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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Sewing & Knitting & Crocheting OH MY!

Good Morning Monday! And what a grand day it is to write a blog post.
Busy hands, that is what I have had a lot of lately. Our family has been blessed with another baby on the way due in August. My niece is having a boy Mason Mark.
So of course I went to work making blankets.
Also a family friend is due to have a baby also in August (a girl). So today I thought I would share with you all a few baby gifts I have been creating.
First off for baby girl no name yet Mommy and Daddy want to see her precious face before naming her (although I have been told Mommy and Daddy have two names picked out).
I enjoy sewing blankets in flannel and fleece, the colors and patterns are so pretty now and there are so many amazing prints to choose from. I fell in love with the pastel colors and little leaves and flowers on this flannel.
The baby girl sweater and booties are crochet and the pattern is from the book (Surprise Crochet Sweaters for Baby by Darla Sims). I use cotton yarn when making baby sweaters.

How I love polka dots! they are such happy little dots! and I love adding the little p.s. I love you tag.

The pattern for the blanket with the polka dot trim I found on line from (Missouri Star Quilt Company)

Two fun blankets to sew in a few hours. I watch TV while I sew, do you?

Now for the blankets I made for my new nephew. I used the same pattern from Missouri Star Quilt Company.
And there's Shiloh he looks like he jumped off the blanket LOL. He was sleeping and didn't like that I disturbed him, just look at his face expression LOL.

The puppies are so adorable I think.

A little knitted hat and booties. At first I left them kinda plain and then I thought they needed something, So I made a little M for the hat and changed out the booties ties from black to blue.

You know how tiny the baby is when we bring them home and the car seats seem to swallow then up so to speak, well I thought why not make a tiny blanket just to fit a car seat since a regular size receiver or blanket is just to much for a new born. I made a small crochet car seat blanket.
I went on line and found the pattern for the (Football Embellishment here)

The crochet blanket is my own design.

My niece and her husband live in the S.F. bay area where the Oakland A's are very popular. They attend quite a few baseball games and bring along their 3 year old son, who has become quite the Fan! So as a gift for my 3 year old nephew Makai and his new baby brother Mason I made them a blanket to share while going to the games or watching from home.

I used fleece on one side and flannel on the other. Gary just bought me a new sewing machine and I just had a class on the embroidery functions. This was my first attempt at it.
I used the Disney charactures since this little family also loves Disney land and often visits Mickey so this was a double gift they can use it at the games and while at Disney land.

And the last blanket for all the SF bay area peeps the SF 49er's ! I put the baby's name on it. Teehehe the 49er's are Mommy's team and the Oakland Raiders are Daddy's team ...I think I might make a Raider one for Daddy, but don't tell him OK....LOL

Oh ya, one more thing a little knitted hat in gold and red, the team colors of the NINERS!

I sure do enjoy making blankets of all sorts whether its a quilt, a sewn blanket, crochet or knitted. A home made blanket is like a big (Hug).

Update on Gary's Achilles Tendon Surgery - He is doing very well, had the original surgical cast bandage removed last Monday and a hard cast put on that he will wear for another 3.5 weeks a total of about 6 weeks in a cast.
The incision was about 12 inches long and 40 staples. Poor guy!
We rented a kneeling scooter for him to get around in so much easier, the wheel chair is just to heavy for me to lift in and out of the car ( I'm kinda wimpy)

Joining in with the following blog parties:

Susan-Between Naps on the Porch-Metamorphosis Monday

Kathryn-The Dedicated House-Make it Pretty Monday

Mary-Boogieboard Cottage-Masterpiece Monday

Cheryl-Sew Can Do-Monday

Cindy- Dwellings-Amaze Me Monday

Brenda-Cozy Little Cottage-Tweak it Tuesday

Marty-A Stroll Thru Life-Inspire me Tuesday

Kim-Savvy Southern Style-WOW Us Wednesday

Jann-Have a Daily cup of Mrs. Olson-Share Your Cup Thursday

Courtney-French Country Cottage-Feathered Nest Friday

Sunday, January 6, 2013

~A New Year to Create~

I'm back and boy have I missed you! It seems like forever since I have posted. Before I start my post I want to say "Thank You" to everyone that has left me such sweet and kind notes here on my blog and in emails. Your compassion just filled my heart with love and my eyes with tears..."Thank You" for caring about me and my family.

Sometimes you just need a break to regroup your life and sometimes its just good to rest your mind and heart.

I can't wait to catch up with you all and to see what you all have been up too. I have been keeping my hands busy. Many many years ago I made this counted cross stitch cabin and had put it into a frame but grow tired of it in the fame, so I took it out and cross stitched the hearts and trimmed down the size and made it into a little pillow to sit on the demi chair in our guest room. I went to my fabric statch and found left over drop cloth fabric that I had used to sew the pleated chair cover, now they both match.

It's the perfect little chair to sit on to put your shoes and socks on.

For my first quilt of 2013 I have begun sewing a quilt I found in the Nov./Dec. 2012 Quilt Magazine. I fell in love with the cover quilt call Star Light Star Bright.

Each square is 16 inches and there is only two squares to the pattern along with sides of different fabrics.

This star has 37 pieces to it.

And this star has 21 pieces.

Here's a picture of three squares sewn together. It was raining today and very dark inside the house so this picture is looking a bit dull..but you can get the general idea of the pattern.

I of course changed the colors and fabric from what was

shown in the pattern. Red always stills my heart, so my

Star Light Star Bright quilt is going to be red.

At night while watching TV I have been knitting a scarf, but I ran out of yarn so back to the store I go...It's a very simple pattern. All you do is, row one knit one purl one across, second row knit the row...and repeat.
So tell me what you have been creating.....

Wishing you all a very happy and peaceful week.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Two Quilts

I missed wishing you all a Happy Monday, so Happy Tuesday instead.
This week I would like to share with you two Hawaiian inspired quilts that I just finished, using the fabric that was purchased while in Kauai in May.
For my Grandson Ty who is 7 1/2 in mind I choose these happy and colorful turtles swimming in every direction they are red, blue and green..
The quilt pattern I used is called the Disappearing 9 Patch that uses 10 different fabrics.
I took the photo outside hoping to capture all the bright colors, but I think there was to much glare.
(I'm not the best picture taker, but I try)

I had my quilter top stitch with swirls reflecting waves.

The Disappearing 9 Patch was really a joy to make, you can play with the squares and make any pattern you want with them.

For the back of the quilt I choose surf boards, Ty thought it was " so cool".

The second quilt was a parchel kit, it came with the pattern for "The Yellow Brick Road" quilt and six colors of hibiscus fabric. Again this is a pattern you can play with using any direction of placement of the squares. I prefer the Disappearing 9 Patch pattern because it gives more play and has
a better outcome. That's just me though, I like the Disappearing 9 Patch better.

This quilt will be put away for a future baby girl, I thought it would be fun to make a few quilts (just planning ahead) and I really wanted to use the fabric, I love the colors of all the hibiscus fabric.

To brake up all the print I decided to sew white rick-a-rack into the binding. I really like it and I think it brings a bit of sweetness for a baby girl.

For the back I used white cotton and pieced a strip of all the colors used.

I went to my stash of fabric and found the perfect red for the binding.

I had my quilter top stitch in hibiscus's, I used the hibiscus also for the "Hawaiian Post Card Quilt". I really love this pattern and will probably be using it a lot :) for top stitching.