Valentine Finishes

Are Valentine's festivities in full swing at your house? My boys and I stayed up way too late last night putting all of the finishing touches on their Valentine boxes and their classmates cards. As they were working, I told them about how in elementary my friends and I would look at all the cards to see if the boys we liked had written anything special. The next thing I knew, my 9 year old had a few secret messages himself. Ha! I love this day! 

It's funny that even though I love the day of love, I don't have a whole lot of decorations and no pillows, so when Kimberly of Robot Mom Sews posted a cute tutorial for a heart pillow, I jumped on it. And I'm sure glad I did! Luckily I had all the fabric in my scrap buckets. I only had to grab some red polka dots for the back.

The screen printed pillow is a new purchase as well and I am loving it. My friend Shannon makes and sells the cutest decor. She's super crafty like that ;) 

And since I was in the  mode of quilting for Valentine's, I made my mom finally finish up this darling table runner that's been sitting in her WIP pile for far too long. So dang cute! Maybe I'll add one of these to my own (ever growing) list of projects...next year. 

I'm linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts. Go check it out!

Swell - Simply Retro

Have you got Camille Roskelley's new book Simply Retro yet? If not, you need to! I love everything in this book and am more than a little obsessed. When I heard than Jana was going to be hosting a quilt along I knew that I had to join. Of course my mom had to join in on the fun too. And so here they are - our first quilts from the book. This one is titled Swell. 

It's funny just how different two quilts can look when you use different fabrics. My mom choose to use a Willow jellyroll and I used up old scraps. 

Actually when I very first started quilting, I found a quilting blog with a cute tutorial and decided to try it out. So I went and bought all the fabric for it and cut it all out. Once I started piecing it, I realized I had cut it all wrong! So I ditched the project all together and it's just been sitting in my closet ever since. When I was trying to decided what fabrics to use, I pulled it out and guess what? It was all cut up in the exact sizes I needed and I had the perfect amount of fabric to use. I only had to cut  a few pieces of the teals and all the whites. Sure worked out well for me!

This has been a fun, easy one to piece. I can't wait to get it all quilted. And to start on all the other projects in the book.

I'm linking up at: Simply Retro Quilt Along with Jana, Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts, Quilt Story

Charm Quilt Update

Working hard on my year long project. I now have 2 of the 8 rows needed for this millennium charm quilt. I have used 164 of the 1,000 pieces of different fabrics so far.  I think the scrappy look is coming together better than I thought. 

As you can see I have been busy shopping and gathering more fabrics for this quilt. Although this looks like a lot of fabric, it actually will only complete 2 more rows. The challenge is making sure I don't duplicate the fabric.

 I would like to give a special thanks to Ilene for mailing me a package full of light colored fabrics to use in my charm quilt. It was such a surprise to see the amount of scraps she sent. It is greatly appreciated and they will go a long way towards the 1,000 pieces.  

I am linking up at: work in progress wednesday@freshly pieced

Chevrons

 I am loving chevrons right now, and from the looks of pinterest, who isn't?  I made this cute chevron baby  quilt mostly from scraps from my stash. Added some cozy navy blue minky on the back (not sure why it looks gray in the picture below) and there you have it. Makes me want a sweet baby boy to wrap up in it's cozy goodness. Not going to lie, I almost stole my niece for a picture with the quilt, I figured I could just take the bow off her head. :) 

  What chevrons projects are you playing around with?