Orange Creamsicle Quilt

When a customer through Etsy requested custom orange and white diagonal quilt, the first thing we both thought of was a creamsicle.

 It was finished last night, pictures were taken today and its ready to be mailed.  

Here is the back, another wonky log cabin and stripes.

  

It turned out quilt nice. 

 Next week we will have another giveaway for Tanya's birthday.  Have you ever won a giveaway and not received a prize?  What do you do?  Tanya has several that she has never received the item over the last year or so and never contacted them.  If it was you, would you like to know?

Here is a picture of a peony from our yard, thank goodness for photo shop. Weeds were edited out.

Link A Finish Friday #118

Here are some great linked up items from last week.

Sue Daurio's Quilting Adventure

Tuning Forks by Heather's Blog

Bachelors Walk - Charly & Ben's Crafty Corner

Mother's Day Pouch - Tanya Quilts in CO

Now it is time to share what you have been working on.

Monthly Giveaway of $15 Gift Card from our sponsor Fat Quarter Shop. Please thank them and visit them for your quilting needs here are some of the places you can find them.

Their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

SMS & Birthday Giveaway 2014

This Giveaway is now closed.


And the Winner is Andrea we have sent her a email and will send this out to her when she answers.

Andrea said...75

Thanks so much! I love the half square triangle pattern from Craftsy - I just might be able to finish it :)

May 13, 2014 at 12:05 AM 

Wow is it time already to have a SMS Giveaway?  It seems to creep up on me each time, well I am distracted.  Good thing I was planning to do a giveaway already and have things ready.  Not to distract from Sew Mama Sew giveaway day, but tomorrow is my BIRTHDAY!   I have decided I stopped aging at 40.  I wont tell you how old I am, but I have been this age for 5 years now.

Any way who cares about B-day and who what ever other reason we want to have a giveaway, lets just get on with it.  Our giveaway consists of a ruler, mat, cutting knife, and 8 fat quarters.

So what do you have to do to enter? Simple, tell me what you did (or would do) on your 45th B-day!  As for me, my 18 year old son is taking me to lunch and a movie.  If  that is not enough for a B-day what should I do or should have done (if you enter after my b-day passes).    Giveaway is open tell may 18th as per the guidelines of SMS.

For those of you that have not just skipped to the bottom,I have extra prizes available if you want to give a little effort too it. I sell a few patterns on Craftsy  If you visit craftsy and leave a nice comment on any of my patterns (and leave a extra comment for a bonus entry into our giveaway) I will email you the pattern of your choice.  Windows Quilt, Rag Quilt, Diagonal Quilt, and Pinwheel Quilt are some of the more popular, but there are many others.  Each comment on Craftsy (and here) gives you a extra entry and a free pattern.

After getting done here, you can find more giveaways on the listing at Sew Mama Sew Site where there are fabric and product giveaways. 

Custom Orange Quilt who could say no!

The other day I got a request to make my diagonal quilt in orange, white, and cream.  And how could I turn that down.  If you have followed my blog from the early days you might remember that I created a all orange quilt that my wife hated and every one loved. Well now I get to have another one (for a day or 2) but hey that just means I need to do my norm and make 2!  The pile above is what we finally decided on material wise.

My favorite part of quilting is chopping the material up.  I think I have more fun doing that then any thing else.  Here you see the fun pile of fabrics I turned into this quilt.

One thing I like about these quilts is how interesting they look while constructing them.  Instead of working from top to bottom I work from top right down to bottom left.  Sadly the orange and my tan walls do not like each other but above you can see the colors better.

Its funny that no matter when I take pictures, I have all the kids run into the room and want to get into the shot.  Here is cute little Julia trying to sneak into the photo shoot.

And of course here is the completed top  I love how this pattern of mine goes together.  It is a complete random fling of color and fun.  Can't wait to see how the customer likes it.

Happy Mothers Day!

Today sadly I have no new quilts to share but I need to reflect some on mothers day love.  My 4 kids are up (some under protest) and at the top of their lungs yelling at each other are Quietly making mother breakfast in bed.  I want to say how much I love my wife and mother and all the mothers before them that make my family possible.  Mothers are a treasured gift.  Happy mothers day to all.

Now if I can just keep the kids from killing each other before breakfast is served.  The Joys of Fathers on Mothers day!