Yellow Ruffled Pillow - DONE!

Ahhh... I made this lovely little bright yellow ruffled pillow. It was a choice on my friend Mayya's site Sew Chic and Unique last week. Her followers chose a basket instead but as you know; I have been making pillows for our living room so I HAD to make this! I have another one in the process of being made.

Here is a close-up of the ruffles.

Here is the back which I chose to make an envelope back again. Unlike the other three pillows; I washed and dried this one. I need to go back and do the same for the others!

Now, off to have lunch and then to watch the latest installment of the Vampire Diaries and then we are going to see How To Train Your Dragon! My Gerry is in it!!

Have a nice weekend.

I FINISHED ALI'S MYSTERY QUILT FROM SIX YEARS AGO! WOO HOO!!

I can't believe that I am finished! I worked hard all day sewing the never ending binding on today! I had to take breaks as I have an injury on my whole forearm and it flares when I do intense hand anything!

Off to the store I go to get lunch items for my babies! Was too busy trying to get this quilt done. I am really pleased with my choice of binding and my hand quilting that also hurt my arm!

It is in the washing machine right now and then it will be dried and then on Ali's body!

Stay tuned tomorrow for some pictures!!

Woohoo!!!

edited to add:

Here it is. Ali is thrilled!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm Pissed Off, So I will hand quilt now!

Lordy, lordy! This A/C split unit was supposed to be installed....

in this space Wednesday! It is Saturday and the man said he would come this morning...

So in the meantime, I will look at my pretty fabrics and decide what adjustments to the Studio shall be made. I put away my lovely huge table. It was impeding with my view of my fabrics and it was literally cramping me. So, I am trying to just use the sewing table for sewing and cutting. Hmm....

Ahh, purple. This makes me so happy! Behind all this fabric, there is another stacked row...

Hello reds!

The blues are busting out of the cube! I might need another cube!

There are my greens. I see South Carolina's State Flower and State Bird fabrics! I am making a quilt for a dear, dear friend soon!

Pinks and Oranges! Ahhhh....

Yellows galore! I have so many more to be ironed. One box, so far, got hit really bad with that idiot painter that put my schtuff out on the roof and watched the torrential rain hit it. I just got to it this past weekend and it stunk!!

Everyone needs a bit of white!

These are my browns. There is that Gemini book! It is a gift for a friend. Not to worry, she is not a faithful blog reader!

Just so you all know, I have a lot more fabric! It is all packed away in boxes under the steps and on the landing upstairs.

Now, on to working on one of Ali's quilts. Hand quilting! I want it washed and used and off my To-Do list!

Oh, and by the way......

HE IS HERE!

I'm DONE!!

Baby Charity Quilt.............check!!!

All done. All I need is to get the Muscat Quilt Guild label and sew that on. I tied the floral blocks on the corners with pink DMC floss. I also sewed along the edges using a 1/4" seam. It made it look sort of like a binding. I thought it would also give it a bit of reinforcement as I sewed a 1/2" allowance. So, it has been washed and dried and I am so pleased! Thanks for stopping by...

I made this today!

I signed up to make a baby quilt that was in a kit for the kids in the Oncology ward. These are not my fabrics but it was a lot of fun to work with something that I would never buy! I really really like this block and I think I will be making it again; but much larger! It is a nice way to showcase some favorite fabrics for the center! I also like the design that the yellow fabric makes. I put this together today and hope to tie it tomorrow. I plan on using a new technique where I don't need a binding. Thanks for stopping by!

Seriously Cupcake!

I made this today! It was fun but harder than I expected! It looks as if the Barbie doll portion is missing!?

The kids thought it looked like a boob. Oooookkkk? I like the ruffle, it looks like the paper part of a cupcake thingy. Our guest of honor wanted blue. I used an Australian recipe and it was/is too sweet. I prefer the American recipe!

It is yummy though!

Three happy kids chowin' on their cake. We went swimming afterwards and hopefully worked it off!

Pillows, pillow and more pillows!

I am so proud of myself!

I took my first 10 spiderweb blocks that did not match up with the next 17 blocks and took apart two sections of four to make two pillows for my new sofas! There are two left so let's see what I do with those!

All made from scraps.

Hmmm....do I like it here or...

here! Ooh, I like it here!

I made the pillow inserts and this is a picture of the backing fabric. I made it an envelope back.

I'm always happy when I can use my cool tools!

Stipple quilting it, yes indeed!

And now there are TWO!!

Here is my third one. Many years ago, my friend Jill and I did some quilting together. We both made this Watercolor Heart block. It was a lot of fun! I finally did something with mine!

There she is all alone! Lovely!!