"A Boy's Story" Quilt Is Finished (lots of photos)

It really is finished, binding and all. I love this quilt, I love this whole pattern. I have a little boy so I related to the pattern the moment I first saw it. I love to embroider and it has the cutest embroidery pictures all over it. The pattern came from Hatched and Patched and is called " A Boy's Story".

I am going to show you LOTS of pictures up close so you can see how sweet this pattern is and why I had to make this quilt.

If you look really close under the boat you can see I've added a shark (not in the pattern). My son is the biggest shark crazy kid I know. So we had to have a shark in the water. Look at the embroidery of the little brother getting ready to turn his sister into a toad.

Heather Ross martian on his cell phone in the window of the space ship.

My son lives on his bike. And has a wonder dog side-kick named "Basil".

I also had to add an alligator to the moat ( not in the pattern).

My son also wants to be Jeremy Wade from River Monsters when he grows up so this fishing embroidery is perfect!

I love that this little boy has taken his dog surfing.

I am so happy with the way it turned out. Thank you for stopping by to look.

PrOgress Monday

I made some prOgress on my 'flower quilt'. ( sorry about the bad photo) The whole thing is put together, but all the embroidery is not done yet.

Have I told you lately that I love this quilt?!

And I've made prOgress on my "Boy's Story" quilt. It's quilted!! I just need to put the binding on ..... after I buy the material for the binding. LOL

what I am working on

Life was crazy the month of July. We camped 2 weekends in July. And one of the campouts is a big one so we left early , Thursday. My daughter has injured her other knee, tore the cartilage and may have to have surgery again. I am trying to start back to school and have been to the school 3 times to get things straight. It takes an act from God to start back to school. My little guy has a double ear infection again and may have to have surgery again. This would be his 3rd set of tubes. If I am not camping, then I am in an ER or at a doctors office , and if I am not there I am at the school. I am so happy July is over. Hoping for a much more peaceful August.
I didn't do a lot of sewing in July. I just didn't feel like it. Oh and I was sick the whole month of July too. I did start a cute BOM ( which I am only doing one month of) called "Chrissy Down Under" by McKenna Ryan. My son loves Australia and all the animals there.

Here is a better picture of the animals to top of Christmas baubles. I am just going to make it a wall hanging to hang up for Christmas. Where I work, Quilting Adventures, they have made 'kits' of all the blocks for this quilt. Which makes it so easy. All the fabric is picked and cut already. :o)
I did finish another stitchery for the "A Boy's Story" quit top. I am on my last block. :o)

But I didn't get my July month BOM done for my "little stitchies".

stitching away

My June stitchery from the Bareroots BOM.. I love the little ants at the bottom. I hate ants in real life, but fake ants are so cute.
This is one of two stitcherys on the last block for my "boy's story' quilt top.

rocket and prom

A rocket for my "A Boy's Story" quilt. I had to add martians from Heather Ross's Munki Munki fabric.
My baby girl went to the prom this weekend. Her sweet boyfriend is a Senior, so it was his prom. She is wearing 4 inches heels in this picture and he is still that much taller than her.

They are such a cute couple. And I just love him to death. He is always acting silly as she is too.

Headed to finish my rocket block and do some laundry. Happy sewing. :o)

a whole row done

I really finished the whole first row of my " A boy's story" quilt. Here is close up of the last block on the first row. A kite.

The whole first row.

"A Boy's Story" by Hatched and Patched.

March blocks

Made some progress on my "A boy's story" quilt top.

This is the half I was working on in March...

Bareroots March BOM...

Snowbound for March...

Under the Sea for March....

call me crazy.

Another "hoop up" embroidery done for the swap. The theme here is ' into the forest'. I got this pattern from a color page, but didn't put all the details in it.

And I am working on my 2nd block for my "A Boy's Story" quilt. It's a boat and my little guy loves sharks, so I just had to add a shark swimming around the boat. :o) Call me crazy.

just stitching

I was able to finish another stitchery in the " A Boy's Story" quilt.

A little stitching of Jonah's drawing.... a squid and a shark.

And I finished another 'Hoop Up' embroidery. Her theme is vintage animals or children.

January blocks...

This is just a photo my son took of his toys. He has been playing " air station" or " air base" for the past few days. We are stuck in the house due to snow. Lots of snow.

I've been gotten all of my January Block of the Months done due to snow. :o) No where to go so I stay here and sew....... hey, that rhymed. LOL . Here is my January block for the "Under the Sea" BOM. ( the photos are dark because I couldn't take them outside)

Here is my January block from the "Snow Bound" BOM..... I am machine appliqueing it and hand embroidery of course. :o)

My Bareroots " Little Stitchies" BOM for January. The snow and snow flakes are hard to see in this picture.

And last..... My first block from the " A Boy's Story" is done. It's not a block of the Month, but I am trying to get a block done each month. I love the airplane in the this block. My son is so in to airplanes right now, it's perfect.

Celebrate the Boy

Do you have a sweet Boy at home? a grandson? a nephew? Finally things for boys. I feel like there are sooo many more cute patterns and things for girls.

Don't get my wrong, I love little girl things too. But I have a little boy I want to make things for.

And now.....

"Dena made it " is putting patterns for boys on your blog the whole month of February ...YEAH.
Go check them out.

My creative space....

I picked out fabric for my new project I am starting. The fabric is lying on my cutting table so I can just stare at it. I told you about my newest project in my last post..... "A Boy's Story".

I started the first stitchery for it. " Geronimo".

Today I work a tiny bit on my next row for my row robin. This is paper piecing, but this is all I can show you.

Check out more creative spaces at Kootoyoo.

embroidery and I've lost my mind. :o)

I received my first embroidery block back from our 'Hoop Up' Swap and I just had to post it. Dena stitched this up for me. My theme is Sew~ on ~ Wednesday. I choose the vintage 'days of the weeks' for tea towels... Wednesday was usually 'sewing'. I love this pattern and now I have it stitched up for me. Isn't it the cutest ever?!


And O m g, I am starting a new project. Yes.... I am crazy in the head. But I love this new book , " A Boy's Story" by Hatched and Patched. So I am going to start on this adorable boy's quilt in hopes that I get it finished in time for a grandson one day. LOL