More little quilts

Here are the last 3 little quilts I've made this year. They are part of Kim Diehl's Simple What-Nots Club. Hope you enjoy them.

December already

Hey there! It is December already so I changed my header. This little quilt is a Kim Diehl pattern that appeared in a magazine last year. I love this little quilt. Hope it helps get you into the Christmas spirit. Merry Christmas!!
I'll be back soon with new little quilts to show.

Simple What Nots class

I am taking a Kim Diehl, Simple What-Nots Club, class at my favorite quilt shop. The class runs for six months and I've completed 3 little quilts so far. It is a fun and rewarding class but the quilts are so little!! Piecing half square triangles that measure finished at 1 inch is about to do me in!! But here are the results of the class so far. Enjoy.

Poppy Repost

Remember when I told you about the 8 Poppy quilts that my group had made? Here they are altogether. See the post "Finished Poppy" from June 29, 2014 to see what I'm talking about. These 8 little quilts are fabulous! You can click on the picture to see it enlarged. Enjoy.

Tea towels

I made these tea towels from Susan Branch's teapot pattern. Today she posted the pictures on facebook.  The towels were so much fun to make. Here's a link to her facebook page.

 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Susan-Branch-FOSB/102900461659

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day America! I just finished this little wall hanging and I love the colors! Hope you will too. Enjoy!

And here are the decorations I have for my front door this year. Love how it turned out!

Finished Poppy

Seven of my quilt friends and I have completed a group project. We each started with the original design you see here.

 

Then we cut the design into 4ths, and shared with 3 other people. The only "rules" we had were theme, colors, and size. We could embellish it or not and add anything else we wanted. Here is my finished flower. All eight finished quilts are now hanging in a quilt show for the month of July and they look fabulous together! I'll try to take a picture of all of them soon to show you. Such a fun project!

 

 

 

 

 

Before and After

I needed to recover the cushions for our rocking chairs on the screened porch. I had some tea towels available that I bought with this in mind. Of course I didn't have enough for both cushions front and back so I improvised with some fabric from my stash. It worked perfectly. The tea towels are the ones on the upper cushions in the after photo.

Before

 

After

A new Iris

This Iris is a new one we planted last year. Today we have the first blooms and it is lovely! It is in a bed with yellow Daylilies, white Shasta Daisies and Lavender.

Monkey quilt

This is what I've been working on the last few months. A before and after picture, the theme was Monkeys. I've already put it in the mail so it is on it's way to the new baby, who is my great nephew. I included a John Deere fabric in memory of my Dad who liked tractors. The monkey fabric is corduroy for an extra texture. New binding technique, a flange added.

 

Old Birdbath

What do you do with an old birdbath? One that has rusted some on the bottom and is very hard to clean? I had my hubby drill a few more little holes in the bottom and then I planted it with succulents that don't need much moisture. Here is the finished product, in front of the blooming azaleas. Nice touch to the garden along the pathway.

New project

This will be a new project. My quilt group is working on this and I'll show you the outcome later on. Just wanted to share with you the "before" picture. Stay tuned!!

Little things

Just some little quilt items that I've completed since January 2014. I have more in the works but I'll report on them later. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Before and after

Remember this?

Well, it took me longer to finish it than planned but I did finish it in December, 2013. Here is the finished little quilt. Enjoy!

Fingerless Mitts

I have been knitting lately and that's good because I needed these when we had very cold temperatures. They are fingerless mitts. The pattern is a free one from Ravelry...Mitt Envy. I used left over sock yarn, and they knitted up like a dream.

Cooking

I cooked a casserole last week that had cabbage, ground beef, onions, cheese and tomato sauce in it along with some herbs. It was ok, not spicy enough for us. Next time I make it,

 

I'll add some hot peppers or green chilies to it. But I wanted to show it to you. It does look delicious, doesn't it?

Hubby's birthday

This is my husband's birthday month. So to make him feel special, since he doesn't want a cake, I've made him this little quilt. Happy Birthday honey!

Christmas boxes/baskets

I made these little boxes or baskets for friends at Christmas. They were so fun to make. I think I'll make them again in other fabrics. What do you think?