Kansas City Star 2010 Block Of The Month

The Kansas City Star has started a new Block Of The Month. On the third Tuesday of each month a new block will be offered on the website. It looks like fun!

What is this, you might wonder? It's a 3/4" hole punch used for scrapbooking. I don't do scrapbooking but...

I do have to cut out lots of little berries for my applique. 179 to be exact! This little tool sure made quick work of that.

And, this is what a snowy evening in Texas looks like. Can you believe it snowed all day? We got nine inches! That is a record snowfall for our area.

Sweet Tea

Oh, this is a cute quilt! Sweet Tea by The Quilt Company. This was a block of the month from 2009. I have the blocks pieced together and now I will put on two plain borders and a border of tea cups. Then a final plain border.

Five different tea pots, some piecing and some fusible applique with machine buttonhole stitching with varigated thread.

There are four of these blocks. The yellow solid and the green solid is a flange inserted before  the first border is put on the blocks. After quilting I'll embellish with some beads and yo-yos. Too cute!!!

Better get back to work!

I've made a basket a day...

Started working on a BOM from last year called Sweet Tea...

And, almost finished appliqueing Holly Basket!

First Finish of 2010!

Well, really, I just had the binding to do. This little quilt is from a Lori Smith pattern called Fit To Frame: Set 6. It's called Grandmother's Garden. It is hand appliqued and hand quilted. Here are a few close ups:

What's this? It's my new stash reducer...I love blue, and I have the fabrics to prove it! This is Trick Or Treat from When The Cold Wind Blows by Blackbird Designs. There are 291 baskets! I plan on using a different fabric for each of the backgrounds and baskets. I'll bet I have that many different blues. But, if I don't I'm not afraid to buy more!

I've made a basket a day so far. That's my plan...one basket a day!

Crazy Christmas Quilt

This was one of those stack and slice quilts. I cut out large squares of Christmas fabrics, stacked them up, sliced through the stack twice vertically/twice horizontally and then moved the cut pieces around so that there were no repeats in the block. It was just that simple!


The machine quilting, done by my friend Ty, is mittens. Really cute and so appropriate for a Christmas quilt!

Check back tomorrow for another Christmas quilt.

My block of the months for 2009 have all been sent to me by the quilt shops sponsoring them. I just ordered two more from Homestead Hearth Quilt Shop for 2010...Halloween 1904 by Blackbird Designs and Holly and Mistletoe from Blackbird's book Let The Cold Wind Blow.

I saw this quilt in Houston and it is gorgeous!

You Are My Shining Star

Another little quilt from the series of Lori Smith's Fit To Frame patterns. I have had this one competed for a while, I just forgot to show you. It's machine pieced and machine quilted. And it has a label!

Detail of quilting.

I hope you had a quilty day. I'm almost through big stitching The Great Pumpkin. I ran out of thread so I'll have to go to the store tomorrow!

Sandy Spends A Lot - Fabric Collector

A Lori Smith pattern, Fit To Frame: Set One.


A detail of the quilting.

And, another.

I even put a label on it! Have a great quilty day!

Birds on a Wire

Block three of Primitive Garden. If you see the pattern you will soon realize things are a little off. Even after all these years I still can't get it right...tracing onto fusible applique! Oh, well.

Mosaic

Mosaic, another quilt from Lori Smith. The pattern is called Fat Quarter Quilting:Cherries, Chocolate and Cream. I machine pieced and quilted it (using a red variegated thread). It's a little wonky...this was the first little quilt in the series, so I hadn't had any practice working with all those tiny blocks.


I added a blue button to the four patch squares. There are nine quilts in this pattern. I have made seven, quilted four and working on one right now. I'm hanging these over the shelves in my quilt room. When I get them all up there I'll take a picture. Maybe there will be a sneak peek soon!


What's this? Grandaddy and Emily are putting something together!

Oh! It's our new table and chairs. Well, actually benches. We love it and have already had a tea party!

The Tootie Babies having fun. Nana's house looks like Toyland!

Another surprise! A label! Will wonders never cease? I am trying to label as many quilts as I can. You can see that this is #91. I can't believe I've finished that many quilts! There is a pile to be quilted that probably has half that number in it. I guess after 19 years of quilting anyone would amass that amount.

I hope you have a great day. Try to squeeze in a little quilting, you'll be glad you did!