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:

                  

 



Moda Comma

I finished up this Moda Comma baby blanket and added it to my etsy shop.  Such a fun line to sew with. I laid it on my chair by accident, and then really liked how it matched so well:)

 

Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts

Stash Match

There is a fun stash matching game going on at the a(2)w blog. 

This month's inspiration was fall.  Hop on over to Ali's blog to play along and you just might win this fun fall bundle from Westwood Acres.

A little extra hint about my stash: I started a quilt earlier this year with the fabrics from my stash.  Have I finished it yet....um...not yet, hopefully this winter:)

Ironing Board Makeover

So I took the ironing board makeover challenge over at Bonnie's Cotton Way blog.  I haven't done a "quick" project in a while and it felt good to finish something, unlike a quilt, which takes quite a while.  I used Bonnie's patchwork pattern for this project and it was pretty easy to follow:)  Ok, so here's the before and the after.  I don't know if you can see all of the pen coloring from my girls on there:)  I used Riley Blake medium dots grey fabric and then some aqua and white fabrics from my stash for the patchwork.

Love how it turned out:)  Maybe I'll actually use it to iron some clothes on instead of just my quilty projects....maybe.

Blogger's Quilt Festival-Round 2

This is the second quilt I am entering in the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  I made this quilt for one of my daughters, Emily.  When I really got into quilting last year, she was the one always by my side asking for my scraps so I knew that she would be the first of my kids to get her own quilt.  So this is the quilt for her twin size bed:

 

Quilt stats:

Size: 64"x88"

Pattern: Shortcake by Cluck Cluck Sew

Fabric: Modern Meadow by Joel Dewberry

Finished: Sept. 2013