Baby Quilt Fail and Recover

Hello Blog Friends,

Have you ever had high hopes at the beginning of a project, then once you are into it, have the feeling it just isn't working?  Well, this happened to me this past week.

I am making a baby quilt for a sweet young lady I worked with ( I made her a wedding quilt two years ago).  She is expecting her first child soon and the shower is early next month!  I've had the fabrics for several years, found a pattern I liked, and started sewing.  Only, I just wasn't feeling it as I pieced the rows and sewed them together.  

The fabrics are from the Sweet Baby collection by moda.  Very cute fabrics, all flannels in pastels of blue, pink, yellow, green and a gray/tan neutral.  I cut tumbler patches with my Go! Baby and laid them out in a grid.  Here's the first couple of rows:

I just wasn't feeling it.  I cried over it, then wiped my tears, found a new pattern online, made a trip to the quilt shop for alternate fabrics, and moved on.   I was able to find new fabrics and incorporate one of the fabrics from the original quilt into the new design.  New fabrics:

I'll show you the finished product in my next post.  Meanwhile, the tumbler quilt will wait for a few weeks, another addition to the UFO list.  But, I will finish it, then donate it to Project Linus.  A needy mother or baby somewhere will love it.  Who wouldn't...it is in flannel!


Till next time...

Mini-Man Sewing at My House

Hello Blog Friends!

I've had man sewing going on at my house...mini-man sewing, that is.  My grandson Corey is 13 and has been collecting t-shirts from various activities.  He also loves quilts and blankets.  He came to me a couple of months ago and asked if I would help him make a t-shirt quilt.  I of course, said "yes."   The one and only rule I had was that he had to do the work himself.  My role was to be as advisor (and "fix-it" when things go wrong).  He agreed and we got started.

Corey chose the t-shirts, cut the squares out with rotary cutter (which he thinks is very cool), choose the sashing and border fabrics, and did the sewing.  Our first session involved cutting the shirts and shopping for fabric.  We visited a local quilt shop (which he though was better than sliced bread and told his mom they should shop there more often) and chose fabrics to coordinate with his shirts.  The red tone-on-tone is the sashing and the multi swirl is for the outer border.

 Our next session involved cutting our sashing strips and sewing the sashing to the shirts.  He was very good at the machine with fairly consistent seams.  

Here is his work on our first sewing day...we have just outer borders left for a finished quilt top.

Corey and I will reconvene again in March to finish the borders and get it ready for quilting and binding.  

Till next time...

February UFO Report Card

Hello Blog Friends!

Happy February and 6 more weeks of winter.  It certainly looks it here...we just got 6" of new snow on Saturday.

I'm happy to report that I've made progress on my UFO list.  😊😊😊

	Name	Current Status	Date Finished
1	2015 Christmas Pages	--
2	2016 Christmas Pages	--
3	2017 Christmas Pages	--
4	Seeing Red Quilt	Top, back done.  Ready for quilting
5	T-Shirt Quilt	Fabrics gathered
6	Patterns II Quilt	Finished!	1/31/2018
7	Prairie Cupboard Quilt	Top, back done.  Ready for quilting
8	Colonial Williamsburg Ornament Book	Materials gathered
9	Mary's Quilt	Top done.
10	Baby Quilt	Fabrics gathered	Piecing in Process
11	Fran Memorial Book	--
12	Towne Square Quilt	Finished!	2/3/2018

I'll be posting photos soon of the finished quilts.

Till next time...