[ bellow ]

This is the replacement piece for my new washing machine. It's called a bellow, and I am guessing it's pretty important. Notice it is still in the box.
That's because I finished my quilt, BEFORE my washer was fixed.
I love it so much it hurts. I quilted it using straight lines. Double lines running up an down and then a single line going sideways. I wanted the emphasis to be on the fabric and not on the quilting.
The back is all this phenomenal navy polka dot. Jumbo polka dot. My heart it starts palpitating.

I even made an executive decision to hand sew the binding. It's look so much better than machine binding, but takes much more time.

This one is staying here with my boys.

My washer was fixed a few hours ago. Just in time to spend an entire weekend catching up on dirty laundry.

Lucky me !

[ two hours late ]

Last week I was waiting for the repairman to come and fix my washer. He was late. Two hours late, so while I waited I used some of my "angry energy" to cut out over 150 of these little squares. I cut so many I need a new blade on my rotary cutter.
Then I decided to play around and I came up with a little something like this. I get giddy when I look all all the random colors and patterns. Most of this fabric was left-over scraps from other projects, so it feels good to use up what was left. Almost like recycling, but not quite.
Today I pieced the strips together and I am still in love with the boldness and the in-your-face blast of colors. At this rate I will have the entire thing finished BEFORE my new washer is repaired.

Walmart surprise !

I found these fat quarters at Walmart awhile ago, I scooped them up right away because of how un-Walmart like they were. The colors, the patterns. Loved them.
I turned them into this. I used white fabric from my stash.
Quilted using my squiggles. Binding was my pink on pink polka dot fabric. Big surprise there.
I had a special little girl in mind when I made this and low and behold she moved to Delaware, so now she gets to use it every time she spends the night with us :)
It ended up being a little smaller than crib size, I can't remember the exact measurements, I want to say 29 inches by 34 inches ? It ended up being another one added to my favorite pile.

[project # 9]

Puppies, polka dots and stripes. What's not to love ?

The puppy fabric was left over from a quilt that I made my nephew last year.
As promised, no squiggly quilting in this one. Just straight lines.
My Facebook friend Dawn graciously donated a whole bunch of blue gingham fabric, and I chose to use it for the back and binding. I love, love, love how it came out.

My official quilt holder for the day was Kegan, home sick with a nasty cough. I asked him to hold the quilt up straight and this is what I got.

The finished size is 54 inches by 40 inches.

A very special thank you to Dawn for her donation. There is plenty of the gingham fabric left so expect more greatness soon ! Thank you Dawn !

[ project # 8 ]

Hello # 8 !

Love your orange, blue, green and yellow-ness. You remind me of Spring.

That's a VERY, VERY good thing.
More squiggly quilting. Are you sick of the squiggles yet ? It's okay don't worry, the next quilt will be squiggle free.
You know how I said this pattern is really easy from start to finish ? I kid you not. I did this in one day. ONE. No caffeine this time.
The back has a cute animal zoo print fabric, and the binding is green and while polka dot (roll eyes) fabric. The finished size is 42 inches by 42 inches.

[project 7]

This quilt was created during a caffeine overdose. I took a Midol (one, mind you) and then drank a Pepsi. It was great. I got more done in an hour than I did all last week.
The doggie fabric came from my mother-in-laws stash. Everything else was left over material from different projects.
I used the same exact pattern as the cherry quilt. It's by far one of the easier ones for me to make, from start to finish. I like that it's big enough to cover a little kid or baby, but also small enough to not get in the way.
The backing and binding are the same doggie material. It was too cute not to use in mass quantities. The finished size is 42 inches by 42 inches.

[project 6]

I think I mentioned before that I loved these fabrics separately, not so much together (at least with this pattern).
I chose to quilt it using dark brown thread. Again not sure if I like the finished results.
However it's done and it's different.
Added to the pile, almost 1/2 to my goal of 12.