Harmony Grace ~

 First finish of 2014: This is Harmony Grace's Baby quilt!

It's made from a charm pack of --was it called 'Dilly, Dally'? I think so. 



I started with an idea from a quilt book called Three Times the Charm,

but added on until it is hardly recognizable. The pattern I started with is called Dora.

   first, the layout ~  The "faith , hope , love" fabric is for the name background. 











 

To do the name, I choose fonts I like, and have Larry print it as large as needed. We usually choose to only do an outline of the letters, why waste the ink to make them solid black? Then I cut them out, and lay them down in reverse to trace onto the fabric prepared with Heat and Bond lightweight fusible. Cut and iron down onto the background, and I like to sew with the buttonhole stitch on my Bernina.




 I quilted with a loop-de-loop this time, fun, easy loops ~


 

 Then came the binding. Finished last night ~

 

And this dolly is Harmony Grace!

Harmony Grace is the little sister to Steven, remember this quilt?

 

"...we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved...." Acts 15:11

p.s. Thank you to my friends Kim and Gail, who made me smile by responding to my flub up post ~ Hugs all around, girlfriends!

What's on the Frame

This is the weekend I am SUPPOSED to work on my report cards. So, you know that I did what I am supposed to do, right? Yeah, right.

I quilted 2 quilts!

(insert a cheeky grin here!)

I can seem to get all kinds of busy when I have a job hanging over my head, and I've always been that way. I think it's the procrastination/easily distracted/creative part of me.

Do I see other hands out there?

Truthfully, I usually meet my deadlines ahead of time, partly because I draw an earlier time to meet it. My report cards are due in the office on Monday, 01/31/11, my date is Friday the 28th, see? I'll make it. . . .



Anyway, back to the fun stuff. I was working on Steven's quilt earlier in December, he was born the 18th. December being what it was in our house, well, the finish is coming now.The shower for him and his momma sweet Valerie (1st grade teacher at my school) is Wednesday-! yes, this Wednesday, I'll make the deadline!

I line quilted this one, mostly. That was kinda fun.

I've had the fabric for a while, Valerie likes these colors, and I had a feeling that the baby was going to be a "he" (they did this the surprise method). Val called me a "prophetess" but it's nothin' like that. Besides, I had some pinks I could throw in if I was wrong. *vbg*



It started out to be a Stacked Coins, but I turned them on end, can it still be called that? What's cool is, I used some of the fabrics from the wedding quilt I made them.

I'll try to edit and add Steven's finished quilt pictures later...
Here it is finished, and fresh out of the dryer!

This is hanging above my dryer. It was from my friend Ginny B. :-}

This little duck quilt was using a panel print, and Ginny wanted to make it into a quilt for her grandson Colton. Her goal is to make a quilt for each of her 7GK's, and I'm her production manager, lol. I love it, I'm always on the lookout for simplicity, and "we can do it" ideas.

We found this panel out of date, so we looked for our own coordinates, and they are working great. This will be bound with the stripe piece. I love striped binding...

Here is another share from Virginia. This painting was done by Momma for my Daddy. It was from a print, most of her paintings were. It is the biggest canvas she ever did,
I think it is 2' by 3 1/2'. It's beautiful, so dramatic! It now hangs in Happy's home.
They have 4 horses, it seemed right.

Oh, lastly, look at my new signature, made by my honey! (a.k.a. my Larry).

Crumbles

It's kinda interesting how starting *this baby quilt. . .

led to this crumb sewing. . .


and the crumb piecing led to . . .

me dragging out the little flower pieces of fabric. . .

to do more crumb sewing (I have a bunch of floral prints!). . .

soon, it went to a LOT of crumbs in neat little rectangles & squares. . . .

Now, my work space is not so neat. . .


but Larry is mending well, and will be working half days this week...!

Oh, I won a purse pattern from Linda, and it came this past week! Thanks Linda, for letting me choose this cute pattern!

Hope you're enjoying your days ~
Happy Quilting,
Pokey

"O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together." Psalm 34:3

*this meets the "brown and green" goal of my "Ten in '10" commitment. I didn't reach them all, but there are quite a few completed. :-}