Quilting...Again...ummmm???

The first thing I ever did was hand piece a little pillow cover. I just pieced together some pretty little scraps I had. In little squares. I just wanted to see if I could. I thought it was really cute.

I even sewed a cute little ruffle around the edges of it. It looks a little more uneven now than when I first made it, probably because it's been wallered around for years. 

Then I decided to make a quilt out of old leftover jeans. I had a lot of jeans and I thought it would be a good thing to take to the lake to sit on, to lay our air mattress on, and the like. So I sewed it, on the machine. It was quite an undertaking for my old Singer, but I got it done. I tacked it here and there, pretty haphazardly all over the quilt on the sewing machine. We have used that quilt a lot.

I made myself a quilt. Hand pieced and then I tacked it and hand hemmed it. I wanted to hand quilt it but time got away from me and I wanted to use it on my "guest room" bed so I went ahead and tacked it. Wonder if I could go back and quilt it. The world may never know.

I like the way it turned out, and I use it for my bedspread in my room now. Makenna even added some nail polish to it, and it blends it pretty well. I am not even going to try to get it out, it is just a memory of when she was little.

Next I made Danielle and Jared a quilt when they got married. I finally got it ready two or three months after they said "I do". I did not hand piece it, did it on the machine. I did not hand quilt it, I had Bob's Aunt June quilt it on her quilting machine and she did a fabulous job. I did hand stitch the hem, so there is that. 

I LOVE the way it turned out. I have always loved blue and white and used to want our bedroom in these colors. Just decided maybe the green/browns/and flowers would fit our room more. I even tried my hand at applique and I think it worked out pretty good!

Now I want to start a quilt for Courtney. She says her favorite color is a coral color, and she still likes it but she also likes aqua, turquoise, teal and those colors. She says any kind and any color of quilt is wonderful because she just wants a quilt! I have a pattern found that Courtney saw and really liked. Its just a simple nine patch pattern and I really like that because I said I would only piece squares and rectangles....no triangles! So I need to get busy and piece that baby, take it and get it quilted!





Sooooo.....I need to get busy and start finding fabric to make another quilt. I need to make one for Jessi, Hayden and Kyle too...I would like to make each grandkid I have a quilt, just something they can have that Grandma made for them.  And of course, all my kids too. I got to get to sewing!