Vintage Sunshine Pillows

I actually made this pillow covers a few days ago, but I haven't been able to post anything until today! These were SO MUCH FUN to make and I can't help but smile when I look at them! They definitely brighten up a dreary winter day. They are for sale here in my etsy shop! Enjoy!

I used two vintage napkins in PERFECT condition, some up-cycled pillow ticking, and the covers have a tie closure with vintage yellow ric-rac... fun, right?

Front of pillow, back of pillow...

Love them!

Look at What I Got Today!

Insert a stuck out tongue, nananabooboo, sppppllttttt, or evil laugh here... whichever suits your fancy. I won't judge if you won't...

I had about an hour to kill and found myself, all of a sudden, in a quilt shop. Imagine that. There was fabric and everything!

Anyways, I bought myself some goodies and pondered several ideas for quilts while inside this shoppe (I just decided I'm going to spell it like that because it's more fitting, more quaint, if you will)

One of those ideas was about starting an all-polka-dot quilt. If I just save one square from all the polka-dotted fabric I use (which is a LOT. I really like polka-dots) I should, one day, have enough for a superfantastic quilt, dontcha think? So consider it officially 'started'. (whatever that means, right?)

I also want to make a string block pillow cover (or 2), a set of matching pillow covers out of the vintage napkins I just found, a hexagon quilt, a duvet cover for myself complete with matching shams and pillowcases, and a quilt with circles. I came about all this while killing that precious little hour at the quilt shoppe.

I better get started...

Just A Few Things...

I thought I'd share just a few things that occurred over the last couple of days. Minus mentions of the laundry, cleaning, homework, preparing/making/serving/cleaning up of the meals and so on and so forth. However, Virginia Woolf would probably disagree with my blatant nonmention of meals and such, but I guess I'll just have to take it up with her. Please, read on...

So, the mail came on Monday...

... and in said mail I received all the fabric to make my cousin's queen sized quilt that will look something like this. Here are the beautiful fabric choices:

I also got some fun stuff of my own in the mail:

It's very boyish and out of my comfort zone so I figured I should give it a shot. However, it is extremely adorable, don't you think?

I tried to get to work right away with the new boy fabric and came up with these:

which I just happen to love. I'm thinking I need 9 total (3x3) with some white sashing and white thread for the quilting... just a thought for now.

And then my daughter happened to look particularly adorable this morning all wrapped up in tutus and feathers and "pretties" and some of my unfinished quilts that were super pink and girly and I just had to make a couple of these:

I find it's much more exhilarating and full of satisfaction for me to make a couple or three or four of something right when the idea and picture pop into my head. That way I know it won't get lost up in there or forgotten (eeeekk! that's the worst...) and I can come back to it when I'm ready and have the time. I used to try to go from start to finish with a lot of pressure and without any breaks... not really what being creative is all about, huh? Well, anyways, this works for me so that's what I'm gonna do. Mmmmmk?

EXTRA! EXTRA!

Soooo, my Mendocino Sea Quilt was selected to be part of the "Friday Features" on a blog called A Thoughtful Life! How cool is that? I've never been 'featured' on someone else's blog before, so I'm pretty stoked about it :) Yippee! Go check it out...

Progress and Completions

First of all, here's the progress on my boy quilt my Aunt Cheri' asked me to make for a friend of hers. Isn't it huge? I got a little carried away with myself... it just kept growing and growing and growing. But I love it anyways. Now just the backing and basting and quilting and binding have to be finished :)

And here's my completed stuff for the day: quilted patchwork pillow covers for my cousin Katie all the way in NYC. AND, she just asked me to make their quilt for their bed for their move to West Virginia in July. YAY! I love my family.

After making these I decided I really need to start making a few things for myself now and then. Other people have more of my creations in their homes than I do. PLUS, these pillows were superfun to make and I love love love the way they turned out. Even the backs are fun. I used a bright orange solid for the 'quilt back' and then I sewed together a chocolate brown and a pretty lime green print from my stash for the back panels to make it a little sturdier.

Voila!

Happy Pillows!

The Mendocino Sea Quilt

It's finished! I really love this quilt. I used some 5 inch squares from the Heather Ross Mendocino line and some solid light grey and an orange tiny polka dot for the quilt top.

What do you think? If you love it, it is for sale here in my esty shop!

This is such a little boy quilt. I love it. It's fun and slightly masculine. And I fell in love with using grey! It's grey-t -- get it? I crack myself up...

Here's the back. I used lots of different orange and blue fabrics with polka dots and tiny patterns and some left over Mendocino stuff for a mismatched look. I like it, it kinda reminds me of chutes and ladders or something like that.

Doesn't it look so cute in a baby's room?

I love the quilting I did on this one. It's something new to me. I quilted on the diagonal in sets of 3 organic-ish lines with grey thread. It turned out even better than I expected. I think the quilting gave it an even more fresh modern edge and added a lot of texture.

The finished dimensions are 52"x52" and I machine stitched the binding.

It's been done for a while...

I have actually had this quilt done for quite some time but just haven't posted it up here for some unknown reason.... Anywho, you can find it for sale HERE in my etsy shop!

I love how bright it is, and I love the color of the binding around the edges... it's just the perfect shade to bring it all together

And the back was fun too!