Teacher Appreciation Week {Day 4)

This is the last post for Teacher Appreciation Week!  Today I sent the finished quilts...hoping they love them :o)  This one is for Dayna's teacher.  I used a Recess charm pack (or 2, can't remember).  

This is Emma's teacher's quilt.  She is having a little boy in August, so I thought the spaceships was a great theme for this one!

Hope yall had a great week!  I know I will be glad when this week's done and in the books :o)

Finish It Up Friday - Swoon

I am so excited to be featured today on Knotted-Thread!!

Please head on over and see Jennifer's awesome blog :o)

I finally got some pics of my finished Swoon!  I still need to put the binding on....I'm thinking of the darker, plummy purple for the binding.  That may have to wait until next week, but I feel awesome to have this one *almost* checked off the list!  I love this pattern, and I am thinking of doing another one :o)

Quilt Stats:

90 inches square

fabrics used were Heirloom by Joel Dewberry

machine pieced and quilted by me

This is the backing....one of my favorite thing to do is to lay under the quilt, and hold it up to the light so you can see the light through all of the sewing spaces.  It reminds me of a light brite....I know, I'm a little on the nutty side :o)

I am linking up to Amanda Jean at Crazy Mom Quilts' Finish It Up Friday!

Finish It Up Friday

Just a quick share for today....finished the Single Girl wall hanging.  I love the quilting!  I can't wait to make a great big quilt using this pattern :o)

I'm linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday!!  Take a look at some other great finishes :o)

Friday Finish--Single Girl

Y'all are probably tired of me posting about this quilt...but I am so glad to have it finished!!  I wasn't sure it would get done this week.  My poor little kitty had surgery this week and it has been very dramatic with lots of blood loss, vet visits, etc.  She's on the mend, but it's been an ordeal.

Last night I just decided I needed a stress reliever, so into my sewing room I went while the hubs was watching bball.  Oh, NC State...how very sad!  Anyway, here she is...after 3 hours of quilting and binding.  The bubble quilting took 5 bobbins...yes, 5!!  And this is a baby sized quilt, holy moley.  

Kinda lovin this picture!

Here is a close up of the quilting...bubble quilting in the solid, and wave quilting in the rings.

But can I just say I LOVE this quilt!!  I am glad to give it to my super sweet niece, but sad to see it leave my hands.  It just means I need to make another one :o)

WIP Wedesnday

I finished my vintage linen quilt top!  I am super excited about it, although there are a few things I'd do differently next time I make this pattern.  Next time, I will use framing diamonds, so I don't have to cut off any of the diamonds!  I will also make it bigger since I am just lovin this design!  I ended up quilting with a large stipple....I just didn't want the quilting to take away from the lovely vintage fabrics that remind me so much of my gramma and great aunt.  They are 2 of my dearest family members, even though my gramma died when I was 15.  She was such a fire cracker, but I loved that lady!!  We went toe-to-toe MANY times, too, for dumb stuff. But I have some wonderful memories of going to her house to spend the day, baking cookies at Christmas, watching Bonanza (snore), and sitting in the living room with her doing her crosswords....so many things.  She taught me how to make hot chocolate with milk (cuz that is the only way it even tastes good!!) and she had a secret language with my great aunt that was so funny to listen to!  I think that's just the way with sisters...me and my sis are the SAME way!!  Thanks for letting me indulge my nostalgic side...I miss her so much sometimes.

All that to say....the vintage linen quilt is done and I LOVE it! I have oodles of diamonds left over...thinking I need to have a giveaway to share :o)  Also, I am apologizing for the pics in advance....it's been raining on and off for a few days and haven't been able to get good pics!

 Close up of the quilting on the back...I used a pale pink for the backing.  

This is a quilt on the design wall for my sweet little niece :o)  Still figuring out how I want to lay out all the HSTs.

These lovely FQs came today!!!  I ordered them from Intrepid Thread on etsy (LOVE Julie, the lady behind the shop, btw) and am planning to make the girls matching bed quilts.  Planning to start after I get Julia's quilt finished!

Completed this week ~ 1
WIPs still in the works ~ 10

Linking up at Freshly Pieced!

Wave Quilting Pattern and a Finish!

This is definitely my go-to machine quilting pattern.  It goes quickly, covering a lot of the quilt in a short amount of time, it's easy, and it looks pretty :o)  This is what it looks like on paper...it's a pretty fun quilting pattern.  I practiced a lot on paper before attempting the pattern on my quilts!  But I have to say...I am kind of in a machine quilting rut.  I need to branch out into other quilting techniques...but it's so easy to do what you already know!  What is your go-to quilting pattern?

This quilt top was made by a sweet student of mine a few years ago when I used to teach high school.  She was in 9th grade at the time, and was dying to make a quilt...perhaps I had something to do with that :o)  Anyway, we would take time each week in study hall to work on the quilt top.  That was almost 5 years ago now...and she never finished it.  Well, she finished the quilt top.  So her mom asked for me to finish it for her to give her as a Christmas present this year.  I am so excited to finish this for her!

close up of the back...I love the backs!