A Litte More Sewing

Today after Church, I decided to quilt a quick little crib quilt and try a new quilting design. These little practice quilts, I donate to were my sister works and they are given to some of the children that need them. This is nothing fancy, just a piece of animal print fabric with borders sewn on. I still need to do the binding and I used a piece of THICK batting that I had so it is real fluffy!

This is the panto that I used, it is called, Spring Things. A very simple and easy design to do. This crib quilt with this simple design was done in a flash!
I saw a photo of a beautiful quilt on my friend, Michelle's blog. It is an old favorite called, Stacked Coins. I made one a few years ago and loved it, but the one that she just did, she made out of old sheets. It is very pretty.

Anyway, a while back I bought some fabric samples at the thrift store and that is the quilt that I had in mind for them. After I saw Michelle's, I knew I had to get mine back out and work on it. I honestly thought that I already had them sewn together, but they were only cut out. So I worked on sewing those together last night.

And last, here is a close up of Donkey!

Have a wonderful day!

Kristie

Introducing "JAZZ"

Here is our new addition! So here is the story....we've had him for a few months now, but I did not have internet service so I could not post about him. If you've read my blog for a long time then you will remember "Smokey" the toy poodle. The story is basically the same with Jazz. Andrew's dad raises small dogs and then when he decides he needs a new bloodline he gets rid of it and moves on to something else. Sad, I know, but Andrew is the one that gets attached to these dogs. But I did tell Andrew that this is that LAST one that he can bring home!!!! We just can't take them all. But this one is just too cute!

So here is......Jasper, better known as JAZZ!! He is a ball of energy! He never stops! He is a toy Yorkie, weighs barely 3lbs and is 2 1/2 yrs old. Such a cutie! I know in the photo he really needs to be brushed but you can brush him and in 5 minutes he is a mess again! He and Smokey ignore each other. Smokey is lazy and sleeps all the time, Jazz just doesn't stop! Donkey, the cat, just doesn't know what to think of him. Donkey catches him running through the living room and attacks him!!! They play very well together!

Have a wonderful night!
Kristie

Hand Quilting

I know that you can't really tell much about this photo but this is what I have been working on during the evenings. This is an OLD quilt top that was hand pieced by my Great Grandmother years ago. This quilt top is the only thing that my mom has that belonged to her. So I decided to hand quilt it a couple of years ago! Yep, you read that right.....a couple of years ago! :) I know I am slow! Everytime I would work on it a little, I would get sidetracked and do something else. So my goal is to have this quilt handquilting and the binding done by Christmas for my mom!
I haven't had time to work on it any today. Fridays are my grocery day, so I did that and came home and cut up firewood! Yep, you read that right too! hehehehe! I do love cutting up firewood! See Richard does all of the splitting with the ax, but I asked him a few years ago to buy me a small chainsaw. He did look at me a little odd but he did buy me one. So now I go down to the sawmill and cut up the slabs in the slab pile. Cut them up, throw them in the wheelbarrow and push them up to the house. I do enjoy doing that, but of course, Richard will not let me do anything to hard because he is afraid that I will get hurt. :)

I guess that is enough for tonight, almost time for supper and then Hunter wants me to watch "Tall Tales" with him.
Kristie