Christmas gifts 2011

This is my last post of 2011!!  I hope to have many many many new posts in 2012!

I made quite a few gifts this year.  I hope I took pictures of them all, but I’m not sure I did!  Let’s see.

Gifts for my nieces in NC–One loves BLUE, so she got this.

Blue Windows for Amber

closeup of the orangepeel quilting

For the other NC niece, I went much more modern.  I’m disgusted with the pictures.  It rained ALL week, so I had to take indoor pictures.

Modern look for Bobbie

LOVED the backing

3 days before Christmas, Mike started saying that HE was getting a quilt for Christmas.  CRAP.  Walmart’s precut batik strips to the rescue!

Mike's Rock Candy Christmas

closeup

back

Gifts for the inlaws—

for Pop Pop

the yellow smudges are Phillip!

GiGi's placemats. Boys were crawfish..

..and the girls were crabs

waterbottle carrier for Tina

totebag for Tina

I did some goodies for Louetta–beautiful placemats–no pictures.  I did a horsie set for Dinah–notebook, binder, and kleenex cover–no pictures.  MOM didn’t get her stuff yet, so no pictures of that yet.  I THINK that was all that I made for gifts this year.

Here is to many MANY more posts in 2012.  Thank you to my loyal followers!!  Keep posted–I want to get more traffic to my blog this year, so I’ll host a giveaway, have some free patterns, and a few other stuff.  I am ALSO going to start charging taxes.  This will be the first year I actually might be in the black, so I figure I’d better sign up with the state and be legal!  Paperwork–YUCK!  LOL  so lots of changes on the way.

peace and pieces,
amy

 

Pink Confection

Sweet little Emma is a niece of a good friend.  This is just perfect for a little girl!

I LOVE pink and brown!!

Emma is such a classic name.

I’m totally in love with the fabrics.  ESPECIALLY this one on the back.

I hope this quilt sees LOTS of poop and throw up!!  haha

peace and pieces,
amy

 

Quilter for hire!

I have a client who dropped off a baby quilt.  Someone ELSE made it, gave it to the daughter, who gave it to her mom, who gave it to me!!  And I think the pattern is sheer genius!!

I did cloud like stuff on the main background, and a tighter meander on the name.

I wanted to do something on the poofy letters and in the center of the sunflower, but they were too thick for Jemma Tel.  Oh well.  It was still super duper cute!

And I did a table topper for Nanny, but it’s not bound yet.  So pics of the stuff she ordered later!

 

peace and pieces,
amy

Kutter’s Krazy Kritters

As soon as Gabby found out her teacher was expecting, she knew she was making a quilt.  We waited to discover that it was a boy.  She picked out the fabrics.  She helped pick out the pattern (I steered her towards easier ones!!) Then she sewed the entire top all by herself!!!

And RIPPED the screw-ups out, ALL by herself.  I hate ripping.  Now, she does too!!  LOL  Poor kid.  But in the end, it came out absolutely amazing.  And I’m super proud of her.

I think she was proud, too.

Her teacher LOVED it.

I LOVE Quilty Goodness!!

I hope Kutter, and his mommy, have a wonderful BIRTHday.  Whenever he decides to come!

peace and pieces,
amy

Procrastination

OK. I’m supposed to be preparing for a Business Trip.  heheh  Taking my Employees to deliver the Celtic Dragon!  While picking up possible Cat attack spots, I found the leftover bits from my flannel quilt.  I’d sewn up a simple panel for PK, but never finished it.  Now, remember that brown Minky that I just bought yesterday???!!  YUP!!  So in 20 min, I took 2 pieces, sewed it together, flipped it out, and VOILA!!!  PK is a VERY happy owner of a new blanket!!

I think he likes it!!!  LOL

peace and pieces,
amy

And another crib quilt!

This is a super easy Dissapearing ninepatch.  I LOVE it!  I hope the little boy who gets it likes it as much.

Crib Quilt (36x48) $75

and LOOK!!  The ever-elusive Perfect Mitered Corner!!!  I have about 5 of these out of the 8 corners I did today!  Maybe I AM getting better!

AHHHH  Now all that is left is Celtic Dragon.  And the new Alligator quilt.  And a Camo quilt for which I can find no CAMO!!  And a craft fair in about a month.  Ummmm……………………….

peace and pieces,
amy

Striped Trucks

The 2nd of the stripe quilts is every BIT as cute as the 1st!  I think she is going to LOVE this!  What about you?

36x48 baby quilt with appliques $125

Detailed quilting in each truck,

Work Truck

Semi

Dump Truck

Cement Mixer

and of COURSE, no job is complete without an awesome Foreman!!

PK the Foreman

Now, to bind the baseballs.  Then, only one more small border and I can sandwich the Dragon.

peace and pieces,
amy

Business is Booming!

In the past 4 days I’ve had 2 more orders.  I’m so excited.  Another baby quilt, and a twin.  And possibly more for Christmas.  It’s good to be ME!!

I, and all 4 kids, have been under the weather all week.  So I didn’t get nearly as much done as I needed to.  I did manage to sew yesterday for a short time.  I have all my trucks appliqued on, so that top is ready to quilt.  if I had something for the back, that is!!  LOL  And i worked on the Dragon, until I ran out of black thread.  HOW does a quilter run out of black thread???  Ugh.  I don’t know, but it is annoying.  Soooooo, since I’m still not up to a town trip with 2 uber-snotty and coughy kids, I guess I’ll start cutting up the baseball fabrics.   I know you all want to see, so here’s a picture of the truck top.  It’s cute!!!

Yup–LOVE those stripes!!!

peace and pieces,
amy

Stripes

I love stripes.  No, I ADORE stripes.  Of all kinds.  All colors, Fat, thin, varied, monotone.  You name it, and I want it.  I don’t usually have a lot in my stash, though.  I buy it specifically for a project and then buy solids around it.  I was at HobbyLobby this week, shopping for a baby quilt.  The client wants trucks.  Would you believe, NO trucks???  Hmm, what to do!  Find a cool border and applique on a simple backdrop, right??!  Sure!  So I found a (wanna guess?) STRIPE!!  It was perfect.  Found a few other colors to blend with it. Wanna see?  SURE you do!!

Then, inspiration hit.  In the form of another stripe!!  It was PERFECT!!  Pink enough for a brand new baby girl, yet not so pink that her mommy would hate it!  And then I remembered a pattern I’d seen at the local guild meeting.  (Contraband Quilters, for you local gals!)  Yup, that is it!!   It’s by the Texas quilter, Dot Collins.  I need to find her site and make sure it gets on my blog.

So here is the scrap of the stripe…..

And using ONLY this fabric, some fancy cutting, and an applique, I made THIS!!

Optical Illusions baby quilt 36x48 ish $75

I used raw edge applique to make it even more girly.  I LOVE the way it came out. 

And since this came out so good, I’m redoing the other stripe plan.  yup!  Same idea.  I think it’ll work out really well.  I’m done with the blocks already.  I hope to have the whole thing done before the weekend is out.  We’ll see.  Family things to do, too!!

Oh, and i also bought this stuff.  I’ll get to that another day!

peace and pieces,
amy