4th of July quilts, pillows and decorations

Summer is the perfect time to decorate in pretty red, white and blue. Last year a quilting friend gave me a pack of layer cakes in red, white and blue. I almost immediately pieced this cute top and put it away for a few months. With 4th of July coming up so fast, it is time to finish this beauty.  I decided on the panto "curls" and the binding needs to go on next.

Pretty light colored cream fabric from my stash for the backing.

I made these buntings from leftover red, white and blue fabric. A red quilt and pillows on the bench to brighten up the entryway.

A few red with polka dots bows here and there in the living room.

I had a few layer cakes left and used  them in another string of buntings.

I changed out the scrapbook paper with a cute red, white and blue star paper.

I made this cute little flag pillow. 

I had 2 extra blocks leftover from the quilt and made 2 more pillows. It didn't take me long to end up with 10 pillows...can you tell I love pillows. I make covers and use the same pillow inserts.

I turned some of the pillows for a different look.

I used the same wreath all the time and just change the ribbon and flowers.

The blue wreath and blue pillows with the red geraniums perfect for summer.

Gardening is my other passion after quilting and decorating. I planted these red knockout roses a few years ago and thy are so pretty in the garden.

One of my new roses, a red roe with whit stripes. 

Back to my quilting room, I hope I can get the binding on before the weekend. 

Wishing you all a wonderful summer and thank you very much for stopping by.

Smiles,

Millie

Pink and red heart quilt

 

I finished my little red and pink heart quilt. I quilted an allover heart pattern in a very light pink quilting thread.  A scrappy pink and red binding finished off the quilt.

The sweet little heart quilt goes so well with the heart decorations and pillows.

I've also been making more yo yo's, but I am not sure where I'm going to use them, maybe on a quilt or more pillows. 

I have been making so many pink and red pillows and a quilts, so I needed a break and made a small green bunting garland.

With all my quilting, my home especially my quilting room, needed a good cleaning. Most of these nasty dust bunnies came out of my quilting room. 

My quilting table needed some serious organization. I got an old glass jar from the kitchen for the yo yo's.

Every time I do a good cleaning I also like to switch things around. I had all these almost empty spools of longarm thread laying around on my table. I will use these spools on my sewing machine in the future. I found this old flower vase and it's a nice container for the thread.

I see my sewing table is a little open. I received this dust cover with my machine and never used it before. The bins above my table need to be organized...but I did enough cleaning for today(:

And I have a few more unfinished green buntings for a longer garland next to my sewing machine.

I wish I can play all day, but I need to finish a few customer quilts. I have Jana's Kaffe Fasset quilt on my longarm.

Thank you very much for stopping by and I wish you all a wonderful week.

Smiles,

Millie

Lots of happy quilts

Thank you all for the lovely comments and for all of you that mentioned that you missed my blog posts. I have not been keeping up with my blog during this busy summer and I want too share all of the beautiful quilts I have worked on. There are so many happy quilts I made and quilted, however I unfortunately lost some of the pictures when I replaced my phone. I know I should always back up my pictures, but I didn't and regret it. :(

I quilted this beautiful pinwheel quilt for Michelle. The little prairie points on the border are such a happy touch.

The next two cute quilts were pieced by Caroline. I would like to eat a fresh strawberry just from looking at the cute strawberry blocks.

The soft yellow backing shows off the quilting pattern "Cafe du Monde" so well.

I quilted the blue and white quilt with " Bubbles" one of my favorite quilting pantos.

Jana loves making flying geese quilts. This is just one of the flying geese quilts I quilted for her. One of these days I am going to make a flying geese quilt myself. It is on my very, very long project to-do list.

I quilted this extremely cute 1930's reproduction quilt for Julie. It will make a nice baby quilt for a precious expected newborn girl.

I absolutely adore 1930's reproduction fabrics. And guess what else is on my project to-do list? This fun yet sophisticated dog pattern. 

My oldest daughter especially appreciates this quilt pattern because she recently received this little guy for her birthday. His name is Rolo, a nine week old Boston Terrier.

 His ears are finally beginning to perk up. Such a cutie!

Here is another beautiful flying geese I quilted for Jana. I love the blue, white, and a little touch of yellow color scheme.

And last but not least, Sally has made a pink and brown charm square quilt. I find it so calming and relaxing to look at, especially the bunny fabric square.

I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer of quilting!

Smiles,

Millie