Halloween Dresses!

I was shopping the other day with my Grandaughter Jayden 

and we came across some Halloween Eyeball fabric, she 

says to me "Granny, I want an Eyeball dress!". Well, the 

fabric was $12 a yard, so NO GO....

So, afterwards we went over to Joanns and 

she picked out this cute fabric with 

Green Bats!  So I made her this super quick

and easy pillowcase dress...she loves it!

This second one I made for a co-workers daughter, it has 

Halloween Taffys all over it and glitter...very cute!

She wore it to school and it fit perfect, so cute!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Linking up with Richard and Tanya quilts for a Friday finish!!

Celtic Solstice Top is DONE!

Yippee!

My Celtic Solstice Quilt Top is DONE!

This is Bonnie Hunters Mystery quilt for 2013.

I have really enjoyed making Bonnie Hunters mystery the last

couple of years, her patterns are amazing, I always

love the end results! I tend to keep all of my 

Bonnie mysterys for myself...they are alot of work 

but SO worth it!!

This baby came out to 86x104

AWESOME! 

Now to get it quilted and bound..

WIP and Progress

An Account of Quilts I have in process...

its sort of frightening so beware!!

QBSA Lonestars-blocks done, construction in process
QBSA Blackmans Beauty-blocks done
QBSA Stashbusters Blocks-still collecting blocks
Scrappy Trip Bee-Purple/Black-still collecting blocks
Granny Blocks-blocks done
Tobacco Road-almost put together
Split 9 Patch Blocks-blocks done
Wild & Goosey Blocks-in progress still
Kaseys Polka Dots-Done, needs binding!
Scrappy Spider Web-neutral stars-Top Done!
Celtic Solstice-Top done,to the Quilter!
Block Lotto Blue Bars-Top done!
Junettes Mess of a quilt
Damons Recycled Shirt String Quilt-Started

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Future Quilts to do:

Grand Illusion
Zanes Chevron Quilt
Cades Quilt
Cades Dads Quilt
Mias Quilt
Laurens T Shirt-Softball
Laurens T shirt- concerts
New Grandbaby Quilt
Michael-Harley T shirts
Lacey-Police Quilt
Lacey-Owls Baby Quilt
Jennifers Quick Curve Ruler Quilt

In the Longarming Pile

Block Lotto Blue Bars
Split Decison Blue/Gray
Arkansas Crossings x2
Postage Stamp
Baby Quits x4
Neutral Spider Web

Another Quilt Started

I am making new quilts for two of my nephews who

are both brothers and students at 

California State University Sacramento.

The first one that I have started is for the

older brother Damon.  Its all made

from recycled shirt strings...its perfect for him.

This is the first 12 blocks, I think I like how this 

is coming along!

I'm blinded by Polka Dots!

My daughter-in-law Kasey is such a sweetheart..

and a patient girl at that.  She asked for this 

Polka Dot quilt a couple of years ago and

with everything in life going on, I just didnt get it 

done for her..bad bad me!

I am happy to report and show that I have gotten her quilt

together and that she WILL get it this Christmas!  

It is bright bright bright, exactly like she wanted and I have to 

admit, its right up my alley with its wonderful bursts of color!

Here it is on the longarm frame, I am doing simple loopy

loops on it with pink thread.  She asked for the yummy

hot pink tie dye flannel for the backing. 

Its just about finished being quilted then I can get the

binding on, I am thinking a nice solid color for the binding..

what do you all think?

QBSA block for October

For my QBSA swap this month, my partner

was Debbie in Canada. 

She requested any block in Yellows and

white on whites...I think this lonestar

block fits the bill!!

Its on its way!

RSC October

Our colors for this months Rainbow Scrap Challenge

are Browns, Grays and Blacks!

Here I have 12 Brown String blocks..

and 3 Churn Dashes, one in Gray...

on in Brown and one in Blue.  The blue

one is an extra, that fabric was just staring me in the

face so now its a block...haha!

Halloween Ornament Swap

I joined in on a

 Halloween Stitchy Ornament swap

over at

       WisdomwithNeedleandThread.BlogSpot.com

The plan was to stitch up anything

"Halloweenish" for your partner

and make it into an Ornament for

them to display this year for Halloween.

              

Heres what I made for my partner. 

                                 WICKED!! 

With a scary Halloween Raven!!

It was a quick little stitching project for me,

 I like how it turned out...I sure

hope my partner does too..I am sending along

4 Sees Candies Lollipops with her ornament..chocolate, vanilla, butterscotch and

Café Latte! Yummo!!!

And here is what I received
from my parter Jenn...super cute!

I love love love that little tiny 
black cat stitchery, so cute!
A Yummy Maple lollipop , some cute
ribbons, a pattern and the most adorable 
hand made Halloween card...

Thanks Jenn!!

Its done! Yay!  My Bonnie Hunter Spider Web Quilt is

finished and I love it!  I even longarmed it myself, a major step!

This was the biggest quilt I have longarmed myself to date!

Here it is on the frame...not very much room left for this 

quilt to be any bigger!

Heres a close up of my loopy loops...not to shabby!

Needless to say, finishing up the binding on this beast took me a 

couple of days but it is done done done and I have it on my

bed for ME! Its so cozy and warm, a perfect winter quilt!

YAY!!!

Linking up with 

Richard & Tanya Quilts for 

Link a Finish Friday!

http://blog.richardandtanyaquilts.com/

On the frame!!

Got another quilt loaded onto the longarm frame today..

This is a scrappy strings quilt with a 

scrappy green pieced backing..

I did stipple for the first time on this 

quilt, I like how it looks...I used green thread 

both in the top and bobbin...looks good so far!

Quilt Doodles BOM

I finished the final row of the 

Quilt Doodles BOM! 

The last row was the cute little

Christmas lights at the top.  

I have the first row shown below which was snowmen to put on the bottom 

but I have to add their button eyes first.

You can see that row in the

bottom photo..

I am loving how this quit is coming out...there are

more surprises coming to finish it up..

LOVE IT!

Grand Illusion Fabric Pull

Oh Bonnie Hunter, I love you and your scrappy goodness!!

I'd like to personally thank Bonnie for everything that she

does for all us quilters all over the world...she

has an amazing blog, writes wonderful quilting books,

shares her travels, and the best thing of all, her patterns and her

yearly mystery quilt!!

This is my third year following along with her mysterys.

Heres my Easy Street from 2012

Here is my Celtic Solstice from 2013

(love this one!)

This years Mystery is called Grand Illusion...

you can find all the info on Bonnies blog@

www.quiltville.com

Bonnie just put

the Introduction post yesterday 

with the fabric

requirements...all I am missing in my stash is the 

2 yards of yellow....so I will have to make a trip to find some yellow that I like....wish me luck!

Yellow just isnt a favorite of mine..maybe this quilt will 

change my mind eh?  

A Friday Finish!

I took Bonnie Hunters Leader/Ender Challenge 

which was to make these scrappy Lozenges blocks.  I used up

a whole bunch of scraps especially because I ended up with 

TWO of these quilt tops! Yippee!!

Lozenges Quilt Finish #1

and heres a little close up of my 

longarming...its coming along, I am getting

better and better but I still struggle with it..

Just happy as ever to be finishing my own quilts! Yay!

Linking up to Richard & Tanya Quilts

Friday Finish!

http://blog.richardandtanyaquilts.com/