prim rose

I guess this is how you dress up a ugly box? I couldn't take looking at my bare windows any more, they need paint bad but its not warm enough to do it. My distraction are these bright prim rose. I think they look a little better at lest for February.

Pillows are done

Pillows are done. I finished them the other night, just before my friends came over. I love them. They make my dark room a little brighter. Don't you think they scream spring or what! I have to tell you free motion quilting was kind of hard I know its just because I am new at it. It like patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time. It can be done but it takes some time to get good at it. I think I did a OK job, but don't look to close please.
This is the backs as you can see I left them open so I could wash them after a while.



I did quilt some with loop-d-loops and some that look like puzzle pieces.

Hurt thumb

Green hurt thumb! Paul and I were play fighting on Sunday. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. I was trying to punch Paul. Paul was blocking with his huge muscle. He karate chopped my thumb, and I went down fast with crazy pain. Then the boys thought (she's down, it is jump on Mom time). I thought it was broken for sure even the next day it was hurting pretty bad. I thought how am I going to be a mom without a thumb. Today it does feel lots better, the kids have only bumped it four times. So hopeful it will make a fast recovery.
So to some sewing stuff. Yesterday I finished piecing the backs of my pillows. I was kind of nervous I wasn't going to have enough but I made it. It was a close one, this was all the fabric I had left. I got them all ready to quilt. So here goes nothing, I am going to dive in and do it. Oh I hope they turn out well without having to unpick too much.

Birds, Bees, and Bugs

Top and back are done. I just have to work up the nerve to machine quilt this on my own. I have to stop sending my quilts out to be quilted. It's killing my wallet. If I want to make more quilts I'm going to have to learn to do it myself. I have signed up for a freehand class but its not until April. This beautiful quilt might be sitting on the shelf for a while.

Pillows

I am working on new pillows for my frontroom. I wanted something bright and fun. I want to free hand quilt all of these on my own, but I don't know how and I am really nervous to learn. I think these pillows will be way easier to learn than a full size quilt. So next time you see these babies they will be quilted by me.

I spy

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I made Wyatt and Dean big boy quilts with fun boy fabrics. I used my Hawaiian friends idea , One Shabby Chick and made up my own pattern. As I was collecting my fabrics, Wyatt said "You can't use any girly or baby fabrics on mine". Everyday for 3 weeks Wyatt would ask me if his quilt was done. I had the quilter put their names on them.
This one is Wyatt's with his favorite combine harvester.
This one is Dean's, he has the choo choo.

Baby Boy

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
This tiny quilt is for our tiny new nephew Ethan.
This is Ethan enjoying his Quilt.