Here are some photos of a cute little wristlet purse that I made for my daughter. It is a Japanese style purse that I made out of oriental fabrics that have gold metallic accents.

I just wanted to mention one of my favorite websites to buy quilting fabric from. It is connectingthreads.com. Their prices are great and the fabrics are just wonderful. I have bought quite a bit of fabric from there and just love how it looks and feels. They also have great kits at very reasonable prices.

I made new pillowcases for me and my husband. These fabrics were just too funny I couldn't resist. Here is the pillowcase I made for my husband.

This is the one I made for my pillow.

This is the pillowcase I made for my body pillow. It incorporates both novelty fabrics.

Here are all three pillows on the bed.

I recently participated in a Table Runner/Table Topper swap with the Quilted Table Yahoo group. It was quick and a lot of fun. To the left is a photo of the lovely Table Runner that I received from my swap partner.

To the right is a photo of the Table Topper that I sent in return. I used 1930's reproduction fabrics and really liked how it turned out.

Testing

I am writing to my blog from my IPhone for the first time.

Well I did do some cutting and sewing for the Friday night Sew-In, but never took photos. I did cut the fabric for the whole quilt and was able to complete 42 of the 78 half square triangles needed. After the HST's the rest of the sewing will go pretty fast I think. I will try to post photos tomorrow after work.

I have been doing laundry and cleaning house today so that I can sew guilt free this evening. I am going to work on a baby quilt. I bought this fabric to make a baby quilt when my sister-in-law was pregnant a few years ago but never even cut into the fabric. The pattern is from Debbie Mumm's Quick Country Quilting book and it will have 6 rabbits on it. Blue, yellow, and green will be the fabric colors. I am hoping to do all of the cutting and as much of the sewing as possible. Tomorrow I will post photos of my progress. Unfortunately I still do not have a good digital camera so I will have to use the one on my phone.

I just joined the Friday Night Sew-In for this upcoming Friday. This just means that this Friday evening I will work on a sewing project and then post photos on Saturday. It is fun to know that so many other people will be participating. I am not sure which project I will work on but it will be a quilting UFO. If you want to join, just click on the button to the right and sign up.

I haven't posted in months. I have done some sewing, but my digital camera broke and I have no way to take photos right now. I am hoping to get a new camera for my birthday in July. I thought I would talk about projects I am currently working on. The first one is a baby quilt for a girl. It is a simple nine patch with plain alternate squares. I bought a really cute dragonfly fabric at JoAnn's and that is serving as the 6" alternate squares and the borders. The 6" nine patch squares are dark pink for the corners and centers with light pink for the other four squares. There will also be smaller nine patches as corners in the border. The second project is a mystery quilt that I am doing along with the Chain-a-spool quilters on yahoo groups. Mine will be scrappy with white on white background and a bright yellow-gold for the accent color. I am also working on a twin-sized scrappy no-peek nine patch quilt as a leader-ender project. I will post photos as soon as I get a new camera.

I can't believe I haven't posted anything on my blog since April. I have been working full time at Target for the last several months and haven't sewn a stitch. My hours have been reduced now that Christmas is over so hopefully I will have some time for sewing. Next week I have four days off and will post some pics.

These blocks were received from Val.

Here are the three blocks that I made for the March lottery on the yahoo block lottery group. The pattern is called Double Nine Patch and they are 18" square. The fabrics we had to use were white on white background with pastel or spring colors for the nine patches. Guess what? I won the lottery for the month and received seven more of these blocks which makes 10 altogether. Since I won, I got to choose the block pattern for April. I chose the "Baby Bud" 12" block from Quilterscache.com. Any color fabrics can be used.

DONE! I finally finished the blue and yellow bowtie quilt top. It turned out just as I had envisioned it. I really like blue and yellow together. What a great combo for a baby quilt that could go to either a girl or a boy. Ignore the incorrect date on the photos. I have an old digital camera and everytime you replace the batteries, the date resets. It is too much trouble to correct it each time. GRRRR!

Here are the lottery blocks for February. The pattern is called Pleasant path and the colors were pale yellow and purple. The colors did not turn out very well in these photos. The yellow is a pale but true yellow and are not as beige or washed out looking as they seem in the pictures.

I am not doing too well on my New Year's resolution to update my blog more frequently. I made two blocks for the Yahoo! block lottery group in January. The guidelines were 12" bowtie blocks using bright fabrics for the bowties and black on black fabric for the back ground.

Tomorrow I will start on my next UFO. It will be a yellow, blue, and white bowtie quilt. The 4 " bowtie blocks will be yellow and white. There will be 7 rows of 6 bowtie blocks. They will be surrounded by a blue border. I was inspired to make this because of a quilt I saw on Webshots. Here is a photo of the progress I've made so far. I have 12 bowtie blocks done.

It's the eleventh day of 2008 and I am behind in one of my resolutions. This year I am really going to concentrate on finishing all of my quilting and sewing UFO's (Un-Finished Objects). I also am going to post to my blog more often. Today I did finish a pillowcase made with Batman - The Dark Knight fabric.