Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Busy, busy, soooo busy!


I got behind on the old blogging routine with the busy-ness of the holidays. Here are some of the wonderful quilts I was honored to be able to quilt in the last few weeks before Christmas. (Sorry, it was too much for my overloaded brain to remember to take pics of ALL of them.) The one above (and below) was made by Carole. SOOO pretty and such amazing workmanship...it is not obvious that she's still a beginner! The quilting design is a pantograph, "Antique Lace" by Patricia Ritter.

This next one was made by Becky. She stressed over this one so much that it gave her a few sleepless nights! After all her worries, I was not expecting to see this wonderful quilt. She made it for a favorite teacher who, I am certain, will LOVE it! He will never know about all the tender loving care that went into it, however.


We chose a big meander quilting design which is fun with the wonky squares-in-squares pattern. This is such a fun quilt and perfect for a guy. Good job, Becky!

This little cutie is another of Carole's quilts. It's for her niece-- a dolly quilt.What a lucky little girl (and dolly!)
  
The paper-pieced hearts are amazing, aren't they? Carole says they were fun to make, but time-consuming! The free-hand quilting work was fun to do on this one...lots of loops with heart-flowers inside the hearts.

An Apron for Kerstin


You better believe big boys can (and will!) sew. While home over Thanksgiving, Jamison sewed an apron for  Kerstin. And I heard that she's already put it to good use! (Photo, please, Kerst!)

Jamison chose all the coordinating fabric (not an easy chore, since the apron is reversible) and even did the pinning and cutting. As you can see he is using a well-used pattern...I don't even know how many aprons have been made from this ol' newspaper pattern.  Can't wait for another mom-n-son sewing adventure!