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Faux Chenille Forest Friends

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Yay, I finished another project! The fabric I used for Emmett's backpack was the perfect fit for friends expecting. I decided to use the fun print to create another faux chenille baby blanket! I had lots of good help pinning the layers together! Once again I used this tutorial method for creating this blanket.  I made my first faux chenille blanket back in 2012 , my how the time flies!  I also made one 4 years ago for Emmett.   Anyway, it is very simple! You layer your print with three flannel layers wrong sides facing and then quilt diagonal lines at 1/2 inch apart.  Simply cut through JUST the flannel layers in between each row of stitching, bind and wash! This is the top layer of flannel.  I also had a brown layer and a blue, green and white plaid.   It doesn't matter what designs are pictured since you cut it all  and it gets super frayed. Emmett loves to take pictures, so here I am cutting, cutting, cutting!  The little guy was a champ and slept in his wrap the whole ti
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Little Boys Love Wild Animal Projects

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I love shopping for fabric at Connecting Threads!  They now sell other party's fabric lines and this one was too hard to pass up! Check it out!  It is called Wild North by Gareth Lucas .  I had this project in mind as soon as I saw the panel of animals...a fabric baby book. Each row had enough for 8 pages but it left two animals out.  So I fussy cut around the two animals found in another row and raw edge appliqued one for the cover and one inside the back page.  It worked well.  I also purchased some yardage of their animal print.  I used it for the cover piece. Sorry the pictures are sideways...technology and me!  Haha!  Aren't these neat animals?! My 3 year old is loving looking at them, although I actually made it for the 2 month old.  They will enjoy it together! I added the little flap as a closure, just need to add some velcro to finish it off. My three year old also asked for a backpack recently.  I instantly had inspiration involving this animal print and canvas I purc
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A Pretty Grand Finish

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I don't have any project finishes right now but I was pretty busy getting this project done! Introducing our newest little blessing! We are so thankful for him and for his safe, smooth arrival. He is super chill little dude and is so alert when he is awake! Big brother is also a major fan!!  So, I will get back to the sewing, quilting and knitting projects eventually but this one was too, too good not to share!😁 Alissa Linking up with Alycia at QuiltyGirl ! And TGIFF !
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Forest Friends Finally Finished!

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You can read about the beginnings of this quilt HERE!   I started it for our little guy a few years ago.  He will be 4 this year and very soon will move into a twin size bed so I decided it was time to FINISH! I only had some quilting left to do and to my surprise there wasn't much left that needed done.  Hurray! I loaded it all up in one layer and began the tough part of deciding what to do for each block.  I had started out on my treadle doing something different for each one. I was super excited that I was able to find the scraps left over which included some already measured and made binding (way to go me!!) in our still full basement.  It really was a quick finish. It was fun to watch our boy take in all of the animals again!  He really loves animals! I still love this one! Here is some of the quilting. I did notice I didn't finish the top of the rabbit's ear but I am not loading it all up again just for that little bit.  Maybe once my sewing room has walls and stuff
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Baby Quilt Revived

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My mother in law found my husband's baby quilt while they were sorting through things. It was well used and in much need of some TLC. The wife of a man who worked for his parents made it for him all those years ago.  She had  just tied the quilt and it had even been re-tied in a few places.  Around the edge she had put a simple cotton rope piping.  The piping was hanging off in several places.  The actual fabrics had held up pretty good, with just a few spots that had ripped open from use. I started off by just cutting off the edges with my rotary cutter. I was actually thinking of leaving the batting inside and just hooking the layers together on my quilting machine and giving it a quick quilt...but. The old batting looked more like cobwebs!  I knew I just needed to undo the tied spots, separate the fabrics and give it new batting. That I did!  And then I loaded it all up on Miss Vivian. I haven't been too adventurous with my quilting so far since I had to send them on and did
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An Earth Tone Batik Beauty

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Some friends got married in a small ceremony a few months back.  I didn't have time to get a quilt made for them but the plan was for a big reception this month...that gave me time! Without telling them what I was planning I asked if they had any color schemes preferences for their bedroom.  She mentioned that she generally likes neutral/earth tones. Here is a screenshot of my inspiration quilt: I went with batiks due to a recent acquisition of mine.  You see, I have an online auction problem. The first step is to admit you have a problem, right?!  Anyway, there was a local auction with lots of sewing items on it.  The final lot was the fabric contents of a lady's sewing room and I won it.  It was huge!  We nearly filled our horse trailer when we went and picked it all up! Yikes, but my husband is wonderful and said at least I do something with it. Due to the state of my sewing room, non-existent yet, I haven't even fully gone through it all yet.  But in going through some
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