blogger's quilt festival

when i came across the blogger's quilt festival hosted by amy at amy's creative side, i thought...wow that is so cool. too bad i don't have any quilts to enter...but i do!

my first entry is a quilt that i made as a wedding gift for my very best friend.  it is the very first quilt that i ever made and actually finished.  i decided to make it "2 sided" to be representative of the bride (on one side) and the groom (other side) and their union. the bride is an artist who loves stars and red.  the groom is a jazz musician.

bride side

groom side

the quilt is lap quilt. it's roughly 50 x 70

the beautiful quilting is by lynn o'neal of creative clutter in beaufort, sc.

close up of the starry swirly hearty quilty goodness :)
i am entering this quilt in the professionally quilted category.

rachel made my day!

rachel at stitched in color
i'm in the Cheer circle of do. Good Stitches!

SUPER EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

testing out blogger app on my new ipod touch

these are the first two 6 in blocks for add a border block swap on flickr

i missed wip wednesday

i did take some pictures last night. never got around to downloading them though.

i did make this a few weeks ago.

front

back

i was fun making these journal covers. i used this tutorial from stitched in color

i will definately be making more of these.

and my design wall...

one more bee block to arrive and then to figure out placement of the blocks.   tbc....

yay for sewing day!

today i'm working on the first block for




i'm using pat bravo's rock'n'romance mostly heartbreaker palette with a few oval elements
 and a light grey background.  i'm doing the 9" blocks for a final size of ~60x60.
i may also try to get some work done on the plus quilt. it is on my list for the first quarter of the 2013 finish a long with leann.

i just realized that i never posted pictures of the complete wedding quilt.  (they loved it by the way)

happy sewing

13@13q

YAY!! ( a post from a few months ago...)

it's finally working:)  so it's friday so i'm linking up with tgiff. i finished the mini quilt for my bff's cat. her name is minnie.

i also finished the nybeauty pillow!

i've also finished the top of the plus quilt. no pictures yet. and the wedding quilt is at the quilters:)  i have made no progress on the groovy quilt.

it's been a long time

i want to sew more and blog more this year. we'll see...

i'll be participating in 2013-finish-long

so here is my list:

1) starla: front and back.  the binding is ready.  just needs to be basted quilted and bound.

2) bronwyn: front and back. binding is ready. needs to be basted, quilted and bound.

3) plus quilt: this one has a one piece back and will not be bound (i think some call it the pillow case method. i use this one from red pepper quilts. i've used it for small projects but never a quilt.

i think that is a feasible list  to get done in a quarter.