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

Luminous

 Dear Readers,

I have my first finish of 2021!  It is another eye-spy quilt.  I know those are fairly simple, but I like how you get a different look depending on the theme and the setting color.  This one was for the a coworker at Winona High School who is about to have a baby.  I talked the her mother, and she said they like Alabama, Delta State, all sports, dogs and domesticated animals. Her husband is an Army vet and a police officer.   I also know that she likes flowers as those are the prints she has hung in her office.   Well, no one makes Delta State fabric, but I think I did incorporate lots of things that they love.

I picked a medium soft yellow for the border and the setting triangles.  I also found some Scrabble tile fabric and worked out how to put in her name.  With the yellow background I was trying to find a way to work in light or Sunshine into the name.  Will came up with Luminous.  

And as a stash buster, I am getting older prints and putting them together for backs.

We are in the middle of a winter storm here in Mississippi.  We are out of school but working from home for the day....and I would not be surprised if it was for the next few days.  I know a lot of the country is going through the same weather system. Stay safe out there.  

Sew on,

Terry

Animal Kingdom

Dear Readers,

I just finished another eye spy quilt.  Using the templates by Come Quilt With Me, in the 5 in diameter Hexagon and a lot of animal prints!  I used blue for the setting triangles on this one.  This one is 55 x 68.  I also quilted this on my new innova.

I have been trying to piece some of my backs out of scraps...most have come out ok, but this one got a bit wild.  I will try to keep it better in the future.

This quilt is going to a child of a friend of Celeste.

Sew long.

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