Baseball

It's been a while since I posted anything and I decided I needed to get back into it.  So here goes.  This picture is terrible but the quilt is special.  I made this for my son's baseball coach.  This coach has had such a huge impact on our lives and we wanted to do something special to thank him for that.  This is what we came up with.  All the jerseys are his throughout his career, thank to his wife for grabbing them for me.  I love the finally product.  I only had a couple of weeks to do this in so the quilting probably isn't my favorite but overall it is.  And the best part was his reaction when he received it.  Priceless!  Thanks Coach Anderson for being so great!!  

Lilly and Will

This is a fun little baby quilt that I made when I was working at White Hills.  I just barely hand quilted it though so I thought I would share it.  It's funny how I didn't notice the one dark brown square until I started this post.  Oh well!  It needs something to stand out I guess.  I do the love the quilting around each of the squares.  Although I goofed on the quilting in the border.  Truth be told, I don't even care at this point.  They can't all be perfect, Right??

Miranda's Flowers

This quilt is special for me because I gave it to my niece for graduating from High School.  Way to go Miranda! You are amazing!  Anyway this quilt is a Buggy Barn quilt.  It was super easy and fun to make.  I choose fun girl fabric that I loved because it reminded me of spring.  The back is made our of flurr so it is super soft and cuddly!  I machine quilted this one!  I am really happy with the results and hope that Miranda enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Autumn Scrap-tacular

One of the things I dislike about making quilts are scraps. For some strange reason I keep them and then I have a million scraps that I don't use; therefore, my challenge was to use some scraps and this is what I got.  I don't really like it a whole lot but it is finished.  After making this quilt I threw most of my scraps away.  Anything I saved had to be a certain yardage or cut into five inch squares.  I will be posting some of the quilts I have made using them later.  The one thing I decided about this quilt is that I don't have to love all my quilts because hopefully somebody with different taste will get this one and I really hope that they will like it.  If not, then it can just be a throw around quilt@

True Blue

Ok so my son wanted a boy blanket!  Whatever that is?  Anyway this is what he got.  He was not too thrilled about the fabric saying that it was too girly but he was excited with the overall quilt.  This is a pattern I just made up.  It was a lot of fun to do.  In hindsight I would have done it a little different because it doesn't quite fit his bed the way I want it to but oh well.  Overall I really like it too!  By the way, this one is actually hand quilted! Love you peaches!  Can't wait til your room is finished so you can actually have your new quilt.

A quick Strip Quilt

We wanted to do a service project as a family.  Of course we decided to make quilts!  This one was made for the elderly patients at the hospital who need something extra to keep them warm.  I actually put chenille on the back to make it a little heavier.  It was really fun and easy to do.  The best part is that when I had to stay in the hospital, I saw somebody using this quilt in their room.  That made my day!

A Square is a Square

Ok, I am trying to get back into the swing of things so here goes.  This is a fun little quilt I did.  The center squares are gathered together to give a little dimension.  It was a fairly easy quilt.  I uses Moda Pure fabric line and loved the result.  It has minky on the back so it is nice and cuddly.  My youngest daughter adopted this quilt as soon as I finished it even though that was not my intentions for it, but sometimes our minds are made up for us instead of by us.