Baby Quilts

Hey everyone!!! So sorry that there hasn't been anything new to read in over a month. I have been extremely busy with school, dance, and musical that I haven't had any time to post.

If you read my grandma's blog you probably heard about the new baby quilt that I am working on. This quilt is another pattern out of Alex Anderson's baby quilt book. The pictures I have are not very good because it was dark outside and I had a spot light shining on it, so the color is a little distorted and dark around the edges.

Last Saturday I was able to get the whole top layed out on the design board. Now all I have to do is sew all the tiny rectangles and squares together!

This is kind of a scrappy quilt, but I think it is really cute for a little boy. The rectangles are all different blue fabrics and the tiny squares are a mixture of all red fabrics. The bigger squares are off whites and WOW mixed with some tan.

This is my fifth baby quilt. I have had two ladies that have been keeping me in business. I have done two quilts already for the lady who asked for this one and I have done two quilts for the other lady. That lady has now asked for another quilt. I don't know if I'll be able to keep up! ☺

I have some pictures of the other baby quilts I have done.

The first baby quilt that I did I don't have digital pictures for, so I can't show you that one. But it was a pinwheel quilt with blue, yellow, and green fabrics.

This is baby quilt #2. It was for a girl and I used red, black, white, and green fabrics to match the nursery.

This is baby quilt #3. The nursery was a farm yard theme that used the colors in the quilt. The backing fabric was a barnyard print. This quilt was very easy to put together.

This is baby quilt #4 (the most recent one I finished). The lady wanted pastel colors that would work for either a boy or girl. I chose to use blue, yellow, and green.

Hopefully I will have more progress to show on baby quilt #5 soon (and better pictures ☺)!

Have a good weekend!!! ☺

Studying....

This weekend I had a ton of school work to do! On Friday, I missed school because I had a music festival called Susquahanna Valley Band. Unfortunatly, because of the snow, the second half of the festival was cancelled for Saturday. But because I missed school on Friday, I had a lot of work to make up.

So instead of playing music on Saturday, I worked on homework. I also need to do some studying because this coming week I have midterm tests for every class. It's hard to believe that I'm almost halfway through the year already! I also have three tests that I have to make up from Friday on top of all of that. Phew!! But, I am deterimined to do it all and get good grades!☺

This is Eve. (Eve just couldn't resist getting in the picture.) She likes to distract me and make me laugh while I'm trying to study. I guess that's what pets are for! ☺

Hope everyone had a good weekend! Back to studying! ☼

Baby Quilt is Done!

Commissioned Quilt #4 is finished! I finally put the last stitches in the binding on Monday. I am very pleased with how it turned out.

If your wondering why the quilt is hanging from my shower curtain, it's because it was too windy to hang it on the cloths line outside :) . This pattern came from one of Alex Anderson's baby quilt books. This paticular pattern is called Grandma's Favorite.

The lady that asked me to do the quilt wanted it to be able to work for either a boy our a girl. That is why I used the colors yellow, cream, green, and blue.

In the sashing, I quilted free motion stars with two curving lines flowing in between them to make them look like they were floating. The two curvy lines turned out to kind of look like ribbon.

For the nine patch blocks, I just quilted in the ditch so it wouldn't distract from the pattern.

I delivered the quilt to the lady and she was very pleased with it. She thought it was really cute. She also said that she would need me to make another one for her for August! Here we go again :) ! It's a good thing that I love to sew!

I hope everyone has a Happy New Year! :)

Christmas Gifts

Tis the season of giving! This year I didn't have much time to get my gifts but a managed to make some for four of my girl friends. My grandma showed me a magazine with a pattern for a quick and easy fleece muffler. We had a day off of school last Friday so I took time to make one for each of my friends.

The pattern only used one layer of fleece, but I decided it would look cool to have a two sided one using two different colors. I got a different color for each scarf and then used the same gray on the back of each.

Each scarf has a slit in it so you can put the other side of the scarf through it. That way it stays wrapped around your neck. I gave them to my friends today and they really liked them! The scarves were really easy to make and made really good gifts.

Have a Merry Christmas!!! :)

Commissioned Baby Quilt #4

Last weekend I was able to make some progress on the baby quilt that I was commissioned to do.

I almost got the top of it together. All it needs now is the borders.

I have two days of Thanksgiving vacation left, so hopefully I can get the top done! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! :)

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Snow is one of my favorite parts of the winter season. I love to watch it fall and see how it sparkles. As I walked out of school today it was just barely snowing, but as a got home, it started to get harder and harder. It is now 5:30 and it is still snowing! I absolutely love it!!! Have a good evening. :)

In Progress

One of the things that I like to do to relax is play piano. I have been taking piano lessons for four years. I really enjoy it. Right now I am working on learning to play a piece called "Angel Eyes" by Jim Brickman. It is very beautiful.

It is also very long; five pages to be exact. I can play about half of it but the last half gets very complicated.

Hopefully, in the future, I will be able to play it the whole way through.

If you would like to listen to it just click on this link. It will take you to YouTube were you can watch a video of Jim Brickman play "Angel Eyes". He plays it a little differently than he originally wrote it, but you can get the general idea of what it sounds like. Enjoy!!! :)