in progress

it may seem like i haven't been doing much in the quilting department, but lately, it's all i feel like doing. i have 2.5 more weeks before my due date, and i think that my nesting instinct is exhibiting itself in the form of quilting. i could sit at my sewing machine all day, but alas my kids don't really like that.

i joined the 9 patch quilt-along with amandajean...i did, but i didn't. i didn't do a square everyday, and i didn't do 70 squares. i of course made my quilt smaller, someday i hope to brave larger quilts, but this one is going to be a good lap size, good enough for me anyway. in a perfect world i can get this one basted in the next few days and quilted before the baby comes.

i have also been working on this quilt, and should have the top finished today???

and another baby quilt, that i can't reveal just yet.

little red doll quilt

i confess i am not in love with this doll quilt, but my daughter tells me she LOVES it--so it's a success. i wanted something quick to work on, and settled on a doll quilt.

i used many of my little red ridinghood prints and was liking it okay, until i tried out a new quilting method (pebbles, first seen here). i think the pebble quilting is totally wrong for this quilt, and probably the reason i am not happy with it. the good news is i discovered that pebble quilting takes forever, and i probably won't try it again (maybe on a small quilt), but i do like the way it looks.

princess and the pea baby quilt

inspired by this quilt back
(sorry this image is blurry)
I finally got this quilt off to my brand new niece (i gave you a sneak peak here), so I can now show it in all it's glory. I like the quilt itself, but I just love the color combination which was inspired by a quilt seen here.

framed quilt

my husband tells me that this quilt looks like picture frames, so that will be it's name. i took my sewing machine pedal to the shop, and they fixed it in 5 minutes--no big deal. i was happy.

this quilt was started forever ago (seems like it, anyway). my sisters and i did a fabric swap last summer and i finally got a quilt made out of it. i'm really liking it.

i'm not in love with the back (particularly the daisy print), but i am happy that i used that huge piece of fabric up and it's no longer sitting on the shelf for me to wonder what i will ever use it for.

mangled

yesterday i vacumned up my foot pedal cord--so frustrating. i won't be sewing for a while. hopefully the cord can be replaced, and not the entire foot, they can be pretty spendy.

wagon wheels

I finished up my spiderweb quilt, and definitely think it looks a lot more like wagon wheels than spiderwebs.
It measures 40in X 40in.

I used the tutorial found here, with some slight modifications...It's made up of 16 blocks, but I didn't 'spiderweb' each block all the way. I wanted the wagon wheels to all be complete, so I omitted some of the piecing, I also didn't paper piece (not a fan of picking off the paper--I guess I am lazy, I would rather be doing something else).

One of my all time favorite prints on the back, happy campers by heather ross.

I didn't expect to love the binding as much as I do, but I found this really great red polka dot, and I think it just makes the quilt!

I'm nearly 31 weeks, and this will definitely be for our baby girl who's due to come in October.

mushrooms and coins baby quilt

this is a custom made quilt, with a request for lots of mushrooms!

my favorite part might just be the backing, originally i was going to put more mushrooms, but then i stumbled on this 3 little pigs print from sew deerly loved on etsy. i really, really like it.