fabric and embroidery

A post about fabric , needle, and thread. I got these gorgeous fat quarters from the "Fat Quarter Frenzy" @ the shop, Quilt Adventures. I am just in love with them. Now I need to find something to do with them. A quilt maybe.

I made a 'Quilt in a Cup' for my best friend for Christmas. She and I ( and our families) camp together through the year in our VW buses.

and of course I had to add a peace sign, because we love peace signs.

Finished my December block . This is the 'bareroots' BOM.

Here is an embroidery project I've started. I am going to make it a quilt one day with all the little sexy girls. And call the quilt "Sexy on a quilt". The pattern came from 'Sew Lovely Embroidery'.

My tea towel made it back home from the "Tea Towel Tour 5". I had a VW / camping theme.

Did you have a wonderful Thanksgiving?

I did. I spent it with my in-laws who are wonderful people.
While on Thanksgiving break, I finished my last tea towel for the Tea Towel Tour 5. Jennifer, Cupcakeguru, had a Hallween theme. I got the pattern on flickr from Q is for Quilter.

I wanted to show you the casserole cover I made for my sister in law. We exchanged Christmas gifts over Thanksgiving because we won't be seeing each other for Christmas. So here is the top, closed, with the handles. I put a big D on the top for there last name.
The inside is a table runner with insul-bright in the inside. The insul-bright can protect the table from the heat and keep the cassrole warm while it's in the cover. ( sorry for the 'bed' shot, the table was covered with gifts and wrapping paper so I had to use the bed.)

Here is the cover opened all the way.

You close it up and take it along. :o) Cute? I think so. I made one for my mom and dad too, but in different colors and in the bigger size.

The pattern is from " Among Brenda's quilts".

My Creative Space....

I finished my daughter's robotics teacher's Christmas gift. I think it turned out so cute. Robot fabric came from Pocketful of Pinwheels.
Trying to pick out the fabric for my 'Camping' quilt. I only have 3 more embroideries to go until I can put the whole thing together.

Working on my next tea towel for the 'tea towel tour'. This isn't done yet, I still have to stitch the banner on the bottom. The pattern came from 'Urban Threads'.

In my husbands creative space.... he is rebuilding an engine for our camper bus. I don't know why, I think the one in it runs fine, but he says it needs more power.

Check out kootoyoo for more 'creative spaces'.

sick

I have been pretty sick for a week or 2. Not pretty, just sick...LOL. I've had a kidney infection and now the flu. I really have not been this sick since I was 15 years old. My point is.... I haven't gotten a lot of sew done and it's killing me. All I can do is sleep and lie in the bed. I am up now eating a bowl of chicken noodle soup , so I figured I would check 'blogland' while I ate.

Last week I did get the boarders on my 'North Pole Quilt'. I think the red and green boards make it look more Christmasy.

My husband got me a new car for our anniversary. He is a 1957 Euro Beetle. I've named him " Heinrich". For short we'll call him " Heinz 57". hehehe

And this weekend while camping I stitched up the latest towel I had from the Tea Towel Tour 5. She wanted our state bird or flower on her towel.

Thanks for looking/ reading. I am headed to take more medication and get back to bed. Hopfully I can sew soon before I go crazy.

A LOT going on the week!!!!

A lot going on the this week. My babies started back to school. They are on their second day and doing great so far. Here is Shelby , before the sun came up she had to be on the bus.
My little guy , Jonah. Is doing great getting up early in the morning so far.

A sneak peak at my stitching for the Tea Towel Tour. I drew my own design this time so I am a little nervous about it. I will show the whole picture and explain the madness when I am finished stitching it.

I put a quilt on the barn I paper peiced. and added a cow. This is the project that I can't tell you what it is for. sorry.

A page in my 'Wreck this Journal'. Peace.

Another stitchery done for my 'Bareroots' camping quilt. :o) The Mountains.

I am working on a new table runner, this one is for our home. A Halloween one. I am going to start quilting it this week, I hope. hahaha. I just love this fabric. I love Halloween.

And a new 'munki munki' print for me. :o) Still trying to collect munki munki fabirc. It's hard to find.

VW Buses

Love them. You might already know that we own 3. ( plus 2 beetles and 1 thing ). But anyway. I am making this table runner with 2 buses on it to sell on Etsy. It could just a wall hanging. I'll show the whole photo of it when I am finished.
The 'Tea Towel Tour' is starting back up over on 'Craftster. It's # 5. I am in , and there is a few more spots open if anyone is intersted. Here is my towel to send out. A VW bus of course. I don't think that's going to be my 'theme' because I want people to stitch what ever they want on it. But more buses would be great. :o)

Send outs for the Tea Towel Tour start the first week of Sept, so I'll be posting the stitch work I do on each towel.

Happy sewing.

more chicks and a 'yummy' tea towel.

I worked on my chickens today. Some of them have beaks now.



And ' The shop' , http://www.quiltingadventures.com/qablog/ , is now carrying tea towels and ric rac. I made this cute tea towel with our 'sublime stitching' pattern.


I love the onion. I love the all, but he is my favorite.

TTT4

Oops, forgot to show you the last tea towel I stitched on. It's already on it's way to the next person. Her theme was chickens and roosters. I should be receiving the next tea towel any day now.

TTT4

I stitched my next tea towel and sent it out in the mail today headed for TX. I stitched the butterfly . The wings are crayon tinted, not satin stitched. That would have taken me 3 weeks to satin stitch those suckers and we only have 1 week to stitch on it before we have to send it off to the next person.

Here is the whole towel so you can get an idea of how big and why I stitched a butterfly. It was sort of turning into a nature/circle theme. The 2 other embroiderys were stitched by 2 other girls. This is GatsbyGirl's towel.

Dream Catcher done

The "dream catcher" quilt top is done. It is a shop sample , so I may have to take a better picture of it when it is hanging up. It is huge. The fabrics are batiks in soft colors. It looks "beachy" Which is right up my ally. " The shop", Quilting Adventures is going to be selling the kits for it. ( There is a link to the shop in my side bar.)



And my 2nd tea towel arrived. Yeah. Here is my stitching for it. Her theme is a 50's kitchen theme.

Thank you everyone for the kind words you have sent me. I went to a SWAP class last night and laughed and giggled so I am feeling a bit better today.

embroidery

This cute little scissor keeper is for my secret swap partner in Germany. The pattern came for from http://lynetteandersondesigns.typepad.com/ ( Lynett Anderson ). She put a kitty on hers, but I wasn't sure if my partner likes cats or not. So I put scissors on mine, the stitching pattern is from "sublime stitching". The back fabric, is batik that you can't see to go in the picture. I do know that my partner loves batiks. :o)

My stitching on the first tea towel I received. She has a Japanese food theme. ( pattern from Sublime stitching). I haven't received my 2nd towel yet. It may be lost in the mail or delayed because if "IKE". ( :oo) Oh no.

Tea Towel Tour 4

Here is my stitching for the TTT4. This is my towel which will be sent out to 4 or 5 other people to stitch on. They each have a week to stitch , then in the end I get my towel back with all these cute stitches on it from all different people. I, of course stitch on their towels too. I will be posting the pictures as I stitch them up.

Tea Towel Tour 4

Sign ups are happening for the "Tea Towel Tour 4" over at craftster.org. I am in and I can't wait to get started. This is a picture of my finished towel from the last TTT. I had an underwater , sewing theme going.

Tea Towel Tour ended

My Tea Towel Tour has ended. Here is my wonderful towel, finished. My theme was sewing and ocean life. The treasure box is filled with sewing notions. It is so wonderful in person. I had the best time stitching on everyone elses towels. I can't wait for the next one.

Two more Tea Towels done

I finished two more tea towels for our tour. I am actually done now and kind of sad about it. The tour was so much fun. I don't want it to end. I will post my towel when I get it back.

Tea Towel Tour cont...

3 more of the tea towels I have embroidered. 2 more to go. I love this. It is so fun and exciting . Can not wait to get my own towel back. I will post pics of it when I do, it has got alot of sea life going on it. :o)