Candy and Quilting!

So on my fabric buying spree from my last post I also ended up with two different candy novelty prints. I was originally going to put these two prints together but I decided that they were cool enough just on their own! So I'm going to make two different large rag quilts. I am finished the first and have all the pieces cut for the next! So I present to you a large candy quilt! What could be better for a summer picnic!?! Now for sale in my shop.

Monstrously Cute!

Recently we took a trip to Wisconsin to visit family and on the way back my parents wanted to stop at an Indian restaurant for dinner. Right next door to the restaurant was a fabric store...now I thought the store would be closed as we were in a different time zone but it turns out that Michigan City is on a different time zone than the rest of the state to accommodate commuters to Chicago...what luck! I only had 15 min to shop as the store was closing but I ended up with serval great finds including some Monsters Inc. fabric. I made this super cute quilt and now it is for sale in my store!

Wash, Rinse, Repeat!

So 3 of the 5 quilts I have sold in my etsy shop have been Strawberry Shortcake! So I figure why mess with a good thing! For the time being I have made one more, but this one is much bigger and could fit a bed.

Next on the agenda, finishing a Thomas the Train quilt for my boss's grandson!

Beautiful Batiks

Although I usually post about quilts that are licensed and in some cool retro fabric, or have something to do with a story book, I do make other quilts as well! Recently my parents were in Hawaii and my mom found a great deal on Batik fabrics. Batiks are hand dyed prints that come in a wide variety of beautiful prints. So my mom brought me back ..... Close to 15 yards of fabric...haha! I bet the people at the airport were surprised to see that going through the luggage scanner.

So I had enough fabric to make about 4 batik quilts. I have made two tops already and I just finished quilting the first one. I have the other batik top still to quilt and hopefully it will be up in the store shortly!

Also, did you notice I figured out a way to put a handy link to my store right on the side of this blog!

So now I only have about 6 more tops to quilt :P

Branching Out!

As you may remember a few years ago I made a Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt for a friend of mine who was having a baby. Well, that started a frenzy and I ended up making over a dozen of them. The quilt is so cute and great for either gender but I got sick of making them.

Fast forward to much more recently. Using some scrapes of fabric I made myself a little square quilt to put in the car seat for my daughter when we traveled. I loved it so much that I made one for a friend of mine who had a baby right after me.  She also got a lot of use out of it and suggested that I list one for sale in my shop....so I made a small Very Hungry Caterpillar for the shop.

It's a two sided quilt and is currently for sale in my etsy shop.

Etsy

All you need is a Happy Thought!

Recently I discovered some great Tinkerbell fabric at a local store and it followed me home! How could I pass it up? It was pretty and pink and all the things I love! I'm already thinking of when I can have a second baby and I think I would like to do a Peter Pan themed nursery....but if its another girl Tink would be good too!

I have already made one quilt and I have fabric to make another! This one is currently for sale in my 

Etsy Shop!

Down a sunny dirt road, deep in bear country...

Live the Berenstain Bears! When I was growing up I LOVED the Berenstain Bears! I can still remember my Dad reading them to us as kids. In fact when I started teaching one of the very first things that I did was go buy a bunch of these books. When I was reading them to my kindergarten class a very smart little girl patiently waited all week as I was reading the stories and then she finally asked me , " but where is hunny bear?". I had no idea the bear family had grown since I was a child! Now there are 5 bearskins a dog and a cat! Needless to say I had to update my collection.

I found out my best friend was pregnant shortly after I had my first baby and was thrilled she was going to be having a baby boy. So natuarally I made her a quilt out of this fabric. But I had enough left over to make a second quilt, this one for a baby girl!

So down a sunny dirt road deep in the world of Etsy is my newest quilt!