.