WOVEN QUILTING

My father signed us both up for a quilting class as one of my Christmas presents.  Yes, for those of you who don't know my father, he's a quilter - and a very good one.  We've been taking quilting classes together since 2011 and I love it.

I had never heard of woven quilting, so when we went to get our fabric and I saw the samples, I got excited - it is really cool.

It was an all day class at The Purple Frog in Jefferson.  Although we were there all day, it seemed like only a few hours.  We were sewing like crazy and it was really fun seeing it all come together.

My dad is making a table runner.  He chose really fun fabric with hot air balloons, colorful circles and orange batik.

I made a pillow.  I wanted manly colors and for it to look tribal without using tribal fabric.  My inspiration was our Fiji trip many moons ago.

I'm thrilled with the results.  I told my man clan this is a 'no touch' pillow and they looked at me like I was crazy.  It took me 10 hours to make it and it's beautiful.  It is for my hands only.  They can look with their eyes, not their hands.  Ha!  We'll see how long that lasts!

PAPER PIECING

My dad and I took a quilting class today at The Purple Frog - paper piecing. It's really fun, but man, is it time consuming. It took us seven hours to do one square but it only felt like one hour.My dad made this seam ripper for me. I love it! Best one I've ever had.
Tada, here's our seven hour Ohio star square.

THE LADIES LOVE HIM

I had a quilting day with my father this weekend, at Purple Frog Quilt Shop, where we took a class to learn how to make a star log cabin quilt.He is a very good quilter and the quilting ladies love him. Who knew there would be a day that I would learn to quilt with my daddy. I'm so glad I am; it's really fun.

PS - The ladies may have invited him to go on a weekend quilting retreat.

CLASS IS OVER

but I'm still working on my project. I might have some unpicking to do.

MY FATHER ASKED ME TO

take a class with him - a three day quilting class. Seriously, how cool is that? Of course I said "yes!"
Today was our first class and we are having so much fun!

Here he is ironing like a pro with our quilting classmates.

My mom made us these cool pin cushions filled with crushed walnut shells to keep our pins sharp. Who knew?

PS - Mom, your pin cushions are a hit with the class.

I REALLY WANT TO FIND TIME TO SEW

Especially this purse when the pattern comes out.

via theboytrifecta

It made me swoon.

MY SEWING MACHINE IS 16 YEARS OLD

and has never been oiled.
I need to get some oil asap because it is so incredibly loud it's a little scary and I have projects I want to do.

I have this trinket keeper project at the top of my list!
We have a few road trips planned for this summer and these will come in handy to help with car organization...

Here is the awesome tutorial if you'd like to make some for you too.
The possibilities are endless! LOVE projects like that!!

I WAS ABLE TO SEW

last night and I made this apron....I love the fun springy colors!

MY MOTHER IS

an amazing quilter who hand quilts and loves to NOT use a pattern....

This is one of my favorite silly photos of her

I wanted to show off the amazing quilts she made and personalized for my boys a few years ago....
Larry J loves dragons and medieval times...

Laird loves wild cats....

Landon loves Spiderman and super heros....

Lach loves longboarding.

She has also made a stocking for each one of us kids and grandkids. I'll show you those when I get ready to put them up.

She's amazing!

MY WEE ONES ARE NOT THE

most reverent at church and so when I saw this craft here, I was inspired to make one in the hopes that for the first hour at church my wee ones would be content enough to let me listen to the speakers.... I found our Toy Story DVD so I could make a pattern of Mr. Potato Head...

I cut the pieces with care...

I attached Velcro and decided to sew them on before I made the pieces to make them extra secure...

But all I got was knots of thread and gummed up needles....

I made a pocket on the back to hold all the pieces....

And he looks like a kindergarten sewing project! SERIOUSLY UGLY!

Lach made me feel better because he giggled with excitement (or was he laughing at the sewing job?)

We'll see if this helps the quite factor on our end of the church pew.

Actually, I can see it now. Instead of the wee ones quietly playing with this, they will be throwing the pieces at each other. Uggg.....