Summer crochet and a quick quilt project.

Well everyone, I have been missing in action the last few months.   I wanted to write a quick update on my life and leave you a few pictures.   I have changed jobs.   That is a big part of my absence.   Also, it has been summer so I have been completing more portable projects in crochet and very little in the quilting and sewing aspect of my life.  Warning.  I will be adding adding some crochet chat to this blog so I hope that my readers will be multicrafters like me.  You can find me on ravelry as as amypink11 from nebraska.  For those of you that use ravelry go ahead and add me as a friend their too so as we can see each others crochet and knit projects.  As promised. Here are some pictures.  

  Quilt commissioned for a 1 year olds birthday.

 Hat for sale.  On my eldest model. :-)

Poncho for my little girl.  She helped with design! 

Cute frog prince lovey completed as a gift 

Crochet clutch.  Super cute.  

Well, that's all for now.  Hope you all had a great summer like I did!  

-amy

Pincushion plus!

Super cute pincushion from the book "with fabric and thread". And a baby boy quilt for a friend from work whose daughter should be delivering today or tomorrow! Yeah! Sewing for babies is the best! Quick small quilts and practically anything goes... Love it. I made up this plus sign 2 color pattern that is basically a simple 9 patch. Add some fun bubble quilting and a lovely gift is born.

Enjoy!
-Amy

PS. A picture of my baby today. Such a cutie!

Forgive me!

Here we go. Picture overload! Have I not been sewing... Of course not. But, I have not been doing any journaling. So here is an attempt to add a lot of pictures to the journal all at once. We will see how many projects I forget to add! :-)


baby boy quilt for Maggies little one yet to be born

close up quilting of all over meander in a bright red thread

This was one of my first quilts.  Super inspiring. It now hangs in my office at work.

Another view of the wallhanging. Did I tell you that I won 2 ribbons for this little quilt at the county fair!

Sewing machine cover.  Made it big so it fits even with the embroidery arm attached.

you cant tell here but this is a tiny block. It finishes at 7.5 inches and is traditionally pieced.  I usually never work this small.

fabric bowl. cute and functional.  gotta love it.

my new/old machine. picture taken by the seller  check him out for old pfaffs at www.zuesmachines.com

my pfaff once I got her home.  in love.  and I got this great cabinet for her at goodwill just $15

Very pretty right!  totally non functoning.  Missing about everything.  Oh well I have spent 20 bucks in many worse ways

my entry for the alliance of american quilts home quilts contest.  highly unlikely that I will win anything but very fun just the same.  It will travel to a few big quilt shows and then get auctioned this fall. 

a sunday night project.... my husband thought it up and together we got it designed. Stiched out and recoverd his center councel in the dodge.  I think it turned out great! 

a picture before it was reinstalled in the pickup.  Nebraska blackshirts!  Go Huskers!

Ok, so I know that I did not get everything added so here is a little more: 

1. 2 Skirts, one for each of my wonderful daughters

2. Curtians for our bathroom that I have since decided I do not love and will be replacing when the right fabric is found.

3. working on 2 different block of the month quilts.  one modern and one batiks

4. made some self mitering baby quilts from the missiouri star tutorial for a friend about to have twin girls!

5. recovered moms high chair that still had 1970 flowers.  Now has cute dinosoars from a vinyl coated cotton.

6. quilted an OLD 1930s!? hand pieced spiderweb quilt that was donated for a church project.  (I will try to find pictures from the auction site and add them later)

7. put a binding on a hand embroidered and hand quilted quilt from another friend at work.  She got this amazing quilt from her inlaws.  They bought it at an auction for 5 bucks and all it needed was a binding.  I machine stitched a bias binding to the front (because is has rounded corners; usually not a fan of bias binding on quilts) and then returned it to her so she can hand stitch it to the back.

I doubt that is all, but it is all i can remember right now.  Anyways, Happy Stitching!
-amy