Learned Something New !

               The pictures I will be showing are of white cotton dyed with rusty items ! Yes ! Rusty !!!

        I learned this from another blogger, LuAnn Kessi of  "May Your Bobbin Always Be Full" was doing a tutorial on how to dye cloth with rusty items, I was so ready to try this and I did . Of course I did ask her permission before posting and she said it was ok and that she loves to inspire others,  I do too . It was so much fun taking the cloth and items out of the bag after dipping the cloth in vinegar and then wraping them around the rusty items .

       I did not use the string to hold them together like she did , I was in too big a hurry to try it , this is the results .Stunning ! This one just above was wrapped around a Dollar store silver platter that was outside rusting. The first one was wrapped around my old iron dutch oven that I was using in the garden.

This one was an old tin baking pan.

Machine quilting practice

I decided to make something differnt and came up with this.
I machine quilted this one on taffada, I still need to practice my machine quilting, so I thought this would be a good way to start, when I get it done I will use it for a bible cover. I have several more started and to finish up. I am having fun with this type of fabric, it is beauitful quilted, I might even make a quilt with some of it .

Blog Contest Winnings

Finally !!
Fabric I won has arrived !!
After countless orders and failed e-mails we have this prize straighten out ..I had received an e-mail from Christine at the "Around The Block Quilt Shop" in O'Fallon,Il. right after I found out my" Under Water Wonders" Quilt won the Seashore quilt contest at the "Quilting Gallery" Weekly Contest a month ago. 
 I was to chose what I wanted for $30.00 , I did that sent it back, waited and waited, no re-ply so I e-mailed them and she told me to try agian, did that and waited some more, after 2 or 3 more failed e-mails we finally got it done, she wanted to call me, but being a deaf person it is hard to wait by the phone for someone to call me using the relay service, so I decided to call her and this is the results ! 
 I am really thrilled ,most of  the fabric is for a special quilt  and I can't wait to get started but I have some other projects that need my attention at this time ,so hopefully by Oct. I can get to it, I also need to decide on a pattern .
I want to say Thank You to everyone who voted, for the Quilt Gallery for the contest and for the Quilt shop for the gift, it is a wonderful feeling and fun to do.

Making A Crazy Quilt Mess!

This is the mess I am making in my room where I sew, the table is  full of everything under the sun... along with all the satins, silks, taffadas, velvets, brocades and a ton of lace and trims! I have tried to keep everything in order, but I am just not that organized when it comes to making stuff I love to make. As you can see I also have a bag of crackers, a paint stick, a thrift store card all combined with the fabrics and I can barely see out of my window, that is another thing I need to do is wash the windows! Who Has time for that when you're having fun making these!

I am now in the process of getting them ready for the handwork ,which will take some time, if I was at Mom's she would be doing alot of that. Some of the sqaure ones are the last of a quilt top, the last 3 bigger ones are for bible covers. I will show them agian when I have them done.

My cousin Susan asked me to do a tutorial on how to make the crazy quilt blocks, I will get to that soon, I keep forgetting to take the pictures as I sew, which is hard for me as I like to keep going once I get started, but I will do it !

Oh and the mess it will stay there until I am done ,then I will spend a day just cleaning that up.

Keep watch for the finished items,I will post as they are done .

Another Crazy Quilt Pillow

 This is another pillow I started last week the crazy square block you see has been in our stack of blocks for a couple years ,I loved it so much I decided to make another  pillow and used a different brocaded uphostery fabric .

This shows it in 3 stages, I will be using a heavy taffada for the back of the pillow and then add more embellishments later.

Our Ever Changing Sky !!

I love watching the sky change colors ,its amazing how our God can paint a picture .The last one is of a stormy day just before it rained.

Crazy Quilt Tote Bag - E-mail problems

A tote Bag I made for myself and one for my sister,I used scraps of taffada and lace also toole and lots of beads.I use the bag to carry my photo albums and note books in for when I travel.I am still working on the bible covers and pillows I will show those when done .

For some reason I have been having probelms with my e-mails, some I send out come back for reason's I have no idea why .So please bear with me until I figure it out, I tried to re-ply to a couple of comments and they came back, not just from comments, but regular e-mails too. It sure has been differnt since I changed providers.  But please keep making comments as I love to hear from you !  Thanks ,Cheryl