Monday, April 21, 2014

Baby Quilts ~ 2 More Great Grandson's

 I made this while at Mom's for the Spring Break with the kids .This was made for my Grandson and his wife.
Baby is due May 7th .
She really likes it !   
This one was a panel that I machine quilted for Sherry's baby boy due in June.
It was a surprise Shower for her as she lives in Indiana and came down to visit for Easter. Her sister Cheyenne planned the surprise shower for her.
 Cake that Chy made for Sherry,  another little boy messed it up when he put the huge baby bottle on top of it,
Sherry with her 2 older children Cayden and Amylia  , I did not get a good  picture of Sherry with quilt,hoping to get one of her soon.

Monday, April 7, 2014

New Quilt for Brandy

                            This is another quilt Mom has started for Brandy, my sister Tina picked the boarder and got the colors from that for the rest of the quilt, I love the pattern and the colors. Brandy and I like some of the same fabric colors, so I know she will like this!
 I think a purple binding will set it off good. Mom still has more to sew up and then she will hand quilt it .

Friday, April 4, 2014

Creative Grandchrildren

Last week was Spring Break for us , so Samantha and I had plans to go to Mom's and take both girls and Waylon with us.
Sarah had gotten and machine for Christmas last year
we took it with us and the next day after getting to Grandma's she decided she was going to sew, while we were in another room she had already cut out 
what she wanted to make .
Very intense worker
                                                  Got to be just right
                                                             Almost done
                                            Chloe decided she wanted to try it too
           Sewing away                        
                                 
Two proud girls 

Waylon's
Chloe's
                                                                Sarah's
                   Even Waylon decided to try it and he enjoys sewing also.
                                                Sarah trying another one
Chloe's 

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Rexa's Quilt

 My sister Rexa had seen this in a magazine I had taken to Mom's about 4 or 5 years ago , it started out small , then she decided she wanted it bigger so between Mom ,Rexa and I we had changed it around several times and added some other patterns that we liked.
 We have been working on it for 4 years putting it on the wall and Mom would take it down and work on it until we went back up to her house.Which was not real often , maybe every 4 months or longer.
This has been on the wall since the end of Dec of 2013 .

 Mom has had me working on the applique's every time I went up , and this last time we had almost all of it ready for the Blanket stitching ,so I finished all that while there last week .

It is now ready for Mom to put the blocks together

Basket with Flower from another pattern
Just a simple Flower
                                               Sun Flower
  This and the pink one look like cherry's but not sure what the designer calls it.
                        This will be a Bunny Rabbit under a Tulip Flower
This last picture shows how it will look once she gets the blocks together, then the sashings , there will be a row of 2 inch squares then a 5 or 6 inch boarder.
 Mom will be doing hand quilting on it and adding the emboridered eyes to the insects and bunny rabbit.  
I will show a finish quilt when she gets it done .

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Craft Class For March

My helpers and I decided we would like to have the children get started on Mother's Day Gifts For all the Church Ladies !
So we came up with the idea to make Mug Rugs , I ironed some plain cloth onto Freezer paper ,cut them in squares and rectangles .I gathered up some paints , stamp pads , Fabric markers and crayons. 
I made a couple samples for the children to get an idea what we wanted them to do.


 This one is my grand daughter Sarah's , she pretty much followed my sample along with an idea of her mothers, it is all free hand and she used the Fabric markers.
This is Issac's once he saw the stamps he was really into this so this one is all paint.
George  the oldest boy there used markers and paint .
 This one is Bethany's , she wore a plain white satin blouse ,so I asked her to do hers in crayons ,but when she saw others with the stamps she wanted to do that too, so I helped her with it , I did not want her to get paint on he blouse !  Her's is crayons and paint.



This is Issac's first one ,he started out with the Fabric markers, he did not have very much on it when he said he was done , I said really ! don't you think we could add some more to it , so I got him started with the stamps .


Makayla's


Chloe's

 Some of these I do not remember who's is who's .Hard to keep track when they forget their names .

 These 2 are my daughter -in-law  Samantha's , she was suppose to help and did but wanted to draw too.
This one is a sample I made and Sarah went by this for her's 
 These 4 were done by the  youngest in the whole group , toddlers , done with crayons, my Grandson Waylon helped Ms Robin with them.
When I pick them up after letting them dry really good I will bring them all home , Iron the colors into the fabric,then use batting and backing, machine quilt them, then add the binding.
When Mothers Day comes the children will pick someone in church to give the Mug Rugs to, They will also be making all their own Mothers a card.
I got this surprise at the last craft meeting, Ms Robin made these for all the class teachers.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

New Fabric For Baby Quilt

 I found this fabric at Walmart on sale ,they did not have any of the poke-a-dots ,I would love to find the brown, but will settle for the green or yellow too ,if anyone knows where I can get some please let me know.
I will use the stripes for the boarder, the poke-a-dots would look wonderful in blocks , this last picture shows a better close up.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Operation Christmas Child Hair Scunchies

I like to crochet simple things and these are really simple to make ,I want to make as many as I can until Nov.of this year for our Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes 
I use these bands ,single crochet around and add extra for stretch then single crochet 3 stitches to make loop into a single stitch to form loops all around can make as wide as you want with the same stitches ,just keep adding 3 stitches to form loop into another loop.
Sorry I am not that good with tutoring ,but hope you understand how it is done.