Little projects

I seriously feel like there must be a trail of smoke following me because I've been on fire lately!  I have been blitzing out projects like crazy, and I thought that I could share at least two of those fun project with you.

 

 

 

This is a cute little quilted pillow that I'm bringing as my gift to exchange to my women's small group Christmas party.  I had never made a pillowcase before, so I wanted to give myself plenty of time to mess up, but it went together without a hitch!

The pretty little colored bits of fabric are from some samples given to me by Kay Fant of Kay Fant Designs here in Destin.  She was so sweet to think of me when she was cleaning out her old fabric swatches!

 

 I have to admit that I think it looks just smashing in our living room... maybe there will be more cute little pillows in my future.  

The next little fun project is screen printed!!!

 I am so excited that this worked!!!  This blue bunny was my first attempt at screen printing; I did this practice bunny on a ratty old t-shirt.  Paul was watching me with a disbelieving look on his face when I was getting everything prepped, so he had to stay and watch me actually print it.  We were both pretty amazed.

 

 Here is the t-shirt that I will actually be wearing!  I just LOVE it!!!

  So I bet you've guessed that I will be posting tons of screen printing projects as well as quilting projects in the future, so LOOK OUT!

Ps. once I've made the screen it is very simple to make another t-shirt.  If you are interested in buying a cheer up bunny t-shirt I would be happy to make one for you for $10. 

Rectangle Squared Quilt continued

 

I LOVE how this quilt turned out!!  This is a quilt that I made for me, and that's a pretty great feeling.  I really whipped this one out quickly!

 

For the backing I used a mellow Kona gray pieced together with white and some pretty scraps from the front.  I used the stripey fabric for the binding, and it is just so much fun!  I think I'm going to use stripes for binding more often because it's so jaunty!

So here's a close up of the quilting I did.  It's just a basic free motion meandering design, and I like the way it turned out.

  If I ever do this type of stippling again I will have to try and keep the stiches a bit farther apart, and that will make the quilt even more comfy.  Although, it's pretty comfy already!

 

Again, if you want to know how to make this quilt check out the tutorial at Film in the Fridge.

Rectangle Squared Quilt

This is the quilt top I just finished!! Now I'm off to baste it and quilt it. This is the biggest quilt that I have so far attempted to free motion quilt, so hopefully it goes really well. I don't know yet what kind of design I want to do, so if you have any suggestions leave a comment .

If you feel like making this quilt yourself there is a tutorial here. Happy Saturday, and I hope that the rest of your weekend is splendid!