Another one done.....

This was a paper pieced quilt that I did for a friend of mine.  The pattern is from Angela Pingel called Book Nerd - perfect for a retiring librarian.  You tell me, wasn't it perfect?

Look at the pages, I used fabric that had text in it, just to give the interest.

People wrote goodbye to her on the binding or on the small squares of fabric I put on some of the books.  It's a large lap quilt. Boundary Fabric.

A charm of it's own.  It took a month to complete and quilt stitch in the ditch.  She loved it and the school was impressed.

May's OMG

The great news is I finished my May OMG for the Quilt show.  I'm so happy.  I had 14 squares to quilt with so much quilting to do.  Here's what the quilt looked like at the start.

You can see how big it is, and some of the quilting in the front.

Here's some blocks that I have to complete.  All that space....

but the colors are gorgeous on this one, wait and see.  The Craftsy course was by Leah Day, a free BOM with Craftsy.  She does wonderful designs.  I signed up for three courses.  But enough of that, lets continue....

AND now here it is all finished.

One block all completed with little tiny pebbles.

Each block had a different style of quilting.  I was learning as I went.  From a Craftsy course I signed up for years ago called "Free Motion Quilting a Sampler" with Leah Day. 

 The quilt pattern was a free course at Craftsy, so I signed up for the next one which was how to quilt it.  Well worth it don't you see?

This is so gorgeous, how with the quilting each block turned out.

I have the quilt hanging up on the wall up at the loft.  It hangs over the edge and you can see it from the living room.  All that off white, then the tie die.  In the sun the quilting really shines out.

Hooking up to One Monthly Goal (OMG) at Elm Street Quilts.  Go check out all the other entries.  They're beautiful.  And check out Elm Street Quilts' quilt, to see if her shoe quilt is completed. 

Wish me luck!

Painting

As stated in the title, I'm painting as well as quilting.  It runs in the family, but I'm so excited about the last two projects I've done that I just have to share.  This is the one most recent and not quite finished.  It still needs more flowers, but I love it right now as well and I can't believe I did it.

It turned out great, if I do say so myself  :)

The other one is much larger and It's one I worked on for hours.  I wanted to do some native art work (I'm Metis but not official).  I love the simplicity of the work, but of course I do nothing simple.  So here's that work...

Love the mist and how it helps blend everything.  What do you think?  Leave a comment.  My students think I'm getting better.

May's UFO to go

It's been a while since I've blogged and I apologize for that, but as usual, work took over my life, and I'm trying to tamper that down.  As usual I have a number of deadlines that I had to meet (3 at the same time) and the last one had yesterday as a due date, so that's over with.  But now I have a new due date or deadline.....

Don't get me wrong, I do best when I have a deadline to meet, that's why I make myself lists but these due dates are so tight, and stop the creativity of both my job and my crafts.  I'll be happy when the last one is done.  And that's why I'm doing May's UFO, to help me finish my last due date, a quilt that is due for a Quilt Show in two weeks time.

It's almost complete.  It's all pieced and it's all tied/sewed down, I'm just doing the specific quilting on it, the binding needs to be completed, and then the sleeve.  It has 20 squares, and 14 are completed.  So I have 6 to go, but they're being quilted to death on each square.  Here's the quilt....

You can see how big it is, and some of the quilting in the front.

Here's a close up of one of the blocks completed.  Quilted to an

inch of it's life as my grandmother would say.

Here's some blocks that I have to complete.  All that space....

but the colors are gorgeous on this one, wait and see.

Come back and visit in two weeks to see if I have this one down.

Hooking up to One Monthly Goal (OMG) at Elm Street Quilts.  Go check out all the other entries.  They're beautiful.  And check out Elm Street Quilts' quilt, especially if you're a shoe person like me!  Hint Hint!

Wish me luck!