Welcome to the North Pole

I finished quilting this some time ago, but I don't think I have shared it. It has sat by my chair for months...waiting for me to finish adding embellishments. I finally talked myself into doing the last 3 blocks. haha   lots of beads and buttons and rhinestones. pretty shiny.

This is the book that the pattern was in. I think I found it at a book sale.

I tried to make mine as close to the pattern as I could.

There are beads, ribbons and buttons everywhere.

I discovered it is really had to sew a line of beads in a straight line. haha

The little ice cream cone is actually an eraser.

The part of a copper bracelet on the roofline was leftovers from something that I cut from it. 

Santa has a pretty spiffy sleigh.

Santa forgot his belt....hope his pants don't fall down. haha

Don't know what I will do with this one....it was just fun to make.

Pumpkins Gone Wild

Someone on MQR just the other day showed a jelly roll quilt with a white zigzag in the middle. (i don't have my note with me now to see who it was....i think Deb). anyway, i got a jelly roll on monday from the fabric line Pumpkins Gone Wild and i had to start one. 

So far, I have 9 rows finished. now i have to zigzag in the other direction. I started the cut of the jelly strip at 4" and increased it 2" every time till i got to 20". 

I cut the insert pieces in the middle 10 1/2", so it is 50" wide. I'll probably go to about 60 or 65" and then stop. 

There are some really cool prints in this line. and there is no waste, just cut a strip and insert a section....and done. i like simple.

Spider Pillow Top

My cousin came over yesterday so she could quilt up her Halloween quilt. with the leftovers she made this pillow top and wanted me to embroider a spider on it....so i did that. and then convinced her it would look cute if i quilted it for her.

I used Magnifico neon lime for the spider and web. oops, there is a stray thread hanging from the web. haha

and Glide key lime for the quilting. 

It is 20" square. 

I didn't get a pic of her quilt that she finished....she took a panel and added to it. it was the second one she had ever quilted. 

1847 Baltimore Bride's Quilt

I meant to do more quilting on this....but I have a friend coming tomorrow to quilt one of hers....and this had to come off the machine today. It is 68x89.  It is all wool...hand applique...i finished putting it together in March of this year.

As you know by now...i take crappy pics...hahaha   hopefully, you can see some quilting.

I did SID around the applique...then added a bit more to the blocks here and there in larger unquilted areas.

When I do the applique, I just eyeball the placement of things. I probably need to start measuring, because the quilting doesn't turn out symmetrical with eyeballing. haha

The sashings are gray, but the camera washes them out. As I was quilting, I found the pink tip of one flower unstitched....so i just quilted over it. 

One side of one of these leaves was unstitched, also. i guess i got distracted. 

I got really, really tired of picking things off that black background.

I used Glide light olive thread on the top because my eyes are so bad that I cannot use black thread on black fabric and see it at all.

The back is a white muslin. I outlined the blocks and borders with a variegated green from Signature, but then decided I didn't want to use it for the rest of it, so I switched to Bottom Line Tan for the rest.

The border was done with my boards. 

I believe I shall keep this one.