WIP Wednesday

It's been a few weeks since I've posted on WIP Wednesday.  We went on vacation to Sun River, OR and then we had our fair the next week and last week I took the kids swimming at the last pond day before school starts.  School starts today for the kiddos so hopefully I'll be able to get a little more sewing time in:)  However, in the last month, I did manage to get this chevron quilt top finished:

This week, I'm hoping to quilt it and sew some bibs for a friend that just had her baby.

SN@P

Simple Stories has an awesome new line out called Sn@p!  It comes in a variety of colors and looks so fun to play with.  Here's a fun video they shared on their blog about it:

Memory Works Inspiration

Well it's my month to share some inspiration for the Memory Works website.  You can go here to see the site and then go to inspiration and you can see the full supply list and instructions.  I used the brand new Simple Stories Take a Hike collection which is great for any outdoor projects:)

 A card that would be fun to use to invite someone over for a BBQ

 I created the camping checklist to use and store next to our camping supplies so it's there to use whenever it's time to pack for camping.  I laminated it so I can check it off and then erase the checkmarks and use it again!

A hiking adventure from quite a few years ago (at least 5!)

WIP Wednesday

It's Wednesday again and I wanted to share what I've been working on this past week. I finally finished the binding on my first quilt this past week. Yeah!!!! I shared a few pictures yesterday but here's one again:

I also started working on my chevron quilt.  I got all of the strips cut out, pressed, and then cut into squares.  Now on to putting the quilt top together:)

My 1st finished quilt!

I started my first quilt about 2 1/2 years ago and I finally finished it!  Woo-hoo!!  It started off as a friendship quilt.  There were 12 of us in the group.  We each had a different star pattern and a box with our own fabric.  Every 2 weeks, we rotated our box of fabric and made our pattern using someone else's fabric.  At the end, we each had 12 different star blocks.  I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with my blocks so they kinda sat in my box for a while.  Then Katie was born and they sat for quite a bit longer.  Last summer, I finally decided that I wanted to make it into a quilt to use for our bed, our king-size bed!  So I met with Rachel, who was the one that set up the friendship quilt swap, and she helped me plan out a king size quilt top.  I ended up making 13 more blocks-for a total of 25-and set it diagonally to make it even bigger.  Fortunately, I was able to find a few of the same fabrics for the borders through etsy and then used my scraps for the binding and for a strip on the back too.  I love how it turned out and have already started on my next one:)

My assistants are a little shorter than me!

The back

BB Gun

I combined a couple of challenges for this one of Tyler and his first BB Gun that he got last Christmas.  I used sketch #83 from the Sketches in Thyme blog and went with the brown/coral/sage color theme from the ScrapFit blog and then scrapped a holiday photo using non-holiday papers from the Memory Works monthly challenge.  Whew, that was a mouthful!  I used the Simple Stories Awesome line for this LO, love this all boy line!!

WIP Wednesday

Well, this is a first for me: to link up to the  WIP (work-in-progress) Wednesday.  This week I've been working on the binding for my first quilt.  I'm almost done, soooo close I can taste it:)  My hubby and I have been watching the Forsyte Sage on Netflix while I'm been hand sewing away.

I was also able to make it to the quilt store this week to pick up the fabrics for my next quilt.  This one's going to be a chevron quilt that I pinned on pinterest and can not get out of my mind:)  But this one's going to be a wedding gift for a special someone.  The yellows and white are for the front and the gray for the backing.  Can't wait to dig in.....