Decorating for st. Patrick's day

As you all probably already know, I really enjoy decorating for the seasons without spending so much money on seasonal decorations. I enjoy decorating for the seasons with the seasonal colors. Like for Christmas I love green and red quilts and pillows. For Valentines day I love red and pink quilts and pillows.

So now for St. Patricks day green is the color!

Everything is green!

Recently I discovered my passion for making buntings and how simple it is using my quilters triangle ruler.

Here’s my newest bunting in St. Patrick's day green.

I like to buy unfinished wooden letters from Hobby Lobby and then paint them myself. Here I spelt out the word ‘Luck’ for this seasons decorations.

On the bench is my new green yo-yo pillow.

I flipped over a strip quilt because the back was a nice green color.

My whole entry way for this season.

Another string of green buntings I made really quickly for this season.

Some of you will notice this metal ‘Live’ decoration from Christmas. A painted over it in green for a really inexpesive decoration modification.

Here’s my dollar black frame that I painted over to match the new clover scratch paper picture inside.

Finished green string pillows on my couch with an older quilt with a green backing.

And to finish the day my son made me a huge organic vegetable smoothie. I hope y’all had a nice time looking through my post today. 

Smiles,

 Millie

Fall decorating and quilting

I hope everyone is having a wonderful time and enjoy the fall weather. We are getting a lot of rain, which is good, it's perfect quilting weather. Thank you all for the kind suggestions on the color of the binding. My 9 patch quilt is still without a finished binding. I haven't decided on a good color yet. Some quilts just take a little longer than others :)

Since the warm, hot summer ended, I've really enjoyed busting out a few fall decorations. Here is a batik quilt in fall colors on my chalk-painted bench near my entryway. Also, in the picture, is my favorite fall wreath on a really, really heavy iron mirror.

Here are a few more fall decorations in my living room. My coffee table desperately needs another coat of chalk paint. 

I am not going all out with a lot of Halloween decorations. After Halloween I'll turn the Jack O' lantern around so then it will look like a pumpkin with a light.

My fall candles melted in the garage and they're all in this weird shape, hahaha but it's still good for Halloween and fall. 

The fall mantel.

I finally got to sewing the binding on my Pinwheel quilt, the second pinwheel quilt I've made recently. 

I just really love Pinwheel quilts.  .  .and of course 9 patches too!

I didn't know what a bunting was until I started to google ideas for strings with flags on them. Here on the left side of my quilting room is a chalk-painted kitchen table with glimpse of my new "Little Monster" sewing machine. My beloved Bernina died recently and it was just so sad. I love this corner of my quilting room.

I used my triangle ruler to cut the buntings. I made them double sided and turned them over. Easy as pie :)

Ironed the buntings down. I bought these double sided quilters tape for the "string" of the flags.

Here I was sewing the flags in between the bias binding. It went very fast and I love the end result. I might like to make another set in a different color.

Ta Da!! ...the finish buntings!!

This is the right side window of my quilting room where my longarm is. Customer tops needed to be quilted onto 2 different coat racks.

I finished my orange top so here the rows of blocks hang over the longarm. It will be sure nice if I can have this orange quilt done before Christmas. Are any of you working on a quit or project for fall?

Happy quilting :)

 until next time,

Millie

Spring quilts and decorating

 I absolutely love the Spring season. After this long winter season, it is wonderful to make a few quilts in soft pastels and setting out a few bunnies for Easter. I found these unfinished blocks, but have no idea where I put the pattern.

 I sewed the blocks together and added a few orphan tulip blocks.

 I quilted the quilt with a flowery panto.

A border in pink and green.

I finished the quilting on the scrappy 5" block quilt. It will look so nice on my bed. Can't wait to get the binding done.

 A wonderful blogging friend mailed me a surprise bag of scraps. Some of the scraps went into this String quilt. Most of her string fabric went into another String quilt for my daughter. I will share that next time. It is so nice to receive and share scraps with other quilters.

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This String quilt is perfect for your spring decorating.

 

 I quilted this beautiful scrappy Bow Tie quilt for Julie.  It is such a pretty quilt in soft spring colors.

 I can see myself in the near future making a pastel Bow Tie quilt with a pretty scrappy border.

 A few bunnies on the mantel. 

 More spring decorations - a frog and a green egg.

  Two more quilts in spring colors on display.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I wishing you all a happy spring season.

Smiles,

Millie