A Donation Quilt: Oh How Charming!

Here, it is, FINALLY finished! Actually, it's been done for a little while, I just haven't had a moment to take a picture! Well, today there was some beautiful weather (even if it is around 90 degrees, actually, that's low for this time of year in Texas) and I decided to just snap the picture! A little tweaking in Picnik and here you go! What do you think? I was calling this the Luv U Charm quilt, but I'm making another one with Freebird and it's going to be AWESOME, I can already tell. Plus, look how I did the back!

Is it me or is that just super cute? I had some of the border fabric left over and loved the look of the blue Essentials dots and just decided to put them together to make the back. Easy peasy and fun! Now, ready for the bestest part? I'm going to donate this quilt to a children's hospital or shelter so it can keep a little boy (or girl) warm this winter. I've also been using this pattern, that I sort of created myself (i.e. made up as I went along) as a sort of quilt along class at my local Crafty Girls Workshop meeting that I have every month. Two lovely ladies in the group, Pam and Marcie, are making the same quilt but with their own charm pack choices (I think I mentioned those in a previous post). If you happen to live in or around San Antonio, TX and would like to come and learn how to make one of these quilts to donate to a local hospital or shelter, please come and join us! The next meet up will be on July 25 (a Sunday) please join the Meet Up group for more updates. So, I hope you can join us if you're local and if not, well, I might just be able to write this up as a tutorial and post it, some day. I hope. Life is busy, you know? Oh, and let me mention the way that I quilted this. I just stitched in the ditch on the front and it created a really need grid pattern on the back. Plus I used the same Essential dot for the binding and it contrasted nicely on the front and blended in perfectly on the back! It feels sooo good to get something finished! So, anyone working on anything fun this weekend? Please tell!

Happy Stitches,
Anna

Too Many Tops

I am SEW excited! I finished TWO quilt tops this morning, they really only needed borders but at least now they are DONE! Here they are:

Charming Love U Quilt with the new border!

I just LOVE the Love U Charm quilt! It's my own design, what do you think? It went together SO fast and we have ALL the supplies you need to make this cute top in our shop. If you are interested in a kit of these supplies, please e-mail me and let me know. I'm happy to put one together for you with instructions too! This one is going to be quilted up and listed in our Etsy shop, eventually.

Rocketship Quilt (from a kit I bought locally)

I am totally in love with this geeky sort of rocketship fabric. The cutest thing is the grey rectangle fabric has cute geek-y words all about science and space! Can you see that? I think it's adorable and educational at the same time! My hubby is a science teacher so if we ever had a baby boy I think this would be the perfect quilt for him. But for now, I'm going to quilt it up and list it in our Etsy shop for your baby boy!

I realized I'm really good at making tops, now I need to get better at quilting them!!

Of course, since today is Friday, I'm linking today's post to all the FUN Friday linky parties, including: Follow Me Friday, New Friend Friday, Friday Follow, Feature Yourself, and, Look at Me I'm So Crafty

Happy Stitches for the weekend!

Anna

Yes, she DOES sew

And yes, she IS obsessed with red and aqua! Look at these adorable pincushion cuffs I made today! I made one for myself and decided they were sew easy that I'd make another one for Regina at the same time! I used the Lil Plane Jane Aqua and Red and White Dot from Michael Miller. They were SUPER DUPER easy to make and so fun and fast! I dug around in some buttons I inherited from my grandmother and found a really cool white pearly one and one that had a little flower crocheted in the center. Can you see it in this picture?

The neatest trick I learned while making these was to add an old cut up credit card behind the pincushion part, on the wrist band to protect my arm from stray pins! Neat idea! Thanks KeykaLou Patterns for this great tutorial! It feels so good to have actually fininshed something from start to finish today. Yesterday I managed to get most of a quilt top finished too. I just need to grab some more fabric to finish the outside border, backing and binding, of course. I call it the Love U Charm Quilt because I used 1 Love U Charm pack and 1 yard of Bella Solid Mint for the sashing.

I think this will be a great blanket for a little boy (or girl), the fabrics are so fun and cute! I can't wait to go to Regina's tomorrow to get the rest of the fabric. That's the update for now. We have some yardage of Martinique coming in soon and Make Life from Sweetwater, which is going to be super adorable for those of you who enjoy scrapbooking.

Happy Stitches to You!

Anna

I am SEW proud to be able to link this up to i made it! Blog party Thursday over at Everything Etsy!

Also linking to V.O.T.W.

And while I'm at it, a jump on next week:

Can you tell I just discovered the LINKY LOVE of link parties??

Check out this Cute Tutorial!

Moda Bakeshop has a cute tutorial for using those ADORABLE Love U Charm packs. It calls for one charm pack and coordinating yardage. We have several solid colors that would be perfect for the lining. How about the Mint Green Bella Solid or the pretty Baby Yellow Bella Solid? The best part? 1 charm pack and 1/2 yard of fabric makes 2 bags! Make one for your child and one for a friend or if you have more than one child, they can each have their own, and reduce the chance of them getting into fights. I think these bags are just awesome and can't wait to try making one myself, and I don't even have any kids! And what a sweet sentiment to make one or up of these up in the L'Amour fabrics to show a special child they are loved for Valentine's Day or even for a birthday. If you choose to purchase the supplies to make this tote bag, just leave us a note in the message to seller and we'll print off and include a copy of the tutorial for you with your purchase.

Happy Stitching!

Anna