Crafting

I finished this quilt last month and never got around to writing a post about it. It was a gift for a friend’s new baby girl. It is made out of flannel so it is really soft. All the colored flannel I bought at Walmart and the white flannel is from another project that I took apart. The front is twelve 9-square blocks and the back is white with a stripe of leftover blocks. I love how it turned out. This is my fifth completed quilt.

After work today I did a quick wardrobe emergency call. I wore this cardigan today to work and realized the reason why I do not wear it very often. This cardigan likes to gap between the buttons. So when I got home I carefully took off the buttons and sewed a straight stitch along the edge. After I sewed the cardigan closed I put the buttons back on. Now I can’t button and unbutton it and have to pull it on over my head… but no gaps! It is going back in my closet to be a regularly worn item.

I have the quilt back done for the baby quilt I am making. I am hoping to get it basted and quilted together tomorrow. I love how it is turning out!

Today we have white out conditions from blowing snow so everyone in school got a snow day. I decided to take my day off from work today instead of Wednesday. Otherwise I probably would have needed to stay overnight at my Aunt and Uncle’s House. Which would have been fun, but everyone needs a snow day sometime don’t they?

One of the projects I got side tracked on today was this baby quilt I am making for my friend’s first baby. I love it a lot. It is all flannel. The colored squares I bought at Walmart especially for this quilt and the white flannel is all scraps from a previous project. The squares were cut 3.5″ square which made this quilt top sew up quickly. I was inspired by this post and this quilt.

I finished four quilts for Christmas this year. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of my Grandma’s while she was here. Here are the other three. The first one was for my mom. It is a lap quilt and is the color scheme fits in with the living room - brown, blue & green. The pattern was from August 2008 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting.

Annie’s quilt is very bright. Pink mainly with lots of other bright colors thrown in. It is a quilt I made for the Quilt-A-Long. You can see the process if you look back in the crafting archives.

And here is Jessie’s quilt. The main fabric was a purple cat print that I got years ago and never used. It worked perfectly in this quilt. This was the second quilt of three that I started for the Quilt-A-Long.

Maybe now I should finish the quilt I started for myself.