Welcome Blogger's Quilt Festival Participants!

This is the 6th time

I am participating, and the Festival

is the reason I decided to start blogging!

Today, I am featuring a baby quilt 

I made for my cousin Lisa's baby girl.

It was a panel front,

but I enjoyed putting together the back and label!

  wrapped and ready to go!

label

http://amyscreativeside.com/2012/10/26/bloggers-quilt-festival-fall-2012/

standard baby quilt size, quilted by me, baby quilt category

Enjoy the festival!!

How true is this?

Another, seen on Facebook

Pillowcases!

I recently made Marisa some pillowcases, and 

love how they turned out!

The are pictured on the fantastic new

big ironing board that Marc and I built!!

So true!

saw this on Facebook and had to share!

Sailing away!

Sorry I have been MIA!

The kids came home from an awesome

summer at camp,

then 72 hours later, 

we were moving them into their dorm rooms!

It was a whirlwind, but it was all good!

Now, time for a vacation!

We leave in the morning

for a 10 day cruise

aboard the Explorer of the Seas!!

While on board, I will be celebrating a big birthday!!

Catch you when I return!!

Film Rolls

by Benartex

Another recent addition to my stash!

Taxi!!

From the New York State of Mind collection 

by Kanvas for Benartex

Next stop, Quilt Shop

http://www.thequiltshoponline.com/Welcome.html

C2832 Peak Hour Ad Gray

Riley Blake Designs

Kicks by Alexander Henry

Quilt stores!

My first stop was a lovely shop called

Quilter's Alley in Ridgefield, Ct
http://www.thequiltersalley.com/

I found 2 great fabrics I had to have!

http://www.ttfabrics.net/cgi-bin/fabricshop/gallery.cgi?func=show&file=78&Category=211&Page=1&v=1
Back tomorrow with the second fabric!

Matt and Marisa at camp!

So excited to see this

great picture on

the camp website this morning!

Looking forward to Visiting Day Sunday!!

Embellished sewing machine

Came across this today.

What do you think?

Read more about it here

Camp!

Summer is here!

The kids left yesterday to

be lifeguards for the summer.

I've been busy with them getting ready,

so now I hope I will have lots of time to sew!!

A welcome sight!

An empty design wall! 

Which I quickly fixed by

getting to work ironing Pellon stabilizer to 

Matt's T shirts!

A pillowcase, for Carly

Matt's girlfriend, Carly.

loves anything with elephants.

When I saw this fabric 

advertised in the latest

Quilt Sampler magazine,

I knew I had to make something for her!

French Braid Quilt top Finished!

At last!!

Love it!

Elephants!

I ordered some of this 

wonderful fabric

to make a pillowcase for Carly,

Matt's girlfriend, who loves

anything elephant!

Unbelievably, nothing from my stash worked

so I am headed to my LQS

tomorrow to get coordinating fabrics.

Beads!

(Sorry for the turned picture.

It is the right way on my screen, but

not when I upload to blogger)

Marisa brought these beads 

home for me 2 years ago after 

she spent the summer in Israel.. 

She strung them today, and I love them!

Bloggers' Quilt Festival- Marisa's T-shirt Quilt!

Welcome visitors from the

Bloggers' Quilt Festival!!

I will always be grateful to Amy,

because the festival is the reason 

I started blogging in the Fall of 2009

http://amyscreativeside.com/2012/05/18/bloggers-quilt-festival-spring-2012/

The quilt I have chosen to share

is very special to me.

I made it for my wonderful daughter

Marisa,

who just finished her Freshman year

at Syracuse University.

It is a T shirt quilt made from

old, favorite T-shirts of her childhood.

Also, it has wonderful novelty fabrics,

many of which she helped me pick out!!

It was quilted by Melinda  at

Melinda Quilts Etc

who did an absolutely amazing job!

It was truly a labor of love!

Before being quilted:

After:

 Close ups of a few:

 Binding done:

 close ups:

 folded:

 label:

Currently, I am about to start on a 

T-shirt quilt for her

 twin brother, Matthew!

Stay tuned!

If you like what you see, follow me!

Crayon Art!

I'll let the pictures tell the story today!

Love how it came out!

Organizing, but no sewing...

Matt & Marisa and I are working

hard to sort thru and

get everything back into place.

No time for sewing for me :(

Happy Mom's Day!!

 Thanks to Marisa and Matt

for helping me to be what I always

wanted to be...

A Mommy!!

I couldn't be prouder of you and I adore you!

Happy Mom's Day to all

the moms!!

2 kids, 2 cars part 2

In case you were

wondering,

this is what moving 

2 kids home at once looks like.

Now to get it absorbed into the proper place.

Camp, school or room!!

2nd load of laundry in process.

Great to have them home!!

2 kids, 2 cars!!

Back home from an overnight to Syracuse 

to bring home 

Matthew and Marisa.

2 cars packed to the gills,

beautiful day for a drive,

5 hours uninterrupted 

one on one time with the kids...

PRICELESS!!

All connected!

Onto borders

and a good pressing!!

Connector strips

Not the best picture,

but I sewed the right side

connector strip 

to the first braid.

The left side is also pinned

Love!!

Quilt Sampler Spring 2012

Bought yesterday

Will be spending time reading today!!