FLYING EYES

FLYING EYES custom gang jacket for Sean (from Sean's design): hand cut, machine appliqued cotton on denim jacket.

Jr. Cheeseburger jacket

Made this Jr. Cheeseburger jacket for my favorite lil rocker!
Hand cut and appliqued quilting cottons on denim jacket (size 2T).

2.15.12

rockin' this jacket
appliqued denim for James
junior cheeseburger

1.28.12

Jr. Cheeseburger
hand appliqué on denim
a work in progress

11.16.11

My prizes from the EMQG anniversary party: a potholder by Virginia, a wallet by Denise, insane 70s patchwork book and awesome loteria fabric scraps!

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.

6.28.11

Today figured out that I can watch Netflix instant and edit photos at the same time! And of course I was sewing at the same time as well. Multitask!

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.

PORK banner

I made this banner to hang up at Eugene Fashion Week (we're one of the event sponsors). It's an enlarged version of our logo. You may have spied me working on it here. The banner is 22" x 60", made of black denim and the letters are machine-appliqued tissue lamé over interfacing. This was a lot of fun to make and I think it came out really nicely!

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.

12.26.10

Work in progress: cutting out a tiger applique, which is kind of like cutting out a stencil, only much harder.

Handmade Holiday: a quilted clutch

I made this little patchwork/quilted clutch for the handmade gift exchange at our Stitch & Bitch holiday party. It's 10" x 5". I used some scraps of Tula Pink's "Plume" line (left over from the doll quilt I made for lil' Amelia).

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.