Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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!

Saturday, December 4, 2010

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!

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Mary Holly got a new home!

 This here is Mary Holly in her first house, made by her mommy Samm. Thank you so much for sending her to me, she is absolutely adorable and I love her cupcake dress! The picture below is her in her new house where she can watch me sew and cut fabric.
Samm is a wonderfully talented lady. She got us all excited about mug rugs and now she's making tea cozies. Did you know she's also the author of "I Want It All", a book based on "thinking about food in a natural way". She and her husband are registered nutritionists and have written a fantastic book that has secrets on how to lose weight the healthy way. I have started so many different diets that have all failed. Hopefully this will be the one. Thanks Samm for the nice gifts. 
 I just finished the quilting on this t-shirt quilt. I used my favorite panto Debb's Swirls.

 I'm busy squaring up the quilt. What a small space to work with! This area is not only my sewing table but it's also my cutting and Go cutter table.
 I have a pretty large dining room table but I'm too lazy and pressed for time to take my cutting boards all the way downstairs. It has it's ups though... I can only make one spot a mess at a time.

 The backing has a red fabric with white hearts and its leftovers were used for the binding.
Happy Quilting,
Millie and Mary Holly!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Quilts as Christmas gifts

Are you getting ready for the holidays?  I have not taken any Christmas decorations out. I love this red and white Churn Dash quilt I made a few moths ago. I can't wait to start decorating for Christmas. Did you notice my banner has a Christmas touch to it?...thanks Samm.! She is such a talented and sweet lady.
 This is a cute Christmas Irish Chain quilt pieced by Cindy. I quilted her quilt late one evening last week and I do apologize for the dark and blurry pictures.

 Panels are such a great idea for last minute gifts. I like to show a few panels I quilted for Marinelle.
 The first one is an Angel panel.

This is a nativity panel.
A cute panel for a red, white and blue theme for a beach house.

 This one is definitely for a hunter or will be so cute in a Log Cabin home.

There are so many cute baby panels in the quilt shops. I gave these two quilts away.

I used these soft Minkee fabrics for the back.
Happy Quilting until next time!