What I've Been up To

So I have taken a long hiatus from the cyber world.....

thought I would post a few of the projects I've done lately ~

 ...this is the quilt I did for my daughter Mackenzie's room...

...I fell in love with the fabric when I saw it (Arcadia from Sanae, I think)...

...but it turned out to be one of those projects where you love the fabric, but not the quilt...

...just didn't quite turn out how I had planned...

...a couple of the baby quilts I have done lately...

 ...this is a quilt my girls and I made for a church auction...

...it was a 'green quilt' using the environmental conservation fabric lines by Debbie Mumm...

...turned out cute and rather large; covered the top surface of my king size bed...

 ...last Christmas I made aprons for a few of my sister-in-laws...

...I used this pattern...

...super fast and easy and oh so cute...

...my daughter and her friend went to a week long church camp and wanted cute little bags to take with them...

...so of course we had to make some!...

...if you haven't tried making bags yet you should...

...so fun...

Watermelon Picnic

This quilt was made especially for some new friends -- my daughter's in-laws -- in remembrance of the exciting summer of 2010. They invited us to stay with them when we went to Maryland for the wedding reception there. What awesome people to get to know better! We had a wonderful time! Black Mountain Quilts has great patterns and this is one of them -- very easy and fun to make. I added the little black/white stripe and the green border, which I thought really finished off the quilt -- and made it a little larger.

Simply ...

"Simply Amy" from the July/August 2010 issue of McCall's Quilting magazine was the pattern chosen by my daughter for her wedding quilt -- Simply Kali! She specified that the colors used be two blues and white. So, this is the quilt I made. The actual pattern made a smaller quilt, but I added rows to the side and bottom and extra borders so that it turned out to be a large queen-sized quilt -- huge! I had never done a "modern" quilt before, so it was a challenge for me. My friend, Cathy, did the wonderful quilting.

The happy newlyweds exiting the temple after their marriage.

Texas

We were all very sad to hear that our dear friend Bliss was moving away, so we wanted to make her a quilt to remember us by. This is what we came up with. We all donated fabric and took part in creating the quilt. There were days when we weren't sure it was going to be finished in time because of illness, a wedding, vacations, etc., but it all came together at last and we were able to give it to her on the day they loaded for the move. Bliss, we all miss you lots!