Cake Decorating Class

 

Paper piecing with my quilting group

It's been a while...

I finished Eveline's duvet.  Here it is on our bed.  Making a duvet was a lot harder than I thought.  I think I'll do it differently next time...if I ever make one again. 

I've been playing with my new camera.  Poor Sadie has been the subject of many pictures; however, she's not very excited about it. 

The flowers are more cooperative.  

This is a quilt that I made a long time ago, but I didn't quilt it the way I wanted to.  Now that I've done my free motion quilting class, I went back and quilted it.  I also added a label. 

 For the last challenge my quilting group was North Carolina Themed.  I made Julio an NCSU quilt.  This is the front and the back.  I still have to quilt it. 

 

Our next quilting challenge is a UFO or UnFinished Object.  I am going to work on a blue and white quilt I started about 8 years ago.  

In order to be more productive I set up my sewing machine on my sewing table upstairs.  

I've also been working on my free motion quilting.  This is a panel I bought a few years ago, but didn't know what to do it.  I did a leave pattern on it.  

 

 Finally, I am teaching a paper piecing workshop for my quilting group in two weeks.  Here is a sample.  Then I practice free motion quilting on there...circles.  

10 minute table runner!

My friend, Pat, showed me how to make a table runner....so I couldn't resist making a few for Christmas presents.

Baby It's Cold Outside!

 Our fire...

 

Sadie is enjoying the fire too!  

I took a free motion quilting class at Quilts Like Crazy this morning.  Look at what I learned!  I can't wait to try it out on a quilt!

 

Christmas presents.....

I made this for Wanda at work....

I also made a bowl for Linda...

 

She came by tonight and gave me this big bag!  It's to carry big quilts.  So cute!  I love the chickens!

Pictures of the other things I made will be online after Christmas!  :)

A little bit of everything...

 

 I got a new camera!  I made the strap to go on it!

 Coasters I made for Janine, my boss.  We're putting a basket together for her!

 The beautiful tulips I got from my Girls on the Run!

Our Christmas tree....and Sadie.  

 It's Christmas time!  I have all my Santas out and ready.  This is the first one I got.  

 I gave Julio a pizza stone for his birthday.  This is our favorite pizza- pesto, artichokes, olives, sun dried tomatoes, feta cheese, and a little mozzarella.  Yummy!

 

I found this recipe in my Classic Home Cooking cook book.   Usually all the recipes from there are great, but this one wasn't that good.  It's a pizza with tomatoes, tuna, capers, mozzarella, oregano, and a little olive oil. 

NC State Fair

These are my two entries for the NC State Fair.  Wish me luck...

Quilt Tags

I bought some quilt tags at Etsy.com! 

Learning to Crochet

 

I'm learning how to crochet.  It's a lot better than knitting.  

Here is my first project... a scarf! 

A Buggy Baby Blanket

 

A friend from Julio's lab is having a baby.  I went to a baby shower yesterday and this is the blanket I made for them!