quilts and more quilts

Lots of craft projects has been made since my last update. 

My first hedgehog, Ace, passed away from health reasons in December. 

Also in December we adopted another Manchester Terrier named Charlie. Ted and Charlie are about the same age and act like they are both brothers. Charlie has had some issues around the house with chewing. We are starting to train him and he is learning sit this week.

Finished my first quilt in November, I was glad I had it early because the baby came 6 weeks early. I do not think I will ever free quilt the top.

I have 99% of my New Wave quilt finished! I just have to hand stitch the binding around it. I just followed the small strips to quilt the top. Did not want to spend too much time on this quilt.

I have started a new quilt from the website P.S. I Quilt. They are having a quilt along and it is around the third week of it. I have all of my strips cut out and almost have them all sewed together. This weekend I will cut them out and sew them in the final block pattern. I know I am crazy to start this quilt but having a lot of fun making it.

Fabric is Seaglass by Fabric Cenral

Buttercup Yellow for the solid

 

I am also doing a Crafster swap of Alice in Wonderland. We get our partners tonight/tomorrow. I am excited to start crafting in that theme. 

 

Fall and pumpkins

Fall crafting has been in full swing around here. I made Ted, our dog, a candy corn scarf. (I know the orange and yellow need to be switched)

Also I carved foam pumpkins for my side of the family and one of Ted.
I had a hard time carving the first one of Ted but that was because I had a very dull blade. For the rest I used a round metal Drimel tip and a sharp Exacto knife. I am very happy on how they came out and can not wait to mail them Monday.
Pinecone

Deer

Ted Modified

Leaf

The quilt is almost done! I just have about 25% left of quilting then add the boarder around. I tried to finish the quilting last weekend but after changing the bobbin the tension decided to mess up. I gave the machine a rest for a week.
I already found another quilt pattern for the next quilt!

1st Quilt Ever Series Day 3

This is my third day working on the 1st Quilt Ever Series.
I am back at my house and went to Joann's for the rest of the supplies. I have finished the quilt top and it looks so good. I am happy with my fabric selection. I found the perfect boarder and back for the quilt.

Quilt front without boarder

Quilt front finished!

Back of quilt!

I hope to have this mostly finish today!

New curtains

Granny picked out this fabric for her beach themed bathroom and I just finished them. She is on vacation and will be a good surprise when she gets home.

1st Quilt Ever Series Day 2

Last night I had some issues with the tension with this machine but slowly I figured it out! This is a great machine but I so miss my machine! I love having the automatic thread cutter!
Last night I had about half of the 9 squares sewed together and finished them up this morning. Some do not line up but are close enough.

First rows done and organized

All of the 9 squares finished!

I then cut the 9 square into the 4 squares. Once I had all squares cut out it seemed I only had 4 different designs in the middle so there is once place in the quilt that will have 2 of the same colors touching on the side. Make sure when you are sewing the 9 squres to have different fabrics in the middle square.

This is the final layout showing a side view

This was the hardest part of the quilt

Ted and I needed a break from sewing so we took a walk down to the beach.

Ted does not like the water but I think if we go swimming he would soon join in.

 

Here is all of the rows sewed together!

Sorry for the bad photos. I will take a better picture when I am done! This is going by a lot faster than I expected. I will be buying the supplies to finish the quilt this weekend because Joann's is having a good weekend sale and offering if you spend $50 you get $10 back on your next purchase! It makes me feel like I am going to Kohls.

1st Quilt Ever Series

I am making is a disappearing nine patch quilt. I first saw it on Craftster and she had the link for Obsessively Stitching. I have seen this done in a quilting magazine before but decided to try it this week. One of our good friends is having a baby in December and wanted to make one for her. She finds out what the sex of the baby is this Friday but decided to get the supplies for a boy. If she is having a girl I will get more fabric this weekend. I like to stock pile homemade baby gifts.

I was going to make it out of the fat quarters and thought they were on sale at Joann's this week but the sale starts on Friday.
These pictures are from my cellphone. I did bring my camera but I do not think I brought the card reader. It is nice being able to upload from the cell phone without the computer.

Picture of the fabric selection.

Fabric cut out and paired up

Craft Hope Project 9

I am visiting my family for the week and take care of my granddad who had a knee replacement a week ago so I decided to do some craft projects while I was down here in the original activity room.
Craft Hope started project 9 before I was down and I have already made one pillowcase for them. I have the supplies to make more also. For the girls I have watermelon fabric with a hot pink sleeve. The boy fabric is a frog material.