Last Minute Quilts

  This year has flown by! I can't believe it is almost Christmas again.

 I've been busy with a few last minute quilts. 

I quilted the first quilt for my dear friend Carolyn. This is a Christmas quilt with the cutest Christmas fabrics. My favorite fabric is the blue with white snowflakes. The backing is a cute green fabric with white dots.

 I also quilted  this scrappy Bow Tie quilt for Carolyn.

 Orange back goes nicely with the fabric.

My longarm and sewing machine decided both to get sick and took away all possibilities of  me sewing and quilting. I  got replacement parts for my longarm today and I just got my sewing machine serviced right in time to finish the binding on Carrie's t-shirt quilt.  

 I quilted Carrie's t-shirt quilt just before my long arm caught the flu. 

For her daughter, she used light pink sashings and darker pink cornerstones.

 "Steam-a-seam"  is such a great help when you run out of time and have to finish a binding quickly. I press the "Steam-a-seam"  on the folded edge of the binding. 

Now I sew the binding on the right side of the quilt with the "Steam-a-seam" facing upwards.

Peel the paper part of the "steam-a-seam" off and press the binding on the back of the quilt. I found for me it was easier to sew the binding down with the right side of the quilt facing up.

Finished binding with blue backing. I used the leftovers from the backing to make the binding.

This year I feel behind on my Christmas shopping because I'm only 90% done. How are you guys doing on your Christmas shopping?

I hope you all have a happy holiday break.

Scrappy Quilts

  To make, quilt or look at a scrappy quilt puts a smile on my face. This is Kim's Scrappity-do-dah quilt.

The finished size of the blocks are 4.5". 

 This is such a pretty scrappy quilt and I had so much fun quilting Kim's quilt for her.

 The backing is an old cotton sheet in navy blue.

 The next quilt  is Kim's Dots and Dashes quilt.

 Pretty dotty fabric as the border.

 Kim glued the circles on the fabric and I quilted over the them. I think after the quilt is washed it will look like frayed raw appliqued circles although the circles are quilted and not stitched down.

 And this is the pretty scrappy backing.

 The last quilt I wanted to share, I quilted for Betsie. She made the quilt for a teenager girl.

 Isn't the appliqued name on the front of the quilt so cute?

Any teenager girl will love these fun and bright colors.  

This is the back of the quilt, pink and yellow flannel.

Happy  Quilting!

I am over at Stash Manicure

  I am so excited! I am over at Stash Manicure with a trunk show of my fast and easy scrappy quilts.

Happy Quilting!

A Wooden Quilt Box and Three Quilts

Darlene at SewCalGal had a virtual Christmas Quilt show.  I was the lucky winner which won a prize.  It is this beautiful handmade wooden Quilting Jewelry Box. I love the Bear Paw box and it is made of Walnut burl with Japanese Ash and red Maple burl. Dave is so talented.  Thanks Dave!

 I would like to show three quilts I quilted for my friend, Gail. The first quilt is a blue and red Block of the Month quilt.

 We decided on a stipple or meandering for the quilting.  The blocks are very small and the quilting lines are the size of a dime apart.

The sampler blocks are so pretty. Here's a close up of two of the blocks.

A matching fabric for the border.

This is my personal favorite of the three quilts. The fabric line is called Summer Garden. The panto Hyacinth looks really great with the quilt.

I'm dying to buy these fat quarters.

Matching pink fabric for the back.

This last quilt is a black and gold batik quilt. I used one of my favorite pantos called Curly-Q again.

Brown Batik backing.

Happy Quilting until next time!