Another Nikki bag

I made a Nikki bag for a friend recently.  This picture was before I added the buttons.  

 The inside of the bag (the colors are better in the first picture.  I blame my iPhone pictures and bad white balance).

Cat approved.

Can you guess which color I needed?

I foolishly bought only one spool of thread for quilting my latest project.  When I ran out of thread, I sent my husband out for more since he had the next day off.  He looked once and found they were out.  I tried another store and they were out too.  One last store the following day and we were able to score some New Leaf #6280. Note to self, don't but just one spool of thread for quilting!

One more baby quilt

Here's my latest almost finish.  The binding isn't turned to the other side yet.

I'll get better photos once it's washed and dried.  

And for my youngest

I realized in my posting frenzy that I had forgotten the pictures for M's quilt.

He wanted a teal and red quilt.  Here's what he got.





And the pieced back.

Teacher gifts

I made some teacher gifts for the girls' teachers this year.  One teacher loves lady bugs so I found a paper pieced pattern.  The other teacher loves puppy so I found some puppy fabric for the center and back.  Here's what we came up with.







Please don't look too closely.  My orange peels were not pretty.  But, practice makes perfect.  I will be doing these again.

Next up, another nephew quilt!  I'm so excited for our growing family.

One more nephew

We welcomed another nephew to the family last December.   It was only slightly late due to the Christmas crafting that I did.  Here are some in process and finished pictures for your viewing pleasure.











I won't even link to the pattern.  It would show you how badly I screwed up.  I did NOT follow the directions.

I loved doing the skinny dark grey stripes .  I loved making those figure 8's.

Back to old habits

I needed a break from my other project so I pulled out a really old hand quilting WIP.   Seven years in the making.  It feels good!!!!