Birthday Gift Quilt

My next project, which I actually started earlier in the year. The birthday is still a couple months out, but I need to get it done, so I will get started on that today. I 'started it' because when making the 'postage stamp' type blocks, I needed lots and lots to be sure I wasn't getting the same block and fabrics over and over. I kept making more, adding lots of new fabrics, so that all of them have a great variety of fabrics.

That will get me all caught up, with quilts to all of the Great-Nieces and Nephews. So, it may be the last Birthday Gift Quilt that I make. 

The building blocks

More 'stamps' blocks = diversity

Snowball building

Putting it together

From 2 blocks to strips

I have to match every corner

Just the top, but it's pretty!

Birthday "Me Pillow" begun

Just printed out the fabric squares for my next memory pillow. The printer isn't really very friendly with these. I will leave them to dry for at least a week, before I start to layer on the starch and build the pillow.

 

Houses Don't Have to Be for Dolls!

     This little house is a garage, built for cars and boys

This is the side view of the garage

The straps allow it to be carried

Interior view with ramp and storage box attached

Before the roof fabric was on

Folding the walls to attach the roof

These are the ramp and storage box

Putting the walls together with foam core

Affixing the ramp and storage box

The walls, one piece for three sides

Little Girl Purses

These little purses are reversible, to give 2 different looks for each one. I also created an insert, that can be moved from purse to purse very easily, and hold all the important stuff every little girl needs to keep near her. The insert protects the purse, so that each side always looks good!

I then added a special clasp, on a tether, to hold the purses closed. Other closures wouldn't have allowed the purse to be fully reversible. The clasp is very pretty.

The Little Pink House

Here are some updated photos of the houses I have been working on. I think that they are cute, there is a pink, a grey and a beige house. Each has some furniture, and are ready to go along with a child, to be played with, where ever they might be.

It isn't finished, buttons to keep the flap closed, and covering the handle still remain, but it's close. Want to see how I made it, click here.

The Next Birthday Gifts...

The tale of 2 quilts. I frequently cut out and build out/up two quilts at a time. I like to have choices when I am putting them together, alternate blocks to place/put together. And when 2 nieces/nephews birthdays are approaching, it just makes sense to 'keep me out of trouble' to make them similar. No "how come he/she got..", "why didn't I get...".

These two are going out into the mail soon. The first, with the gray boarder and purple binding is backed with fleece, and though it has a woven fabric interior, to help protect the stitches from being stretched to breaking, it still doesn't have the 'body' of a more traditional quilt, which is what the second quilt is. Made during the 'lock-down' when fabrics/options weren't as available as they usually are, I'm lucky I have such a big stash! They are almost exactly the same, but quite different!

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  Fleece backing, woven 'batting'

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  Flannel backing, woven batting

Boys Holiday Fleece

My boy's holiday fleece, each going with a hanging panel for the home, of the truck and tree in a winter scene. The first was to have a big contrasting pocket, and go over the head, but a mistake took that pocket to be the yoke back of the bigger shirt. The scraps left are so small they will only work as stuffing for pillows of the future. Things never go as expected. Of course, it wouldn't have needed the pocket if I had cut the front on the fold... Ah well, there great for play time jacket/sweatshirts.

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  Zipped jacket missing pocket

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  Smaller top for smaller boy

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  Bigger boy sweatshirt style

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  Aren't they so very cute?

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  Where the big pocket went.