iPad Cover

So if you remember, my goal this month was to make a cover for my iPad.  I don't take my iPad that many places but for the times that I do, I thought it would be nice to have a cover.  Now, I can stop using my old pillowcases as my cover and start using this new one:

It really was a pretty quick project to make and I'm excited to use it:)  I followed this tutorial...minus the ribbon and flower.  The only thing I would change if I were to make it another time would be to add 2 pieces of Velcro on the sides instead of just one in the middle so the sides don't flap up when it is closed.  The green fabric is from V and Company's Simply Style line and the inside fabric is from Sweetwater's Lucy Crab Shack.  I'm linking up Fiber of All Sorts and Crazy Mom Quilts:

Buggy Barn Finished!

I finished my March goal and my first quarter goal too!  I got my buggy barn quilted and the binding is sewn on and we've already started using it on our couch:)

 This quilt started out as a friendship block swap.  You can read all about that here.

 For the backing, I used a cream and red ticking fabric and binding I went with a blue.  I know it's a little patriotic but all of the colors go really well with the front fabrics.

And for the quilting, I did stars and loops.  It was my first time following an actual pattern while using the long arm quilter.  It definitely takes some getting used to.  Some of my first stars kinda look like starfish...oh well!!  At least that makes it a one-of-a kind quilt.  The final size is 50x56 so it's a great lap size quilt.  I'm linking up here and here and here:
                     

Swoon #1

I started off this month with a goal to cut out all of the white fabric for my swoon quilt and to make one block for it.  So here's what we've got:

 White fabric all cut up, check!

My first swoon block, check! 

Only 8 more blocks to go:)  I still can't get over how big these blocks are....24 inches.  One of these will make a nice wall hanging in my sewing room but gotta finish the quilt first.  I actually loved putting this block together and learned a lot about half square triangles and flying geese from this Craftsy course.  I'm linking up at Fiber of All Sorts.

Starting to Swoon

I bought some fat quarters back in August last year to start a swoon quilt.  I LOVE star quilts so when I saw lots of swoon quilts on flickr, I knew I wanted to make one (plus I love anything Camille Roskelley makes).  I started with this initial stack:

and wasn't sure if I should add in some navy so I asked my readers and everyone said yes! So here is my new stack with some navy thrown in there.  I like it much better so thanks for the tips:)

My goal this month is to cut out the white background for all of the stars and to finish one block.  These blocks are pretty big, 24 inches big, so we'll see how it goes.  Excited to get started on this quilt:)  I'm linking up here:

Buggy Barn Quilt Top

My goal this month was to finish up my buggy barn quilt top.  This quilt has that country, primitive feel to it and I love all of the stars in it.  I {heart} star quilts!!  This was a friendship block swap so I was in charge of making all of the tall hearts.  You can see those here and then we swapped blocks last February.  The blocks all sat for a while in the box but it was great to finally put them together.  I'm deciding if I want to add some borders to it or not.  What do you think? Right now it measures 40x46 and it will just be a lap quilt for the couch. 

I'm linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts and A Lovely Year of Finishes

 

 

Getting into the swing of things

I wasn't going to set a sewing goal this month...but then I realized that I get more done when I have an actual date set in my mind to finish something.  So, for this month, I'm going to try and get this buggy barn quilt top done.  It's about halfway sewn together and been sitting on my design wall for a few months.  This morning I came across this Finish Along on The Littlest Thistle blog so my goal is to finish up this quilt completely by the first quarter of the year...so end of March.  I think I can do that:)  I couldn't get a complete picture of it since my room is a long narrow rectangle shape but you can kinda get the idea.

 

I'm linking up here and here:

                  

 



October goal

 

My goal this month is to finish up a few baby blankets. I've got this marmalade patchwork up on my wall right now.  I have a custom order to make two of these patchwork blankets for twin girls, so cute:)  I'd also like to add another patchwork blanket to my shop.  Three blankets this month, I better get sewing!  I'm linking up here:

Quilts for Kids #2

In case you missed the first quilt we made for Quilts for Kids, you can find it here.  My son, Tyler, helped make this quilt to donate to Quilts for Kids.  The company sends you fabric and a pattern to create a quilt and then they donate the quilt to children in hospitals.  It was a great learning experience for both Tyler and myself and a fun summer project that we worked on together.  Some of the fabric prints were of baseball gear so we headed to the baseball fields to take a few pictures.

Tyler sewing up a storm

A proud boy:)

 

The finished quilt

 

 

It's the last day of the month and I finished this quilt today, yay!!!  Just in the nick of time to finish up my September goal.  So tonight, I'm linking up to A Lovely Year of Finishes and 100 Quilts for Kids:

Finish it up

It's goal setting time for September:)  My motto this month is "Finish it Up!"  My goals are to finish up Emily's quilt, the one pictured above.  I'm about halfway done hand sewing on the binding.  Also, my kids helped make some quilts for kids that are in hospitals-through a company called Quilts for Kids.  You are supposed to return them in 4-6 weeks, ugh, it's been a bit longer than that....so I need to finish those up and get them in the mail.  I'm linking up here:

Navy...or not?

I picked out these fabrics to start a Swoon quilt.  It's something I've been wanting to make for a while now.  Here's what I've got so far.  They are mostly happy-go-lucky with some marmalade too.  The pattern calls for 18 fat quarters and I have enough here in this pile:

But... do you think I should add some blue to it???  These blues are from the happy-go-lucky line too.  Help me decide because I've having a hard time making a choice:(

Also, it's the beginning of a new month so I'm setting my August goal.  I am hoping to finish up the quilting and binding of Emily's quilt and I want to do at least 1 swoon block.  Linking up my goal to A Lovely Year of Finishes:

Baby Hourglass Quilt

 

I finally finished up the hourglass baby quilt for my newest little nephew and mailed it out this week.  You can read more about the fabrics and tutorial I used here.

 

For the back I used this Glimma print.  I was a little nervous about quilting it since I've never quilted on my own machine before but it went pretty well.  Of course there are a few mistakes handmade touches in there:)  I did diagonal lines for the quilting.  On the back, it kinda reminds me of a kite-the diagonal quilting lines for the kite and then the blue print looks like the kite strings. 

 

For binding I used this fun print from Lucy's Crab Shack.  I also did a machine binding this time around since it might be washed a little more often than a regular quilt.  I used this tutorial by Diary of a Quilter.  I'm linking up with My Quilt Infatuation and Crazy Mom Quilts.  I also finished my monthly goal before the last day of the month, yippee!!  So I'm linking up my monthly finish for: