Monday, September 27, 2010

rag-a-muffin boutique

We are finally doing it! My mom and I are having a craft boutique, and you are all invited!


Visit the event web page here.

I hope you can all come!

Sunday, September 12, 2010

beth's wedding quilt

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One of my BFF's- Beth, is getting married on the beach in Oregon here pretty quick- so I made her a throw in her wedding colors.



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Even though it was hard to find these two colors in enough fabrics to make a whole quilt- I love what I found and how they compliment each other!



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My fav blue one...



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I just love custom embroidered quilt labels!



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Friday, September 3, 2010

quilt for baby van

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I had a hard time tracking down this Neptune jellyroll...

I decided I was going to make a quilt for Van before I even knew he was a boy. I found some anchor patterned fabric on sale at one of my fav quilt shops- secretly hoping that Nan would be having a boy so I could use it.

As soon as the ultrasound came in- I went out and picked up a whole bunch of red, white and blue nautical themed fabric for the quilt. I was planning on making custom embroidery blocks of pirate ships.

After making the first one, I decided I hated it. So I scratched that idea and went with something else. I looked closer at the anchor fabric and found the name- Neptune. So I searched high and low for pieces of the collection, seeing as how it was out of print. I found a jelly roll, and that's it.



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Some of the borders before sewing together...



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And the finished quilt!



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I went with traditional tattoo style embroidered blocks, specialized for little Van.



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One pirate ship did make the cut...



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I had just enough of the jellyroll strips left to make the binding.



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And a sweet little label so he always knows just how much his auntie loves him!