Slide Show Quilt Top

So... I was suppose to be working on a T-shirt quilt for a customer today, but I didn't have enough interfacing for what I wanted to do with the shirts.

Before heading to the store for more interfacing, I decided to to sew a few strips on the Slide Show top I am also working on. Well, needless to say I got a little carried away and finished most of the top.

Now I get to go shopping for a border for this top as well as interfacing.  Yay!

I love having a reason to go to the fabric store.

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Here is my latest Fat Quarter Stars Quilt Along block.
I finished this one just in time for the next one to be announced.

Even though it has bits of blue in it, I am not sure I am feeling the orange fabric in this one.
Hopefully as I add bits of orange to other blocks it will blend a little better.

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Some of This and Some of That...

I had sort of an eclectic sewing day yesterday.  I worked a few different projects.  

First I cut out and sewed a little on the kit I won from Dewberry Lane a couple months ago.  She sent me 11 fat quarters and and pattern by Atkinson Designs called Slide Show.

Next I cut up the fat quarters my friend sent me.  I am going to use the Bear Paw quilt block for these.  I think I may call these Cat Paws though.  :)  I didn't get to sew on these though because I didn't have the right background fabric so I moved on to a different project.

Next I cut strips and sewed them together for the Citizen Sam quilt I am working on.  My neighbor saw the last one I worked on and she wanted to be a part of this next one. She doesn't quilt, but she generously donated funds for the fabric for this one.   

That is pretty good for one day I would say.

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Quilted Brocante

I finished this quilt over the weekend. It was the Schnibbles pattern introduced in April of this year as part of the Le Petite Project group.  I finished my top in time for the parade that month, but I didn't get time to quilt it till this weekend. I used some old fabrics I had in my stash for this quilt.  The black is a Mary Englebreit fabric, which I also used for the back, and the solid centers were left over fabrics that I originally bought for a quilt I made in 2007.  I obviously bought more fabric than I needed for the the little quilt below.  But that is OK, it gave me extra to use in my new Brocante quilt.

 

This quilt is so bright and doesn't match any room in the house.  But it  sure was fun to put to together.

I have three more Le Petite projects to quilt then I will have all 12 projects totally complete.

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Flower Block Sampler Quilt

This is the last customer quilt I worked on in October.
I love the colors in this one. Again I did some custom quilting in each of the blocks.

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Yellow Blue Green Sampler Quilt

 This is another client quilt.  I really love this one. The fabrics are almost solid and they all work well together.  I did some customer quilting for each block and then played around with something different for each border.  

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Appliqued Circles Quilt

This is another customer quilt I worked on this month.
I had a good time working with this one.

After contemplating what to quilt around the appliqued circles, I finally came up with some flower petals.

I did a little different type of feather in the borders.
Same technique of regular feathers, just an extra bump in the feather on the edges.
They are kind of hard to see in the busy print fabric, but they were fun to do.

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Purple Scrapy Quilt

This quilt belongs to another guild mate of mine.  
I finished quilting it the other day and will deliver it on Thursday during our next guild meeting.

In the center of the quilt and the outer border I quilted an all over flowery swirl pattern.
For the inner purple border I did a simple swirl all the way around.

I have had a busy sewing month this October.  
I also have three more customer quilts to turn in at guild meeting this Thursday.
I will post photos of those throughout the week.

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Final Le Petite Parade

Sinta and Sherri asked that we do a post of all the Le Projects we completed this year.  I was able to complete the all 12.  Well almost complete, there are 4 that still need quilting. Here they are in the order they were announced.

Paganinni

Butter Churn  - This one still needs quilting. It is basted though.

Prairie Point Christmas

Mon Ami

Sweet Spot

Endless Summer

Brocante - This one still needs quilting. It is basted though.

Candy Bar Pinwheels

This particular month we had a choice of Ric Rac or Recess.  I choose Ric Rac.

This one still needs to be basted and quilted.

George

Honeycomb

Spot  - This one needs basting and quilting too.  

I really enjoyed making all these.  I was a little apprehensive about some of the patterns, but once I got started and picked out some of my favorite fabrics I fell in love with each pattern.  I can't wait to see what Sheri and Sinta have cooked up for us next year!!

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Happy Halloween!

I used some of my left over Halloween fabric scraps and made some simple Halloween Fabric postcards.

I started out with some orange yarn that I trimmed. I also zig zagged the yarn to the edge for this one.

Then I decided to not trim it and leave it "hairy".

Then I wanted to test the same design with ric-rac.  It think I like the yarn better.

Perhaps because the ric rac isn't the right shade of orange.

Here is another with the yarn

This one makes me think the pumpkins are behind bars.  

Hope your Halloween is Spooky... but not too spooky....

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Drawings

I haven't had a chance to add color to my beach scene, but I want to go ahead and post it.

It has been done for a couple weeks now.

I have also been working on another sketch.  This one is almost finished.

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Halloween Costumes

There hasn't been much quilting going on this week. Mainly because it is costume making season! Each year my hubby's work sponsors a Halloween party for all the kids and each year we love going and dressing up. This year my boys went as Edward Scissorhands, Cousin Itt, and a Statue on a Pedestal.  My daughter had a hard time deciding what to be this year but finally decided to dress up as a Cowgirl.

All four together.  Usually I end up making all the costumes, but this year I put the kids to work.  Cousin Itt did most of his costume himself.  I barely had to help at all and I put the other two boys to work cutting and spray painting.  They all had a good time and enjoyed being able to say they helped make their own costumes.

Edward at the Party,  He won one of the prizes for his category.  They gave out prizes for the best three costumes in each age group. His was in the the 6 to 8 group.

All four at the party.