Shirt Quilt

This a customers quilt.  She made this from the shirts of her granddaughters father, for the granddaughter.  she said she added the strips to go across the quilt to make to long enough for the queen bed.  I really liked this quilt. Scrappy and memories, together.  I used gold thread and a simple design. 

Enjoy , Vicki 

T-Shirts

Finished a t-shirt quilt for a customer today.  It really looks black.  Well, it is not.  It is a navy modelly.  The back is black.  This is what the granddaughter wanted.  Was quilted with black thread.  Really hard to work with.  I hope I dont get another black one again.  This will be a graduation gift from grandmother.

Happy Quilting,
Vicki

Orangeburg County Fair

Our county fair is the only quilt show in our area.  So we get great quilts.  It was the first week in Oct.  I know, I a little behind.  Anyway, here are some pictures.  Enjoy!!

Sorry some of them are sideways.  I just cant get that figured out.  I think I need a better photo program.  But you can still see how beautiful the quilts are.

Not Lost

No pictures for now.  I am not lost.  Life got in the way of my quilting this week.  My Dad had to go back in the hospital.  He has surgery on his Achillies tendon 4 weeks ago, had the cast off 1 week ago and the insision came open and got infected.  They had to go back in and debribe it.  Now he has a vacumm thing on it sucking out the infection. ULCK is right.  He may need plastic surgery to replace skin.  And they may have to repair the first surgery.  Wont know until they get rid of the infection.  So, please think of my Dad.  He just turned 82 in Sept. and is in good health.  He has always been very active and I know this has slowed him down a lot.  My stepmom had been taking great care of him.

Hopefully I will get some new pictures up this week.  I am playing with my crumb blocks today, between football games. 

Happy Quilting, Vicki

Red Star at Nite

So, What do you think?  My own design!  Yes, I know traditional, but that is ok.  I have been wanting to do something with toile, so here it is.  I was inspired by Charlotte Angotti, after seeing her at Greater Columbia Quilters in Aug.  She used large prints with large snowball blocks to show them off.  So, off I went.  I have also wanted to do a red quilt.  Two for one.  Still have to put the binding on.  Out of the red, so will have to be the black.  Originally I was going to use the white with black as the inner border, but it didnt work, so I used the red from the binding.  Like it allot.  Tried to quilt free motion, from the front of the longarm, couldnt see where I was quilting. I used white thread.  So swapped to a pano and worked great.  So busy you cant see the quilting anyway.

How do you like my name for the quilt?  I am new at naming quilts.

Happy Quilting, Vicki

Crumb Along

What is this??  Jo over at Jo's Country Junction is hosting a crumb along.  She is showing how to make different crumb blocks.  Something new every Tuesday.  I got a late start, so just got the first week finished and started on the 2nd week.  The first week was Flying Geese.  I used bonus half square triangle to make my wonky geese.  Then just built the block up so I could square it up to 6 1/2 inches, which is the size of the ruler I am using.  This is very freeing, because you dont worry about matching seams.  The "Crumb" are left overs and scraps", dont throw it way, crumb it.  LOL

The next ones are Wonky Stars.  I used the dregs of my 2 inch squares to make these.  I day dregs, because I have been using these up on other projects.  May have to cut some more from the larger scraps.  I need some lites.  I really like these.

Next is a heart block, I will work on that this afternoon.

Happy Quilting,

Vicki

Mug Rugs

Mug Rugs,  I need to make some gifts, so here they are.  The finish 8 x 10.  I used scraps from my 2 inch strip bin and fused them to solid backgrounds.  The I just straight stitched around them, running off the edges and jumping from block to block.  Another strip from the 2 1/2 inch bin made the binding. Warm and White batting.  I think they look great.  I got the idea from Karen at Quilt Frenzy  scroll down and you will see why.