Blog Makeover

I have a new blog makeover and I love my cute button. All the credit goes to Madame Samm over at Sew I Quilt. She is also the lady organizing Stash Manicure. She took my blog and made all these cute designs just for me. I feel very blessed and I absolutely love my new blog makeover. She is one talented lady and you will love her blog. I would also like to take the opportunity to thank her for all the work she does behind the scenes at Stash Manicure.

I changed the quilt out in my quilting room. This one is called Cake Mix. It is made from a layer cake and a jellyroll.

I have these wrought iron wall sconces beside the quilt.  The candles are flameless and on a timer. I spent so much time in my quilting room and I love all the girly touches.

Here is my clock to remind me how late it is...and it is in black. And the candle in the wrought iron teapot is flameless too. It is not glowing , because the batteries died.  Oops!

Happy Quilting until next time!

Cat Quilt and a few more

Madame Samm mentioned it is relaxing to her to hand quilt. For me...give me my big longarm and I get rid of all my stress.

Maurice is a new quilter and this kitty quilt, is the second quilt I quilted for her.
"Bubbles" is one of my favorite pantographs and gives the quilt such a good texture and movement.

Maurice shared her love of quilting with her daughter-in-law, Dorothy. This is Dorothy's very first quilt. She picked "Meandering Daisies" for the quilting panto, another favorite panto of mine.

All the four patch blocks and the ones with triangles are three dimensional.
I use my old trick, "press 'n seal" to help me keep the pieces down so I can quilt over them.
The three dimensional block is quilted and I did not quilt in any tucks.

Light pink border.
Bright pink backing.
Another t-shirt quilt pieced by Sally. I quilted a batik quilt for her with "Bubbles" and immediately she said she want the same "Bubbles" on the t-shirt quilt.

Happy Quilting

You might get jealous

I'm going to warn you...this post might make you jealous. I won these wonderful fabrics from Madame Samm (MS) over at Sew I Quilt and Stash Manicure. I love the colors and there are so many polka dot strips. I think I have at least one polka dot fabric in every quilt I made. She also gave me this cute notepad and blue hand warmers which she made herself. Thanks Madame Samm, you are the best and so generous.

I started an Apple Core Quilt. I used my AccuQuilt Go cutter to cut the apple core blocks. The Apple Core project went back in my closet and I started a scrap quilt from my new scraps.

I imediately started to work on my fabric from MS and made a few scrappy Log Cabin blocks. In the package there was all of these perfectly cut 2" x 4" rectangles . I used 4" white squares for the middle blocks. I have not decided on how big I am going to square up the blocks. I am also not sure if I am going to keep the middle blocks white or make them scrappy. White or scrappy, what do you think?
A few weeks ago I got this Candy Table Runner pattern from Zlaty and a cute orange scissor holder from Darlene in the mail. Thanks Zlaty and Darlene. Aren't quilting bloggers the most generous people?
One of the quilts I made is on the Stash Manicure banner for November. If you are looking for stash ideas, Stash Manicure is the place to go.
Happy Quilting!
~Millie~

Machine Quilting

I finished two of my own quilts. It was so cloudy when I took the pictures, I will wait for a nice, sunny day and retake the pictures.

I have been very busy quilting customer quilts. This Moda Charm Square quilt was pieced by Carol Ann from Calico Cats and will be displayed next week at the Houston Quilt Show/Festival. I used the pantogragh "Hearts a Flutter" for the quilting.

Cute pink backing with flowers.
Rhonda made this pink and green Basket quilt for her sister which I quilted with "Meandering Dasies".

Small Star cornerstones between the green sashings.

Green backing.

This is Glenda's very first quilt she pieced. She saw the pattern in a magazine and went for it.

Red border. I used the panto "Hyacinth" .

She did an awesome job for a self-taught quilter.

Blue backing.

Happy Quilting until next time!
~Millie~>