Stuffed Fabric Turtles

My sister asked me to make these beauties so I decided to try. I think it turned out great!

Below you'll find a picture of the one I made along with the link to the tutorial.

Stuff Fabric Turtle Tutorial

Christmas gifts

This Christmas I got a bunch of fabric along with the usual movies and such. Below are the pictures of the fabric I got. The last set is my favorite! Cute sailor fabric! :)

Peach Patch Quiltalong - December 2012 block

Here is the December block for the Peach Patch quiltalong.

The instructions can be found here: Craftin Mechanic

Kaitlyn & Peyton's new quilts!

I made these throw sized quilts for my wonderful nieces.

I forgot to get pictures of the quilts before I gifts them so the pictures below are of them opening the quilts.

Check them out!

Peach Patch Quiltalong - November 2012 block

The November block of the month is up and I've completed mine!
Here are the instructions: Ellison Lane Quilts

Check out my block!

Another finished quilt!

Ok so this one was a team effort between me and my mother. She bought the fabric, came up with the plan and cut it all out. I just put it together then created a backing with the remaining fabric. It is so incredibly cute!

We started this back in February when I was out of work recovering from my surgery. Then we stopped. My mother was supposed to get it together but she doesn't have the same passion for quilting that I do. So, two weekends ago I went over and got all the fabric and made a mad dash to get it done. I had 1 week left to get it done since my brother's baby shower was this past Saturday. 

Well I got it done! With a day or two to spare too! We brought it to the baby shower and they loved it! It makes me really happy when I came and gift a quilt and the person actually loves it. 

Anyway, here it is! Keep in mind I'm not perfect so there are imperfections in the quilt. BUT beauty is in the imperfections, right!?! :)

Finally won something!

I've been doing fabric giveaways and all kinds of quilting giveaways and have found some amazing blogs in the process. I'm currently doing a blogger's quiltalong and each month they do some kind of giveaway. Well, I won one! I won this amazing curve ruler. I really wanted this one because I wanted to join in on Sew Kind of Wonderful's Curve It Up quiltalong. Now I can! :)

Peach Patch Quiltalong - October 2012 block

The block for the Peach Patch Blogger's Quiltalong in the month of October was posted! For instructions go to http://sewkindofwonderful.blogspot.com/

My block is below. It's super cute!

Peach Patch Quiltalong - September 2012 Block

I decided to do this quiltalong for bloggers. I want to have something to keep me quilting each month and quiltalongs do just that since each month has a new block that you have to make.

If you want to join in on the fun just go to: The Peach Patch

There is a button for it on the right side of my blog as well.

Anyway, check out my block!

Harley-Davidson T-shirt quilt

I'm just wanted to share with you about the Harley Davidson quilt that I made. It was made months ago but I'm mentioning it because we're raffling it off. The money is going towards the Wounded Warrior Project.

What's special about this quilt is that our Tifton HOG Chapter donated all of the t-shirts that I used to make the quilt with. I thought it would be a super neat thing to do and it would make it more memorable being shirts that people actually wore.

I had never made a t-shirt quilt before so I had no idea how to do it. I ended up asking the lady that owns our local quilting store how to do it and she gave me great advice. I was still very nervous but it turned out great! Everyone loves it!

New fabric!

So I recently bought some fabric online that was on sale. When it came in I was so excited! They are simply beautiful! Take a look.

I didn't have a project in mind for these. I just saw the sale and decided I had to act fast. I picked out a few of my favorites from the online pictures and got out for $33, including shipping! 

This fabric was bought online at http://www.projectanthologies.com/

I found out about that online store from Maureen Cracknell Handmade's blog post http://maureencracknellhandmade.blogspot.com/2012/09/home-sewing.html

If you want to have a chance to win fabric each week and see amazing quilting & sewing tutorials you should really follow her blog! Have fun!

Just starting out

I've never kept a diary or had a blog before so I'm really new to this. I'm hoping this blog will serve to show my current quilting projects and discoveries as I grow in the quilting world.

Feel free to ask me anything and I'll do my best to answer. Also, I'm open to constructive criticism and advice.  I'm still a quilting newbie so I don't know much but I'm anxious to learn.