Some little projects...

Sorry for the poor quality, it's a cell phone
pic.  I forgot to take the finished pic... oops. 

So this week I finished up a couple little projects.  I made the shapes to match Juliet's quilt.  Her mobile will match now.  I am super excited to give it to them.  The quilt is actually a surprise to them :)


I also started my first quilt as your go project this week.  I decided to start it off as a pillow.  Since I had all my valentine fabrics out I figured that it was perfect timing for a valentine project.  I found a piece of batting in the craft room and started on my new project. I started with a square of red with a heart and expanded.  I worked until I felt I was done (bored, haha).

I then added a backing with my serger and then made an envelope style closure.  I love how it turned out and how quilty (hmm... is that a word?) it looks.  It was actually a fairly easy method and will use it again sometime.  

And last weekend was my best friend's boyfriend's birthday.  He was nice enough to invite me to his birthday celebration, which after the Christmas card I sent him I was a little surprised (think card + glue + entire tube of glitter).  He took it in good stride, told me he opened it outside.  He made the mistake of telling me he HATES glitter.  Well I LOVE glitter (and so does his girlfriend, my friend).  Glitter makes everything better.  So I figured that I should give him something that he loves which is Johnny Walker black label... but with a twist.  I decided to glitterfy (yes that is my word) his gift.  

I know, I know... another cell phone pic.  

I laughed the entire time making these.  His girlfriend loved them and he didn't want to touch them, haha.  Hey, it was the most original gift at his party.

And now I am trying to decide on what to work on.  My major quilt in progress, the retro quilt, hasn't gotten much farther.  Another is my Hawaiian quilt (pictured below).   I also have projects for another friend that is due in March (so crazy excited for this Em!) but those won't be posted about until later because I don't want to ruin that surprise.  And I have some projects in waiting... a Halloween quilt is on my shelf waiting to be started and an idea for a modern quilt is brewing from a chart at physical therapy (so funny I know).  Oh and I found a dress that I started 6 years ago in my closet so that is a must finish project... the fabric is super cute.  

I am just trying to decide how to finish it...  I really wish I had more of this fabric to do a border then a stacked border of all the colors then another sashing around that.  But it was a charm pack gift from my mom from one of their trips to Hawaii and I can't seem to find it online... so I am thinking that a yellow border then maybe the purple border fabric (not sure about that though because it is a different print than the rest), then the pink border then the green binding... I am not sure though... ugh! But I do know I will be backing it with a white on white hibiscus print that I need to order and hand quilting it with a design out of my Hawaiian quilt book.  I love that all of the fabrics have come from Hawaii, even the border, and that bot my Mom and I contributed to it.


Oh well... off to play with my fabric collection some more :)