Cat lady quilt top complete!

Welcome back from the Thanksgiving holiday!  Hope everyone had good food with family and friends.  I finished the crazy cat lady quilt top and I must say, it's pretty awesome!  I used some of the JoAnn fabric that was only $2/yard for the border and it really pulls the black, yellow, and grey together. 


Speaking of sales, I know I went way overboard on fabric sales Friday and Monday.  What about you?

I promise I'm not the crazy cat lady...

I have a bunch of fabric that was donated to my church quilt group for the charity quilts we make for kids at the local hospital.  Some of it is well, unusual.  Here's an example.  Notice the cats in the black and white prints?  Yep.  Cats all over!  My friends make fun of me and call me a crazy cat slash quilt lady even though my cat temporarily lives with my parents.  Anyway,  here's what I'm working on this week.  Hopefully one of the kids will love cats!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Wow I've been busy sewing this week!

I've made progress on the Christmas stocking - it's quilted and sewn together!  Now all I need to do is add the cuff and hanger.  Sweet deal!  I'm considering making these for a lot of other people since they were so easy.  

Next, since my scrap bin was overflowing, I decided to sort them into piles by color and make scrappy log cabin blocks.  Here's the first one I attempted in yellow.  I am very pleased with the way it turned out!

I've been collecting selvedges for awhile now too and made a string quilt with them.  It turned out nicely also.  I must have confused selvedge and string quilts though, because some of the strips turned out to be 1/4" wide since I cut them so skimpy to begin with, then sewed on both edges of the strip.  I may change my sewing pattern on the next one.

Lastly, here's a few more blocks finished in my second version of the triple Irish chain.  At first I wasn't crazy about how neutral it was appearing, but now that I have a few more blocks finished, I am much happier with the results.

Happy sewing!

My current list of projects:

Finished!

Bliss Sampler

Completed tops needing backings & quilting:

Verna Friendship Braid
Simply Squares Vintage sheets 

Central Park Charming Stars

Hunky Dory Bubblegum

Vintage Sheets Mod Sampler

Tops in pieces:

Scrappy Triple Irish Chain

Sew Cherry Snapdragon Quilt

Cherish Nature Circle in Squares 

Vintage Sheets New Wave 

New projects this week: 2

Finished projects this week: 1  

Christmas is just around the corner!

I decided to sew a couple patchwork Christmas stockings for my roommate and my apartment this year.  Thimble Blossoms' patterns were on sale last week and I bought the Merry stockings and Swoon patterns.  It's tough sewing this in secret so I can surprise her later with it!  Freshly cut out in stocking form this morning before work:

I'll change one thing when I do this pattern the second time.  The pattern says to cut out 3.5" squares to make the pinwheels, then trim them down a bunch.  I thought that was a little wasteful, so I'd probably make the squares smaller initially.  I'll try it when I make the back of this one and see what happens.

My current list of projects:

Finished!

Cowboy quilt for Lincoln

DS Quilts Zig Zag

Being Quilted:

Bliss Sampler

Completed tops needing backings & quilting:

Verna Friendship Braid
Simply Squares Vintage sheets 

Central Park Charming Stars

Hunky Dory Bubblegum

Vintage Sheets Mod Sampler

Tops in pieces:

Sew Cherry Snapdragon Quilt

Cherish Nature Circle in Squares
Hunky Dory Pandora's Box 

Vintage Sheets New Wave 

New projects this week: 2

Finished projects this week: 2  

Fall 2011 Pinterest Challenge

Pinterest certainly seems like the new Flickr!  I find tons of awesome inspiration there and I know I'll never actually get around to doing everything I see, but I did have time to make a few twig-covered candleholders for my fall decor.  


I bought candles from Dollar General for $1 each, found some twigs outside, and used E4000 glue.  You can get that at JoAnn for $2 with coupons.  There's no reason to ever pay full price at JoAnn FYI!  Anyways, cut or break twigs to desired length and glue on.  You'll have to go section by section because the glue doesn't set right away and the twigs slide around a bit.  

Now on to the 438 other things in my crafty list...

Fall 2011 Bloggers' Quilt Festival

Presenting my entry in the Fall 2011 Bloggers' Quilt Festival from amyscreativeside.com!  I've chosen to submit my Central Park Moda Bake Shop Ritzy Cracker Quilt because it is so bright and cheerful, not to mention it was a breeze to whip up.  I quilted this using all straight line quilting, which was a new area for me.  Previously, I'd only free motion meandered because I'm a type A++ and if a line isn't ruler-straight, I want to rip it out and start over!  For this one however, I let myself relax and I think it turned out great.  It is perfect for the chillier nights we've been having lately.