Four Bound Six To Go

I finished putting the binding on four of the ten quilts I finished up the past weekend.They are all washed and ready to go. As you would probably figure,I do not hand stitch my bindings. I machine stitch them. I do not really make quilts as heirlooms more to be used that is why I machine stitch everything.Anyway,that is how I can get them bound so quickly...and cutting actual bias bindings is a little too
time consuming for me so I go the simple route and cut them from selvage to selvage. Does that not make me a true blue quilter?

I will spare showing you each quilt I finished but I will show a few that I have comments about.

Remember my Poky Little Puppy quilt? I finished up the Saggy Baggy Elephant one. I just have to make the soft book to go with it.




Take a look at this one. I had a bit of leftovers from the Poky and Saggy Golden Book quilts so I made this one. I added extra blue squares where I ran out of white or center square fabric. I added a second border as well. Now, is this even an official quilt pattern? Jeff thinks it looks like arrows. Isn't id interesting that just a little color change can make a completely different looking quilt.



I also finished up this Mary Engelbreit Mother Goose blanket



and the matching softbook. I am SO exited about this set.



Just to show you I do not only just sew for my shops...I patched up these holes tonight as well.



Warmly,
A Patchwork Mommy

Binding Put on Hold

Jeff and the group of four children arrived home safe and sound tonight.

I missed them all until the bickering started. Teasing (a little). I can not say things like that! Nobody should know those kind of thoughts cross my mind! I am a happy,joyful,content,peaceful mom of fourteen. I do not think those kind of things. Really. REALLY!

Anyway, I heard they had lots of fun. That is good. I forgot to send the camera with Elena. She might have a few pictures on her phone.


I had an Etsy customer ask if I could possibly make this Suzy's Zoo blanket panel look more girlish. I'm not one for doing special requests mostly because I do not want to disappoint anyone but I thought this request was pretty straight forward.



I had an idea..



What do you think? I cut off the outer blue and added a pink border in its place. I could not find an exact pink match so I put a little strip of white in between the two pinks and they blend well together. I think it looks very sweet. I hope my customer likes it as well.



As long as I was working on the Suzy's Zoo panel,I though I would start on this Mary Englebreit one too. I am planning to pair it with Mary's Vol 1 Mother Goose fabric book. No quilt binding today.




The secret ingredients in today's homemade chicken soup...salsa sauce.



Lily is SO delighted in her two newest talents. Snapping her finger and curling her tongue!

What a girl!!



Now why is tongue curling cute when a tot does it but not as cute when an adult does it?


Um...she dressed herself today.

Warmly,
A Patchwork Mommy

A Quilting Crazy Day!

With only ten children home I sure got a lot done!!! Funny to say that...only ten.

Anyhow, I finished quilting all ten of my quilts today. It is impressive until I tell you I just quilted them all in-the-ditch. Nothing fancy. Not so impressive sounding anymore,is it?

I will just need to bind them and wash them. Then I am done!



Joel wanted me to take his picture on one of the quilts. Overlook the blurriness of the picture if you can. I can't because it just bothers me.But I wanted to show you how big this quilt is.It really isn't that big.Not even a twin size but it is one of the biggest quilts I have ever made.I was having a hard time moving it through my machine even though my Brother has a 6" x 9" arm space. I suppose if I actually pinned my quilt layers it would help. I'm just a little too lazy to do that. In the end,it turned out very scrappy looking and very neat. Just right for the college girl whom I made it for. At least I hope she will like it.





Warmly,
A Patchwork Mommy

PS. I refuse to acknowledge Day Light Savings Time. Do you think that will work?