Where I've been...

I've not been intentionally neglecting my blog, just busy with school, cheerleading stuff and life in general.  I have still been at my sewing machine quite a bit over the past 4 months, I just haven't been very good about getting photos or making it to the blog with them.  Here's a few things I did before the holidays.

I finished the Minnie quilt my mother-in-law commissioned me to make for a member of their church.

The ruffler foot came in handy for this sort of project, but it's finicky and tedious to work with.  I may use it for larger projects, but for smaller things like ruffles for my aprons I've been sticking to my old method of cranking up tension and using the largest stitch length with a regular foot.  This has a minky back and the Minnie fabric was pretty good quality, so I didn't use any batting.  I just did some straight line quilting horizontally and traced around the Minnie head.

I finished the 2nd orange and blue chevron quilt, it looked just like the Sawyer quilt but had minky backing in Robin's egg blue instead of printed quilting cotton.  In my rush to ship it out, I neglected to get a finished product shot.

I made another baby quilt for some friends that just had a little girl.  I had an array of animal prints in pink and black and some other black, white and pink prints like texts and polka dots in my stash that came together nicely.

Red Pepper Quilts had done a similar bow tie quilt in paler pinks and B/W prints that I'd had on my mind for some time.  When I found out this friend, that LOVES animal prints, was having a girl I knew I'd be able to use a lot of things from my stash.  The photo above was just the top as I was trying to decide how to bind it.  I missed the baby shower and had a lot going on as I was trying to finish it, so I completely forgot to get a shot of the finished quilt, again.  The mom was nice enough to take an iPad photo of it displayed on the crib.

It's backed with the pink and white zebra print.  When I saw the photo I smiled at the wall color.  I knew she planned to use pink, but not almost the exact shade as some of the solids in the quilt.  It all worked so nicely that I ended up making a matching crib skirt in case she wanted to use it as a set.

I've made a lot of other projects, but am having a difficult time locating photos.  A whole slew I took of my niece modeling some little girl aprons that I wanted to list on Etsy have gone missing from my memory card as well as a few I know I took where I had my husband hold up a quilt I made for another member of his mom's church.  I need to buy extra SD cards, I probably inadvertently deleted them.  Blogger/photographer fail.

My aunt took some photos of some other things I made for Christmas and my daughter may have a few photos on her iPad.  If I can gather some more I'll try to share again soon.  Winter break is slipping by quickly.  I spent the first week and a half sick, went out of town for a few days and all of last week we did some painting and handy work for family members moving into a new place.  But my classes don't start until the 21st, so hopefully I can show up on here a time or 2 before I'm swamped again.  Thanks for looking!