Crane Panel by Kaufman Fabrics Finally Done....

 I finally finished quilting this panel. I pinned it for quilting in 2019, and mentioned it in this blog at the time...I love the fabric. I thought I would thread paint this. Well, it is partly thread painted and partly free motioned as in meandering. I find that my level of patience is not the level one needs in thread painting!  But I love this. The binding is a lovely fabric which coordinated so well with this panel. In short, I love this, and I might even hang it in the sewing-quilting area. 

Phoebe's Christmas QAYG Quilty and Another Kitty Christmas Quilty...

 Having a pils of scraps leftover for years from Christmas sewing, I decided to make cat quilts  - one for ours and one for Phoebe, my "grandkitty."  This actually used all my scraps! So glad!  The above picture is Phoebe on her new quilt. It is a strip QAYG, assembling backing and batting and then sewing strips cross the top, then bind - very fast way to make smaller items and looks quite good! :)  Below is a picture of it before gifting.  For the QAYG I used a fat quarter as the backing and that made the trimming extra easy! Size was same when done as a fat quarter.

The one I made our kitties is not as pretty! But it used quite a few scraps! It is larger than Phoebe's quilt by several inches each way.  It was nice that I used all the rest of the Snoopy fabric for binding!! On the one for our cats I used several strip scraps to bind.

Seattle 2024 Quilts for Grands...

Finished, sent received and LOVED!!! I used some fat quarters and some fabric cut to fat quarters by me. Seattle fabric was not generally available around here of course, so I grazed the interwebs. ETSY had a nice little shop on Whidbey Island called Undercoverquilts, and that shop had this lovely Seattle print! I wanted that theme for these two quilts, as my grands grew up in that area. Also I needed a masculine sort of quilt - no florals for the guys!  

 

Primary colors set this off I think, and the binding is from eQuilter, and is called Splatter 108 inch backing.  

Those primaries really made a good binding for the Seattle Quilt! I used my Elna 720 for the sewing and quilting, and Warm and Natural and Hobbs batting - 100% cotton of course. The backing is flannel in blue shaded prints. All in all it took me quite awhile to get these made. Designed by me. :)
 

Scrubs for 18" Doll

FINALLY got around to sewing up the 18" version of this pattern. :). Available here at Pixie Faire Love-U-Bunches Scrubs for 18"   Such a sweet little pattern. I do however fully line the top because that makes a much nicer neckline. See what I did here on the set?!  SEW much fun making things for the dolls.  I finished this a couple of months ago, and since then have been working on two throw quilts. More to follow on that later on.  Have taken up coloring book coloring again....little bit of line drawing as well. Sewing seems to be more of a Fall-Winter pastime for me.  More about this pattern for my 14" doll here:  14" Scribs info