Emergency Room

This isn't quilting news, but I had to bring my hubby to the ER yesterday and he ended up having an appendicitis and a hernia.  :(  So no new sewing news for the next few days...

WolfSong Top finished!

 finished the Wolf Song quilt and I cannot wait until this one gets quilted.  My machine is still making weird noises so I really need to take my machine in for someone to look at it.  Just one more thing to do...


Anyway, here are some pics of the finished top!  I really love the flying geese row on the top and bottom.  Now that I have been quilting for a year, I find myself trying to make sure that everything is exactly perfect so I had to rip out quite a few of the geese and redo them.  I don't have a picture of the back but I just LOVE the back.  Hopefully this will get dropped off to my quilter this week and I'll have it back soon!

A new look...

Here is my updated, redesigned blog!!!  What do you think?!?

Goodies in the mail and a strange sound...

The mailman delivered some goodies today...my WolfSong fabric!  I saw this quilt a few months ago at Fabric Etc. 2  in Elmhurst, Illinois and I had to make it.  But they only had the main panel and one of the complimenting fabrics.  I searched the fabric stores around my house, looked at the huge quilt show in May, and have been searching the internet with no luck.  So awhile back I posted a pic of the panel on my blog and asked if anyone had spotted the fabric anywhere.  Well someone did and I called the quilt shop and it is here today...begging to be cut!

complimenting fabric

woodsy border, panel, and complimenting fabric

And the best part...the back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(sorry it is sideways)

So excited to get started!

Okay, on to the weird noise....my Singer Quilter's Confidence sewing machine is making a weird noise.  I took everything apart, cleaned it, and it is still there.  I heard it last week but when I cleaned the machine it went away - basically it isn't a permanent noise, it comes and goes but now it won't go away.  It sounds like a crackling - and it seems to be coming from the hand wheel.  When I move the hand wheel to move the needle there is no noise but when I use the pedal to sew fast, I can hear it.   Any suggestions????

Happy Scrappy Houses

Okay, so I'm kind of attached to my scraps so I can't throw them away but I really didn't know what to do with a bunch of little pieces.  I found this pattern at Quiltville.com and I knew I had to make it.  Each house is made from scraps from a certain quilt.  I am going to make 20 houses to celebrate making my first 20 quilts.  When I put the quilt together, I am going to start with the house made from the first quilt I made and go in order.  I finished 6 houses tonight - it is a lot of tiny cutting and piecing but they were fun to make.  I trimmed them a little bit to make them perfectly 7 1/2" squares.

From left to right, top to bottom: 

Pinwheels, True to the Red White & Blue, A Blanket for Baby Becket, Full Bloom, Big Jets, & 3 Cups of Tea

Now I just have to find some pretty fabric for the border of the blocks.  Maybe I'll look in my stash or maybe I'll have to go shopping for more fabric...

Quilting with the Cuz!

Sunday my cousin came over to make her first quilt!  She wanted to learn how to make a rag quilt, which is pretty quick to make.  We used the AccuCut machine to cut the rag squares and I will tell you that it is a HUGE time saver.  The fringed edges are perfectly cut and you don't have to do all the snipping when you are finished.

Here are some pics of her finished rag quilt - it is so cute and colorful!  

Quilting with my Little Sis!

My sister finished her first quilt today!  It was fun showing her how to quilt (although she was a pain picking out fabric...lol).  Anyway, we went to the quilt shop to pick out a border and she saw a quilted table runner that she had to have the pattern for.  Maybe she's caught the quilting bug???

Here are some pics of her hard work:

Isn't it beautiful!?!