Showing posts with label mom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mom. Show all posts

Thursday, May 19, 2011

It all started with tupperware

Amy, from Amyscreativeside.com, is hosting a Blogger's Quilt Festival to coincide with Quilt Market. To see some amazing quilts by bloggers everywhere, click on the link below:

Amy's Creative Side



I'm pretty sure that my love of orange is directly related to my love of all things from the 1970s.

What really epitomizes the color palette for me is, and always has been, my mom's funky set of tupperware:

I've always loved this set!
It's still in pristine condition, too. That handle really keeps the set together.

My name is on the bottom of the yellow bowl, made with a labelmaker much like this one:
I can't think of one thing that wasn't labeled with that label maker.

Coming up with a palette for a quilt for myself wasn't too hard. I usually start with orange.
Above is a shot of all of the blocks together, but not in the final arrangement.
Below, all set together:

The best part of this quilt, tho, isn't the color palette.
(even tho they're all my favorites)

The best part about this quilt is that it is just my second quilt hand-quilted piece.

And, it is the quilt that brought all of these fabulous people together to put it in a frame and help me start hand quilting.


We put it up in the driveway - on my grandmother's frame.
We used the quilt stands my granddad made.

Above, the backing is pinned to the boards first.
Then (below) the batting and top are attached.
And the quilting began.

These two great gals took me into their quilting circle!


Some quilt-enthusiasts showed up to support us:

Here's a great picture of one of my grams' best pals, showing me how it's done:


It was a perfect day to start a fun 70's tupperware-inspired quilt!

Particulars: 42 blocks, log cabiny, cotton batting
Progress to date: 29.5 blocks complete, binding machine-stitched to the backside.


Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Handmade Christmas: Fun Cloth Napkins & Vintage Napkin Rings

The cloth napkins and vintage (ebay) napkin rings were a big hit!

Bees & Apples

Birds


Baseballs


more Baseballs




Cherries





Pears






brown swirlies


blue, black, & green square bullseyes

Handmade Christmas: eyeglass cases

I've gifted almost all of the handmade gifts this year!
Here's the eyeglass cases. I followed the super-simple tutorial at Design Sponge.








Saturday, June 13, 2009

Mom's quilt back from the quilter

Finally, it's done... and I mean really done.
Mom's quilt came back from the quilter and it looks fabulous. I think she really likes it, but time will tell.
The fabric store that did the quilting is Melear Fabrics, located in Sullivan, MO and Salem, MO. They've done another spectacular job on it. I can't say enough great things about them. They do a huge variety of edge-to-edge patterns. This time, they finished the edge for me, too.

The pattern is "flock of triangles" from Denyse Schmidt. My version was made with mom's favorite colors... pink and maroon. I kind of like it.



Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Mom's quilt


I finally finished mom's quilt top.
It's based on Denyse Schmidt's Flock of Triangles. I used mom's favorite color: PINK and supplemented with maroon, brown, beige.
Added bonus: an appliqued "P" to monogram it. She loves monograms!