Newest Aprons

I am trying to use up all my fabric and not buy anymore. These aprons are one way I’ve been using them. I do have some fun fabrics to play with. 

Natalie’s Quilt

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June’s Quilt

                                          This pattern is Eleanor Burns. The Magic Vine Quilt

Isaac and Rachella’s quilt

John and Havilah's Wedding Quilt

This is a quilt I made for some friends getting married.  I love doing these wholecloth quilts.  It's so much fun to design and then quilt.

It has quite a bit of trapunto work in it.  It's great for those sitting around cutting times.  It takes small, very sharp scissors.

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Gardening Aprons

I found this fabric on my quilt guild's give away table and made these aprons for my gardening granddaughters.

Aren't they pretty nice girls?

Poppies

This is another quilt that I made from the book Flower Show Quilts

And I do like poppies a lot.  

I patchworked the background, quilted it on my longarm, then I fused the applique on top and used my home machine to quilt the flowers and leaves. 

I'm very happy with how it turned out.  

I like Hawaiian quilts. But I wanted a fallish quilt and I found a pic of a design that I decided to copy in the style of Hawaiian but it is a little different.  

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I also used fabrics that I had on hand.  It is all hand applique, like Hawaiian.

Finally a New Quilt

This is a quilt that I finished last September.  I was copying a Kim Diehl quilt to some degree.  I like her quilts.  They look comforting and homey.  

And I was using only scraps.  The never seem to make a dent in my stash. Hmmm....

Sunflowers

I bought a book many years ago called Flower Show Quilts.  Finally I did a quilt from it.  I love sunflowers and this tablerunner looked like something I'd enjoy.

I did the patchwork first and then quilted it.  After that I did the fusable applique doing the quilting on those pieces afterwards.

I used all scraps which didn't really make a dent in anything.  Do quilters ever use all their fabrics up?

Now I've started the second item from that book.  I think I will do several of these.

Baby Knits

These are a couple of things that I knitted recently for some new babies.  This one is one that is knitted sideways.  I've done another one before and I like the look with the lace design.

Ravelry link

 This sweater I've also done in the past.  But this time I put white on dark.  

And I knitted a hat to go with it.

Ravelry link for sweater

and Hat 

Swallowtail Lace Shawl

I love knitting lace.  And I love knitting shawls.  I just don't wear them.  What's great is that I've sold a few of them in the past.  So I keep knitting them.  I don't know how many women really knit shawls. But I'll have a few if someone wants one.

This is a pattern called Swallowtail Lace Shawl.  I used a knitpicks yarn called Diadem fingering.  It is very soft to the touch.

I like that the pattern doesn't have any solid stockinette.  You have to think the whole time your're knitting.

I did put it away for a while as I was busy knitting for the grandchildren, but it was satisfying to finish it.

Cross Stitch

Cross Stitch is something I took up 10-15 years ago for a while but then I put it away to knit.  You can't have too much going on or you get stretched thin.  Especially as I was in the midst of raising my children also.  But I started to take it up again. 

This is a pattern that I've done before and I had a granddaughter that liked it so I did it for her.

One thing I also do is take photos and put them into the program PCStitch.  I love doing ones that have special meaning.  This is my oldest granddaughter.  This was taken at a pumpkin farm in the fall.