Blogger Festival entry #2 Wall hanging Chicks Rule

My 2nd Entry for The Bloggers Quilt Festival is this wall hanging

Chicks RULE!

It was in McCall’s quick Quilts last month and made the cover!

 

All inspired by THIS shirt

I worked on this quilt while I was still pregnant with Sonja last summer

Here’s the little chick feet

and the body

I needle turned the chicks using ricky tims stable stuff so here the chicks are taking a bath after the blocks were done!

Constructing the blocks!

Most of the top done!

Finishing the outer border

And here it’s all done

close ups of the quilt

Meandering around the chicks

feathers on the outer border, bubbles on the middle border and straight lines on the inner border

I’m linking up here

Bloggers Quilt festival Entry #1 Prof Quilting

I’m joining the Blogger’s Quilt Festival

and thought my first entry should be under Professional Quilting because I long arm quilt my own quilts

(It was part of a swap too but I’m sticking with this category!)

My Quilt to show is the GEESE in a ring quilt I finished earlier this month

I quilted this one A LOT!!

curves from corner to corner on the geese and then bubbles/ pebbles all over the white.

On the setting triangles and outer border I quilted McTavishing

Inner border has a straight sort of grid and bubbles again on the white border

Here’s the back

And  close ups

The finished quilt measures 46” squared.

I’m linking up here

Abbey Lane pin cushion from CT and more

Yesterday I finished the Abbey Lane pin cushion/ bag from CT.

I bought the kit here

Now I sewed the edge border down instead of gluing it and also sewed the hanging connector piece down, I also found a wooden button for the top of the pin cushion, then I used tacky glue to glue down the pin cushion to the base.

Here it is hanging in it’s proper place but wonder if SOMEONE will be able to pull it down? it’s pretty heavy as I filled it with crushed walnut shells.

No Mommy! I won’t pull it down….

(yeah right!!)

Now I was looking at my UFO list and figured I’d take pictures of the projects and maybe get inspired to work on them

#1 giraffe wall hanging - still working on needle turn applique, mommy giraffe almost done

 

I decided to needle turn applique these and it’s a long and slow process, ESPECIALLY when you don’t work on it!!

plus I accidentally reversed the pattern

See the baby is supposed to be on the left, but it’ll be on the right on mine- which is okay

Here’s the pieces all prepped and ready

#2 pineapple black and blue quilt-

The quilt is GORGEOUS!! and I decided to do it in blues and black and white

some blocks are done

Here’s the pieces cut out and labeled.

I actually decided to tackle some of these today, don’t expect all to be done, but a little is better than nothing right?

 

#12- Hidden forest- applique- traced owl

Here’s the owl, I’ve shown the other animals before

I haven’t prepped any of the pieces for the owl though

Here’s Sonja checking out my UFO pile

Really my UFO list is not that big, I’ve crossed off quite a lot.

look at my list from yesterday

I’ve been working on the bubble gum quilt too.

so I think that’s just 4 things.

 

See! I need to fill these bins!!

And my finished TOP pile is not that big either

I have the fall leaf top

Christmas winter tree skirt

Spring block swap top

and scrappy trip around the world

 

Here’s some fun pics I saw online recently

Can’t remember who posted this one, but I thought it was NEAT.

and how’s THIS for decorating your sewing machine?

and this one is SO true!!

 

Do you have a BIG UFO pile?

Do you DARE say how many there are?

Fabrics, customer quilt, dress and winner

I got another box from Ozark fabrics!! woohoo

Here they are all washed

This picture is to show how TALL the pile is

Here’s piles of Riley Blake fabrics.

Love that the one fabric is such a large print! cool

Two matching pink floral fabrics

I HAD to buy some of these “JULEN” fabrics- Jul means Christmas in Danish

Here’s another line I think it was called “chickadee”

I want to use these for the sampler quilt along next month.

Are you signing up? look at the tab at the top here and join.

Another customer quilt- a big D9P quilt in Grey and Reds

She gave me free reign on the design, and she loves my feathers and swirls which I actually thought would look the best!

 

Another Ahhhh got done too, this is called razor sharp –#23

And a Women of the bible BOW

And I was looking at my UFO pile- or rather putting this back on the shelf after SOMEONE pulled it down for the 10th time

I decided to work on the appliqued border on the bubblegum quilt

I stitched down the vine and then ironed down the flowers and leaves

I’ve stitched down maybe 1/3 of the shapes, I’m doing raw edge applique after I decided to do a straight top stitch on the vine.

While Sonja was sleeping I also switched my shelves around a bit, my magazines were on the bottom right shelf and SOMEONE kept pulled them out and wrinkling the pages!!

So I moved the batting to the floor behind the frame, then moved the red scrap fabric containers down, scrap batting on the bottom shelf too (though they do have pins with papers to keep track of sizes, we’ll see if she even wants to look at them)

Go dies are on the 3rd shelf and magazines above those

I moved my pin cushions in front of the magazines

A cute basket for zippers and buttons for now

And I finished the other set of clothing for Sonja, same pattern just the “dress” is shorter, so it’s a shirt and then shorts and the same hat I’ve made a few weeks ago, here I didn’t use interfacing and it turned it into a floppy hat

Okay! I promised to pick a winner…

I had 275 comments

Random.org picked #242

Robin! Congrats

( I had to go to page 2 so the numbers started from 1 again after 200)

An email has been sent to Robin

 

 

Here's an update on my 2013 list

#1 giraffe wall hanging - still working on needle turn applique, mommy giraffe almost done

#2 pineapple black and blue quilt- giving these a break now

#3 Bonnie Hunter ORCA mystery - DONE!

#4 green, red, yellow flower quilt- TOSSED!

#5 spring swap blocks- Quilt top DONE!

# 6 Making memories embroidered panel- pillow done!

#7 fall leaf blocks swap- ready to quilt

#8 bubble gum quilt kit won at quilt show – ironed down border applique, top stitching

#9 won 9 march BOM -dotted flowers -DONE!

#10 MMMR -DONE!!

#11- drunkard's path- DONE!

#12- Hidden forest- applique- traced owl

#13 pin cushion swap - mailed

#14 geese in a ring- DONE!

#15 Christmas tree skirt- top done

#16 hexie flowers- 47 done I think

#17 women of the bible quilt blocks- block #29 done

#18 Boxes!- Put the fabrics on the shelf for something else

#19 McCall's #5 diamond in squares - DONE! GOT IT BACK

#20- roman holiday- kit

#21 Benartex floral quilt- DONE!

#22 Valentine's Round Robin- DONE!

#23 Woven Stars for CT - DONE!

#24 Quilt it today #2- red, white and blue quilt-DONE! mailed

#25- easy street- DONE!

#26 McCall's #6 flower star- DONE!

#27 McCall's #7- mellow yellow- DONE and mailed

#28- Book quilt- may use Nancy Drew

#29 and 30(December) twin boy quilts –gave away the Thomas Quilt on friday and another girly quilt to another teacher who’s due this week

#31 "birds"(Jan), #3 quilt it today- DONE

#32 winding reds(Jan) #4 quilt it today- Done and ready to mail

#33- (feb)CT botanical fabrics- DONE!

#34 MMRR2- May is DONE! and mailed

#35 (feb) Ning’s T-shirt quilt – DONE!

#36 (feb) floral quilt along- DONE!

#37(feb) Nancy drew blog hop quilt- done!

# 38 (March) stuffed owl- Owlivia DONE!

#39(March) - 2 girl skirts- done!

#40(Jan) Ahhhh's- #23 done

#41 (April)- scrappy trip around the world- top done

#42 (April)- mellow yellow tumblers- DONE!

#43 (April) X and + quilt- future quilt?

#44 (April) – kaleidoscope blocks a few blocks done

#45 (April) Under water Stars- DONE!

#46 (May) Dress for Sonja # 4661 – DONE!

#47 (May) outfit for Sonja #4661- DONE!

#48 (May) Sampler Quilt along- picked out fabrics