I made this quilt a few months ago for my new little niece. I'm happy about how it turned out. When I did her newborn pictures we did a few of her with the quilt, and Andrea made the hat and diaper cover she is wearing.

Block of the month

I signed up to do a block of the month for my Maple Mountain quilt group for March. This is the block I decided to do. I finished the block, now I need to get the directions printed up for everyone. I like it. It would be a fun quilt, maybe doing each block with different colors? Anyway, I am glad to have it ready.

Valentine Table Topper (wall hanging)

I just finished the Valentine Table topper, which I will use this year as a wall hanging in my kitchen. I think it looks cute. Thanks, Amy, for the idea to do this topper. I hope you get yours done soon.

Boy and Girl Quilts

These are the quilts I made for the kids for Christmas this year. I bought the panel for Brecken's when he was a baby and hadn't done anything with it yet, and then I found the panel for Lexi's this summer. I was excited that I found both a girl one and a boy one.

Fall Table Square

I have big Island in my kitchen that needed fall decorations. Here is what I came up with. Mom had a pattern for a fall table runner. I made it square, changed the rows into blocks, added boarders....I guess the only thing I used from the pattern was the appliquéd pieces, but I love how it turned out. I appliquéd leaves and pumpkins with a raw edge and machine quilted it.

I have lots of stuff that I am posting today. The first thing is this t-shirt I made for Lexi for Christmas. I bought a plain t-shirt at Hobby Lobby. It was $2.99 and I used a 40% off coupon, so it was very inexpensive. I also bought Crayola Fabric Markers. The regular price was $4.99 but I used a 40% off coupon on that as well (I went to the store 2 different times so I could use 2 coupons). I made a design in photoshop using some free brushes I had downloaded (and I drew some of it myself) and printed it in black and white. I put the paper inside the shirt so I could see the picture through the front of the shirt and then I traced it with the markers. When I was done tracing it onto the fabric I had to iron it for 4 minutes to set it in, and that was it. It was very easy and I am so excited about how it turned out! I am making one for Brecken with a pirate ship on it, so I will post that when I finish it!

The next thing is a fall table runner. I just cut a bunch of stips of fabric, making them each different widths, sewed on ric-rac in a few spots, quilted it, and them mom bound it :) I made one for mom as well, but was taking forever to get around to the binding, so she helped me out with that so we could put them up before fall is over.

Up next is the quilt I made for Lexi for her birthday. I used a pattern for the background (I don't remember which it was, but if anyone wants to know I will go find it and let you know) and then I drew a branch and cherry blossoms on some paper that doctors use on the exam tables (mom bought it at a medical supply store). I pinned the drawing to the fabric and cut it out, then used a glue stick and glued the branch and flowers to the quilt to hold it in place. Then I sewed it on. After that I did the quilting and binding. The fabric on the back of the quilt is little Asian girls and bright colored flowers. Lexi loves it and it looks really cute on her bed.

The last thing is this necklace I made for my sister-in-law for her birthday. I think it turned out nicely :)

Hopefully I'll have more things to post soon since I have a long list of things to make before Christmas!!

-Megan

Owl Quilt

Here is the owl quilt I made for my friends baby. I think it turned out pretty cute. Thanks Mom for your help with it!

Trevin's Quilt

I finished Trevin's quilt a week or so ago but haven't gotten around to posting it until now!

I wanted something different for his quilt so I decided to do raw edge applique instead of normal pieced squares. I wanted to leave spaces between the squares so that I could tie in the dinosaur theme. This is what I (with the help of mom of course!) came up with:



Here is a close up of the stitching. I was going to applique the stars and dinos but didn't want to take all that time cutting things out. I thought it would be fun to just stitch the shapes on.



I was proud of this quilt because I had seen something similar and really wanted to do the raw edge concept but the one I had seen would have been a big pain to do. I (once again with mom's help) came up with this idea so it wasn't so intense for a beginner like me. I hadn't ever designed a quilt really before so I am more proud of this quilt than the others I have done!

Table Runner

This is the table runner I made for Amy for her birthday. I finally finished it so I can take it to her next week. The colors match her 'great room'. I hope you like it, Amy! I like it, but it doesn't match with my house, darn. It is about 66 inches x 20 inches.

Pear Quilt

I finished the pear quilt I've been working on. I am really excited about how it turned out. I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with it, but I loved it so I wanted to make it. Right now I have it on one of our living room chairs to show it off, but then I'm sure it'll become a blanket for one of Lexi's dolls.

Quilt blocks

Hurrah for me, for 2 reasons. 1, I finished the 7 blocks for June quilt group. 2. I was able to figure out how to take a picture of them, download picture to my laptop (my first try at that), download picture to the blog! A great sense of accomplishment!

Raw Edged Flannel Blanket

I bought some flannel for a blanket for Andrea's baby. I decided to try changing a pattern I had to make it raw edged. I don't think I'll do another this way- it took quite a bit of time. I hope you like it, Andrea.

Quilt Blocks

Wahoo! My first post! These are the quilt blocks I have done so far for my ward's quilt group. The technique this month is flying geese. I've only had time to do 4 of the 7 blocks so far, but I love how the turned out!

Cambree's Birthday Quilt

This is the quilt that I made Cambree for her birthday. I bought the kit about a year ago but ran out of time to make it for Christmas. I was so excited about it and happy to get it done. It is the first time I have done machine quilting so that was a fun new experience!


I'm excited now to make a quilt for this little boy who will be joining our family in a couple of months!

Quilting Show

Yesterday Mom and I went to a quilting show in Sandy. There were some really cool things there. We took pictures of the quilts we like the most.

Mom bought the pattern for this one. They had also done one in black and white fabrics, which was cute, but the flowers didn't stand out very much. We liked it in the pinks, reds, and browns better. Some day I want to make this!
This is another quilt that had the same kind of flowers as the other one:

I really liked this one, and it would be so easy to make! The flowers are just appliqued on, so all you would have to do is piece blocks with white sashing, add ric-rac, and add the flowers!

I thought this one looked cute and easy too!

One of the booths had the cutest fabric! I got this bear pirate fabric to make a simple quilt for Brecken. I'm just going to put one piece on front, one on back, add some batting, and quilt it. He doesn't need another blanket, but I loved the fabric!

I also got this fabric. I have no clue what quilt I'll make with it yet, but I loved it! I just got a 1/4 yard of each fabric that was in this line.

We also got this book. It has lots of cute but easy patterns in it (that's what I need). Mom also got another book and a few other patterns, but they're not at my house, so I can't remember what they are, and I can't take a picture of them so show you. So she'll have to do that :)

These are some of the patterns that are in the book:

We also saw the cutest little Dragon quilt. They didn't have a pattern there, but they told us where to get it. It's so cute!

http://scarlettrose.com/little_dragons_everywhere.html

There are lots of other dragon patterns, and even Asian patterns on that website. Someday I want to order some things from them!