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.

Bag for Jay

I have been watching a cute eight and half month old baby the past couple weeks, and his mom had been bringing me his food every morning in a plastic Wal-Mart bag, so I sewed him a cuter one during his nap time the other day.  I used two fat quarters for this - the kites and a bright yellow.  I didn't use a pattern, I just cut some rectangles and sewed it up.  It isn't very large, just big enough to hold a couple of jars of baby food and a small thermos of water.

I love the cheerful kites and the bright yellow.  

It makes me happy every time I look at this bag.  

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First Place Award!!

A couple weeks ago I drove to Columbia, SC and hand delivered my quilt and entered it in the state fair.  It was the first time I have entered anything in the state fair and really didn't think it would do well, it being my first time and all.  I was satisfied with being able to say "I have a quilt on display at the state fair."  Well to my surprise,  I got 1rst place!!  I was soooo excited when I heard the news!
Below is the quilt I entered.

This is a photo I took and I blogged about it here.

Here it is on display at the SC State Fair

I tried to take photos of some of the other quilts, but I didn't get very many.  My kids kept rushing me out of the craft building.  For some reason they thought riding rides was more fun than looking at quilts or all the other wonderful craft items in that huge room.  

 Now seriously... do these rides look more fun than staring at quilts?

The kids had so much fun that they kept riding rides even when it started to rain.

According to the kids, three and a half hours of riding rides in the rain is

definitely more fun than staring at quilts.  :)

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