I have a new binding helper

The other night I was in the sewing room working on a binding for a quilt that I will soon post (its completed just needs pictures) and while ironing the binding I felt this tug.

Yep my little helper Julia had run out of snacks and toys and she decided she was going to help dad with the bindings.

She was having a lot of fun until we got to the end of the binding.

At that point she held on with all the strength she had.  At last dad won and finished ironing the binding.

Last but not least we will be participating in the Quilting Gallery giveaway day march 8th to 14th.

Weekend Review

Posted by Tanya.  This weekend the only sewing I did was a few baby Taggies, one heart shaped and one that is supposed to look like a strawberry. The heart is MIA, Julia took off with it.

 I also worked on some weighted lap pads for Jared's school.  I have made about eight lap pads and one weighted blanket in the last few weeks.  I never realized how messy it was to work with poly pellets.  I have made a huge mess of the floor with escaped pellets.  The worst was that one got down into my machine and into the bobbin case. I have broke more needles with this project than any thing else I have ever done. I ordered 75 lbs of the pellets.  I have used close to 50 pounds.  I learned to put polyfil in the end of rows and only leave small holes in the pads and use a funnel to pour them in.   Here is a picture of three of them.  I forgot to take a picture before I took them to the school.

Have you ever had a project that you have broke or bent multiple needles on?

On Facebook we had a drawing for the Dr. Seuss pillowcase.  The winner is Sandy Barse.

 

The winner of February's Link A Finish Friday is Toye Mason.  She has been emailed.

Monkey See

This rag quilt is the second pieced rag quilt I have made.  It has 8 in Monkey fabric and 4 1/2 blue and brown fabric.  I did a blue flannel for the back.  I think it turned out quite cute.  It will be added to our etsy store.

Link A Finish Friday #56

It is now time for Link A Finish Friday.  Today I would like to start with a big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes.  This month's winner (March) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend at Fat Quarter Shop. 

Please remember to thank our sponsor by visiting their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Fat Cats at Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting

Forget Me Not at sandrascraftcorner

Birds At Play at Life as a Quilter

These are 3 of the wonderful quilts linked up last week.  Please share with us what you have done this week.  New this week we have a button that you can now use. You can grab the code out of the box below or from our sidebar.

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1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.

2) Add a link to your finish blog or where ever you show off your finishes (Not limited to quilts but I like them the most).
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to $15 gift card from Fat Quarter Shop.

Not required but fun to do

1) Follow my blog.
2) Follow the blog of all those that link.
3) Link back to my blog.
4) No finish, go quilt and stop reading the web.

Kids Quilting a Follow Up!

 Last Saturday I was happy to have our friends little girl back again to finish her quilt.  Last week she came over and we made her a quilt top (she did all or most all of the sewing).  Then with the help of my wife we made her a back and basted it.  We sent her home with the 3 layers basted together along with quilting frames (which I got when I first started quilting thinking that all quilts had to be tied or hand quilted) and with the help of her big sister and her mother they spent the last week and tied it all in multiple colors of yarn.

 This Saturday we made binding.  I cut the 5 strips of binding (we did 3 inches so she would have room to spare) and then after sewing the first inch and all of the corners she machine sewed on the binding.  We had to unpick a few times where she got so far off the edge that we could not pull it over but other then that rare exception she did amazing.

To finish it off my wife created a tag that said "{her name}'s 1st quilt" my wife made me scratch out her name in the pictures, but its cute.

As you can see she is one happy camper.  I wonder how many weeks will go by before I get her over again to quilt, I think I have her hooked on this.