Yellow and Blue Despicable Me Pillow

Today we show off another pillow from Tanya.  This one is a blue and yellow Despicable Me pillow.  Tanya made a blue and a blue and yellow version of this pillow.  They are both so cute.  Tanya had such fun making these I expect to see many more in the future from her.

Another Custom Rag Quilt

A customer wanted a lavender, purple, and green rag quilt with elephants.  This quilt was done by Tanya, Richard is busy working on another custom baby quilt.  

 This cute rag quilt is 40 by 50.  It has a dark purple minky on the back.  

The front has two minky fabrics. The dark purple and a lavender with a rose pattern.   The rose minky is super cute, but sheds tons.  It has three cotton fabrics.

I used my embroidery machine to applique the elephants on 8 squares. The design wasn't designed for applique so I ended up doing some close trimming after it was sewn. I can see a few more baby quilts with elephants in the future.  I think this is one of the cutest rag quilts so far.  Just in case you are wondering, the flannel isn't gone, I've just been busy with other projects like laundry and other fun cleaning projects.

Love is in the air or at least that's what every commercial tells me!

While looking though things on pintrest the other day I found a link to a mini quilt of a heart done in twister blocks.  I of course had to re-pin it.  The pin came from this blog, but the true source came from Connie at www.conniekreskin.com on a blog post from a week ago.  I am not claiming originality, but I just love the idea of making different designs with the twister.  I want to make this for my wife for Valentine's Day. My wife is the type that I could not figure out if our LOVE was hollow like on the left of full like on the right.  It figures that she wants the hollow heart.  If you know Tanya you will know she HATES red/orange or any thing to do with that.  She picked out some fabric and threw out my original idea.

Yep you guessed it this will be made out of turquoise/blues.  You can see that Tanya and I have some different tastes in colors.  When I first told my wife about this I told her that she could hang it on the wall in her room.  She was thinking I was making a little wall hanging.  Unlike Connie, where I got this idea from my twister is huge hers is like 2 inch squares where mine are more like 6 inch squares.  So any way this is going to be a bit bigger then she expected.  The baby twister I made for example is 2 squares less in each direction so it will be decent size.  After I took my design downstairs and started cutting it out I realize one big oops, my design was backwards from what the twist I was doing (my blocks are spinning the other direction).  I sent James my oldest son up and this is his interpretation of what my heart should look like.

You can see that Jame's taste is closer to mine (but a little darker), but at least they are spinning the right direction so that I can use it as my pattern.  You can see that I have almost the top 4 rows made.  I don't think I have enough white so I will be shopping some time this week.

Speaking of love, Tanya played with her Embroidery machine today trying to make a label for a quilt she finished.  Above is the first try.  You can see that she was still working out spacing issues on this first try as the year ended up in our heart.  The second try looks wonderful and is sewed onto our quilt (more on that in the next post).

Just in case you guys were feeling bad that I did not get to make a pink heart Tanya did give me this pile of pink material with a beige background material to make a quilt that we will add to the Etsy Store.