Here are a few pictures of things I've gotten accomplished lately..
This pattern is from a calendar my mom got me for Christmas last year. The pattern is actually red, white and blue and it says "Home" in the middle but I made it into a baby quilt. I printed off the letters for "Baby" from Microsoft word after I found a font size that was appropriate and I put iron on adhesive on the fabric and traced around the letters and cut them out. Then I ironed them to the center block and machine stitched around them just in case! I made this a few weeks ago but I put it away thinking I was going to add a border but I don't think I will. It still needs to be quilted and have the binding put on.
(Clearly I'm not tall enough to get all of it in the picture haha)
This is a table runner I finished yesterday and MAN did it take a long time. I'm very happy with the way it turned out. I found measurements for the mini churn dash in a book I have and went from there. I quilted it myself using a method I found on youtube.com but that was also very time consuming. Still happy with it though! (Stood on the bed for this picture hehehe)
a close up of the churn dash and the little bows I stitched on the corners! It measures 9 3/4" X 45 1/2"
This pattern I actually saw as a picture online and then I decided I wanted to use 5 1/2" blocks and just made a 9 patch and some borders! SUPER EASY! This measures 35 1/2" square. I've had these fabrics grouped together for a while now and just didn't know what pattern I wanted to use. I actually finished this a few days ago but it still needs to be quilted and have binding put on.
here is a close up of the purple with tiny white polka dots and the darker purple with the grapes! SO cute!
This is a table topper that I finished earlier before I ran errands! I love the chili pepper fabric and if you've been following along you'll know that I've used it in several projects ;) and I still have some left!! The topper measures 15 1/2" square and I still need to quilt it. The pieced blocks are a disappearing 4 patch and it wasn't as time consuming as it may look!
And EVERYTHING I have shown you today I made from my stash! No cost out of pocket! However, I did run out of thread while I was binding the red, white, and blue table runner and I did have to run out for some more red thread. Unbelievable, right? So I guess I was out a few dollars on thread...but it was a necessary purchase.
I think I'm going to take it easy the rest of the day and make a few simpler (but still cute) projects.
