O Happy Day!

I finally finished it!!  I started this quilt back in the summer and I procrastinated and procrastinated and then I maybe even procrastinated some more.  In the end I still love the overall look of this quilt (totally and unabashedly copied from Ashley ) but I am not very pleased with my quilting skills (man putting that big thing through my machine was tough!)  or how the binding turned out.  But its for me, and it was a learning experience and I am still very proud that its done (and ready to keep me warm this winter and remind me of brighter days - I HATE the winter!)

Its a lap quilt about 54" x 60"

and the back

Ta-da!  So what do you think?  How did it turn out!?  :)

Here's hoping this is enough motivation to get me back in the sewing room this week! 

New Nest Quilt

A disappearing nine patch is suddenly appearing...

and I have photographic evidence of my quilt already in use! Awesome!


Make sure you stop back by next week. I am headed to SAFF with some good knitting friends and I am super excited to be able to go this year. We will all be decked out in our handknits and I am sure there will be lots of eye candy gratuitous yarn shots! Don't miss it.
Have a good weekend!

Officially a Quilter...

... as of 8pm Sunday night, I put the last stitches in the binding of my first quilt.

Ta-Da!


and the back...


Sorry about the lighting, I tried to catch the end of the natural light at my house -but alas it was already pretty dark when I got home from work yesterday. So - the top is with flash and the bottom without (a bit dark - but closer to the color b/c its an off-white/cream rather than the white it seems with the flash).

I had hoped to give this to my new niece or nephew too - but I might try again to see if I can't get a bit straighter lines etc in my quilting before I give one away as a gift. Anyway, I am pretty happy with it and proud of myself for finishing. Now... onto this bigger one...

"You can't have 'no' in your heart"

This is what my husband told me after he asked why I wasn't sewing and I explained to him that I was 'scared to mess up my quilt top". He told me "You can't have no in your heart" - and I got up and quilted my first quilt (well the following night b/c I realized that night I didn't have a walking foot - no wonder I was scared!) lol!


So thats my quilt IN my sewing machine!! And if that's not BIG enough news for ya - then check this out...


...that's right! It has a binding too! (Well half of the binding is attached. My plan is to take it in the car this weekend - on our anniversary trip yea! :) and handstitch it onto the back) - THEN it will be done!! And I will share my very first really real quilted quilt with you next week!
Yippee!!

I can quilt...

Just apparently not a whole quilt. This is a bag I made a while back (again with Anna Maria Horner fabric that I am IN LOVE with!)



I really love this bag (the fabrics, the pattern, the size) but my interfacing wasn't right (it was heavy according to the label - but not according to holding up the sides of this bag - ugh!) On top of that I made the handles too long (which I still need to fix) - but I still like the bag, its just not as perfect as it SHOULD have been. BUT the good news is that its proof I CAN quilt...if I set my mind to it (right?!) (trying to build up my confidence here!)