Valentine's day decor

My Christmas decorations are all packed away. My home felt so empty and blah...I definitely have to add something and I think a few Valentines decorations will be perfect. I love the combination of  pink and red. I'm adding a touch of pink and keeping the red pillows and quilts.

My youngest daughter and I made a fast and cute Valentines garland. I bought a pack of felt hearts from Hobby Lobby and ribbon from the dollar store next door. We tied the little hearts with the ribbon and made the cutest Valentines garland. The pink, white and red hearts set the whole mood for my Valentines day decor.

I made a few pink heart pillows to add to the red quilts and pillows. 

It is so easy and inexpensive to change the mood of a room just by adding ribbons, quilts, and pillows. I'm trying my best to decorate for the different seasons by using things in my home and not to go and buy a lot of seasonal decorations. Haha my husband is very fond of this philosophy. There are so many cute ribbons and I can store all my ribbons in one place for the off season.

I also love using silk flowers in different colors. I can move these flowers around in my home without putting them away in storage.

This cream heart wreath on the lamp lights up beautifully in the evening.

A red ribbon with white polka dots wrapped on a plain vine wreath is perfect for Valentines day. I added a $1 Valentines heart. 

Here's another really inexpensive project. On my entry table I placed a glass jar filled with 2 packs of Valentines day heart candy from the dollar with a flame-less candle.

A heart scrapbook paper in a painted frame with 2 little glass hearts with magnets on a wire pear. 

 

Thanks for visiting and happy quilting,

Millie :)

Christmas quilts, pillows and decorations

I like to share my Christmas quilts, pillows, and decorations...I enjoy decorating for the Christmas season. In the entryway I have a small little Christmas tree, green ribbon wreath, and red pillows I made last year.

I wrapped green ribbon around a Styrofoam wreath which is a very simple, fast, and inexpensive decoration to make. I keep my red and white pillows on the little bench until after Valentine's Day.

I bought this green candle and used it during the fall season with the idea to use it during Christmas too. It was such a mess and so hard to clean the wax...only a small Christmas tree without a candle on the table for this season.

My little Christmas tree has a Santa theme with Santas and his clothes.

This is my Christmas mantel and coffee table.

I changed out the orange leaves and pumpkins for red and green Christmas bulbs.

I replaced my orange painted letters that spelled "fall" with red painted "noel" letters. I bought unfinished wood letters and painted them with craft paint.

I have 3 red and white quilts and a few red and white pillows in the living room. I made all my red and white quilts and pillow with red fabric and decided not to use Christmas fabric. I use these quilts and pillows for Valentine's Day and also during the summer for the 4th of July.

I just finished my small scrappy red and white square quilt just in time to enjoy it during the Christmas season. I would love to make a pink and white quilt for Valentine's Day.

I wish you all a wonderful time and I hope you enjoyed my very simple Christmas home.

Smiles,

Millie

Pillows and pinwheel yo-yo quilt

I made a few yo-yoes to go on my pinwheel quit.

The yo-yo quilt at the end of my bed with the string quilt is one of my favorite quilts...and I have many favorite quilts.

These yo-yoes on my pinwheel quilt add such a happy touch.

This is such a pretty fabric on the back.

I had two nine patches leftover and made a pillow block...soon I will make a pillow.

I purchased two pieces of white cuddle cloth for more pillows. The top two minky pillows are my first attempt on making these cuddle cloth pillows. I had fuzzies everywhere, not only on the sewing table and floor, but also in my nose and eyes. I thought never again, but here I made more. I do enjoy these soft pillows even though they are a pain to sew. The middle rectangle and smaller front pillows are new.

I also finished these two orange pillows from my leftover orange scraps.

Back of the pillows.

The two white pillows between the two pink pillows are also new.

And here's the last new white, fuzy pillow. I got three small pillows out of one yard of fabric, not bad at all. I enjoy switching my pillows around. 

Hope you all are having a good week until the next time,

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