Halloween Dresden Mug Rug

Lindsey from Happier Than A Bird Quilts posted a cute little tutorial for a Dresden Plate Mug Rug this morning. I of course just had to try it in my Halloween scraps.  I am finishing up the binding on my place mats and table runner, but I needed something festive for my desk at work.  I think it turned out perfect.

I used Haunted Mansion by Sanae for Moda Fabrics.  I love the haunted house scenes and all of the spiders.  The little owl is my favorite and I just happened to have a little scrap for the center of the dresden plate.

The back is a dot fabric from Riley Blake.

The Naomi Dress

A couple weeks ago I visited my mom and we went to our favorite fabric store, GRS Creations and Fabrics.  While we were picking out some Christmas fabrics, we let Clare pick out a fabric for a dress.  If you are ever in need of a Moda fabric, check out GRS, they have rooms and rooms of Moda collections.  I love visiting and shop there almost every time I visit my parents.

Claire chose a purple floral from the Good Mornings line from Me and My Sister Designs.  I found two coordinating prints and the pattern.  I chose the Naomi dress from Modkid Boutique.

Matching Pillows

Yesterday I finished up binding my pillow shams.  I used the leftover half square triangles from the quilt and made coordinating pillow shams.

I love how my bed looks all made up and pretty!

It's FInished!!!!

I can't believe it is finally finished.  As soon as the Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie & Camille for Moda fat quarter bundle was released, I snagged it up and started French Kisses by Traceyjay Quilts.

I highly recommend the pattern.  Tracey let me know to double the blocks and add an X block to make it in to a queen/king size quilt.  After I pieced the quilt, I let it sit until the yardage was released in May.  The quilt top finished at 96"x 96" and I decided to hand quilt it because my little machine wouldn't be able to handle it.

The O blocks were quilted inside each of the circles.

The X blocks were quilted right down the middle.

I still have shams to quilt and maybe a cover for my body pillow to round out the set.

I am linking up with Clover & Violet's Season by Hand, since I hand quilted and hand bound this quilt which was more than 50% of the time spent on creating this queen sized quilt.

Hexagon Table Runner

I finished up my hexagon table runner using Simply Color from V& Co.  It's home is on top of the chest of drawers in my bedroom.

The hexies were hand pieced using large 3" hexagons and the machine quilted.  I echo quilted three different hexies every inch until they met.

Modern Mini

This is my entry into the modern mini challenge at Ellison Lane Quilts

So it might not be very modern, but it is a mini and I love it.  It finished at just under 18" by 24".  I finished it just before February for Valentine's day.  Even though it was made for Valentine's Day, I still have it decorating my office wall at work. 

The letters are paper pieced and the hearts are pieced using a charm pack.  The fabric is Flirt by Sandy Gervais for Moda.

For the back, I used left over charms and part of a fat quaerter. 

 LInk up your own at Ellison Lane

Works in Progress

This weekend started off a bit hairy. My husband pulled out a 3" long nail out of our Duke's paw.  Poor baby was so good and is doing much better today.  He is on a round of antibiotics to make sure any infections are stopped and things don't get worse for him.

I started quilting my table runner.  After much debating, I chose to pick a few hexagons and echo quilt them until the lines run into each other.  I am free motion quilting the straight lines and it is going very fast.

I also started using my scraps and left over charm squares to make 2" hexagons.  I will eventually combine them into a large scrappy quilt. 



My biggest accomplishment thus far is French Kisses in Happy Go Lucky.  I highly recommend Tracey's Quilt pattern, French Kisses.  She even helped me with modifying the size.  I am making it 5 blocks x 5 blocks to make a queen size quilt that will finish at 96" square.  You can't see the top row, but it is amazing.



When I constructed the French Kisses quilt top, I ended up with tons of half square triangles.  I started putting them together and made two pillow shams to match my quilt.  If I had my way, I would ask Moda to make the orange on white or aqua on white mums print to be made into a sheets set or in extra wide (to make sheets).

Wouldn't this make beautiful sheets?