I thought I'd show how my Laurel Burch looks finished and hung:

It actually fit perfectly on a shelf I've had for years! That was exciting :) The stuffed animals on top are ones my kids and grandkiddies have given me over the years- special to my heart.

I have been sewing and working in my sewing room, just no new pictures yet...

Have a great Monday!

WIP Wednesday

Okay, here's a .project I started in the 70's! This qualifies as my very first quilt.

One year, when I was in high school, I cut out all these squares from fabric leftover from clothes my Mom had made me or that I had made myself and gave the squares as a Christmas gift to my folks. Of course the plan was to make them into a quilt... Fast forward about 10 years or so, I am married and find these squares and decide to make the quilt- I have no idea what I'm doing so I just slapped them together. It makes me laugh to see how I didn't think about colors together, some of the same colors are touching, the embroidered squares aren't even centered! I found this again (still unfinished...) when I was cleaning out my sewing area. Time to try to get this done! Or maybe next year...? Here is a close of of one of the embroidered squares:

It's funny, but I can remember almost all the clothes that were made from these fabrics. The upper right is from my high school graduation dress.

Another project I'm working on is an apron for our Awana carnival- it's called" pick a pocket".

You put prizes in the different pockets and they get to choose. FUN!

In the blank looking place are blue pockets that I will stencil question marks on. Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday- what are you working on?

Linking up to freshlypieced.blogspot.com

 

 

 

Fall

I don't have any sewing to post and I'm sorry it's been so long...Life is kind of out of balance right now. I will have something to show on WIP Wednesday though.
Here are some fall colors aroung my area:

 

These are in my yard. This year they are just yellow because we haven't had much rain. Some years they are orange, green and red! I love it!

These are from around town- I love the colors!

Well, that's all for now. I hope these colors inspire you!

Have a great day!

 

 

 

WIP Wednesday

I have been very busy getting ready for another yard sale. We are doing a MAJOR down -sizing because we may have to move to a smaller place. So not too much sewing going on since my sewing area is a mess! But I have beeb working on sorting my scraps for future scrap quilts. I'm taking my scraps from this:

to this:

I'v read a lot of books on how to store your scraps so I've combined many methods. I sort by color into plastic shoes boxes or small, clear tubs. Then I ironed all the scraps from one tub. Next I laid them out and straightened up the edges. Then I try to cut the largest shape I can- sometimes it's a 5" strip or just a 5" square. I don't save smaller that a 1 1/2"  strip. I do try to cut squares or strips in sizes that are commonly used in quilting. It sounds like a big job, but I'm only doing a box a day. Once I catch up I'm going to try to keep up by cutting the scraps up after every project. I do a lot of clothing sewing so I have odd shaped scraps from that too. We'll see how I do, but I think it will really help me use my scraps up more quickly. So how do you deal with your scraps? Do you have a great method you could share?  Have a great day!

Linking up to freshlypieced.blogspot.com

 

 

Finished Friday!

I haven't got too much work done on quilts, but I did finish 2 more tshirt dresses for my granddaughter:

She wanted me to put a zebra on the front of this one, but it was too busy.

 

This one has oriental bunnies on it so I fussy cut a heart for the tshirt.

This is BreeAnn's Grammy(me)  and her. So she can remember that her Grammy loves her very much.

I'm linking up to tgiffriday.blogspot.com

and confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com

Have a great weekend!

 

 

 

 

WIP Wednesday

Here is my October calendar quilt with all the pieces fused in place:

I changed the placement of the eyes from the pattern- I like a little more whimsical look. And I didn't realize howmuch of the middle background the pumpkin covered!! I would have changed the placement of different fabrics if I'd thought of it...oh well. I still like it. Now I need to sew on all the different parts. Hopefull I have  the right color of orange for the pumpkin. I'm linking up with freshlypieced.blogspot.com

 

October calendar started

I'm excited to have started on my October calendar quilt! I got the background all sewn together:

All these fabrics are from my stash. Then I traced and fused some of the pieces:

I'm not really into Hallowe'en, but I do love pumpkins in the Fall! This just a start of the fusing= there's a cute pumpkin for the middle. So I'm just working on the fusing now and then I'll need to sew it all down. I still have 21 days to finish, right?!

I'm linking up to quiltstory.blogspot.com