Friday, June 27, 2014

A Few Little Things for a Few of my Favorite People

A few weeks ago, I received an Etsy order from my favorite customer.  She just happens to be Mom to my sister-in-law and is one of the sweetest people ever.  I love making stuff for her.  :). My sister-in-law has a few of my bibs, and apparently she loves them and needs a few more.  So I whipped up a pair for her, plus another pair for her nephew.  Grandma chose BYU themed bibs for her younger grandson and trains/helicopters for the older one.  I must admit, I tried the train/heli ones on my boys and was tempted to keep them for myself.  They are nice and thick, soft, and plenty big.  Yep, I need some more for my boys...

This photo seems to show the truest colors.  

I felt like the BYU bibs needs just a little more, so I added the little monogram.


I love to add little quilted details to my bibs.  The extra quilting holds them together a little better and gives them some character.  I even outlined a couple of the little "Y"s.  can you see them?

I made the second set a little bigger since they were for an almost two year old and I love the bigger size.


I recently bought some snap pliers (from Kamsnaps.com - I HIGHLY recommend them) and now I want to put snaps on everything!  I even made these bibs adjustable.  :)

A few detail shots to show off the bubble quilting:



One of these days I need to sit down and make a bunch more...


P.S.  It just so happens that making more bibs (specifically using the trains/helis) was one of my Q2 Finish Along goals (original list can be found HERE.)  Katy - do these count?  Linking up!

http://www.the-littlest-thistle.com/2014/06/finish-along-quarter-2-finish-party.html


Wednesday, June 25, 2014

WIP: Building Fun and Broken Herringbone

I finished a new quilt top!  This one is from the Building Fun pattern by Geta Grama.  I used some Textured Basics by Patty Young that I won in a giveaway awhile back.  I love the colors, and I'm glad the stripes aren't quite as distracting as I anticipated them to be.  It was fun to make a quilt from a pattern, with all the math and stuff done for me.  (Although I DID have to do some figuring when it came time to cut everything.)  Now I just need to quilt it.  Although I'm tempted to do something fancy and customized for each block, I'm thinking I'll do some stippling.  It's been awhile since I've done some simple, relaxing meandering.  I'm looking forward to it.

This was my goal for June's ALYOF.  (My goal setting post can be found HERE.  Mine was entry #51.)

I've also been working on another quilt, which is also almost ready for quilting.  May was my month for Do.Good Stitches (FIRST TIME!  WAHOO!) and I chose the Broken Herringbone block.  It was so fun to receive all my little packages in the mail and I was so excited when the last one finally arrived!  Here they are all lined up in color order:

I've got a really fun plan for these.  Hopefully it works out the way I've imagined it in my head...

I debated for awhile which of these two quilts I should commit to for my July ALYOF goal.  In the end, I decided to push myself.  I think I can finish these two quilts soon because I'm motivated.  However, I've got a new quiet book in the works for my shop that desperately needs attention.  It's going to be awesome (and big), and I've just got to finish it.  So my goal for July is to finish my ABC quiet book.  Everything is cut out, now I just need to do lots of ironing and stitching. 


Linking up:
http://fiberofallsorts.blogspot.com/p/2014-lovely-year-of-finishes.html

http://www.freshlypieced.com/