March 25th The quilt is done.

 Hello,  it's been a while, i know.
I have been working on a quilt along due April 1st. I got off to a slow start but was able to make up for lost time and get the quilt finished.
I love the way it turned out ,although a bit busy, I am giving this one to a friend of mine who rarely leaves her house, I think this will brighten her day and she deserves it.
The top pic is the quilt all done, and the bottom pic well Crafty Cat  thought it might be for him lol
sorry Crafty Cat not this time.

Orbit Quilt Along

My newest sewing challenge is the Orbit Quilt Along. I am so excited because I can use my scraps on this one. This is a 6 week sew along hosted by Lindsey @ LRStitched. Once the quilt is completed it will be given to a good friend of mine. She is a "shut in" and with the bright colors I think it will be cheery for her. This week I will be busy cutting and sorting. It took me a while but I laid it all out and have it pinned. This is how I did my organizing. There are 9 rows in this quilt and I have them sorted by row and numbered. This should be pretty easy to put together, one could hope, right?

Well Hello Again.

I thought I would share another item from the Wrap along.

This one went to my friend Lori for Christmas, inside are two candy bowls, I made the fabric wrap, it was just a square she can use later as a placemat, dish cloth, napkin etc.

The rose is from the book it was called the Resplendent Rose I chose the variation where there are no ragged edges, on the back I hand sewed a pipe cleaner so it could be wrapped around the fabric and held in place (almost too pretty to open) but the bowls were awesome too :) 

Wrap Along

  I participated in a wrap along the few weeks leading up to Christmas. I must say it was pretty inspiring. I had a lot of fun and it challenged me to think even more outside the box.
The book I was working from was Ruby Star Wrapping by Melody Miller and Allison Tannery.
 Right before I started this endeavor a friend of mine gave me this old suitcase full of interesting things. It had mat board, ribbons, scrap booking paper,tape and lots of other fun stuff. I ending up using a lot of the supplies out of this suitcase for the projects I did.
Probably my favorite project from this book (I could make all day and all night) was the newspaper flower. In the box of goodies I found old maps, lots of them, and I cut up all these maps to make the beautiful flowers that eventually ended up on at least 9 Christmas packages. Boy did they get rave reviews from the recipients. I started thinking that if I made enough of these map flowers I could display them on a wall in my home. Wouldn't that be cute?
The ones in this picture are the ones I made for the packages and the leafless bush outside my house held them for this picture.

Zakka Style Sew Along weeks 23 and 24

Live United

I completely forgot to post about a project I  worked on over a month ago. I made the dress and applique bag out of a pair of t shirts. They were then donated for a Live United fashion fund raiser.

                                                Zakka Style Sew Along weeks 21 and 22

Ok, so I have decided to not wait till the last 2 projects are done to make this post. I am so sad that the zakka sew-along is coming to an end.
week # 21 was this gorgeous picture frame. Again, I get to use all those scraps that I have that I  can't throw away. This project was really more about construction than sewing but I still had fun and learned a few new things along the way. The pic is a pic of me and my girls on our vacation  at the beach a few weeks ago.
week #22 is the pleated coin purse. At first I was intimidated by the metal frame but this project came together so easily. I think it may have been one of the easier projects in the book.
I have 2 projects to go but they are good ones. Then I will have 24 Christmas projects complete!