Heart Coasters

Here I'll show you some of the coasters I made for my friend Brandy and Charlie's brother's family. I made gift baskets as Christmas gifts for my friends. It took me forever to mail Brandy's so I added something for valentine's day. The other set I made for Clint's family as a host gift when they invited us.
They are very simple to make and the pattern is from the book I talked about here. It's a great book that I would recommend to anyone! The instructions are pretty clear. The only thing that bothered me was that the things don't have titles. Sometimes it took me a while to wrap my head around things and figure out what they where.
I changed the colors from what was in the book because I couldn't find any good pink or red felt.
Anyway, here they are:

Brandy Partner Quilt

As I've written about here I made a quilt for Brandy with some of the fabric she gave me. And now here is the matching partner quilt I got to keep. :)

Peacock Wallhanging

This is a Wallhanging I made for my little sister. She told me that she didn't like patterned fabric, so I didn't make her a quilt. When I saw this fabric I fell in love, and thought of my sister. My mom told me that the colors fit with the color scheme of her living room. I thought, that possibly since a Wallhanging is more a piece of art like a painting, rather than a traditional quilt it might be ok and she might like it, and I was right.

Here are the peacocks of awesomeness:

Charlie's Chess Quilt

As I've previously posted about here I started a chess quilt for Charlie. This was his first request of me for a quilt. A year later he finally got it. :)

Of course I had to add some glitter and dazzle! ;)

And here is some closer detail on the chess pieces:

They all have pieces of Velcro attached to them, and each square has a piece of Velcro on it as well, so you can play an actual game of chess on it while it's hanging on the wall.

Life is good

Ah, life is good! Getting back in the saddle is making me feel so great! It's amazing how happy and content sewing makes me!
Yesterday I started and finished my first baby quilt top of the set I'm making to donate to the police for domestic abuse victims. I've been wanting to do this for a long time, so I'm happy I finally got started on them.
Here's a picture:

And it's lovely flannel too. I adore flannel, so soft and cozy. I hope they will be able to give comfort to those who need it most!


And here is also a picture of the chess quilt I'm making Charlie. Now the question is whether or not I should put a border around it or not. Hmmm.

Now I have to figure out how to make chess figures to put on it. That's going to be tricky!

Anyway, here's a close-up:

Finally!

This has been a very hard week and a half for me! My sewing machine broke last week on Thursday. I had to take it in to get it repaired. I won't hear back about it's progress until sometime next week.
Buuut I have the best fiancé ever! He ordered me a new machine. So today I could finally sew a few blocks together for one of my baby quilts. It felt so good! I'm really glad I got to sew today, even if it was only a little bit.
Tomorrow though I have the whole day off from school, so I can sew until I have to go to work. I'm very excited about that!

My new baby. And some squares from the police baby quilts.

Oh the Horror!

My sewing machine broke Thursday night and I've been in agony!!! This has really shown me how involved I am in sewing. I've realized that there isn't a day I don't think about sewing, quilting and what projects I'm working on, or want to be working on.
I got a Joann's gift card from one of my lovely coworkers for Christmas. On Wednesday I finally went there and picked a book on a whim. What a lucky whim that was! I am in love with this book. 100 small things to make. I want to do almost everything in the book. The projects will make fabulous gifts!
Here is a picture of all of the post it's in the book marking all the ones I want to make, some of them in numerous variations.

But no sewing machine, sooooob!!! I do have an appointment to get it fixed on Monday. It just seems so far away.

And here is a picture of the book with title.