Mermaid bed set complete!!!

Whooo Hooo! I finished it today and couldn't take it anymore and showed it all to Gweniveve and let her have it early (her birthday is monday).

I finished the top and sent it off to my quilter since I wanted it quilted with bubbles which was just to perfect for this quilt for me not to spend the $ and have her quilt it.



Then I was working hard on pillows for the bed. I got a little tired and didn't make the pillow sham & the huge 22" log cabin that I was going to and just finished these 2 pillows. I still might make the other 2 soon.



The quilt is 87" x 72". I didn't need to make it a large twin since she has bunk beds and there is no need for overhang to hid a mattress.



Needless to say I am giddy & so is Gwenieve. This was my gift to her for her 5 birthday which is on Monday but I couldn't wait any longer to show her the finished product.



Here is a HUGE thank you to everyone that swapped with me so that I could get these fabrics to make Gweniveve her dream quilt. I only had to buy 2 FQ's of these mermaids everything else I was able to swap for from all my amazing friends.



See I was not lying when I said she is obsessed with the Little Mermaid. She own's a billion of them :) Plus all 3 of the Disney Little Mermaid movies and all the dress-up plus so many other things in her bedroom that are not pictured.



Now that it is on the bed I really can tell that I need to make another one for the top bunk. GULP. I have fabric left over but hardly any of the mermaids especially the aqua mermaids are all gone :( It is on my list to make another one in a different pattern.



I took a video of her as she walked into her room but it is taking forever to upload to youtube so I will come back to add it to the blog so you can all enjoy! Here it is!

Henna Pinwheels Mini- Modern Mini Challenge

I decided somewhat at the last minute to make a mini to try to win some of the great prizes that Jennifer is offering for her Modern Mini Challenge.



I have been wanting to make a interlocking pinwheels mini since I saw this one. I also have been really wanting to use my Henna Garden fabric from Sandi Henderson's Farmers Market & Meadowsweet lines. I had all of them until last week when I swapped out my speckle (grey) one, of course this was before I even had thought of this quilt. This quilt has all of the Henna Garden minus the grey one.



Quilt stats:

Mini quilt 20" x 21"
Interlocking Pinwheels
Henna Garden by Sandi Henderson
Kona White
Quilted with white thread using wavy lines

I really love this little mini and I think it is going to go on my sewing room wall along with my other mini's.

It's All Mine! Quilt

I finally made myself a quilt. I think it was my 2nd quilt that I ever made around 5 years ago that was the last time I made a quilt for me. I recently decided that I LOVED Momo's Wonderland line and for some reason I only like this line if it is used all together. I don't really like it separately. So I decided to do some major swapping & was able to get my hands on 2 layer cakes. This allowed me to add another row from the second layer cake since I am so tall!



This quilt is perfectly simple. This is the very first quilt that I have ever made where it is all made from one line. The front, back and binding is all Momo's Wonderland line. It makes this quilt one of my softest quilts!



Since the quilt is so simple I decided to free motion quilt flowers in each square. It actually was really easy since these are the flowers that I draw on paper all the time.



Straight out of the dryer. I just love the krinkle.



I doubt this quilt will ever be folded like this for a long time since I am always cold. It is so pretty I just love these colors all together.



This quilt measures 75.5" x 55.5" Expect to see it alot since it will always be with me well until summer hits.

Penelope's Star Quilt

Well it is all done! I started with this stack of fabrics....



...and ended up with this awesomeness. My favorite pattern plus my favorite fabric line is a huge thing!


Quilt stats:
Queen 84"x 100"
Sent to a long arm quilter, Pattern is SPLAT by Anne Bright
Used Park Slope by Erin McMorris
Kona White

Tutorial for Interlocking Stars Pattern is here.



Here is the back which is a whole other quilt on it's own. I was just going to have it be the blue flower print but I didn't buy enough so I had to piece in some log cabins. Which of course I love now and I am glad that I didn't buy enough fabric for the back. I just think that the back doesn't really matter since it is going to be on a bed and not seen, but who cares right? She may want it on that side sometimes.



I bound it in the fuscia pebble print which I love! Well I love the whole line :)



I don't want this quilt to get used everyday so it is put away until Penelope gets moved into a twin bed, right now she is still in a crib. Then hopefully it will be on her bed for years to come :)

Working on my WIP's

Well I have finally started on my quilt from Christina's Retro Flower Pattern. I have sooo many pink fabrics since I do love pink but for some reason I forget to sew with them. So I am finally going to make a whole pink quilt! I mean my favorite fabric EVER is the pink ladybug print from Tula Pink's Flutterby fabric line.



Christina's pattern is shown with each flower as one fabric but I decided to make mine scrappy since really scrappy things are my favorite! Ignore that I am not the best person at sewing all of my points so that they match up I am fine that they don't since I am not a perfectionist :)



I have also made 4 blocks for Gwenieve's mermaid quilt! I pulled out some Kona solids to go along with the fabrics.



This is totally out of my comfort zone sewing with so many different solids, I tend to stick with white and I am always happy but this fabric was screaming for all the different solid colors. It makes me nervous but I know that when it is all done it is going to look really great!



I also am sewing slowly on my new bed quilt using the Bowtie pattern, I have squares next to my sewing machine and sew some everyday so it is coming along. It is a HUGE quilt I am going for so it will take awhile :)

How is all of your WIP's coming along?

Infinity Scarf or Figure 8 Scarf

I was getting alittle depressed thinking that it was my birthday coming up. I really hate getting older. I know it is dumb but I can't help it. Age scares me. Anywho I decided to go to a LQS to use up my 30% off they give for your birthday and bought some fabrics. This made me finally give in to the expensive Voile fabric to make myself the Infinity Scarf.



I used Anna Marie Horner's tutorial but I didn't use Velveteen or flannel like alot of people do. I used both Voile on both sides.



I was going for a accessory piece and not really something to keep me warm. I love the colors and the fabric is so soft and light. It really came out perfect and I love it. I might try to make one smaller next time but I love that this one is big and makes a statement.



I am 32 today and it is somewhat depressing. Couldn't I have stayed in my 20's for the rest of my life?!?!?! Oh well. Atleast I have a really great scarf to wear today to make me feel better. That and also getting to go to one of my favorite resturants Benihana's.

Finishing my WIPs

This year I actually made a New Years Resolution for the very first time. To finish all of my WIPs before I start anything new.



Yesterday I started working on my Bowtie quilt which is a Cal King that will go on my bed. I made 2 of them and I am going to try to make 2 of them everyday.



Did any of you make any New Years Resolutions???