Showing posts with label Sunbonnet Sue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunbonnet Sue. Show all posts

Monday, February 2, 2009

Blue Monday!!


Happy Blue Monday Everyone!! Thanks Smiling Sally for hosting Blue Monday. After going through my contribution, head on over to Sally's to visit the other Blue Monday participants.

Today we'll start with Justin's NC Panther's pillow. I started on this pillow way back in December while my dear hubby was home visiting. He sort of suggested I make some Panthers stuff for ' the boy', as he calls him. I made the applique myself from a pic I googled. This pillow is lucky enough to also be a part of the One Project a Month Challenge, and gets on my finished WISP's list. Yeahhh!!!


Okay, so the next item also gets on the One Project a Month board and finished WISP's list. It is a hanging Sunbonnet Sue Quilt. I love Sunbonnet Sue and all of her friends. This started out as a child's quilt, but being self taught I had no idea how hard, but fun, quilting can be when I started it. So since I wanted to go on to something else, but wanted to finish this as well, I decided to make it a hanging quilt. I did the binding last night while watching The Closer marathon. Boy was that hard.


Here's a close up of the blocks. The stitiching on her hat is a stitch I just recently learned on my sewing machine that I had for over 6 years. I have 17 stitches on that machine and have been using only 9. I couldn't figure out how to get to the other 8 stitches until I started on this quilt a few months ago.


She is made out of scraps that I had from other projects. The back of the quilt is made from the dress above.


The background is muslin.




I love the orange dress. So that's my Blue Monday. Hope you enjoyed it, thanks for stopping by. And don't forget to go by Sally's and visit the other participants.
~Tootles!





Saturday, December 27, 2008

My Newest Project


Hello everyone. I had a few hours to spare today, with my husband feeling better and spending time with the children. So I took the opportunity to sew a little accent pillow. It is a pattern called Wind-Swept Sue that I found on http://www.sunbonnetsue.com/ . I wanted to put a border around it but didn't have enough material as I made it using scrap fabric. Now I have to make one for Justin named Overalls Bill, I believe. Just wanted to share my newest project with you all. Still haven't finished my apron, but I'm working on it.

Tootles!