The Quilt That Started it All.

For the last hour I have been working on my blog and trying to make it beautiful but let me just be honest with myself. I am not that great with computer stuff and html. So I did the best that I could and hope that it won't drive me nuts until I can figure it out! Haha.

Anyways, as I was looking for the perfect picture to put on the top of my page I stumbled across this:

This is the very first quilt that I made. I decided after collecting much amounts of fabric that I would actually try to make a quilt and I decided I would make it for my daughter (whom I was pregnant with at the time.) I started cutting the pieces to this quilt and went into labor the same night (technically morning. ;) ) 

When she was a few months old, I finally got back to it, determined to finish something and here it is! This is the quilt that started it all. From then on out, I have been addicted to buying fabric, and making quilts (and other goods). I love the feeling of getting closed to being finished and in the end having created something SO cool!

Just thought that I would share. :)  

 To this day, she knows that this quilt is hers. 

Ps, as far as things go that I have been working on, tonight I finished the top of this quilt:

Ta-da!

I absolutely love it! Now I just have to get some batting and also figure out what to do with it! 

In the mean time I will be creating the quilt my husband has been dying for. ;)

Until next time!

Oh yes.

So I am pretty proud because I thought of something pretty inventive. I plan to put it on here, and I plan to share it with you all but before I am ready to release it, I am thinking about putting it into my Etsy shop. I have just created this and have not yet been brave enough to put anything in there, but I recently came to the realization that I really have nothing to lose. So here I go, I am going to give it a try. Look out for this really awesome thing I am talking about. Hahaha. ;)

In With the Old.

So currently my Husband's and my budget have not allowed for the ever so fun splurging on fabric so I can store and stash. And as much as I would love to just go to the fabric store to look around.. I would REALLY have to control myself in not wanting all of the cute fabrics and things that they would so rudely be flaunting in my face. ;) 

So home I've stayed just looking at quilting blogs, getting inspired. 

Dreaming

Sewing

Learning new things, such as the star that I showed in my previous post.. 

Speaking of, I actually made a few more of them here:

Still not sure where I am going with these, but I am positive that something will unfold itself.

Anyhow yesterday as my daughter and I were tearing apart my scrap bin looking to see what goods were hidden within, I found a bunch of squares that I had pieced almost if not over two years ago. WOW! It was one of my first things I did when I got my sewing machine. Then I must have got distracted (imagine that!) and went on creating other goods. Well, I busted it out and while the wee one was napping today I pieced all of the squares into strips and I plan to finish this quilt in the next day or two. :) I am really excited about it and actually am loving it even more then when I first made just the squares. Don't know what I am going to do with it when I am done, probably ANOTHER quilt for my daughter.. hahaha. :D

Any ways, pretty cool what you find when you are looking.

The Motivation is Back!

Something finally clicked in my head and suddenly I just found myself cutting fabric for my Husband's quilt that he has been asking and asking and asking for. Well, after all the pieces have finally been cut out, the process was put on hold because I need to get MORE fabric, a solid brown. I know that doesn't sound great, but believe me, it will be. :) 

Anyways, I needed SOMETHING to do and so I just got to thinking and wanting to try something that wasn't just squares or rectangles. So I found a great tutorial on how to make stars and turns out, it was pretty simple! :)

Here is the block I created:

To be honest, it turned out a lot better than I expected. Currently my sister thinks that this is going to be made into a quilt for her.. delusional? Maybe.. maybe not. We will see how it all pans out. For now, I am excited that I learned how to do something new! :)

That's all for now! I will post when this quilt starts turning out more!

Glum..

I find it quite sad that lately I have been a little down in the dumps for lots of reasons and many reasons that are unbeknownst to me at this time. (I have also doubled my shifts at work which mean that when I am home I want to spend as much time with my little girl as possible.) But because of all of this, I haven't been able to sew, I am stuck. I have plenty of supplies and I have all these ideas and possibilities running through my head constantly but then at the end of the day (or during nap time) I am unable to actually find the motivation to do anything. Ugh! I am sure that this has happened to most but I am just hoping that soon this will pass and I will be able to start on and finish the quilts that are rolling around in my brain!

Been working.. and quilting.

I have started and to my surprise completed quite a few projects in the last two weeks. First here is Emelia's birthday quilt that I had finished but kept a secret until the day of:

It turned out great. A lot better then I had actually expected and to top it off it was my very first time doing binding on a blanket. :) I figured it out and it just all worked out. (Ps, bear with me on the horrible picture quality. I have pictures taken on my camera but have yet to put them onto the computer so that will come at a later date. For now we have to suffer with cell phone pictures! Yuck!)

Anyways, then I got to looking at some designs here and there and started to plan a new quilt. The final project was small.. only 36x36 but it was perfect for my little girl who instantly became obsessed with just the quilt top when I was making it. She started carrying it all around and so I just decided to keep is small and have a "snuggle blanket" for her. This was that project:

(Again with the cell phone pictures! I am SORRY!) But anyways, I just loved how it turned out. After it was completed, my friend's daughter's birthday was rolling around the corner. I thought to myself that it would be great fun to give a quilt as a gift. (C'mon! Who wouldn't love that!) I did basically the same pattern but a few of the fabrics were different. This was the final quilt for my friend's daughter:

It turned out great and they loved it! Now I want to make more gifts! :)

Anyways, a lot has been going on here, but I just wanted to take a minute while Emelia was napping and share my recent quilts! 

Until next time! :D