Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Play time!

Another style of dress-this one made from using a couple different patterns and then putting my own twist on it. Isn't that little crochet hat the cutest thing! It is a free pattern I found on Ravelry and works up so fast. I need to get some lime green yarn for some hats to go with too. I made 6 identical dresses yesterday. You will soon see the new ones in my Etsy shop (link on the right side of blog). Thanks for visiting my blog-and I always enjoy comments!
Linking up at Freemotion by the River,  Let's Bee Social and Lily's

Friday, December 27, 2013

Dolly gets a new dress!

This time of year is my 'play' time or 'do whatever I want' time and I am loving every minute. I was in the mood to sew some doll clothes, so here is my Girl of Today, whom I named Miranda, in her new dress and matching headband. I have enough fabric left after making 6 of these to make matching tote bags so I think I will get those whipped up too.
Linking up with SewFreshQuilts for Thank Goodness it's Finished Friday,Link a finish friday 
and Sarah for Whoop Whoop Friday.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

DRS challenge 101-Three's Company

One last Christmas card for the DRS challenge this week. I use this snowman a lot-he's just so darn cute!
The challenge this week is to use 3 of something, so I have used the same snowman stamp and just made it higher and higher on the card as I went.  I had fun decorating up their scarves a little different. Add a few snowflake embellishments and sentiment and it is done.
Happy Christmas to all!!

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

WIP Wednesday

I started 3 more little baby quilts, each are 36" square to donate to the local neonatal unit. A friend, who moved away, gave me some fabric she didn't want to haul and there were 2 charm packs from the Central Park line by Kate Spain in it. Thanks Cynthia! So I had enough to make 3 little quilts by adding in my own solid fabric. These would be great for a set of triplets! I got EQ7 earlier this year and hadn't played with it for a while so I decided to mock it up in there-for a refresher course ya know. Since I ran out of solid green I chose an orange for the third one and I am not doing the white stripe either, gotta mix it up a bit!
Linking up at WIP-Freshly Pieced


 

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

A weekend accomplishment!

I have been planning on getting this quilt done since the summer of 2012 and here is the top all sewn. That summer I went on a local shop hop and if you completed the passport you received this bundle of half yard cuts of Bella solids. The pattern is a freebie at Moda Bake Shop called Puzzle Quilt. Love how it came out, it will hang in our family room when I get it quilted-hopefully in January. There was lots of fabric left from this bundle so I picked out another Moda Bake Shop pattern to work up someday.
I am so enjoying my free sewing time right now, so onto the next projects-keep checking back as I have more posts in the works :-)  Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!
Linking up with FreeMotionByTheRiverLink a finish friday

Friday, December 13, 2013

A finish for Friday

It's always good to finish something! This little quilt top measures at 45x60, I started it on Wed. and just finished it up now. I used Jenny's quick curve ruler and her pattern Urban Escape, a fun little quilt. I have no idea what I am going to do with it as the colors don't go with my decor, but I love them anyway!  It will be a fun one to quilt when I am in the mood to do that. Oh I added a small white border since I took this pic.
Linking up at Amanda Jean's for Friday Finish and Link a finish friday

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

WIP-wedneday

This week I have been whipping working on chevron baby quilts to donate to the local Neonatal unit. Three tops pieced and working on #4, then I will have to get busy and quilt them.
These are pretty quick and easy. I cut 6 " blocks to start my half sq. triangles, layer a light on a bright(dark) sq. and draw a line from corner to corner and sew 1/4" inch away on each side of the line. After they were sewed and cut(on the line) I trimmed using my Blockloc rulers to get 5 1/2" sqs.  Love those rulers they make trimming so easy!
Linking up withFreshly Pieced and Michelle's

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Another card..

for the DRS Glitter it up challenge this week. I hope I understood correctly that if we used DRS stamps on our cards we got 2 entries-if that's not right someone please correct me!!
The snowman and the trees are both from DRS designs. I glittered up the trees and his scarf with stickles-love them! I also added black brads down the front of the snowman. Used Nesties for the ovals and some black distress ink sparingly around the white oval  just to give it a little more character.  The inspiration for this card came from one of the DRS designers :-)
I find it very hard to capture the glitter in a photo-anyone got some good hints on how to do that. I can see it a little anyway.

DRS challenge-Glitter it up!


I have to say making Christmas cards are my favorite cards to make, such fun designs to use! This card is for the Glitter it Up challenge at DRS this week. It was fun using some different colors thnt the traditional Christmas reds and greens to make this fun tree card using DRS trees and adding glitter to them to look like the sparkly fresh fallen snow.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

WIP wednesday project and my Etsy shop open!!

I am working on this queen size quilt for us, it is a pattern from Modern Quilt Relish called Taffy twists. All solid colors in aqua and teals on a brown background.There are 3 rows of the twists surrounded by brown on each side. A very easy pattern to piece and then I'll have lots of fun with the quilting!  It is so nice to have all my craft shows done for the season and a little free time to decorate for the Holidays. I am looking forward to making more things for us this winter.
My other news is that I opened up my Etsy shop last week!!  I had an account and shop name for 2 years and never took the time to get items up for sale before. So as of now I have 8 items on there and hope to list a few more soon, so check back!  Here is a link to it  Vickiscraftden







Linking up with Freshly Pieced WIP