My Quilt Festival Entry

I decided to become a part of an on-line blog quilt festival.

Part of the festival is to post your favorite quilt ever done and it's "story"...here is mine

My favorite COMPLETED Quilt Project that I have ever done was a quilt that I made for my husbands father for Christmas a few years ago.

We had decided that year that we (and by we, I mean I) would make quilts for all his family for Christmas. So, I began with his siblings...a 11 year old girl and a 12 year old boy.

Frogs for a boy with a fun pattern...

Flowers and pink for a girl with a fun pattern...

These 2 were easy to decide on and went very quickly when I started sewing them.

Next I started working on his mom's quilt. We picked a BEAUTIFUL pattern from a book and I started sewing... It went very quickly and turned out even better than I could have imagined! I'll be honest, I wanted to keep this one for myself :)

Finally...to decide on a pattern for his dad - good luck!!! It was very difficult for me to find something that I really liked that looked "manly" enough for his dad. I should put in a side-note here that I have NEVER met my husband's father, so I don't know him all that well...so it was a guessing game on my part. First, I decided on colors...because I thought that would be the easy part - boy, was I wrong!! I FINALLY (after about an hour of searching in 1 store) decided on a black on black and a dark maroon. My husband agreed that they were great colors for his dad.
Next, I had to find a pattern. I looked and looked and couldn't find anything that I really liked for my father-in-law. So, I decided to just make one up...After completing it, my mom quilted it for me (thanks, mom) and we wrapped and sent them to my in-laws. He absolutely loved it...and it made ma happy to know that I had made it all myself - no pattern or copying for this one...Hope you all enjoy seeing it as much as I do - I love to look at my very own creation :)

Not Fair...

I wish that I could just sew and quilt and craft all the time!!!

Instead I have to be responsible...you know, wash the dishes, fold the laundry, and be a mom to my 2 kids...
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE being a mom and getting to stay home with my kids....but every now and then I wish I had a day where I could just sit at my sewing machine all day long with my iron within reach (not on the counter out of reach of my kids) and sew to my heart's content :) Maybe one day, when my kids are a bit older, I can have that day. As of right now...I have 7 "in-progress" quilts that I don't see an end in sight for...
Can't wait to finish them, though - and I'll share with everyone when they're done...

Placemats

We are trying to teach my son to use a place-mat when it's time to eat. But, I wanted to do something fun for our place-mats - not something boring or that everyone else already has.
So, I took ALL my Hawaiian fabric that I have collected over the years (thanks mom and sis) and started cutting. I put some wonder-under in between them to stiffen them up a little bit and started sewing!!
These are just the 4 of them that were done when I took the picture. When I'm all done I will have 10 Hawaiian Print place-mats...and they work GREAT!!!

In a Slump...

Not really - just haven't completed anything lately...don't worry...I'm sure once the kids are better I'll be doing MUCH more....