Boo!

Working on something spooooooky for the next South of the James market.....

Monkeying Around

I always enjoy putting together a pattern and watching a quilt evolve, but I usually leave the bed sized quilts for special orders. This year I've been working on a small batch of twin bed sized quilts for etsy and the market. I finished up this one recently. I had two pieces of fabric that seemed to be calling out to be used together-- one with pink monkeys and the other one with cute frogs on an aqua background. I used a square in a sqaure pattern with an appliqued dot pattern. Et viola!


Now they are all sewn up in a twin throw! This one is up on etsy now. I've got two twin sized quilts waiting to be quilted-- one with butterflies and another one that makes me think of rainbow sherbet. Hoping to get them done before the next market!

Market Day!

It's market day! I'm heading off to the South of the James market with some new things!

Update: This quilt, which I just finished a few days before the market, sold yesterday! Off to make a few more things....

This plant just keeps blooming and blooming. It was something I picked up on sale and is the only thing that has thrived this hot, dry summer. But it's really thrived....

The other thing blooming is a special order for slippers based on the baby booties pattern. They came out pretty well and the girl for whom I made them was really happy.

Yes, Grasshopper

A dear friend of ours is having a baby next month (there's been a baby boom in my world this year!), and I wanted to make something for the little nipper. She's an amateur entomologist so I decided to go with an insect theme-- grasshopper booties!

And since it will be a fall baby I thought a quilt might be nice to have. I never realized how hard it would be to find non-butterfly bug fabric. But I did, finally....

We joked when she first told us she was pregnant that we should call the baby lil' Bug, so I added that to the quilt. It was the first time I'd tried fusible web... it's pretty neat stuff. I'll have to see what other projects I can come up with to use it...