Kid Comfort quilts

I finished these two cute quilts for two little boys participating in Kid Comfort.  Judy had quite a few ready to head out to Watertown.  How wonderful this project is!!!

Pickles made it into the quilt!

Becky received her wedding before her big day!  She was very surprised.
Her wedding colors were black and white.
The backing to the quilt was a very pretty heart, lady's face and love definitions.
The green in the quilt going diagonal are pickle slices; her favorite. The slices just had to make it in. 

Mia's wedding quilt

Here is Mia, a coworker and good friend, receiving her wedding quilt per request of purple and rust. I had better pictures. I have lost my memory card. Well, I know where I left it and it is not there. Some lovely person in this house hold either brushed it off the table or picked it up with stuff... who knows.

I found this picture on my phone. Sorry it is lousy. I do hope to find the card.

The quilt is fmq in hearts!

Cobble Court Quilt Retreat 3

Reenie and her girl.

      All I have to say is that I have never ever laughed so much in my life as I did this weekend. It is all Judy's fault too.

The Road Crew plus me...

We sewed... a lot.  We ate.... a lot.  We went to two quilt shops; very nice. And when we played the fat quarter game....let's just say, some do not play very nice....ummmm Judy!!!  (yeah she is a character)

Presents

Miss Judy

the ccqc

What I worked on....

one more to be added but... it's downstairs.

We had a great time. I do not see these ladies enough. I still vote for more.

Table Runner Swap

Cobble Court Quilt Circle is doing a table runner swap.  Honestly, it is still going on. The due date hasn't arrived yet. My partner is a go-getter. She is finished and I have my table runner on my dining room table. I love it!!  Gingerbread Men!!!  Favorite!!!

 
This is from Bonnie. She is new to the forum and I sure hope she hangs around for a long time. She is fabulous!!

Thank you!

Arizona - Im in love!!!

   Eric and I returned from Arizona at the end of September. (Yes, Im still a little behind)
I had a fabulous time. I have a tan now.... yay, I do not feel I missed summer any longer.  We stayed at the Camel Back Inn. It is a Marriot Hotel. I do enjoy being pampered; drinks by the pool at 11 o'clock, sitting and swimming then dinner and drinks.
   On Saturday we ventured to Sedona. I so much enjoyed the rock formations and mostly photographing them. The gardens here are where I captured the pictures of the humming bird.

The Bun Patch

The Bun Patch is the name given to Adele's quilt. I love this pattern which is titled Patchwork Fields. I loved it, she loved it in the magazine and so I offered to make it for her if I could use what I had in the stash. I brought a bag to work with all the fabrics required for the pattern. Adele looked them over and said absolutely.

See the bunny in the right corner? This is Bun, Adele's bunny which is black and gray with white black tail and a pink nose (or she wanted a pink nose).

This is one of my favorite quilts. It turned out to be 81" x 81".  Very scrappy and all of her favorite fabrics. There is even a purple 30's fabric with bunnies.

Summertime

Reenie Beanie gave me a jelly roll for Christmas.

Regina wanted to do the Jelly roll race.

Here is mine completed.

I bought the border fabric and the binding (yellow) at Mt Pleasant when I went shopping with Regina and Jill. The backing is from Ben Franklin in Hilton before it closed. It has little pink berries in the leaves.

And I finished a pillow for my room.

 Mia is on my pillow.  Her favorite spot.

I have been working on tons. It is hard to find time to post though. I have to cart my carcass up here to the den and oh, remember the memory card....  big ordeal.

I have been on a few trips this year; Lake Placid, Boston, and Niagara Falls.
Here are a few snapshots.

Boston: Lady watching people walk by in North End. We were trying to seek out the best restaurant for the next nights meal.

Lake Placid: White face Mountain at the White Face Resort.

Niagara Falls: Our helicopter ride over the falls.

Olen's quilt

Here is the quilt I made from the fabric's Heather and I picked out at JoAnn's. It is for her son Olen.

I am sandwiching a jelly roll race quilt now that Regina and I played with awhile ago. I really love the way it turned out. I will add a photo here shortly. I found the borders to it when I went on the quilt store run two weeks ago with Regina and Jill. I chose a pink and green plaid that I found at Mt Pleasant.

I am also finishing up the borders of the Scattered stars quilt from a Relay for Life Mystery. I chose a golden yellow for the small border and blue swirls fabric for the larger. I found those at Mt Pleasant and Quilter's Daughter out in Perry.

Then this past weekend I visited with Reenie and we went to Quilt Sewciety and I bought a green yellow rust batik for Marie Bostwick's pattern Cobble Court in the magazine Quilt Maker.

So really Im busy but just at a slower pace I guess. There are tons I want to do.... the list keeps growing.

I haven't been on my blog in so long that the format has changed on me. Wow. This is bad.
So sorry.
I have not been up to much. I am finishing a quilt for a friend's little boy. She wanted a twin, 10" block flannel, cordory, and solid quilt. We ventured in JoAnn's and found everything she wanted. It is an assortment of rust, navy, light blue and brown. I am quilting it now and have found sewing a straight line is so much harder than fmq. So I have a few rows to rip out.

I also have been working on the mystery from Mysteries for Relay and have a ways to go on it.

I finished my bow tie swap with the gals at Cobbled Court Quilting Circle and need to figure out what to do with those. Probably a table topper or runner.

And I went to a Book Signing with Marie Bostwick on Thursday through Cafe Sewciety and had the best time ever with Judy, the owner, Reenie, and Marie.  She was fabulous. She spoke of her background, her quilts, her past books, future books, and the new book "Ties that Bind". 

It was a great turnout with over 60 people.

I also came across a wonderful concept. Out Number Hunger. I was making blueberry muffins for Eric, he is home for the weekend, and on the back of the box is Out number Hunger.
You go to the website www.outnumberhunger.com and enter the code from the box and you will give 5 meals to your local food bank. Awesome!! On the site will also give you other items to look for in the stores that will offer the code and there are many. Im so excited about this.

I will add photos later.

Every day is a gift

This wall hanging is what I made for a dear friend that I met in Lake Placid. She is a real jem.

This saying "every day is a gift" is what she says every day, time, card etc she says to you.

What a positive outlook on life. I try to incorporate it all the time....

This is Mia looking out in the snow. Our bushes look like popcorn balls! How magical.

Love ya.

Next you will see a baby quilt Im making for a young man in the process now, 30th of Jan, to be delivered, but hoping for a 31st date for it is my birthday to be delivered.... ya just 2 1/2 more hours to go.

~Shellie

Madi's duvet cover

Here it is!!!  Wow... this was an adventure; a duvet/quilt cover. Remember from the bright idea?

I just need to add the buttons and button holes at the bottom and we are finished.  The reason I say a duvet/quilt is that I layered it with batting and a white backing then quilted it. Then, sewed on a casing or another backing separately to make it the duvet cover. On top of that, I added a binding to make it more like a quilt top. The reason she wanted a duvet cover is she wants it puffy and quilts are not puffy. This has two layers; the quilted top and the extra puff once the feather comforter is put inside.

Still two pillow shams to go. It may need another color bed skirt. Maybe blue or green...
Her birthday is Wednesday.  It will not be done by then but I think all is good. Can you believe 18? Nope, I can not.

Bright Idea

Madison is getting prepared for college. She has her books, Vera Bradley black luggage small carry on for the bookbag, found her classes, has the parking pass and new clothes she bought herself.  Well something must be missing becasue there is all the dorm room stuff out for incoming freshmen to buy but not for Madi. So she comes up the the plan to redo her room....  now! It must be finished this week.

So she picks out all the items she wants and lays it on me.

Mom, Make me this....

So we go to Joann's to pick out fabric and we come up with this....

I have the middle piece sewn.

Then we went to Lowes and bought paint. Yay. I can't wait to paint a room. We found lamps and we are looking for a mirror.

I so think I really wanted something to do. Watch out for what you wish for.

This is Japanese fabric Toni gave me for making her the knot bag.

I think I will make her a purse out of it! =)

Working on....

I have been working on a quilt for a friend's graduation. It needs to be finished by next weekend. Shouldnt be too difficult. It is from the blog Moda Bake Shop.
I love the fabric line Oz. This young lady can never find anything with her name on it so I thought she would love this. I thought of her as soon as I saw it. I have finished cutting out the flowers and adding her name then on to the applique part. Deciding whether to add borders since this quilt was designed for little ones or babies.

Oh and I love this:

so easy....

Then I have finished the blocks to the star mystery quilt and forming the rows for it. I decided on a black small border and a green/orange flower border.... haven't layed it together yet.

Then Im working on our 30's pinwheels for the Reenie/Kathy quilt. I wonder where they are on theirs.

Then Im thinking of my own design for a quilt and I am still trying to get together with Regina for our quilt....  see lots of quilting.

Oh I have also been thinking of a way to add drawers to my sewing area. What style, size, quantity...? not sure.

The Ugly Fabric Challenge..... my entry

Reenie came up with the wonderful challenge of use all of this ugly fabric and send in your entry picture.

so my entry was this....

My ideas was the top of my desk when I write postcards and letters to friends and family. The stamps and envelope seals are from the ugly fabric along with the borders.
    I did not place.  The other entries were fabulous though.  Congratulations to Cathy McG, Beth and Lillian !!!

I hope we do this again soon. It was really fun.

Japanese Knot Bag

As I mentioned, I bought fabric for a gift for mom's friend. I do hope this cheers her up a little. I know her heart is breaking with the loss of her son.
I finished the Japanese knot bag.  I really like it. I picked out the fabric at Ivy Thimble while I was out with the gals. I needed to be on the hunt for something.....
It is reversible and you just slip it on your wrist and you are off.

                                            The colors just pop.  Toni, mom's friend, is from Japan; the reason behind my selecting this pattern. 

Now on to read a chapter or two and sleep. I have to get up a 5am; working overtime again.

A Saturday with friends!

I am not just a working machine.....  Saturday was spent with my quilt retreat friends from Cobbled Court.

Reenie, Kathy and me

This was the second shop we hit, Ivy Thimble. I bought some oriental fabric to make my mom's friend a gift to ease her pain from a recent loss in the family and two small prints for me.

The first shop was Craft Bits & Pieces. I love love love this store. You can either find great treasures there or not. This was a time were you would say "Score!".....  

I bought a lot of fabric and then found a Swatch watch and a gold ring both together for $8.  (no... not the total bill.)   Wowzers!!

After our shops we went to Chili's for lunch and back to do a little sewing. I mean we brought our machines and all....

We had planned on a pattern by Moda Bake Shop.   We brought 30's fabric and a background and had them cut up and ready to go.

I really like how they turned out.

About 5pm we finished up and headed home. I so hope we can do this again soon. I definitely needed this with all the work I've been doing with the new job. I like it but it is cutting into my sewing and upkeep of the house and home.  It will all work out soon I'm sure.

Oh, this is what I bought Friday; 16 fatquarters, from Betty's. It is closing. I honestly won't miss it because it was not a very overly friendly shop.  

Now, Onto more cleaning and maybe some sewing.