Win this quilt!!

Last year, my family went to Mexico for the week after Christmas to build homes with Builders without Borders and it was an amazing experience!  

We are headed back down next month and are in desperate need to raise funds for the building supplies.  100% of the donations go to purchase building supplies. EVERYTHING else is donated.

You can help!

Win this quilt!! Every $10 donation to Builders without Borders is entered to win this "Trip Around the World" quilt. Made with love by yours truly. 

Drawing to be held on December 11. You know you want it. Enter today through this Paypal link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=HGYH43C6DBVJL 

My watermelon quilt

This is one of those quilts you have a love/hate relationship with....  I kept making mistakes and it drove me crazy!  But now that it is done, I love it!!

I'm really sick and tired of being nice.

I'm heading up to Alaska next week and a friend is letting us stay at her place and another friend is taking us fishing for an entire day.  So what's a quilter to do?  Make them each a quilt!  The problem is that I fell in love with these quilts and don't want to give them away.

I adore them.

I sit and pet them like a new puppy.

I want to marry them.

Just kidding on the last one.

Tonga Sea Glass

http://www.ttfabrics.com/projects/sea-glass-sea-pebbles/

Sailboat
http://quiltinspiration.blogspot.com/2012/07/free-pattern-day-sailboats.html

another episode of the selfish Christmas...

I'm on a roll...  and just finished up these curtains and pillows.

little itty-bitty applique.

lotsa, lots fun!

p.s.  I did start a few gifts for Christmas.  I just couldn't help myself.  Please don't tell.

I. am. in. love.

LADIES - Where have you been?????  I've been missing our quilt club and thinking of ya'll lately.  So much so that I had to go buy a new machine to make myself feel better.  Oh yeah... I'm in love.  Bernina 440QE.  The COOLEST thing is the stitch regulator for free motion quilting.  It's going to be STIPPLE-MANIA at my  house!!!

I don't exactly know how to use this fancy-schmancy new machine but I get free classes (can you call it free if the machine costs as much as one of my vehicles?  It is an old vehicle - but still!)

So sisters..... Let's get this blog rolling again!  I want to see what you have been working on.   Here is your assignment:  Post a recent project.  Sew.  Order pizza for the family.  Sew some more.  Post again.  We don't have to live in the same state to have our sisterhood.  Can't wait to hear from everyone!!

Amen.

I've made this quilt before... and love how it uses up my stash.
I had a vision board (work) party last week and gave this away.

Yo-Yo pillow...

When I saw this quilt I immediately started making yo-yo's.  Then I realized how many actual yo-yo's it would  take. 409 to be exact.  That's a boatload of yo-yo's.

So I downsized.

oops... I forgot to rinse off my marketings :)

On my antique church pew.
so pretty!

a gift.

My daughter is getting married in Utah and I live in Oklahoma and she lives in Idaho the wedding planning has been a little crazy.

The future mother-in-law has been wonderful to help with everything and I am so very grateful.  Which means 

I made her a quilt.

Of course.

Flip Flops for a sad friend

I have a friend that LOVES flip flops....   When we moved to Oklahoma last summer and my older daughter met Becky, she said "I can see you guys being good friends" and so it was. She is the Relief Society President and I am one of her counselors, our kids hang out and we carpool, have Cheesecake together, and have much in common.  I was looking forward to many happy years hanging out in Oklahoma with my friend.

After a series of miracles we have been given the opportunity to move to Utah in July for my husband to teach at UVU.  Great to be close to family again, but not so great for new friends in Oklahoma.

So what did I do?  I made her a quilt, of course.  I guess now I can say that I make quilts for people I love AND people I make sad.  

If I luv ya...

I'll probably make a quilt for you.

Kristy has been my friend for nearly 20 years and recently flew allll the way from Utah to Oklahoma (on a NOT cheap flight) to visit.  We traveled through Arkansas and stayed in Branson for a wonderful weekend.  That definitely deserves a quilt.

Kristy is the cute one in front :)

LOVE the colors she picked.

...as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.

Picnic Quilts...

I have two friends flying in today to visit me.  Only true friends would come all the way to Oklahoma so I figured they needed quilts!  I have been collecting denim for quite a while now thinking I would may 7 or 8 for friends and family.  Denim is kind of a pain to work with because it is soooo heavy.  This might be my limit.

Meet Jack.

He reallllly likes my quilt.  Thinks we are going on a picnic.

I'm also trying to use up my stash so I pieced the back as well.    Why is it that no matter how much fabric I use it never seems like I have less fabric on my shelves?  And I haven't been buying fabric in oh...so.... loooong.

A quilt for Sister Bush

My daughter, Kayla recently returned home from serving an 18 month church mission to Seattle, WA.  One of her companions (Sister Bush) is getting married this weekend in LA and Kayla was asked to a bridesmaid.  She decided to make a quilt using her wedding color as the contrast.....

It turned out beautiful!!!

Twenty-three dollars!!!!

Judy told me about an estate sale with fabric....

lots of fabric with a few treasures thrown in.

**happy dance**

30 hand appliqued  butterflies

(something I have NO plans to ever do)

antenna's are hand embroidered

I guess I shouldn't have photographed on my bed...

but there are LOTS of pieces of wonderful fabric here!!

What are these things called????

flour sack table toppers?

This is a map of the area in CA where my mom lives!!!

Can't you just see the finished project....

CUTE!!

A little bit of Texas going to Korea

We have some friends that are from Korea and she is going home for her sisters wedding.  I wanted to send a gift to both of their parents.... something that represented Texas but was easy to pack.  Table runners were the perfect answer!

The pictures don't show very well (I didn't think to do a close up in my not-so-good multi-tasking day) but the blue material has a cowboy rope pattern throughout and the red one is a funky cowboy fabric.

The backing is what really says Texas....

Angel quilt

My good friend recently lost her daughter and I wanted to do something for their family.  I had been thinking of this design for some time...

There are five children in the family.  The blue and green represent their two boys, the cream row represents their daughter that passed away and the pink and purple rows are for their other two girls.  The yellow binding represents the mom and dad and their strength in binding their family together.   The quilting in the middle section is the cathedral window pattern and the border has angels all around.

A big thanks to all my friends that helped with fabric and putting the top together!

Mommy and me... Finished!

We finished the quilt project today and my mom and I started

last week.  I LOVE it!  But sadly, we have decided to send

it to a better home.  I always miss my quilts when they leave.

I'm sure my brother and sister-in-law will take

very good care of it though :)

Mommy and me...

My mom is visiting from California

and so (of course) I thought we should make a quilt.

Really, it's her fault for buying me a

quilt magazine at Barnes and Noble today. 

And I wasn't even whining.

(not that I ever whined as a child)

The fabrics and pattern.

Grandma Zee

making her first "real" quilt.

sew, grandma, sew!

Stay tuned for the finished project!!

For a rainy day...

First, I was going to make this quilt for my mother as she is from Ketchikan, AK which is one of the rainiest places on earth.

Then I was going to make it for my daughter who is returning home TOMORROW after serving an 18 month mission in Seattle, WA. Another very rainy place.

But then I made the quilt.
Sorry ladies... I guess I just don't love you enough.