Lane County Fair!

Took the family out to the fair yesterday! A great time was had by all, and I won five ribbons for my entries!


Pig races!


Rides!



Great funhouse art!






My ribbons! I got a white ribbon for photography (photojournalism category), two blue ribbons for my quilts, a red ribbon for my knitted lace stole, and a white ribbon for my crocheted bunnies!


I even got to ride the ferris wheel!

More photos here.

triangles quilt

The Eugene Modern Quilt Guild recently had a "solids challenge" and we were each given a charm pack of solid colored squares and told to come up with a quilt using only those colors and other solid fabrics. Here's my answer to the challenge, inspired by this quilt by Rita of RPQ. The quilt measures 37" square and is quilted in echo triangles (and some odd shapes where those echo lines met up). The quilting is done in colored thread on the triangles (front and back) and white everywhere else.

8.8.11

It's a quilt with feet! Finally got around to photographing my new quilt at the very last second (this is immediately before dropping it off at the fair). Proper post about it coming.

7.9.11

Took the family on a field trip to Sisters for the annual outdoor quilt show. What a trip. I've never been to a street festival where 75%+ of the attendees are older women. It was very calm. Lovely to get up into the mountains and see a cute pioneer town, all bedecked with lovely quilts!







The boys liked this one the best!

Makeda's Grey & Gold Quilt

I made this quilt back in April for my niece Makeda (born in May, had to wait to show the pics!). My own design, 33" x 39". Although the front looks nothing like my last quilt, they both have a striped binding and a polka-dot backing. Michael and Sheba did not find out what they were having, so I used gold and grey fabrics from my stash to make a nice gender-neutral quilt. I machine quilted wide zig-zags in gold, and hand quilted in the solid grey stripe with red no. 8 pearl cotton.

WIP Wednesday: a quilt in progress

The Eugene Modern Quilt Guild is having a solids challenge right now. We were each given a charm pack of 5" squares of solid color fabrics and challenged to come up with a quilt design using only those squares and additional solid fabrics. Here is what I've got so far. The spark for this design was inspired by this quilt by Rita of Red Pepper quilts. I finished sewing the quilt top over the weekend, and now it's hanging on the wall waiting for quilting inspiration to strike. I've had several ideas so far, but none seem just right. I'm going to let it sit a little longer and see what I come up with.

4.7.11

Nathaniel's Crossed Quilt

You may remember a few months back when I posted a picture of these fabrics which I purchased without any idea as to what they would become. After letting them sit in my space for a little while, I realized they would make a perfect quilt for my friend Heather's baby.



The quilt measures 30" x 40"; my own design. I used one piece of the large dots for the back, and bound the quilt with the blue & brown stripe. I finished the quilt a few weeks ago (actually the day before Heather went into labor!), and was able to deliver it to baby Nathaniel last week.

Tiger Quilt

36" x 36", hand cut and machine appliqued tiger based on this design by Sean. I made this as a test run for future appliqued projects, and I like how it came out a lot.



I did the applique work at the same time as the quilting, so that there is an outline-only version of the tiger on the back of the quilt.



The tiger stripes are quilted in the same orange color as the tiger, but the lightning bolts are quilted in hot pink.

Henry's Caterpillar Quilt

I finished this one back in January, but the day it was done it went straight onto Henry's bed and I just put off taking pictures.



74" x 52", my own design using The Very Hungry Caterpillar fabric. I was browsing fabric online with Henry last summer, and he spotted it and immediately requested a quilt made from it.



When I asked him what he wanted on the back he said, "my name, real big!"

2.3.11

Finished the quilting on my tiger quilt! This is the back.

12.22.10

Home stretch of the xmas sewing! Now if I can just get the hand sewing done in the next two days...

Handmade Holiday: a quilt-taggie for James

I've never understood the concept of "taggie blankets". They've always seemed too small and a bit strange to me. But a few weeks ago, we were over at a friend's house and James found her baby's taggie and went nuts grabbing and eating it. So, I figured he must like them!





I pieced together a 15" patchwork square, stitched it up with a larger piece of the Christmas fabric for the back along with batting and loops of ribbon, then quilted it in echo squares. Photos taken a little too quickly before wrapping, but I figure this is the best it will ever look! I hope James likes it.

Henry's Caterpillar quilt (back)

You may remember that Henry asked for "my name, real big" on the back of his quilt. There ya go, kid. That's 67" wide, nearly the whole width of the quilt. Now I just need to add border panels and the back will be done. Then I'll have to figure out how I'm going to quilt this thing...

Henry's Caterpillar quilt (top)

Finally got the top of Henry's quilt done! I started this during the summer, but then put all sewing on hold while we ran around outside for a few months. Now that the weather is turning, we're back on inside activities which means I can get my sewing done. 74" x 52"... now for the back. Henry wants "my name, real big". OK, I can do that.

HST Doll Quilt for Amelia

24" square, made for Amelia for her 2nd birthday from a charm pack of Plume by Tula Pink, some plain white, and backed with yardage of one of the Plume prints. Bound with a pink/white stripe (not sure which fabric).

three ribbons

After talking about it for several years, I finally got it together and entered some of my work in the Lane County Fair. I entered three quilts and three photographs, and was so incredibly pleased to see that I won three ribbons!