Superhero Cape

  My running friend asked if I would make a batman cape for a little boy.  I was excited to try this out as I have seen them all over Pinterest.  It was so fun to make and turned out perfect.  Now I just need my kids to get into superhero's.  My little girl had fun wearing it but had no idea what it was (she's not at all into superheros).

I would love to make some more.  Do you want one? I can make them for any super hero or color that you want.  I could even customize for you.  (ie Your little superhero's initial.) Let me know.

UFO #15:Hidden Star Quilt

 
This is one of those quilts that I saw and had to make.  The top was super fun to make and turned out great. I'm in love with the pattern.  It was made from a charm pack. I'm loving charm packs right now. I love that you can get a whole bunch of different fabrics to make a well matching scrappy quilt.

 

The quilt is backed with fleece.  It makes it a light weight, but warm and snugly quilt.

 

I started quilting this quilt months ago on my mom's new Singer Confidence Quilter sewing machine.  In the sashing I used the curvy stitch.  Unfortunately I didn't get finished and a couple weeks later the mother board on her machine failed.  Luckily it was still under warranty (by only a couple of days).  She waited months to get her machine back (a machine that she didn't really want back anyway).  Finally the people said they would just give her a new machine.   She told them she really didn't want that machine.  She was unhappy with it's features as well as the fact that it couldn't sew over a seam.  They said she could upgrade, but the dealer she bought it from didn't have what she wanted so they gave her her money back!  It was God sent that it all went down that way.  She was able to get a new even better machine!

Well, we both were. Hee, hee.  :0)  I'll tell you more later.  For now, I'll just say I was able to use my new machine to finish the quilting (it has a curvy stitch).

 

Not sure who this quilt is going to. Do you want it? Let me know.

Stats:
Started in 2010
Finished November 2012

UFO #1: Beehive Wall Hanging

Technically this one is not finished, but it will never be finished.  Way back when I was a beehive in young women's, my leader put these together and taught us how to blanket stitch around the leaves and beehive.  From there we were supposed to finish it.  Well it has sat in a Ziploc bag and moved many times with me.  It is now time to go to it's final resting spot, the garbage.

I thought it is silly to finish it because it is not something I would ever use.  But here I will post it just so that I can remember it.

 Stats:
Started in 1997
Discarded in 2012

(Yes, I can be a pack rat sometimes, but I am getting better.)

UFO #6: Thangles Quilt

Three years ago when I joined my first Quilt Guild, they taught us how to used Thangles.  Thangles are a paper piecing pattern that helps you make accurate half square triangles quickly and easily.  Thangles were super easy and fun to do.  Each month we received two new patterns to try using our Thangles.

At the end of the quilt guild year we ended up with 12 finished blocks.  I of course choose to put orange with mine.  For the most part I am glad I did it and was happy with how the blocks turned out.  However, this is not my favorite quilt.  There are blocks int there that I don't care for at all (patter wise).  And this was done when I was still a beginning quilter so my blocks are not as precise.

I decided to just finish it with a simple white sashing.  It turned out well enough.

I didn't want to put the time, money, and effort into fishing it so I gave it to my local Linus foundation where they will tie it and give it to someone in need.

 

 Stats:
Started in 2008
Finished October 2012

Size: Not sure, but about a lap sized quilt

Modern Hour Glass Quilt

 I saw this quilt on the Internet. It was one of those quilt patterns where I immediately fell in LOVE with it, stopped all my other projects, and turned my entire focus on it.  I got the fabrics from Hobby Lobby and started on it that day while the kiddos napped.

The pattern was supper easy.  Just a bunch of hour glass blocks turned on their point.

The colors are just right to make it fun and modern.  The one thing that didn't turn out quite like I'd envisioned was the size of the blocks.  I thought I was making them large enough, but they still turned out smaller than I would have preferred.  I was going for the big, large block look like the one I saw.

Oh, well. Still love it.

I love the back too. Fresh, modern, cheep.

There is one big flaw in this quilt.  I was so excited to get it done that I didn't baste it to the best of my ability.  So...when I was quilting it there are parts on the back that pucker and fold over into the stitching.

Still love it.

It is a child sized throw quilt, but now that it is done I'm not sure what to do with it.  Does any one want it?

Some day I hope to make another one very similar, only bigger blocks and bigger quilt.

UFO #9: Fussy Cut Bug Baby Quilt

 

  I got the bug material back in 2009 on my first "Shop Hop". I love the colors and the picture within it so I knew that some part of the quilt had to have a big panel.

I decided to fussy cut the bugs out and frame them with blue, yellow, maroon, and green.  Each block around is unique; not one is the same. The boarder is little bits of scraps all sewn together.  And it is finished with a scrappy binding.

It started out as a baby quilt, but then I thought maybe wall hanging, but decided to finish it as a baby quilt.  It was impossible to find a matching fabric for the backing since I started the quilt so long ago.  But I found the backing on clearance a week ago.  It is brighter then most of the fabrics on the front, but matches the bright maroon in the panel perfectly.

 Stats:
Started in 2009
Finished October 2012


Warm and Natural Batting
Machine Quilted 1/4 from the gutter around the squares by me

Busy Kid: For Max

 This quilt pattern is called Busy Kid by Cluck Cluck Sew.  It was the perfect name for it's recipient. I made it for my nephew, Max.  He is a cute kid, but he is sure busy.

The top was made from my stash!  Yeah!

I chose Minke for the back.  So soft!

A local quilter did an all over star/loopy design.  I think the whole thing turned out great.