a modern baby quilt

I wanted to share my latest creation, a baby quilt that I made with my dear friend, Molly. She is due in April with her first baby, a boy, named Carl Champ. Molly designed her nursery using a fabric collection by Moda, called "wee woodlands." She and I designed the quilt, and I machine quilted the piece. It was a wonderful collaboration, we worked together several days, in between nap times and lunches, to create this beautiful baby quilt. I will add pictures of her nursery soon, so that you can see the quilt in its "natural environment."

Look mom, I'm blogging!!

Well Sisters, I am blogging....Debbie is talking me through this. She is definitely the computer guru in the family and I might add a creative quilter.  I am in the process of setting up my new/old sewing room and committed to getting at least three prayer blankets done before mass this Sunday.  Some of you may know that we have a prayer blanket ministry in our parish, St Joachim in Old Mines.  Myself and another woman in the parish started it after receiving prayer blankets/shawls when a family member died.  Steffie's death was my inspiration and Monica's son, Austin, killed in Afghanistan, inspired her action.  To date our ministry has made and given more than 200 blankets.  I will post more information about the ministry, after Debbie shows me how.    

I fell in love with the pattern to make these dolls. It is Simplicity 2462. I made these three for my triplet great nieces on their 3rd birthday. When my 8 yr old granddaughter Madison saw the dolls, she wanted one so I made her one for Christmas and most recently made one for the 5 yr old daughter of a friend who is like a granddaughter to me. All the dolls take on a charater of their own as I made them. On each doll I put a heart on the tummy with the child's name on it except for Madison who wanted a peace sign on hers. I myself love dolls and am considering making some for myself for my sewing room. The pattern is really easy to make. I wish now I would have thought to make a label to put on the back of each doll saying who it was made by. I didn't think of it at the time. All the little girls I made them for just loved them. On a new note, I added some more pictures to our album of quilts. Sister Susan(country quilter) and I made a quilt wall hanging for our sister Barb's 70th birthday. Make sure you go take a peak at the quilt and the label. Keep on quilting and crafting ladies... til next time.... Debbie

I don't know if you're like me but I was forever rummaging through my sewing drawers looking for my scissors, seam ripper, etc; until my sister Barbara made this for me. She made one for me and our sister Susan off the one she had that someone had made for her. I found a pattern in Simplicity for the sewing bucket and wanted to share this with everyone. Now I no longer have to rummage, everything I use often like scissors, seam ripper, tape, marking pen, etc; is right there in my bucket and it looks so cute. It fits over a 48 oz coffe can. It would make a great gift for yourself or a friend. On a different note, I spent most of yesterday reorganizing my sewing room. I had been sewing on a 6 ft folding table with another one set up as a cutting table. It worked alright but I have a very bad back and the table was just too low. Hancock fabrics have their Hobby tables on sale and I went over and bought one. The one I bought has two large drawers (good place to put your olfa cutters) and folds out to 60 in. but better yet it folds up when not in use. I still am using one of the 6 ft tables to sew on. I have my regular sewing machine, my embroidery machine and a 1951 Singer electric. Sews like a dream and is great for those heavy items you might need to sew like hemming jeans and things like that. I might add I call this my "Woman Cave". My little peace of heaven where I can go in, shut the door, turn on the tv and chill. Till later, keep on sewin' and creating ladies!