Sweet Boater Chick

Friday, October 25, 2013

Wedding Gift

I had another wedding this month and decided to make the bride and groom a little hand stitched project. The bride, Aggie, is originally from California and the groom, Steve, is from New Jersey. I have seen all over Pinterest and in stores state items so I decided to make the project with their states.

I started by printing out outlines of the two states and then I pinned them to the fabric. Then I stitched around the states with a chain stitch.

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I added in some dashed lines, their names, and the wedding date to finish the project.

I cleaned up the back with another piece of the grey fabric that I pressed and stitched a finished line around. At that same time I machine stitched the tag to the back with a note to the happy couple. I whip stitched it to the back for a nice clean finish.

It was a fun wedding that apparently I didn't take any photos at :( Oh well.

So one more wedding in a couple weeks that I won't be able to make, but I need to whip up a project for that, too.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Modern Trees

A little while back I saw that Christa at Christa Quilts was holding a quilt along for Modern (Christmas) Trees. She was using the Tri Tool by EZ quilting which I just happen to have in my collection of tools. I wanted to join in but had so many other commitments that I wasn't sure I could. I mean I still have my quilt along from Polly's Hexies by Halves cut out and sitting next to my machine, waiting to be pieced. But after last weeks Talknt chat on twitter I was hit with inspiration. It was mentioned that a Christmas quilt with lime green and pink would be fun, it's my colors! So Thursday last week I set to pulling fabrics and started on a Christmas quilt just for me.

I cut strips of the two green fabrics and then sliced diagonal lines into it randomly and sewed varying widths of pink into it. Each green had two strips so I was able to have the diagonals going both ways on the trees in the quilt.

These practically flew together. All the fabrics are batiks, I loved the texture that they all add to the quilt.

By Sunday I had the top together. I honestly chose this layout because it had no corners to match, I was not in the mood to make sure I had perfect corners, haha.

Now to choose how to quilt it. I am not sure exactly how I want to yet.

Loving how it looks from the back with the sun shining through. It looks like stained glass to me.

So after spending some time away from my machine it was nice to get back to some sewing and even better to have such a fast fun finish.

A Little Hand Stitching

Last week I had a little down time from sitting at my machine and being able to move too much so I sat and finished my goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes. I completed the stitching part of project that is a wedding present for a friend whose wedding I was in a couple weeks ago.

Now to clean up my edges and finish off the back. I will be adding a ribbon to hang it by that was on my bouquet from the wedding. Can't wait to mail it out!

Congrats to my friends, Kayce and Brad and their little one Orion. Such a happy family.

And the obligatory college friends picture needed from any wedding :)

Friday, October 4, 2013

A Lovely Year of Finishes - October

A Lovely Year of Finishes - October

This month I have decided to finish a smaller project for my A Lovely Year of Finishes goal. I have a few other things going on so I figure a small thing is a realistic goal. I am working on a hand stitched project as a wedding gift for a friend.

It will be a tree with french knot leaves in fall colors. It will also say their names and the date of their wedding, 9-28-13. Yes it is a little late, but I did make it to the wedding so that was a pretty good gift too ;)

As a bonus finish, if I get a little sewing in I am planning on trying to finish my double wedding ring top.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

A Lovely Year of Finishes - September finish

Wooo... September ended so quickly that I wasn't sure that I was going to make it with my A Lovely Year of Finishes goal. But... I did it! Last night I was able to finish my project of making a bunch of pillows by cutting up a quilt.

My ALYoF goal photo

I had started this pillow project a couple weeks ago. First I had to take off the binding so I could save it to re-bind what was left. I then drew out all my lines so I could cut out all the pieces I needed.

From the king size quilt I made 2 euro shams, 2 standard shams, 4 throw pillows, and re-bound the quilt to make it a throw of 54" x 60".

I up loaded the photo above at the wire to make sure I made it in on time, but took the photo below today for a better view. I am super happy with how they all came out.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Kayce's Quilt

In just a week from today, another one of my favorite people is getting married. My friend Kayce will be walking down the aisle and I will be there to support her and her future hubby. I have my dress and shoes and oh no... I need to email her about a hair appointment.

Her shower was the end of August and since it was the same as Matthew's 8th birthday I could not go (he can't be 8!!). I did want to make sure that she knew I was thinking of her, though, so of course I made a quilt. Her favorite colors are blue and green and I wanted to make sure I used them in her quilt. Well it so happened that a couple months ago I was playing with a bunch of half square triangles that I had made and it was the perfect colors for her quilt.

Bright blue and green are paired with a fun text print that just happens to be in the quilt I made for her little boy, Orion, just a couple months ago. It was meant to be!

I added some borders to the top to make the size better for a cuddle quilt (or picnic quilt with Orion).

I backed the quilt with more of the green and blue alternating a stripe of the other color and the text print through it. The center of the quilt is stitched on the diagonal through the center of the half square triangles. The borders have squiggles and swirls.