Juki Cleaning

Cleaning my Juki!

Who knew you could take the bottom off,

simply by removing the screws?

 

Before & After. 

  I vacuumed and brushed out the whole underside; put the bottom back on...and done! 

024 Twinkling Stars......Sparkle Punch

A wonky star lap quilt for 

a "2nd Mom" who we are going to celebrate Christmas with!

 She was thrilled with "her first quilt"

A Pieced Backing

023 Christmas Tree Quilt

For our Christmas, I made a tree quilt. 

DH designed it; I created it. 

using only 2" squares.

This is how it began,  stacks of little squares.

Puzzling??

 

I needed to visualize the colours together.

Up onto the design wall....

 

 A close-up of the star...

 The Star& a couple of candles.

Done!

We Wish You all a

Merry Christmas!!

022 ~ Merry Christmas for my M-I-L

A quilt for my 
M-I-L for Christmas.  

 

For the binding, I used some of the floral fabrics

to make a 'scrappy' binding.

She is thrilled!!!

And I am happy!!

 Done!!

Molly the rag Dolly ariana

Molly....that's just the name I gave her

She's for my niece's daughter

Here she is - before

My first rag doll...arms are way too thin

a neck like a crane

funny she's got mary janes on, 

but i forgot to give her hands

Morris said she was fine just the way she was but...

After re-constructive surgery

she's got musical hands

shorter neck, and a bit wider tummy

to fit the size of her head

Funky Hair!!

the eyes & mouth are from

my Mother's embroidery floss

Doll Blanket

196 squares plus the sashing & border

 Mattress for the doll bed

Having a moment in the sun

A Girls gotta have Gucci's

Inside.... so much more civilized!!

Kitten Holster Morris

We didn't want a "flat kitty"....

kittens somehow 'know' 

how to get out of regular harnesses...... 

I needed a better solution

luckily i found a place that sells "kitten holsters"....

so i created my own 

Morris now has his very own holster

and he even helped in the making of it

021 ~Baby Blanket ariana

I have finally completed this baby blanket; 

it took far too long...I dallied far too long on it..

~front~

~ front close-up ~ an elmo thing

 

the backing 

a closer look at the binding

 

I quilted it with a free-hand wavy stitch.

020 ~ Finally I put my Winnings to Use!! Mine

A little house block, i won on a give-away.  I've made quilts for various people ~ but somehow have forgotten about one for me... this one's for me.

I set the house 'on point'.

  Houses & Log Cabins surround the winning house!!

 

Since it is MY quilt I appliqued my name 

on a block!

  the Backing!

A gift for a gifter

These blocks are for a fellow quilter, who enjoys making things for others.

I Finally Won a Give Away!!!!

I Won!!   I Won!!   I Finally Won!!

I've been putting my name in for 

give away's for a while.... 

and have never won a thing....

well today..... my luck changed!!

and this is where I won!!

I look forward to receiving my block 

so I can do Beth proud!

012 ~ 019 Kids Kids & More Kids!!! marcela / rollin

In May we found out that we'd be
making a trip to Manitoba in early October.
Since we have family there
I decided to get busy and make each of the 8 the kids a quilt!

I really wanted to take a "washline" photo before
I parted with them.

The last stitch was done the evening before
I flew out..talk about pressure??

Here's all the bindings.

(fay 48x65")
Pink Fence Rails

(gil 50x67")
The Farm

(jay 51x71")
I'd never thought of doing grey
in a kids quilt, but alternating pinks
with grey turned out fine.

(jef 57x69")
Pinwheels I've always liked the look of pinwheels.

(jen 48x70")
check out what some of these cats are doing

(lor 48x60")
4" squares using kids fabrics

(mel 50x69")
stacked coins - a perfect stash buster
alternating with a light pink

(rob 51x71")
I found this wonderful idea
online

011 ~ A Birthday Quilt Derry

A friend who is a musician & singer was turning 74, so a music quilt was in order!
Merlin ♥ L-O-V-E-S ♥ Uncle Derry; of course he had to help!


The Front is a random of 4" squares alternating musical fabrics with solids.


Out of the blue (well maybe "ON the blue" I decided to write Derry's name on one of the squares on the front.


DH and I are constantly giving him a hard time about his "girlfriends" so when I found this 'girls' fabric,


I knew it had to be the backing fabric on hisquilt.