Birds

I'm obsessed with birds lately, how about you?  I even bought a scarf with birds on it last week!  These birds I made came from a book I got at the Book Fair in Northern Virginia on our last trip north (I don't have the book in front of me, but I'll post the title next time):

He's a work in progress - but I love him!  Needs his tail figured out and a beak, eyes, leg wraps, embellishment, etc.... just a little work.  :-)  Sometimes I just have to mull projects over in my mind for awhile before I can "see" the finished project.  I'm just about ready to get back to this bird and get him done.  I hate that he's blind and can't speak!

Opportunity Quilt

It's my turn to provide the "Opportunity Quilt" for the WOWE Quilt Show this year.  I decided to use the star blocks I made during retreat in April and make a patriotic quilt.  Here is the quilt top so far:

I need to decide on borders.  The best way to do that is to bring this top to my Friday Friends sewing group and ask the girls!  They always know what's best.  So once I have the answer from my quilty friends, I'll get this top done and start thinking about the quilting.  Speaking of quilting, I have 2 tops half loaded on the Gammill that I need to get quilted!  Better get going....

New Quilt Block

Brother has finished another Barn Quilt Block.  This one is going to White Bluff, TN.

Iron Caddies

I'm making Iron Caddies for the WOWE Boutique at the quilt show this November.  Here is a custom one i made for Shirley:

This is what they look like opened up.  You can use them as a pressing surface when not carrying your hot iron in them:

They have a heat resistant fabric on one side and a decorative fabric on the outside, insul-bright inside to keep everything extra safe from the hot iron.  We're selling the large one's for $20 and the small size one for $18.

A Finish!

Well finally.  I finished a project I started 3 years ago.  Not a big project, just one that kept lingering.  I started it 3 summers ago, re-do a chair for the guest bedroom.  Not a big deal, right?  I guess it was for me!  The first summer I spray painted it white.  The second summer I spray painted it white again, but with a gloss finish.  This summer, I have done the seat upholstery.  Yes, it's done.  And in it's new home, not kicking around the basement or getting in the way in my sewing room.  It's finally done and here's the proof:

I used the same fabric for the seat that I used in the headboard for the bed in the guest room.  It's a pretty grey swirl that shows up kinda funny looking in photos, but is just perfect in person.  The chair sits in the corner of the guest room by the closet door.  Here is the headboard and a better pic of the chair:

For some reason, e blogger took uploaded all the pics and not just the 2 I selected.  At this point I guess I should add a photo of the quilt that hangs in the guest room.

This quilt hangs on the wall across from the bed.  It has dragonflies quilted in the white squares.  I quilted it on my Janome 6600 a few years ago.  I think it was the first large quilt I ever quilted on my home machine.
Well, that's my guest room!  The color of the walls in the first pictures of the chair is more true than the later pics.  I really love that green, so soft and summery.

Two For One

Well, I tried an experiment.  Glad I tried it, even though I made lots of mistakes.  I decided to load 2 WOWE quilts on the Gammill at the same time.  Good idea, just not executed well.  Here's some pics of the 2 quilts on the Gammill.  What I'll do different next time is sew the 2 backs together into one back and then lay one full width king size batting on it and then the 2 quilt tops.  I laid these out like 2 separate quilts, and that just didn't work like I hoped it would.  But I got them done and they're waiting for me to bind them.