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When I saw this quilt kit on the Connecting Threads website I immediately thought of my brother's family. They live near ski slopes and the whole family enjoys skiing. It became a part of my Christmas gift list. This was a simple quilt to piece with the large "scene" blocks. I actually took it and my featherweight along with me to the in-laws a few times since I would be more kids free. This season of life sees me with fewer hours in the sewing room or just more broken hours! Haha, but i got it done! I picked up a fuzzy throw blanket to use as the backing. Those make for cuddly throw quilts. It took almost as long to piece it as it did to clear off my long arm quilting frame table! I did simple loopty loops for the quilting. Getting it shipped took precedent over a more fancy quilt design. I am very pleased with the way it turned out! Hurray for quilty gifts! It got some good use in already with a few sick kiddos in need of a cozy blanket. Hope you all had a Merry Christm...

Ahh, it feels so good to have something quilty to share! I have been sewing little things here and there since our little guy's arrival but not much in the way of quilting. My helper insisted on taking some pictures of me at the machine too. That gives me a chance to share my recent acquisition!! I finally found a Featherweight at a reasonable price and only an hour and a half away!! I love it! On to the project...a stocking! The newest member of the family still needed a stocking! I used this pattern from Suzyquilts . I was able to find enough red and green scraps, along with a nice cream on cream. I did some simple quilting lines on both front and back. This is part of the reason my quilting has slowed...little man is busy. He is so close to being mobile! (Ignore the mess, we are building while living in our house!) These two are so fun! And here is the finished product! I used some glitter glue to add his name at the top. Nice, quick project! I will have a few more to share afte...

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 cham...

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...

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 !

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 roo...