A Little of This and A Little of That!!

Sometimes I sit down to write on this blog and wonder if what I have to say or show is interesting or not, which is why I tend to not post too often.

Since it has been a little while since I have posted, I thought I would take that opportunity to show you some of the quilts that I have been working on both in my long-arm business and also my sewing life.

If you have read my blog before, you know that I am participating in a Instagram Mini Quilt Swap (everything is done and ready to be mailed, but I have to wait until the official ship date).  Well, they tend to be quite addictive and I have found that I signed up for another one!!  Yep…..I know….I really don’t have the time…..but they are fun!!  And, I have actually passed up quite a few other swaps, although I still do like to follow what everyone is doing.  Anyway, the swap I signed up for is the Alison Glass Mini swap.  Alison Glass is a fabric/pattern designer and I had never heard of her nor had I used any of her fabric, so I thought this would be fun……plus it is a good opportunity to stock up on some more fabric!! 🙂

Here are the fabrics that I intend to use as they were listed as favorites of my swap partner:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also have recently found another quilter/designer from Romania who has some of the coolest patterns.  Her name is Geta Grama.    She had a free pattern on her site that I am trying.  I have done the first steps and this weekend hope to applique these down and then will eventually quilt this.

I also recently participated in Gyleen Fitzgerald’s Mystery Quilt on Facebook.  It was five weeks of clues and in the end you ended up with a quilt.  I stopped at the smaller size although you could make it larger.  This was a fun quilt to make…..plus it used scraps!!!!  Yahoo!!!!  She has the pattern available on her website.

I made a small scrappy “I Spy” type quilt for a little boy that lives in Japan that we know and just sent that off to him today.  I had fun with this and I am hoping he will like it too!!  I think that we forget that sometimes simple quilts make some beautiful and fun quilts!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a couple of quilts I quilted recently for customers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a couple of larger quilts coming up next so I will try to take a lot of pictures along the way.

I hope everyone is staying warm (only 29 days until the first day of Spring!) and finding time to sew!!

Happy Quilting!!