This last week has been a fabulous week! My sister Laura from Pennsylvania came out to visit me to do some quilt stuff and other crafty fun and boy did we get a lot done. She also came to visit her daughters family here and she is probably getting much needed rest from our adventurous and exhausting week! Normally, both of us agree that quilting is rather relaxing activity, but not at the pace we did! It was indeed rewarding and loads of FUN!

So here we are showing off our newest joint project! This cornucopia pattern was in the last Quilt Sampler magazine. It normally was created with using felted wool and was beautiful. We decided to use batiks because we wanted it to blend this with a earlier fall quilt hanging we did a couple years ago and plus the fact we didn't want to invest in wool just quite yet! Maybe some day I will do something with felted wool. I have added some bead work to the tendrils since photographing this.

This will be Quilt project #50. The next couple of days I will show off quilt #51 that we also did this week and then I'll show other crafty fun as well! Back to work tomorrow!

Enjoy!

Here is the finished Project. This t- shirt quilt will be quilt #49 for me and the first t-shirt quilt that I have done. It was a new challenge for me and I learned a lot from doing this. It was definitely a fun thing to be creative with all the different blocks, utilizing fabric that were both from t-shirts and from the scarfs that were made to fit around each dogs neck.

As you can see, this quilt is going to belong to a member of the Arizona Golden Retriever Connection organization. I sure hope she enjoys it.
This is just another close up of an individual block with appliqued blocks on the bottom corners.

Enjoy!

P.S. I don't know why I didn't move that Frisbee out the picture before I shot the picture, its probably been there so long that I didn't even notice it until it was too late. Oh Well!

Here are some updates on the T-shirt quilt that I am working on.

You see it all ready for the layers to be pinned and trimmed.

This cute label will be added on later after all the signatures get on. Do you like the bones?

This photo shows the bottom sashing and boarder with another t-shirt built in with a quote my customer wanted put in. You don't see it the first photo, I am having a hard time getting up high enough to photo the whole quilt.

Enjoy!

Been making lots of baby receiving blankets for my future grand kids. Being that I live in Arizona, I prefer to make mine just a single layer and then extra large! I know lots of people have made the same size, but I always hear that the ones I make are their favorite and I assume its because of the size. These are just some boy versions because the 3 grand kids that are coming are all Boy's.

Lucky Me!

Enjoy!

Here's the work in progress for a T-Shirt Quilt that I have been commissioned to do for a friend of mine from work. She belongs to a Golden Retrievers Rescue Group and this will be a gift for the leader of this organization. I have never done a t-shirt quilt before. Its been an education for me and a time to be creative in a different sort of way. Its been fun. Lots to do still, the boarders are not on it, and then the sandwiching,quilting etc. need to be done. Only have a few weeks to go to finish. The photo on the right is a close up of one of the squares with a scarf sewn into the sashing. The dogs would have scarfs made for them to wear which I have tried to incorporate in the quilt.

Enjoy!

Here is quilt #48. This is going to be for Jaxon, who will be arriving in November and will be the first child for Stephen and Jodi and my first Grandson.

The fabric is Barnyard Buddies which I had a couple of charm packs for. It took a long time to find some yardage to do the backing and the boarders. Just about every website that I visited had sold all what they had and I was getting desperate.

I guess if I like something, I better buy the coordinates before they go in retirement.

I just did a simple disappearing 9 patch for this quilt.

What I really like is the back. I decided to use up the rest of the 2nd charm pack for the boarder. I will admit, I like the back better then the front.

I sure hope Jodi and Jaxon likes his quilt. I don't have a clue if Jodi and Stephen even read my blog, so just in case you do. Be surprised anyways when you get this at your Baby Shower on Saturday.

My next post will be previews for Quilt #48.

Enjoy!

This week I made 4 more quilted bags for customers. Pictured is only 3 of them, one of the black and creams I had already delivered to my customer.

I have made several of the bags in black and creams which seem to be a favorite, but the pirate skull bag was a fun one to make

This Pirate Skull Bag with batiks was made for Robbie. This design is a typical style for what Robbie likes and when I gave it to her, she really enjoyed it.

I hope you do too!

The batiks in purple, red and ivory all compliment the skull faces. The inside lining is the ivory batik and is complimented with 2 large black skull pockets. This bag measure approximately 17-1/2 x 17-1/2 squared.

I decided to do something different and layer the batiks piano key style up the side instead of the squared blocks version done on others that I usually do. I think it was a unique change and it came out very nice.

Enjoy!