I submitted a picture of Sarah's Christmas quilt I made to Quiltmaker Magazine since the quilting was inspired by one of their articles. They printed my comments and pictures in their letters to the editor section in the front of the May/June 2015 edition. I feel like a celebrity.
Mares-E-Dotes Quilts
Monday, June 8, 2015
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Christmas 2014
Here's a quilt I made at the request of Sarah for Sarah.
We were in the fabric department at Wal-Mart at the end of October looking for some background fabric for a little fall project I was working on. Sarah liked the Christmas fabric, so I hoped we would find a pattern at home and had purchased enough fabric. I looked thru back issues of my quilting magazines and books and Sarah picked out a pattern in the Quilter's World Magazine, February 2013 called A Day at the Spa. And we had enough material!
Before white sashing added
After sashing added.
Then I took a month off, got busy with Thanksgiving and Christmas. Finally added the last two borders at the beginning of our Christmas Break and started on quilting it. I read an article in the January/February '15 issue of Quiltmaker about getting the most of the decorative stitches on your sewing machine. This brought to mind the snowflake stitch on my machine and I knew immediately that was how I wanted to quilt it. I had originally just planned to stitch in the ditch around the big blocks but I added the snowflake stitch in the sashing pieces and it was perfect. I enlarged the stitch and freehand motion larger snowflakes in the outer border. I finally finished it today. So since our Christmas Tree is still up it's still the Christmas season.
Snowflake decorative stiches in the sashing.
Close up of snow flake decorative stitches.
Close Up of free hand snowflakes in outer border
Quilt label
Rug Mug I made to see if I would really like the snowflake decorative stitches. Sarah thinks the name "Mug Rug" is hilarious.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Hugs and Kisses
Finally finished Emily's quilt. I started it over Spring Break and finished quilting and binding it last weekend. Emily picked out the colors to match her room.
She helped me pin it.
Here's the tag on the back.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Antique Ties Quilt
Here's a little quilt (16" X 16") I finished over Spring Break. The pattern was in Quilter's World Spring 2014 issue. I used a charm pack (precut 5" squares) I purchased from Connecting Threads many moons ago. It went together very quickly and was a fun little project.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
SIX PACK BOOM!
These pictures were taken at their last tournament of the season in Udall. Of Course they took 1st place, again.
They finished the season with 5 First place, 1 Second place and 1 Third place.
They were also ranked #10 out of 188 teams as of March 12th.
Of course, now I get to mark another quilt off my list from last May. BONUS!
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Merry Christmas!
So it's been awhile since I posted anything here. Been very busy with school, running the girls to their various and many activities, Christmas shopping, Christmas wrapping and then celebrating Christmas. Here's a little wall hanging I made for my Secret Santa at work, Mrs. Regina Rose. He was fun and quick to put together. Will probably be making him again.
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