A late entry

Last week, I pulled my Star Trek fabric for a bag that I wanted to make for my mom, the Trekker, for her birthday. I made it. Here's what the finish looks like:

Going boldly... somewhere.

I had a great time making this bag. It was my first time using interfacing. My first time adding hardware. And my third, fourth and fifth zippers (I'm a pro at zippers without a zipper foot, now). I'm really pleased that I cut my fabrics so straight and got the text graphic in a line. I didn't try to do that, it just worked out (if I had thought about it it would've been completely wonky).

My mom loves it. She did say to her sister that, "you can't tell it's Star Trek until you get right up on it..." What? Sorry, mom, but that is very OBVIOUSLY Star Trek fabric making your Star Trek trizip tote (trizip like tricorder). I love that it looks like a tricorder. My sister wants a bag - not Trek, but a bag - like this one and Mom wants another one a little larger. So, I plan to make more of these bags.

Linking up to Needle and Thread Thursday and Crazy Mom Quilts.

go make something today!

Green

Baby (girl) quilt finish

It's finished! Whoot-Whoot.

 

Baby (girl) quilt. 30" x 30"

It's not quite as large as I wanted it, but the idea was to make a small baby quilt that could be used  in a car seat or a carrier that wouldn't drag on the ground.

I used a loftier poly batting so the quilt is warm and has a nice, puffy feel. Minimal quilting on the diagonals makes this a light and fluffy, snuggly, baby quilt.

Next week, I'll finish my Baby (boy) quilt. It's about the same size, although seeing this finish makes me want to add a small border to have it finish at about 32" square, but we'll see how it goes.

a quick collage to show the back and close-up of the quilting

 Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts and any other Friday finish blogs I can find.

Have a great weekend!

A legitimate Friday finish!

I have completed my garden fence top. I love it. I'm keeping it - for me! MINE. I love the cool, beachy colors and overall feeling the quilt envokes. It's very calming and tranquil. I wasn't a fan of the garden fence design, but these blocks are really lovely together.

I visited my LQS yesterday and picked up some really nice Robert Kaufman butterfly fabric and a pretty floral for the back - the idea being the flowers and butterflies are just behind the garden fence. I can't wait to quilt it. I have big ideas for this, too. I want to try my hand at some pebble quilting. I really hope I can pull it off and not ruin my beautiful quilt top.

And without further ado, I present my garden fence quilt:

I love this top!

Close up of butterfly detail - some butterflies even made it to the front of the quilt.

I would like it if I could make it just a few more inches larger. I may add another border, I can't decide. It's measuring about 52" square. I'm not always a fan of a square quilt, but I could handle it if it were a wee bit larger. We'll see what happens.

Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts.

Have a great weekend. As always, make something.

Finish it up

Today, I will be working on finishing up a few things before the weekend. I have a few knitting projects that I plan to finish this weekend, and I don't know that I want to be doing any sewing, so I'm going to try and finish up my sewing projects today. Here's what I have in the works:

Need to make two of these blocks for the Bee(ful) of Paper

Need to add on three rows to this baby (boy) quilt

I will be ready to back, sandwich, quilt and bind the two baby quilts next week (yay!!!)

Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts.

Get to it and sew something today!

Finally got some work done.

Happy Friday!

I'm so glad the week is over. I finally got a chance to get some sewing done. I completed two bee blocks yesterday and a block for a mug rug (herringbone - yay!). I also started knitting some golf club socks for my dad for Father's Day - I hope he likes them. I figured it was better than a tie and it will keep me busy. Here is what my day looked like yesterday:

baby quilt layout - still need to sew these together and finish the top.

woven block for simply solids bee - I really like how this one turned out. The colors are wonderful!

Foundation piecing Lone Star Burst block for Beeful of Paper.

A spy.

Finished Lone Star block for Beeful of Paper

Herringbone block - not sure I really am loving this block - but it can be turned into something good.

Sock for driver - it only has one stripe. I can't wait to make the big fluffy pom-poms for the tops of these.

 

 

 

Golf club socks were a truly inspired idea. He probably won't like them, but maybe he can be persuaded to use them if some nice cigars are included in the box.

Have a great day and get some work done yourself!