Baby Quilts!!!

Chris' cousin has just had their first baby. I thought I would pre-empt and had a guess at a girl!!!!! Guess what - it's a boy!!!! Anyway - here are the two quilts I made.

Thank You cards

A Thank You card for some American friends who fed us at the weekend!! Used my cuttle-bug for the first time in ages! Lots of old music and glitter and beads from my stash. Hope you like it!

A collection of cards and a couple of tags.

New card from Paper Source in Georgetown. Antique musical papers and a tea stained lace doily. Leather button, ribbons and string from stash!

Antiqued musical sheets provided the theme for this card. Grunge board coloured pale blue pulls the colour from the backing card. Ribbon, papers, jewels and paper fastener from stash.

Pale pink and chocolate are the theme. Again the musical sheets come in to use to create flowers using buttons as the flower centre. Butterfly wing grunge board covered in silver glitter and attached using small foam pads. Ribbons from stash.

Card stamped using chocolate ink. Music sheets added to create depth. Stars, buttons and ribbons from stash.
Pale blue and cream card created using SU! papers and ink. Lace and ribbon from stash. Grunge board coloured with Pro-markers to match SU! papers.

A selection of tags created using Maya Road rub-ons, ribbons and buttons from stash, antiqued music sheets and paper fasteners.

Christmas Quilt (in time for next Christmas!)

Finally finished the Christmas quilt although it's now been put away for next Christmas!!!!

The buttons hide the fact that my corners aren't that good!!! :)

Amerihearts

Sorry - photo is rubbish!! I made a strip of Amerihearts and decided to make myself a small wall hanging by putting 4 together. A simple border finishes the design off. I have some red fabric to do the binding with - will post when complete!

Stars and Stripes

I borrowed a friends project book for this banner. It was so simple to do and I really like the finished thing! I wanted to create some US patriotic things for our home in the States as I already have loads of UK things.

18th card for my niece

I enjoy making embellished cards like this one. My Cricut machine is extremely useful and using buttons and ribbons always finish off the cards well.

Coffe time cards

I made a handful of cards to send to friends in the UK. It's the closest I'm going to get to having a cuppa with them at the moment!!

Star wall hanging quilt

Don't look too closely - triangles are a nightmare!!! Love the colours in this. I have attempted a small amount of quilting on the central square and the edges of the quilt.

Christmas Work Shop

These little padded triangles were sewn together to make the Christmas Tree below.

Stitches workshop Christmas 2010.

Halloween sweets!

I made these little packets using small paper bags from Michaels and some new Martha Stewart stamps and punches. The tags are cut on my cricut and edged with SU! ink. Black ribbon from stash.

All ready for the 31st October! A new experience for us ............the neighbours have told us "either join the fun or get outta town!!"

Bright fat quarter quilt

This fat quarter pack is really bright - I also picked a bright and bold border fabric to make it stand out. I used a high loft batting to create a cuddly, warm quilt and hand quilted around each square as well as quilting three rows of stitching along the black border for detail. Not quite ready to try a pattern along the border although I did think about it! The picture below shows the quilting detail.

Table runner with fat quarters from JoAnns.

This table runner is made with 4 fat quarters only. I did use some additional fabric for the binding and stars tho'. I like these little projects as you get results quickly - I am having trouble committing to starting a large quilt !!! Although I do have another one to show you using a fat quarter pack with additional border and binding fabric - keep watching! I have top stitched the stars onto the quilt using zigzag stitch.

Baby cards

I am still making cards!!! We had some surprise news and some expected news from the UK so a quick afternoon doing one of each card! Used my Cricut machine for the shapes and words.

Thanks giving wall hanging

Another small wall hanging downloaded from the internet. I enjoyed doing this as it had a bit of a challenge with the embroidered writing (don't look too closely!!) I hand quilted the background and added the buttons to finish.

Stitches!!

We have been making these amazing coasters to sell at a fundraising event in early November. We are all really pleased with them and had quite a production line running to get them all finished. They will be packaged as the picture below shows with some home made ribbon and a hand made tag.

Christmas wall hanging

Here he is............about A3 size and hand quilted (!) It was a kit with plans and fabric (uncut) which I bought up in Lancaster (Amish Country) It took about five nights and I really enjoyed it so have downloaded a pattern for a pumpkin/Fall one. Watch this space!!! Fingers are still working Sam...just a bit slower because of the visitors!!!!

Quilted tote bag

This quilted bag was quite straightforward to make if a bit fiddly. Each square was made separately then pieced together to make the bag front. The rest of the bag is made up of the fabrics used to make the patches. I lined the bag in a lighter colour. The pattern did not suggest using batting however I have used thin batting throughout the bag to give it a better shape. Love the colours - very Summer!!

Amerihearts cards

These hearts are really simple to make and look great when stitched to a card! I have done 2 or 3 of these now. Here - everyone makes a heart and then they are all made in to a quilt for when someone leaves the group to go home to the UK.

Table mat

This is a really busy pattern using patriotic colours. It is the Log Cabin method of quilting. The mat is about 18" square and sits in our guest bedroom on the chest. Zoom in for a closer look - the photo doesn't do it justice!