Quick Baby Gifts

As much as I love making quilts, I also love making other items that come together quickly.  I was able to make this nice little blanket and burp cloths in one sitting this afternoon.

These goodies are for our friends from church who just had a baby boy.  They chose not to find out the gender beforehand, so I had to wait until he was born to begin this gift!

I'll post the specifics on these projects later this week if you'd like to make your own quick baby gifts!

Lately

I really haven't done much quilting lately.  I'm working on some curtains for a friend, and I spend the rest of my free time on the computer.  I've been learning how to use Inkscape to create vector graphics for fabric designs.  It's great for me because it's free (yay!) and there are plenty of tutorials to go with it.  Right up my alley.  

I'm not sure what to call all these prints, but I think I like them.  I think.

Maybe I'll order some of this fabric and make something.  Who knows!?

Craft Table Fame

Last year, my dear husband made me a wonderful craft table from plans we found on this wonderful little blog called Knock-Off Wood.  Since then, that little blog has exploded into quite a popular site, Ana-White.com.  

The other day, my husband was looking for another DIY furniture plan by Ana White, and found (to his delight) the picture of our craft table on her Plan Catalog page!

It just amazes me how quickly my sewing room went from this...

to this...

Fresh and Funky- January

This month is my month in the Fresh and Funky Bee!  I made a few inspiration blocks, cut out a ton of fabric, and made the guy at the post office hate me.  

No, not really.  I do think that he could see me and my 14 packages coming from a mile away, but he was very nice about it.  The people in line behind me might not have been so happy.  I tried not to look...

 I can't wait to see what everyone does with the fabric I sent!

Fresh and Funky-

November? 

 ...Yeah, these blocks are from November.  

As it does from time to time, life happened, and sewing didn't.  If you'd like to know more, here's what happened.  If not, no worries.  I'm doing well now, and I'm ready to get back to the total obsession pastime I enjoy so much! :)

November was Maria of Me and Ma's month, and she sent out some great fabric.  She wanted Christmas blocks to make quilts for each of her kids.  So sweet!

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!  Here's to 2011 and new beginnings!

Diamond Quilt

I've just completed a lovely baby quilt that happens to look very similar to a quilt I did earlier this year, Danielle's quilt, without the border.

 I wanted to give it a pieced back, which makes it fully reversible, I think.

This time instead of piecing each diamond from one large printed square and four smaller white squares (in Flying Geese fashion), I simply cut squares and arranged them with strips to form a diamond pattern.  It came together much quicker and used much less fabric.  This picture isn't lined up perfectly, but you get the idea.

And this is the finished product, fresh and crinkly from the dryer.  It's super soft and ready for snuggling! :)

Fresh and Funky- October

Here are the blocks I made for Cat.  She had us do some really fun blocks, and I got to work on my applique skills a little bit more!

 She sent out fabrics to represent the four seasons, and I got summer (which I happen to love).  She also asked that we use her owl print somewhere on each block, so I perched mine in the tree.

Since this block is all about summer, I figured I'd give her a few strawberries growing under the tree.

I also included a signature block that I forgot to photograph.  Oops.  I sent her some extra blocks for an earthquake quilt, as well.  Cat is from New Zealand and is making quilts for children affected by the recent earthquakes there.  

Thanks for such a fun block this month!