OMG Cuties Completed!

My hopes were to get These Quilted. I accomplished much more! Both have binding as well! So excited. I must add labels and they will be in the finish category!

The pink anchor quilt was easily quilted in a fun circular spiral using the walking foot. I'm brand new to quilting so I am taking much pride in this finish!

The "It's A Boy!" was also quilted in a spiral consisting of straight lines. Aren't those little duckies just the most adorable ever?!

Head over to Elm Street Quilts and view all the other Fantabulous! Successes for the month of June!

To check out many other fantastic finishes and works in progress, I sometimes link up with some  of my other quilty friends. Go visit them! ~  Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts, Moving It Forward Monday at Em's ScrapBag, Modern Patch Monday, Patch Work Times Design Wall, Mop Monday with Tweety Loves Quilting, Monday Making,  Main Crush Monday's, Sew Cute Tuesdays, Fiber Tuesday,  Freemotion by the River,   WIP Wednesday's,  Wednesday Wait Loss with Jennifer, Let's Bee Social, Midweek Makers.  Fabric Frenzy Friday, Finish it Up Friday, Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday with Anja Quilts, Sunday Stash, Can I Get a Whoop Whoop and Finished or Not Friday. 

Christmas in .... June~

From Dec 21, 2016  until June 20, 2017 Pat Sloan hosted a 25 block sampler she named the Winter Solstice. I joined her and Many other sewists in a journey. I am so tickled with the Christmas vibes I get from my completed top!

I used a small stack of Lynette Anderson Designs Fabric from RJR Fabrics called Festive Fun. Very Festive indeed, look at the details in her drawings on the fabrics!

Lynette Anderson Design Facebook Photo

There are snowmen, Santas, puppies and kittens, mistletoe and holly. See the line and a few of Lynette's projects with Festive Fun Here.

For the 2.5" blocks I used all scrap so it was fun to see how the final look turned out. I adore the little French lady. And the daisies made an appearance some how in the lighter blocks. So whimsical and I adore it!

The "Precious Fabric" star was my favorite of all the blocks even though I chose to use a bold red instead of a precious fabric. 

You can create your own Winter Solstice, find all the patterns and setting at Pat's Blog. They are Free! And Fun! Share your projects with her!

Pat Sloan's 182 Day Solstice Challenge Blocks

Aurifil Stitching ~

                                                I am enjoying the Colors~

                                                Stitch the 2012 DOM Reboot

Happy June! OMG ~

We are almost half way through the year! Amazing how quickly time has passed!

June's Goal will be to get these two cuties quilted! 

You can join the fun at Elm Street Quilts. Just click on the link and sew, sew, sew!

May One Monthly Goal Accomplished!

I have my quilt ready for fundraising~ You can see the May entry for One Monthly Goal at my  Cancer Ribbon Quilt post.

             
                                       
                                           Aren't all those little critters just adorable!

I did a wavy motion quilting across the quilt in black. 

And chose a 2.25 inch double-fold solid black binding to finish it off.

The backing is this gorgeous dove print~ 

Leftovers

We eat leftovers almost every single work day for lunch~  Only because we try not to waste much and I am very frugal! Two meals created from one preparation means less cooking and more time for sewing too!

But when you get a bag of leftovers - aka "Scraps", what do we do! Get excited with all of the possibilities of course! I see quilts-in-a-bag! No rhyme, no reason, no pattern. But I will tell you now, I pulled each of scrap out and admired it - close to 12 pounds of fabric. Then I had to sort by color to determine a scheme. Almost every single cut was a yard or more so I didn't really call them scraps.

My thought for all of the cuts were to create Quilts for Babies. The idea came to mind when I ran across One piece in particular. It definitely looks vintage to me, but what do I know. There was no selvage that I could identify the fabric by. There were a few 1980's labeled fabrics. Would anyone venture to take a guess?

There were plenty of coordinating fabrics to go with it in the gifted bag, so I went for it! I'll be using some white yardage I  had in my stash for background. The perfect pattern called Yankee Doodle Star Quilt came from Mostly Crafty. You can see Melanie's version at her blog!

If you use the pattern to create your own version, share your pictures with #sewingwithfwfabricstudio and @fwfabricstudio and @mellierc.

The tutorial is easy to use with large cuts so the quilt comes together quickly. 

I chose the pinks in the bag for a girlie design And purchased one yard of the Anchor Print to modernize it a bit.

I occasionally link up with some of my other quilty friends, visit them and see what they have going on this week~  Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts, Moving It Forward Monday at Em's ScrapBag, Modern Patch Monday, Patch Work Times Design Wall, Mop Monday with Tweety Loves Quilting, Monday Making,  Main Crush Monday's, Sew Cute Tuesdays, Fiber Tuesday,  Freemotion by the River,   WIP Wednesday's,  Wednesday Wait Loss with Jennifer, Let's Bee Social, Midweek Makers.  Fabric Frenzy Friday, Finish it Up Friday, Sunday Stash, Can I Get a Whoop Whoop and Finished or Not Friday. 

Camp Hobe Hands2Helpers Quilt~

Sarah Craig of Confessions of a Fabric Addict is hosting the 2017 Challenge. You can read and view many of the beautiful quilts made and donated to the several charities Here.

This I chose to make will be for Camp Hobe, a special summer camp experience for children currently being treated for cancer that have missed out on traditional summer camps for kids. 

I was a little challenged deciding how to finish. I went the simple route with a cotton sheeting backing to make it cooler but still had the snuggly top. I folded the edges to make the binding to give some of the cuddly to the back of the quilt. 

30" x 41" 

I am glad to say, the quilt is sent to find someone to love it and provide much comfort~