Beneath the Starlit Sky

 Every year I participate in the Quilt Challenge at the Appalachian Art Center.  It is fun to see all the different quilts made using 3 required fabrics.  The theme this year was "Star Light, Star Bright."  I used a paper piecing design of Beth Maddock's of Piece by Number to make this snowy nighttime scene.  And with the flip of a switch 12 stars light up the sky.  There is a string of LED lights between the fabric and the batting.  Wood grain fabric provides a frame (quilted along the grain lines) with 2 layers of batting to give it more texture. 

Looney Little Love Knot

The Quilt Guild I belong to calls these little charity quilts "Love Knots."  The focus fabric here was scraps from someone's clothing project (I'm guessing pajamas).  I added more scraps and stitched them together anyway they would fit in the center section. The borders were a little more planned to highlight Taz, Tweety, Bugs, and Sylvester.  Finished with some free motion meandering and it's ready to go. 

364 days to Valentine's Day

A few years back I won this jelly roll of Valentine's Day fabric and started this quilt.   Not sure why I set it aside, but there it sat.  I almost finished it in time for Valentine's Day 2014! Almost :) 

There Be Dragons

Melanie of catbirdquilts.wordpress.com has a great tutorial on Medallion Quilts.  She inspired me to give it a try with this great dragon fabric I bought for DS's quilt.  His birthday is Valentine's Day and I'm happy to say, this one will arrive on time. 

Cat Shaped Heating Pad (Ice Pack)

This fabric looked like a great piece to make a cat.  It was only 1 fat quarter so I couldn't do much in the way of fussy cutting, but I think it turned out pretty good.  It is filled with rice and ready for the microwave or the freezer. 

4 quilt finishes - Yea!



You're the Apple of My Eye

Sweets for my Sweet





Picnic



Frog Song

selvage chair up-cycle

 This chair was to be discarded as ruined (can you guess what happened here?)  A hot iron will melt straight through a vinyl chair seat, just in case you didn't know. 

The seat and the back were easily removed with a screwdriver.  there were just a few screws.  I've been saving selvages for a while now and this looked like a good project to use them on.  http://selvageblog.blogspot.com/ has been a great inspiration.  Using what I learned there I recovered the chair seat in selvage edges in a typical string quilt design.  The back of the chair is more of a braid pattern.  I like the words on some of the fabrics.  On the chair back is "The Times of Your Life" and on the seat it says "Play Your Song."

repurposed wool sweater

I was gifted a wool sweater after a family member accidentally laundered it.  I repurposed the body of the sweater into a sofa pillow and one sleeve became a tea cozy.  Careful cutting and 2 seams (top and bottom) are all it took for the pillow.  The teapot cozy still resembles the sleeve of the sweater.  I used some embroidery to finish the places I cut the sleeve, it disguises the raw edge and adds decoration.