Orange Saturday

Last week I did manage to cut a bunch of 2 inch squares for the pile of colorful squares. I think that will be a fun quilt next year once I decide what to do with them.

Then.... I finally put my quilt hangers up in the dining room and have a fall quilt hanging right now. I decided I needed something more halloweenish so drew up this little wall hanging and have been working on it the last two days.

VtQuilter - Halloween quilt drawing

I used a combination of stencils from a kids Halloween package of colored paper and some cookie cutter shapes to make my blocks. I've used a combination of hand appliques to make these - plain needle turn by drawing a line around the cookie cutter on the candy corn, freezer paper on top on the pumpkins and freezer paper inside with the shape pressed under for the witches hat and ghost. I still need to applique the cat down and the top of the pumpkins. I pictured a checkerboard around and between the blocks and then a small inner border and then a pumpkin print for the outer border. I'm thinking an orange binding....... Oh, I also need to make the BOO and put that on the pumpkins.

Halloween Quilt - VtQuilter

Last night I finished the hand quilting on another of my QSAB blocks. I really like the borders on this one.

QSAB - VtQuilter

Close up - VtQuilter

What orange goodness have you been working on this week? Head on over to Angela at SoScrappy and see what others have been working on this week. I'm also going to hook up with Kathy on Sunday for slow stitching Sunday.

Grandpa and Grammy are visiting from Vermont this week so we are taking the kids bowling later this morning. Hopefully I can get some more sewing done and make some progress on this wall hanging today. Have a great weekend.

Memory Lane week 2

This week I'm showing my quilt which is one of my favorites. I took this class at Yankee Pride in Essex Jct., Vermont while Aidan was a baby so it was the fall of 2008. This was a mystery quilt and I was so nervous picking out my colors - my first quilt with batiks. I believe it was my first mystery quilt ever and it actually turned out really well!  I was working on the top that winter and did manage to get the top done before Emily was born in April 2009. It took another year for it to get quilted but that's life with 2 kids under age 2 in the house.

My Quilt - 2008-2010 VtQuilter

The colors don't show too well but the border is a purple batik with greens and blues.

VtQuilter

I love how it looks like there are angles and it was all straight sewing. Such a neat effect.

VtQuilter - close up of the machine quilting.

A close up of the quilting. I just did loops and swirls.

This quilt has all my favorite colors in it and now lives in the 'reading room' at the front of the house. It is often used to make forts and tents to entertain the kids and does get a lot of use. Head on over to Krisite's and see a beautiful quilt show of memories.

Tiny Tuesday

I was able to get #59 Chrysanthemum all sewn up on my Friday afternoon sew in. As long as you put the fabric the correct side out when sewing... it went together very easily! 

FNSI

I'm joining in the FNSI..... are you?

A trip down memory lane....

Kristie over at Cowgirl Quilter is doing a link up on Thursdays where we can pull out some older quilts and revisit them. The quilt I was thinking of doing this week is in Aidan's closet and he is down for a nap. So, I'll share this sampler one this week.

This is a sampler quilt that I made around 2004 and 2005 as a $5 block quilt from Yankee Pride in Essex Jct., Vermont. I made two sets of blocks and the other is done with green setting blocks and a green print border. That one lives at my sisters house up in Vermont. This quilt is tied... which is how I used to finish all my quilts until a few years ago when I started machine quilting them. This little quilt gets used a lot - the kids put it on the floor and then put their little table on it to have a snack while watching a tv program. It is much easier to wash a quilt than to clean up the carpet from spills.

It is hard to believe that I didn't know my hubby when I made this quilt! We met in 2006 and tomorrow we will be married for 6 years. Boy has the time flown and life has changed a lot in the last 8 years. 

Head on over to Kristie's blog and see a quilt show while we take a ride down memory lane.

Another shoe bag

I did get to make Aidan's dance shoe bag before he had class yesterday. He went with the trains and truck side out and had the dino side out when I went to pick him up.

Tiny Tuesday #60 - French 4's

This was a paper pieced block that went together very quickly. A nice simple block for a change!