Monday, February 8, 2016

Kari's quilt

Kari is a ray of sunshine. Kari and I borrow each other's everything. Kari makes me laugh and she tells me straight. Kari lives across the street at least until Saturday and I've cried too many tears about this. When people want to talk about it we say "We aren't talking about that". Kari says, "let's let the future Lisa and Kari deal with that later."
I love my dear Kari so much I made her a quilt. In fact I lied to her and said it was for my daughter. That way when she came over I could work in it without her knowing...te-he. 
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 Like a ray of sunshine in the snow...Kari and this darling fabric




Custom back just for her...she is Pow and Zap

 
Just did loops on my machine with a  quilting foot


Thursday, May 7, 2015

Jessica's Baby GIRL! Hooray

After 4 darling boys she is having a girl. I love Jessica. She is an Angel to me. We watched eachother's kids while we lived in Minnesota so we could go to the temple every month! They have a lot of bears in their playroom so we felt it only befitting to pick out bear fabric.  Love Love Love Sarah Jane (local fabric designer).




Thursday, May 22, 2014

New Project and Inspiration from my daughter.

I am so excited to know how to make these, I used to buy them for my family and friends.
I found a ton of fun minki in the remnants at Joanne and I bought a couple yards of blue and pink and dug out green and yellow from my fabric stash. I learned how to make them from my friends darling sister-in-law from Swim Bike Quilt  Remember she is amazing and so inspirational to me. 

Kate has been drawing houses lately. So I showed her this quilt out of my favorite quilt book 


 I said if she wanted to keep drawing houses I would copy them with fabric and make a quilt like that.  She drew these and we cut out the fabric and sewed a little house. She was so excited, she drew a door knob with a permanent marker. I put it up on my inspiration wall.  I usually put up the dates for the quilt squares and quilts that are due for Margarets Hope Chest 
 She was so excited about it that she drew me this Fancy House.  Wow!!!  I'm wondering how to quilt that one.

Jess and I found this darling quilt store just outside of Madison. It was a sunny day down an old farm road, I was in Heaven. (best pic I could get-Darling Logo right?)

I saw this darling reproduction fabric from the 30's and 40's we HAD to get it for Kate's House Quilt.  These prints remind me of....

my great grandmas's star quilt pieces with fabric FROM the 30's and 40's. Some of them are so similar. 

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Lennon Lou's Quilt

My little neice is adorable and I had fun making her quilt by hand. 

Watching Spencer's 2 day Brompton races in England





 It was fun to use Sarah Jane's Fabric. I have been missing doing stuff by hand so this was really fun to tote around England and work on. I love the binding the best and I think it's because I was taught to quilt by hand. It's peaceful for one as anxious as me.  





    

Monday, June 3, 2013

Our Quilt is Finished! Hooray!!!

 Jess and I walked over to the barn down the road and asked if we could take a picture of our quilt. The owner was so nice, she not only let us shoot some pics but she brought out her chickens and rooster for Jess. The Barn and home were built in 1839 Holy Moly! We had tons of fun.


This Quilt took almost a year to make. The red block turned out ridiculously red (although this was the recommendation for the fabric). I followed it to a T. This quilt is symbolic of Minnesota for me. Lots of colors and patterns that I love and one big stupid bright red square I hate. Here is the symbolism:
There have been lots of things I really love about living here and a big bright yucky patch of WINTER that I honestly HATE. 6 months + of winter is more than I felt I could take. Needless to say we are looking for jobs elsewhere.  
 I machine quilted the whole thing. It was quite a chore but I really loved doing it. 
  I love the colors especially the (shocking right?) blues.
 Can we just live here on this land?  
 I saved all the little scraps and made fun mini quilt squares to add to the back from where I cut. This quilt is huge and now sits on my bed!