OPAM Finishes!!

Just a little over 3 hours to get these posted!  I have had these things made for a while but just haven't taken the photos.  But here goes!

A pincushion for a swap that went to a friend in NH!

This little mini quilt is something a lot of my readers have been waiting to see.  It is my give away gift from my Feb give away!  I finally got it finished!  Now you have to see who the lucky recipient is!

These next photos are of 9 pillowcases that I have recently made to sale on my website.  I remember making these in Home Economics class back in the 70's!!  I made my mom several out of satin fabric to use so her "weekly hairdo" would last longer.  Now they are popping back up all over the place!  I think these cat and dog fabrics will make great pillowcases for some young-un's! :)

 The cat is looking up at the mice on the flange...Isn't that too cute!

 These puppies are too stinking cute!

I fell in love with this "dog commands" fabric!  Just perfect for the flanges here!

 Who doesn't love dalmatians!

The same "dog command" fabric!  Love it!

Pottery - Steve Abee Pigs!!

The UPS man came today!!!!!!!

We collect pottery from the Western part of North Carolina and Steve Abee is one of those potters! He does a fabulous swirl finish!! We special ordered this set of pigs...right down to the runt...I just love them!!

Maybe they should be my blog header!

PHD Challenge! First Finish!

This is a quilt that was created from a swap on the HGTV Quilting and Needlework Forum.  My good friend Brandy hosted this Friendship Star Siggy Block Swap in 2007.  I am proud now to say that this UFO is finished and ready to display in my quilting studio!  It has a wonderful story to tell!  One of the blocks is from Australia and another one is from New Zealand... the remaining blocks are from all across the USA!!

I had a few blocks left over from the front so I added them to my backing.

Uncle Eli's 79th Annual Quilting Party!

I had tons of fun yesterday with 7 of the ladies from our guild. We had some wonderful food and got to see lots of beautiful quilts!! I made a few photos and will share them with my readers! Enjoy!

4 Fabulous Finishes!!

I have been super busy in the quilting studio!!  This project has been ongoing for the past 2 1/2 years and I am SOOOO glad to say that it is FINISHED!!

In June 2007 a friend of mine, Bonnie Minor, from the HGTV Quilting and Needlework Forum was having twins.  I wanted to make her a baby quilt for each twin and the other ladies on the board wanted to do something for her too.  So I hatched the idea to make her a siggy baby quilt for each child.  She also has an older child so we collected siggies to make all 3 children a quilt. 

My mom was diagnosed with cancer around the time the last of the siggy blocks were sent in and this project soon found itself on the backburner.

Well, I revived the project last week and now all 3 quilts are on their way home to the children!  I know they will be so excited to find a wrapped gift inside the box for each of them!!  I cant wait to see the expressions on their faces when they unwrap their quilts!

55 members of the forum sent in the siggy blocks and I pieced the quilt tops and quilted them on my Gammill machine!

Don't you think the children will love snuggling under these??

This next quilt is a secret....SHHHHHH....but I have to upload it for it to count in the OPAM Challenge that I am participating in!  When I finished quilting the 2nd pink quilt for the children, instead of changing thread to blue for the little boys quilt, I went ahead and put this one on the machine since it was going to be quilted in the same pink thread!  This quilt is headed to a good friend of mine!!  But mums the word until it reaches its destination!!

Well this is the 31st and it is 3 hours from midnight so along with the other few things I did accomplish this month, I would say I did pretty darn good!! YAY ME!!!

Dotee Dolls

I made these Dotee Dolls this month.  I was asked to do a live tutorial on how to make them for the ladies on the HGTV Quilting and Needlework Forum.  I was happy to show them how I make mine.  Dot from Australia is the designer of these cute little things!  She gave me permission to host swaps on the quilting forum using her dolls.  The ladies over there have had TONS of fun making and swapping these babies. :)

I had promised a friend of mine that I would make and send her a doll some time ago so the one I made for the tutorial went to her.  I also made a second one and sent her to a friend in my home state of Alabama.