Thursday, September 25, 2014

Ruler Rack

I am so in LOVE with this new ruler rack my hubby made for me!!  This rack has been on my 'want' list for a long time and I wasn't sure we could even put it up on this wall as there is a pocket door behind there. But this is right beside my cutting table so it is the perfect space for it.  So I finally asked the hubbs if we could
and he said yes it would work and yes he would make it-YEAH!!  I thought 31 slots was bigger than I needed but we had the space and the wood so why not plan for future rulers, hahaha, all the slots are taken up but two.  I never thought I was a ruler junkie but I guess this says I am!


Here are some more runners that I just finished binding the last couple of days.



You may recognize this one from my post of What's on my frame.  I hope everyone is having a great quilty week!  

Linking up with Needle and Thread Thursday and Free Motion By the River-links on side bar :-) 

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Can you say binding

binding and more binding! Yesterday I was totally productive by putting on 8 bindings on runners, it felt 'sew' good to have that many done. Today not as good with only 4 but I did have errands to run also. And the ones I did had lots of strange angles so it took longer.  Ok I sew all my bindings on with the sewing machine, here are few quick pic's to show you how I do it. My binding is 2.25" wide. After sewing it to the front of my runner, I press it out away from the runner.



Then flip it to the back, next I stitch in the ditch on the front of the runner using a ditch foot while catching the back of the binding.

I pin the binding in place at the corner, then pull out the pin as I am sewing up to it.

And here is the binding all on...

The front and...                                                                      once again, along with 2 others I did                                                                                                           yesterday.

Linking up with Free Motion by the River and Let's Bee Social-see side bar for the link and check out all the eye candy over there!

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

What's on my frame today...

This is what is on my frame this morning, almost done quilting it. It will then live in my 'binding pile' for a while. I am in a quilting mood right now so I will take advantage of that in hopes of quilting up about 10 more this week. Then I will make myself get their bindings all on, LOL

Linking up with Connie's freemotion by the River and Lorna's Let's Bee Social, links on the left sidebar!  Also Quilt Story and Freshly Pieced

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Purses mostly done!


 I have been talking about my purse making for the last 3 weeks. I am finally nearing the end. Fifteen purses are a lot to make, but I now have 13 of them done! It feels wonderful to have them ready for the fall craft shows. I thought I would share 11 of them with you. Number 12 and 13 sold before I could take pictures of them!!!

There are 3 pockets outside and 8 inside, no excuse for not being organized :-) They all get magnetic closures and ties for expansion on the sides, a covered foam core board on the bottom adds some stability to the purse. You can take out that board and wash your purse! If you would like to have a purse please feel to contact me, my email addy is on my About page. They sell for $43 plus shipping unless you want to come pick it up. Oct 1st is when they will hit the local craft show.






On another note, yesterday I put binding on these 2 neonatal quilts and handed in 4 last night at guild. This brings my total to 10 for the year, I made a personal goal of making 12 this year, so only 2 more to go and that should not be a problem.


So I have a dirty little secret to share...this is my pile of neutrals and backing fabrics...I am almost to embarrassed to show it but...



I want to show you the wonderful shelves my sweet hubby build me on Saturday to put under my sewing/knitting counter tops and how I am organizing my fabric so I can actually see what I have-in hopes of using up instead of purchasing more!  Since I took the pic I have folded and organized my stash of red fabrics and added to the shelves. 

I hope you will go check out the other links over at Connie's , Lorna's  and Quilt Story

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Bea over at http://www.beaquilter.com/2014/09/eq7-tutorial-tuesday-block-review-nine.html has an EQ& tute every other tuesday. I have really been enjoying her posts as it is helping me learn my way around EQ a bit better.  This week we are to create nine patches any way we want and link up with her. So I took this Contrary Wife block...

 Recolored it, put it into a 4 x 5 block setting and rotated it every other block across the row to get this.

And yet another setting with the same block and yet another coloring. I think I would really like to make this quilt up someday in the real world!!  I just wish there were more hours in my day so I could play more, but I must get back to actual quilting now.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Weekend Finishes

In between some fun biking, kayaking and taking our daughter and grandsons to the zoo I managed to get a few pieces quilted. First up are 2 simple to piece neonatal size 36x38 quilts. I saw the idea on pintrest and made it my own size. I did easy all over quilting of loops on the red one and hook swirl on the pink one. Next week I will hand these in at guild for the local neonatal. At the beginning I set myself a goal of completing 12 for this purpose, these 2 will make 8 that I have handed in.

These runners got their bindings done. The pattern is Divided by Three by Mountain Peek Creations. It was fun to use the same pattern and add a bit of a twist of by choosing to rearrange the prints within the runner.


I am still working on the purses from last weeks post, four are totally done and 4 more are a lot farther along. Today I will do a bit more quilting on their linings so I can assemble more this week. I hope all of you have a very productive week!