Joy has returned!!!

 

Most recently she is doing some FMQ on this free quilt.  The fabrics are from sheets and receiving blankets belonging to a Lovely Little too big for his crib.  The batting is an old cotton thermal blanket past its prime.  Okay, so the binding I bought making the quilt cost a whole $9.50 or there abouts!  I am about 3/4 of the way through quilting.  Then I will add it to the needing bound stack!

This is the scrappy little table quilty that Joy started to cough on.  Quilting is finished.

Binding is ready to be sewn on.

Here is a little bit of fun.  These are a pattern I am working on.  (Paganelli and Purple bliss...sigh)  Really just deciding if the world needs another grocery sack pattern.  What do you think?

A parting shot just to give some size perspective.

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Blessings,

KT

The Story Behind the Quilt

This quilt started out because the blue and the green Katie Jump Rope liked each other so much.  But then I started an orange quilt, and had these wonderful orange scraps.  (By the way, the orange quilt still isn't finished.  Can I get an "Amen"!)  I had ordered some Sandi Henderson Meadowsweet because...  And then on day, it all came together in my mind.

When I looked at this fabric together while quilting my mind kept wandering back to Grandmas and Grandpas.  I grew up with all of them with me until I was in sixth grade.  I have great memories.  When may maternal grandparents went to Florida, they brought me back Orange Blossom Perfume.  I can still smell it!  When my paternal grandparents moved to Florida, I got a small bottle every time I visited them.

So this quilt is "Orange Blossom Perfume"  in loving memory of the sweet times I had with all my grandparents.

Quilted with a feather stitch, I love how the soft orange thread looks on the blue KJR!

Since the original pictures were a bit washed out from the bright light and the snow, I took a couple to day.

It has been one of the very few non-rainy days since the snow melted!

I just can't tell you how soft KJR is.

Here is its summer resting place.  It is ready for a chilly moment, or maybe just there if I need to remember Grandma's hugs.

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Blessings,

KT

Just keeping busy.

I have been cutting.  This fabric is going to be a quilt for my Mother-in-Law for Christmas.

Look closely at my sewing desk.  Something is missing.  Joy.  Apparently I wore her out and she will be moving on to week three of her vacation as of tomorrow.  I miss the feel of fabric in my hands.  So I have been finding ways to accoplish SOMETHING in my little sewing area.

So, I also organized the unfinished projects.  Most of these will go on to other homes, so finishing them will get rid of some visual noise.

Secret Table quilt.  Just needs the binding.

Quilt for my end table to protect it from glass rings.  My family, apparently, is morally opposed to coasters.

This is what I was practicing FMQ on when Joy started skipping up to four stitches at a time.

Grocery/Tote bags using my own way of putting them together.  (Been toying with the idea of my own pattern.)  Joy continued to be able to piece, only coughing on batting, so these are half done.

Then Joy's pedal died.  So this wall quilt still needs hanging loops and binding.

This is what I was practicing FMQ to warm up to.  Dee drew the greatest design for me, so my skills need to live up to the importance of the piece.  (The embroidery was my grandma,s.)

Need to make two purses.  One for my Sister-In-Law (for Mother's Day...sigh) and one for a friend's birthday (March 15th...double sigh).

Oh, and since there have been several days in the eighties already, I should be getting these made into summer jammies.

 

Oh, and this is still in pins.  If I could just get these things done, my sewing area would be much neater.  Assuming, of course, that I don't think up more projects....oooopps!!!!  Too late!!!  ;0)

Blessings,

KT

Wordless Wednesday

Sew & Tell: Why my sewing machine deserves a week at the spa

Finished these bags for my Potholder Pass 7 partner.  Well, almost anyway.  My machine got very sick.  These are finished, but there was more I had planned to send her.  And I will, in a couple weeks when Joy gets back from the spa.

Made this cute Ditty bag to go with it.  The pattern lining up was a happy accident.  I am not that good!

I struggled to find a clean area of my house when I took the picture.  Sometimes that is just the way it is!  At least the laundry was clean!  Both bag patterns were purchased from Keyka Lou, and were wonderfully written, not to mention nicely priced.  She has more in her shop that I long for!!

Robert Kaufman Challenge complete except binding.  With Joy on vacation, it is just is going to have to wait.

Decided to leave some of the Dresdens off, it was just too much.  I call it "April Showers, May Flowers".  We were given the word Spring.   This says spring to me!

I used variegated thread to machine applique the flowers down.  Yellow thread for the centers.  With the quilting I went back to the variegated thread, and pretended to be rain.  I left a few gaps to hand quilt, just because I am a glutton for punishment.  (Many layers!)

This is the binding I plan on using.  It has that watery feel to it!

Here is the back.  It is okay if you like it better, I just might too!  I haven't decided for sure, but this may be a playroom wall hanging when the Lord drops a bigger house out of the sky!

This is some secrety-sewing.  I believe the pattern is called Kings Crown.  The fabric is Martinique.

The back, and no, I am not tellin'!

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Purple Peep Eater

Many of you know that I love purple.  What you probably don't know is that I love Peeps.  My favorite, of course, are the purple ones.  Since I prefer them stale (I know weird) you could say that I am passionate about my purple Peeps.

What I am not is a purple Peep creep.  I don't think that purple Peeps are the only REAL candy.  (Chocolate anyone?)  I don't think that everyone should HAVE to like them.  I realize that purple only adds to my experience, but not to the sweetness of the Peep.  I will eat the blue Bunnies in a pinch!  ;0)

I can, and do, love those who hate the Peep.  If you can't stand purple I can still love you.  (Some of my favorite people love red, I just don't get it, but I love them!)

 

If everyone were like me, the world would be flat and let's face it, very scary indeed.  There would be nothing unique, nothing to spark my interest, nothing to make me grow.

No Joy!

Insert shudders.

"But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives:  love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.  There is no law against these things!"

Galatians 5:22, 23

This year I have been focusing on "Joy", mostly because mine was a bit tarnished.  I cannot fail to produce the other fruit though.  If I do, I will never have joy.

What that means in my virtual world is this.  I like whatever it is you do.   Feel free to borrow what you like, but I don't ever expect you to be me.  I would rather delete this blog than to discourage you (or make you that crazy!).  I want you to have joy and a purple Peep, but only if you want them.

Blessings,

KT

DS fabric

Click on the picture!! Go ahead...decrease my chances!!! ;0)
I promise I will forgive!

Blessings,

KT