Baby and Bee plus T-shirt Quilt Finish!

At a work baby shower, there was some fun and beautiful food that I just had to share!

 Lovely white cake with a caramel layer that was AMAZING!

 Cute watermelon fruit pig? made by a coworker.

She also made this cute basket of diaper babies!  

Roll up the diaper, put a sock on one side and a washcloth on the other and draw on eyes with a Sharpie!

Bee Weekend

First the finishes...

 K Fassett quilt by Barb

 

Marion's diamond K Fassett quilt

 

Jennifer's Cat Quilt.  This one is going to a local nursing home.  I'll bet there's a cat lover there just ready for this one!

 Bargello Quilt by Karen, quilted by Lillie

 Great border!

 The quilting really shows of the Bargello look.

Here are some of Barb's fun EPP hexagon blocks.  She's using shot cottons for the center and the Hoffman Fabrics Skyline for the outer hexagons.  These are fantastic, and I can't wait to see it all put together!

Lillie is still piecing the Latimer Farms blocks.  This is a NEW block-of-the-month from Red Crinoline Quilts and Paula Barnes.  Find it at your local quilt shop or favorite online shop!

 

I love all the little pieces!

Work Buddy

A lady at work - Cecilia - quilts and she had two that she wanted to gift to a local nursing home.  The West Houston Quilter's Guild donates quilts to local nursing homes and Project Linus.  So, I'm taking these to guild meeting tomorrow to donate!  Thanks, Cecilia!

 

T-Shirt Quilt

I finally finished the t-shirt quilt for a co-worker.  I spent a lot of time avoiding quilting it, but I really surprised myself by how well it went!  There were a few snags, but overall, I think the FMQ experience was a positive one.

 

Ta-da!

 

I used the square spirals a lot.  It covered territory and is masculine.

 

 The sashing is just a big spiral that reverses back-and-forth as it travels down the sashing.

I also had fun outlining the jersey numbers.  I did it FMQ with polyester thread.  It glides so well!

And that, my friends, is a LOT of pictures, but you know I'm all about that.  

Have you had any finishes lately or are you running up to the Christmas deadline?

Linking up with
Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story

and
Linky Tuesday at Freemotion by the River

Running up to the end

I've been able to complete quite a few quilts in anticipation of the holiday season.  I am ready for Christmas and will have more quilts and projects to share as they are given to their recipients!  I'm sharing one here since I know that my sister doesn't read my blog!  This is the blue quilt I made for her.

It's a giant trip around the world quilt!

 This one was quilted by my longarmer friend Lillie.  I love the quilting pattern with this quilt!

This print on the back was the inspiration.  It is from Amy Butler's Organic Soul line.

 

I ran out of enough to do the back and binding, so I put a strip of light blue on the back.  The quilting really shows up prettily here!

 

Also, I'm going to a baby shower at work on Friday for a baby boy.  I fortunately have this quilt completed from the jelly roll stash I acquired earlier this year.

 

This is the 3 Dude's jelly roll pattern.  Don't try it unless you don't mind not being accurate.  The way it's cut, it creates lots of bias edges.  THEN the way it's pieced, there's no good way to press to eliminate bulk (at least that I could figure out!)
But it is easy, quick, and fun!  Just not a pattern you should be picky about piecing, is all.

  Straight-line quilting with 30-weight thread.  This one is so busy that I wanted to keep the quilting simple and sparse.  I think I finished quilting it in under 30 minutes!  I quilted from edge to edge so there was no need to tie off threads either!  WOOHOO!

This is the back.  I also caught a little bit of my finger in this photo.  OUCH! ;)

The zig-zag fabric is Dear Stella (and it made a gorgeous binding when I cut it on the bias!).  The front and main back are Boathouse by Sweetwater for Moda.

Also, I made two blocks for the December Covered in Love block drive:

 

Sending off to Kat and Cat Quilts to incorporate in her beautiful quilts!

Linking up with Fabric Tuesday at A Quilt Story and Linky Tuesday at Freemotion by the River.