Competition

 Readers,

I know you can't believe I have another quilt to post but I do.  I completed this eye-spy quilt for a special couples baby quilt.  I taught both Zack and Cassie  and I worked with the Zack's mom.  She is a wonderful counselor for the vocational center in Winona.  Cassie taught for a year at Winona but decided she would rather be a nurse so went back to school and got a nursing degree.  I taught Zack for 3 years.  When he and his friend Stefan came in your day was better.  I looked forward to their period every day. Zack went on to be a minister.   Zack and Cassie recently had a sweet baby girl...I did not get this finished in time for the birth...but it is done now.  I delivered it to the grandmother today.  Both Cassie and Zack were athletic, multi-sport participants and Cassie went on to play softball for Millsaps where she pitched a no-hitter.  So I put lots of sports fabrics in since they both love sports.  They both pull for state so that is in there too!  I hope Emery enjoys using it for many years.  

Quilted this with a swirly heart edge to edge design.  Bound this with one of Tula Pinks tiny stripe fabrics.  

Sew on,

Terry

Sendak's Dream

 Dear Readers,

I finished my third quilt this year!  This was another eye spy quilt for a coworker and his wife's first baby.  

If you follow this blog you know this is my go to baby quilt pattern.  I always use Pat Yamin's templates to make this quilt.  Click here if you want them.   Despite having made it a bunch of times I got things twisted up a bit this time.  I offset the top of the quilt one way and the bottom of the quilt a different was when I was joining up the rows.  So after I un-sewed the rows,  I started again and put it back together.  I used the scrabble tiles again, but this time I cut them a bit smaller as it was so hard to keep exactly the same blue border  I think it was much nicer and a cleaner look.  

So the back is pretty wild...

I am trying to use up fabric that I most likely won't use somewhere else.  So I found a stack of blocks that were to be used in a Bonnie Hunter quilt and I changed up how I was making it so they were left over.  Since I didn't have a big enough piece of purple or lavender for the back I used that to separate the other pieces that I would use to form the other side.  

Since there were lots of animals on the front it made me think of  the Maurice Sendak book "Where the Wild Things Are". So Will helped me come up with the name Sendak's Dream.  

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter and will use this time to rejoice in the salvation that His death provided.  

Terry

Eye Spy in Red

Dear Readers,

My first finish of 2018 was this eye spy in red.  I use Pat Yamin's Come Quilt with me Templates for her larger eye spy blocks.  Here is a link to her page.   I made it for my neighbor John Henry who walks with me.  I had hoped to finish it by Christmas, but with working so close to Christmas Day I couldn't get it done.  So once I had finished it, I took it over to their house and the kiddos were not home!  They were off to the movies with their grandmother.  So I left the two quilts with the parents.  When they got home they came over to thank me.  They were so appreciative and sweet. John Henry was so pleased, he had already picked his favorite blocks.  It was touching to watch how he folded it ever so carefully.  This quilt came out to be 61 x 47 so a nice sized throw for a little boy and he can use it for a throw for quite some time before he out grows it.  I mostly chose camping, sports and animal prints for John Henry.  I forgot to photograph the back, but it is a navy blue fabric.

On to the next UFO!!

Sew long, it is back to work tomorrow if the weather doesn't keep us out of school.

Terry

TWO, (count'em) FINISHES

Dear Readers,

I finished two quilts since I posted last.  TWO!!  That has to be some kind of record...at least for me.

I picked up the quilt for Laura and Will Temple from Betty Lewis and did my first flanged binding.  It  was a good way to get in on quick as I only had one day to get it bound.  I had planned to take it Birmingham on our next trip, but I had thought I would have more days between pick up and delivery day...it just didn't work out that way!

I had posted a photo of it, before Betty quilted it, and lots of Facebook friend had suggested names.  When I got it back and looked at it, I decided "Hip to Be Square" would be it's name.  We have had a lot of rain in Missisissippi this last month and my fence is not tall enough for me to hang the quilt on it so I hung it on a rail outside the welcome center in Columbus...all is good except they have some convince outlets that prevent it from hanging straight.  The pattern is called Sassy 16 from the book Bust your PreCut Stash.  I changed the background from solid to scrappy and used a jelly roll for the colored parts.  I didn't measure it but it is about 93 x 75.

Here are a couple of shot of the binding and Betty Lewis's quilting!

The second quilt was a baby quilt for a first grandchild that a dear friend is having.  I did an eye-spy quilt and put number fabric on the back as she used to teach math....she teaches Chem and Physics now.  I used Pat Yamin's Eye Spy Templates to fussy cut each of the hexies.

I quilted this one by stitching in the ditch around the eye-spy blocks.  Then free motion quilting on the border.  I did a swirling star thing there.  This one finishes about 50 by 47...

Here is close up of it.

While we were in Birmingham I asked my dad to tell some stories...here he is.  The video is 3-4 minutes long.

Happy sewing...

Terry

An I Spy Quilt

Dear Readers,

Despite all the projects I wrote about last post, I took time out to do a special I spy quilt.  There is a little boy in our community and a member of my church that has Mitochondrial disease.  His name is Judson and his story has touched my heart so I made him a quilt.

Several years ago I bought some of Pat Yamin's Come Quilt With Me templates for eye spy quilts.   I purchased the 5 in diameter hex that comes with the hexagon template and the setting triangle.  I also purchased the smaller size, but I used the 5 inch size for this quilt.

I have a large collection of novelty prints and some were already cut into hexies.   I had also picked up a number of other prints this summer when I was out in Colorado.  So I spent a night or two cutting them into hexies.  I talked to Judson's pre school teacher to find out what his favorite color was and what he liked.  She told me super heroes and black!  I was so surprised about the black.  I had thought I would use a red for the star points, but I decided to change them to black.   I machine quilted the quilt on my Juki.  Just stitching in the ditch on all the seams.  The back was spiderman fabric with red on either side.  I did not write down the finished measurements but I think it is about 55 by 77.

I got the sweetest note from Judson's mom, Raven, and she sent me these photos of Judson with his quilt.  I am so happy he likes it.  

 I have also recently taken a trip to Colorado...I will write about that another day, but it was a fabulous visit.

I am behind in grading...ugh.  I will be working on that till I am caught back up, then on to the other projects on the table.

Sew on.

Terry