applique love birds

Heart Day Decor!

Just getting in the Lovey Dovey spirit. this project came from my book Count On It

This book has the cutest holiday projects!

Just before I went shopping for valentine fabric  I found this charm pack in  a drawer...Perfect!

Since the applique heart was bigger then a 5" square I decided the make a patchwork heart

 

 

and then I just scraps of fabric on hand for the cute birds.

I used a blanket stitch method for appique.

attached mini buttons for eyes.

And this frame is a bargain I picked up from a garage sale last summer.

the frame was only $1.50 then I had a piece of cardbox laying around to put on the back

And here it is! Very cool! I love them...it puts you in the red heart holiday!
Oh and I'm so excited about something else, I have to share...

Labels!! I finally got labels! Now I can put them on all my creations

Yay! I ordered them from Etsy. It took about a month to arrive but I love them!

As always, thanks so much for looking. I will be linking here:

doggy placemat!

My nephew just got a new puppy. She is a boston terrier (so cute) and when they saw Zuko's place mat they asked if I would make one for there dog Ellie.  Of course!

So here it is! The size fits this standard food plate..

It's so easy to whip together

You can see the measurements from the grid. The brown strip is 2 3/4 x 15 and the rest is 6x15

The most time consuming part is the applique. I used the letters from my art to heart book

Then I made my quilt sandwich.  Warm n' Natural was used on the inside.

Next was the blanket stitch around the letters (this takes a lot of practice)

I did a blind hand stitch on the binding.

So the finished size is 14 1/2 x 7 3/4

and it's  Zuko Approved!

I can't wait to give it to them. Then maybe I can get a pix of there dog and post it! She is sooo cute!

Thank you for looking. I will be participating in these blog parties:

     

   

Work In Progress

Who wants a cupcake? I am loving this project. I bought this pattern at the Home Machine Quilting Show

 

I love these patterns by Thankfully Sew. She has something cute for every season,  I made a Snowman from her pattern too.

This is what it will look like when it's finished. I did it a little differently with the gray background,

I still have a lot to work on, I'm going to put pom poms on it, add ric rac and buttons and I need to add the words "Happy Birthday" I can't wait to get it finished!

Oh and here is an update on the quilt that I was working on last week. Its completed!

Yeah, I know it looks wierd...I was just  undecided when putting it all together.

Click here to see more pictures and the story behind it. And as always, thanks for looking!

Cupcakes & Milkshakes.

Again, I love my applique book! My friend from work asked me to make her this...

Her daughters name is London and her birthday is coming up.

I think the back goes great..milkshakes with cupcakes, good mix.

I don't really know what I would do with it or what she is going to do with it. I guess you can frame it? Or hang it up like this....No matter what you do it's soooo cute!!

Thanks for looking! Click on the link for other cute projects

easter banner

I love these applique letters..

And using felt really makes them pop! It was so easy to do, I actually just used charm pack squares then attached it to ribbon so very minimal sewing!

I should have taken a better picture...looks like the glare of the light washed out the "S" and "T" in the banner..in real life you can see the letters much better, and it's so festive!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm sharing my easter banner on this linky party:

Tea Towels for Easter

Arent they a cute couple!

I just did a blanket stitch around the applique. It was so much fun to do. I'm getting really good at applique stitching on my machine. It took alot of practice for me but now I think I got it down! Which is good because I just purchased the cutest applique book...

I cannot wait to get started on this! You can make all the patterns into tea towels, pillows etc. And what had me sold was at the back of the book it has the complete alphabet in applique and numbers too!

not so perfect quilt

so I was working on the finishing steps of my simply pure quilt...

and you can see how great the binding turned out...

I love when the corners turn out perfect (only us quilters would notice that)

So it's beginning to look like a pretty good quilt right? Everything seems to be going my way...

then look....

I will never sew horizontal lines again! but the only reason why i quilted it that way is because my piecing went that ways so I used it as a quide...WRONG thing to do...the fabric just stretch and there was no way I could fix it. The new name for this quilt is "The Wave"

I made this quilt for my friend and it was for her baby shower....so all this wavyness was going on the morning of her shower...I first thought...no way am I going to give it to her, then it occured to me that I would be wasting all the fabric and I'm never going to find another baby named Bronco so I focused on the positive... she would probably love the fact that it said "Bronco" on it...and...she is not a quilter! Maybe she would think the wavyness was a special technique? hahaha. so I gave it to her and everyone loved it. No one noticed the waves! They all just thought it was amazing that I made a quilt!  Oh and that night she went into labor and the next morning Bronco was born!  So it turned out to be such a happy ending.