Cool light display!!!

Amazing Grace Techno - Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

The Countdown!

Christmas Countdown - Christmas Layouts

I can't believe Christmas is so close!!! The time has just flown by so fast and I still have tons of stuff to do!!! Sometimes it feels like its going so fast and furious that I all I can do is just sit and watch it fly past me! I hate that!! Well, back to more crafting for today!

Latest WIP

So I've been working on the quilting on this one lately. I literally put this one together in 4 days. It's not the greatest sewing but I had to slam it out to get the meandering done on the long arm before mom left town. Anyway, here is the WIP. I found the pattern in Fabric Trends. I absolutely love this quilt! I think its funny... the ones that I absolutely love always seem to have the most mistakes! I may have to do this pattern over again. My frustration on this pattern was that there was so much give in the fabric on the bias of the triangles that the blocks all turned out different sizes. I find that so frustrating because I KNOW I'm not pulling on the fabric. It just happens... Any advice?? It's much appreciated!
I didn't quilt the baskets on the long arm. I am in the middle of quilting them on my Janome 6500. I find that I have more control over stitching straight lines on it...

Gobble Til Ya Wobble!

Is it really almost Thanksgiving?? Holy Moly!! This year has just flown by! Time to start gearing up for the holidays! I wanted to share this cute little turkey I made a couple years ago... I use him every year! I don't recall which company made the pattern but it sure is cute!!

Another Gifty Item..

I have a whole stack of these little potholders to make. They are super easy to make! I cut out a bunch to sew up for Christmas to give away with goodies... I will post more as I get them done.. This one turned out pretty good. I don't think I have any Halloween potholders so this is a first! Hmmm, maybe I'll make a pumpkin roll and break it in! What do you think?? :)

The Quilt From *H *E *double *hockey sticks*!!!!

I finally finished this one after a long time of dreading the work in front of me... Each block has 64 individual squares and over 100 seams.. That makes over 2000 pieces for the whole quilt.. This project seemed to never end!! I started it back in April. The task was so daunting that I dreaded every minute of sewing it together. I spent so much time chain piecing and ironing that I even burned a hole in my ironing board cover! Yikes! My goal was to make perfect points on the blocks, but after 2 blocks I kinda-sorta didn't care! Even though some of them did not come out as planned, the whole quilt turned out pretty good! By the time I got to the point of actually quilting I decided to bag the idea of quilting a nice pattern on the front and just do a basic meander over it so I could just get it done--brainlessly. The quilt is not quite done in these pictures. I still have the binding to put on..

Halloween Fun...

I made both these items quite a few years back... Boy you can really tell the difference in my quilting! There is no binding on it, and it wasn't truly quilted... But its still a fun little wall hanging! I added raffia to the dowel to create the broom and wrapped it with jute twine. One of the sayings on the quilt is "if the broom fits, ride it!" :) I also stitched this bread cloth.. I haven't stitched in a very long time! ...at least not with embroidery thread!

Halloween Giveaway!

Check out the giveaway over at Pumpkin Patch Primitives!!!! She is giving away some really cool Halloween FQs. Go on over to her site and join the fun!

Park City Girl: Quilt Festival - Fall 2009

Park City Girl: Quilt Festival - Fall 2009

NW Quilters Expo continued...

NW Quilters Expo

I still have a bunch of quilt pics to post! I'm sure I'll have at least one or two more postings after this one! I took lots of pictures!!

Fall Quilts from the show...

more from the Expo...

I still have so many more pictures to post! It will take me forever, but I promise I'll get them added here!

more from the Expo

Some of the quilts here are ones that were actually on display in competition. Others are ones that were on display in the booths to market the patterns. The ones below use ultra suede. They are so pretty in person! The bear and the moose are all batik prints. ... I will post more soon!

NW Quilter's Expo Portland, OR

I had a blast at the Expo this year with Mom. We tested out a few of the long arms and looked at hundreds of quilts. The best part of this year's visit was that I met Karen McTavish! She is so cool! She was at the APQS booth helping work with the Millenium they had on demo. Lynette Jensen was teaching classes this year and had a bunch of her quilts on display. I took over 200 pics this year and will post them as time permits... :)

THESE ARE PICS of LYNETTE JENSEN'S QUILTS!

Table Runner WIP

This is a table runner Work In Progress... I love the fabrics! They are by Benartex and Nancy Halvorsen (Cider Mill Road). The colors have an Autumn feel. On this one I didn't use a pattern. I did plan it out, though, before I started. I still have the quilting left to do before it is done! I will show more pics when it is done. The days are looking more and more like Fall around here. I can't wait to get it done so I can use it!

Oregon State Fair woodland quilt

This quilt was done by a friend of the family. She did an awesome job on it! Some of my favorite quilts are the rustic/woodsy type quilts. She won a blue on this one....

More from Oregon State Fair

Here are more pics of the Oregon State Fair quilts. I had a heck of a time taking pics because of the limited space. They were in rows that were close enough together that I couldn't take a full view picture. I did the best I could!! I think this is the last of the photos that I have for this year!

Here is mom's quilt. It took a red this year. Apparently this year it was quite an honor to get a ribbon because alot of them didn't even get one!!!

I had to get a pic of this one. It is an Amy Bradley design. Too cute!!!

Oregon State Fair quilts

Here are some of the quilts that were there... Alot of them were very nice but didn't get ribbons. I wish I knew why!!

This quilt was very pretty! I took a picture of the mountain close up but it doesn't do it justice. She used iridescent thread to quilt the mountain. Very pretty!

Oregon State Fair photos

We had a lot of fun at the fair yesterday. I took tons of pictures. They had a great display of cakes... I love the ones with the rolled fondant! They are so neat looking. I also took tons of pics of the quilts there. I was not as impressed with the quilts this year as I have been in the past or at other shows.... I have quite a few pictures so I imagine I will have a couple of blog posts!