TARDIS

Adelaide loves Dr Who so I made her a TARDIS quilt for her birthday. She loves loves loves it. 

Another castle

Here is another castle quilt. They are so fun to make. 

And here is the back. 

Nellie helped me design this one. 

Tardis quilt

I have been gone all summer in Connecticut.  For some reason I that made me unable to update this blog. Oh well. Maybe I will get better. Maybe. 

Adelaide's birthday is coming up. I decided to make her a quilt for it. So far it is a surprise. I think that I can keep it a surprise. 

I started with the windows. 

And worked from there. 

Did some embroidery. 

And some more embroidery. 

She has seen parts. But has not realized what it is. 

It is huge!

I am super excited about the back. 

Exploding Tardis!

So now is time to quilt it. I am probably going to put a little appliqué on it before I quilt. 

Oh the things aunts will do for their neices. 

Bea's Quilt

I finished this a few months ago and I found a picture! 

Lost Ships Quilt

I also finished my lost ships quilt. So far no one has claimed it yet. 

Maybe I should have cleaned Adelaide's room before I took this picture...

 The fusible batting was a stinker on this one and would only fuse to one side. And the orange floral, although lovely had a tendency to bunch. It took forever to machine quilt! And I had to unpick a lot! But I am pleased with the final product. 

Finished Tree of Life

I never posted the finished picture. This is the best one I could find. 

Maybe I should have Samantha take a picture of it hung up in her place. This one is hung over another picture. 

Castles

I am loving the castle quilts. Here are two of them. 

I just sent this one to one of my friends. It looks like I forgot to take a picture of it totally done.

Adelaide has claimed this one. 

More and more quilts

I have completed quite a few castle quilts. They are so fun to make. But I also finished my other quilt. So here are some pictures. 

I am getting better and better at machine quilting. So far my trick is fusible bating and sitting on the floor. 

Grant has claimed this quilt as his. 

Quilt update

I am farther than these pictures indicate. But I am posting them anyway. 

All red and white. But running out of red fabric. Samantha purchased the fabric years ago so there is no way I can match it. 

I added blue. I love the red and blue but decided to add another color too. 

What could be better. Working on a quilt and reading Jane Austen. (And the green fabric has hummingbirds.)

I am now trying to figure out a border. I am tempted to add yellow in my border. I will incorporate the blue and green as well. So fun!

Tree of life

Samantha requested a wall hanging so I decided to make her a tree of life one. 

It is not quite done but should not take long to finish. 

I used a slick trick I found on the Internet using aluminum foil to make the perfect circles. It was totally slick. 

A new quilt

I started a new quilt. I don't have enough fabric to make it two toned so now I have to decide how I am going to finish it. 

Yes I am currently sewing while sitting crosslegged on the floor 

So far I am loving the contrast 

Preening Peacock

I finally framed my peacock! And give it to Laura for Christmas.