Sew La Ti Embroidery:
quilt along

I'm starting another quilt along, this time I am going for a queen sized quilt for my bed.
It is in the same flickr group from The Old Red Barn Co.'s first quilt along.

This time it is a zig zag quilt and I am using all vintage fabrics from my stash. I am behind a week, but hopefully I can catch up, I think I get it done faster if I keep up!

I finished quilting my quilt along quilt! For my second attempt at machine quilting I feel pretty good about it, it's not perfect, but it works! Okay I just looked at the time and I stayed up way too late finishing it. I'm going to get the binding made so that I can finish it while I am sitting at the Farmer's Market on Saturday. Can you see the cute vintage sheet backing peeking out at the bottom?
I am in love with this quilt!

I got my top for Dana's quilt along done! Dana said it looks like a dish full of candy, which it does, so now this quilt has a name! Luckily it stopped raining long enough to take a picture outside.

And look at my cute new shoes! 9 bucks at Ross, gotta love it!

.Sorry for the bad picture, what can I say it's 11 o'clock at night.
I was too excited not to post it before I put it in stacks to start sewing together.
Week 3 is done for Dana's quilt along! I wasn't sure if I would get it done in time, I really don't want to get behind. Looking at the picture I may switch a couple blocks around.
I am getting even more excited about this quilt, I absolutely adore it!
It is one happy quilt!

I finished, I finished! It just came out of the dryer and I LOVE it!
My very first all the way finished quilt!
Sorry, I had to take a picture of it in the shade, it was way too sunny on the wall I like to take pictures on.

The back is even cute! Now what quilt shall I finish next?
Maybe my Mod Sampler. I just have to put the outside sashing pieces on it and piece the back for it.

We weeded, tilled, and planted our garden on Saturday! We timed it perfect, as soon as we got done, it started sprinkling a bit. It might seem really late, but this is Utah people :) I think our last frost date is something like May 15th. I love having a garden even though I still don't really know what I am doing. We planted tomatoes for tomato basil sauce, little tiny orange tomatoes, which are my fave, three different kinds of peppers, beans, cucumbers, basil, thyme, and some marigolds. At the back, we have a row of raspberry bushes that we planted last year that are doing really well, we had a couple die last year after we transplanted them from my parent's, but we had quite a few shoots this year that we moved, hopefully they will work, we should have moved them a couple of months ago. We also have oregano and chives.

And we have a friend in the garden too. Yesterday we took the kid's to A Night at the Museum, the kids liked it, it was a good show. All in all we had a nice weekend, which was needed, we had a crappy thing happen last week that effects our family in a big way, but we are okay. This is where I should insert that our little family is amazingly blessed because we are, even when crappy situations get thrown at us. Enough of that, on to the happy quilt!

Today I cut my strips for Dana's quilt along. I'm so glad I chose these fabrics, I love them.
Now I must go for I have children in need of being picked up from school soon.
I hope you had a nice Memorial day weekend!

I have been itching to do some more of these nine patches for the Crazy Mom Quilts quilt along.
These things are addicting, and I love seeing how my favorite fabrics look in different combinations. Now I am caught up for the first two weeks, today starts week three!

So I pretty much lied about taking a break :) What can I say? when I get excited about something I have to share it.
So earlier today I mentioned the quilt along at Crazy Mom Quilts.
I already knew what fabrics I wanted to use, so I pulled them all out today. They are all Tracy Porter fabrics, which is pretty much my favorite fabric, I am sad she isn't doing anymore for Joann's, but as I pulled it all out today, I realized I have quite a bit of it, so it should last me a long time. In fact I counted them all and I have 50 different prints, and I am using them all for this quilt, it is going to be yummy.

I've only done three blocks, but I think I am in love with this quilt already.
And no I haven't finished my mod sampler quilt yet, or the other two quilt tops I have done, they will get done someday soon :)

Sorry I was a liar about taking a break, I really didn't mean to be, I had kindof a bad day yesterday, I think alot had to do with hormones, I am feeling much better today :)

I got a little behind on my quilt along. Today I finished up the blocks, and now I am ready to do the sashing. I am scared of the sashing, we'll see how I do. You can see my sashing fabric at the bottom. I have learned alot with this quilt along, one of the things being that I am kindof an impatient quilter. The more complicated squares I love the end result, but making them, not so much :) I'm getting really excited to finish this.

I wanted to share my progress on my quilt for Oh, Fransson! quilt along.
It has been a learning experience for me as I am new to quilting and Elizabeth's instructions are awesome. I have the first half of the blocks done, and let me tell you I am glad to be done with the ones on the right with what seemed like a million little squares :)

Has anyone ever left their iron plugged in all night? I would never, ever do anything like that, especially being a fireman's wife :)

Oh! I just wanted to share, because I was kindof excited. I had kinda made a goal for my self to hit before any of my shows started, that I would reach 200 sales in my etsy shop and pass 300 people hearting my shop, and I did it!

My pinwheel quilt just came out of the dryer and it is oh so yummy! I love it! There is something about these colors together that I just adore.

This was for the pinwheel quilt along over in the Old Red Barn quilt along group.

I had three helpers to hold it up for me :)

Here's the back, I used a vintage sheet.

Sorry things have been quiet around here. My new niece Hallie doesn't have to have surgery yet, she still has to have surgery, they are just waiting a bit, and it's not as bad as they first were saying, I saw her yesterday for the first time and she is so tiny, I always forget how tiny newborn babies are, to think that my girls were once that tiny is crazy.

I haven't really felt like blogging. Trying to get ready for spring shows and keeping my house clean and trying to take time for me has been consuming my time. Then of course the other various things that always seem to pop up in life :)

Confession: I hoard fabric. Specifically what I call expensive fabric.
I just want to look at it and feel it, but really I should be using it to make awesome things.
So I made myself pick out expensive fabrics from my stash for the Quilt along.
There is even japanese fabric in there, see the little bicycles? And yes that is the only one that is not floral like. I haven't picked out the back yet, I'll probably use some of my vintage linens.

As if I didn't have enough projects going on, I thought I would add another! Elizabeth of Oh, Fransson! is starting a quilt along this week, and I want to join in the fun!

Today I am finishing adding ruffles to all of my pillowcase dresses. This one is my favorite so far, sweet vintage daisies and green polka dots, so cute!

And I chose my fabrics for the Old Red Barn Co. pinwheel quilt along. I am going to make big 14.5 " pinwheels. I'm thinking the bigger I make them, the less the blocks I have to make and the faster I will get it done :) Plus I think big ole pinwheels will look awesome. I am going to go start cutting into my fabric now, I can't wait!

A couple months ago I won a membership to Patchwork Posse (thanks again Becky!)

One of the things we are doing in the group is a quilt along. I had decided to shop in my stash for this quilt along and I want it to be scrappy and yummy.

Last night I decided to do the first two blocks and I am in LOVE with them! I can't wait for the next blocks!

Did I mention I really, really, really love these?

I do, I love them.

I finished it, I finished it! This was round 4 of the ORBC quilt along. That's really good for me, I started this thing on Friday, and finished it up last night! Did I work on any of the other 8 quilts I have started? No, I started this whole new one :)

I love this quilt.

Yesterday, I decided to start this quilt instead of tackling something on my list of things I need to get made. I picked out the fabrics for this almost 3 months ago for round 4 over at the Old Red Barn Co. quilt along group. I'd been staring at the pile of fabrics for awhile and finally decided it was time. I love it and can't wait to get it sewn together, I have to take a little break from it though, quilting is hard work I tell you, my body is feeling it!

When I woke up, I found this little scene, Sage had cut them out from my leftover scraps while she was watching TV this morning, I think it is adorable.