Family Tree

Today I'm sharing something special that I made my parents for Christmas.

At the base of the tree I hand embroidered my grandparents names, on the trunk I embroidered my parents names and each of the branches represents the kids and grandkids to my parents. I used my embroidery machine to embroider all the names on the leaves and the whole thing is appliqued to the background and I free motion quilted around the tree.

My mom cried when she opened it, and made my dad hang it on the wall right away!

I'm linking up to Sarah and Amanda.

Here's a link back to my list. This is part of #11 from my list!

#6

The American Patchwork and Quilting UFO Challenge, released what UFO to work on for the month of January.

Here's my #6.

And here is what it looks like now:

I resewed the row that was bothering me, added some borders. My 12 year old said to straight line quilt it so did that and it's done. And it's not even 2017 yet!!

Color Book

Today I am sharing the color book I made for my nephew Eli.

The pattern can be found here.

It's very similar to the one I made my son, which you can see here.

I would love to make my son an ABC book with novelty fabric as the letters and each fabric have something that represents that letter, like A has apple fabric, B has bears.. but I don't enough fabric to do this yet. I'm going to have to sort through what I have and see...

Bags, bags and more bags

Here is the first of a few Christmas gift posts.

Today I'm sharing the bags I made for my nieces.

This is for the one that loves purple.

The niece that this one went to changes her mind about colors all the time.

This one's favorite color is black. So I added red and played with a disappearing 9 patch. It's a little smaller than the rest, but she loves it.

This is for my niece that likes teal. One of my daughters really loved this bag, but she has one I made her already!

Here's the pattern .

UFO 2017 Challenge

I decided to join in the American Patchwork and Quilting UFO 2017 Challenge.

This baby quilt has just been made a priority. The baby isn't due til April 1st, but just found out today that the baby shower is the end of January.

Road quilt I'm designing for my youngest son.

I Spy quilt. I want to add a border onto this one yet.

A jelly roll race quilt I did a few years ago. One side is about 4-6" shorter than the other side. Not sure what to do with this one.

A mini quilt. Not sure if I want to make it a wall hanging or give it to the girls for their dolls.

A wall hanging I started and was disappointed in because the one point doesn't quite line up. Not so disappointing now that I haven't looked at it for a year!

Sewing machine cover that I never finished.

And this crazy quilt I started 4 years ago. Not exactly sure what I want to do with this.

Also on my list is finishing my Project Life Albums for 2015 and 2016, my 100 block rainbow cat quilt, and my splendid sampler quilt.

Week 23

I got up to Week 23 in my PL 2016 album done!!

Was hoping to be almost done with the year since we are almost to 2017.

Vintage Flower Basket

Here's one more for the Splendid Sampler.

Block #38 Vintage Flower Basket.

I'm going to have to clean up my Splendid Sampler and finish a couple Christmas presents. I do have one more block almost done. Might have to finish that one before I put my Sampler away.