An update and a quilt top!

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well. 

My husband is still in a long term care bed. 

He will not be able to come home until the end of August or early September.

He had a serious pelvic and left hip injury.

His pelvic injury is not healing well.

He may need surgery again.

But we are hoping it doesn't come to that. 

He had a cast on his left wrist.

He had surgery on his wrist as well, but it is healing well and he had his cast removed last week. 

He still doesn't have full strength of it yet. 

But it's healing we'll.

We are all taking things one day at a time.

It's been hard, but we are surviving.

 My daughter made another quilt for a school project. 

This one was a group project.

The other kids helped with drawing up the blocks. 

Brittany sewed all the sashing around the blocks and sewed the blocks in rows. 

I helped by sewing the rows together and putting the borders on.

I took the picture with my IPhone so it's not the best.

I hope you like it!!

Hugs

Ariane

Brittany's quilt top...

Hi everyone!!

I want to thank you all for all the wonderful comments about the top I made myself.

I haven't had that many comments in a long time, and it really means a lot to me.

Today, I helped my daughter Brittany finish her book report quilt top.

She decided to make a quilt for a book report on "The Lost Quilter" by Jennifer Chiaverini.

She did all the drawings for the blocks.

Then she transferred the drawings to fabric using the light box method.

She outlined her drawings with ultra fine Sharpie permanent marker and used colouring pencils to colour them.

She then painted on textile medium over the coloured areas of her blocks.

I then heat set them all for her.

I cut 1.5 inch strips of the fat quarters she selected from my stash.

She picked ones from my reproduction stash.

She then sashed each block with one of the 12 fabrics she chose.

With my help, I showed her how to pin the blocks together and sew them.

She sewed the first border to the top.

I'm the one who pieced and sewed the outer border to the top for her.

This part was a bit trickier for her.

I'm really amazed at how well this quilt top turned out.

Her drawings are so good for her age (12).

It was a fun project to watch her do.

It really made me proud, that she wanted to do this.

Especially knowing how much I love quilting.

And like she told me tonight: " I did good, eh Ma!!! I didn't give up on this project!!"

I laughed when she said that.

Now all we have to do is baste it and quilt it.

Not tonight though, I'm too tired!!

Hugs

Guest Post #2 by B-Sew Cute: Blush Quilt is done!!!

So I`m done and yah I know it took me a really long time, but I have my reasons.

Reason 1#: It was really hard to find backing flannel because

 my fabric is from the US and really modern.

 Reason 2#: It was really hard to quilt because I had no idea how to.

Reason 3#: I found out I can`t blind stitch ,I`m so bad at it.

It`s not even blind anymore you can see the stitching.  

So those are my reasons it took Soooo long to finish.

Here are two pictures of the quilt you can see the binding and quilting.

I really like the flannel backing it`s so soft and the fabric just has Me written all over it.

Well I hope you like it, guess that`s it for today.

Hugs

B-sew cute :o)

Note: This post was written by my 10 year old daughter, nickname B-sew cute.

Ghest Blogger.....My daughter.....B-Sew cute!!!!

 Finally I finished my quilt top! It took so long and I really wanted to finish it. Well I`m very glad! I got my mom to line up all the seams and pin it so I could quilt it. Tonight I decided to keep the blank blocks(used to be stars) blank. So anyway I should stop talking cause everyone keeps saying I talk too much, so anyhow, here`s the finished quilt top.

I made this top by cuting 36 blocks in small rectangles and sewed all the small blocks in rows of 3 for each block. Then sewed them together in the strips and then sewed them all together to make the quilt top. Now all I need to do is get some yardage for binding and the backing fabric.

I was thinking of using flannel for the backing, because ......I won`t lie..... I absolutely love flannel. It is so soft and awesome for making a quilt. But I am still not sure I guess I`ll have to wait and see.!!!!!Hugs

!!!B-Sew cute :o)!!!

P.S

To all quilters out there don`t stop quiltin.... it is awesome and fun. And enjoy my moms blog because I think it is awesome. Oh ya I forgot if you think this is my mom it is her 10 year old daugther...B-Sew cute!!!!

My daughters quilt top progress, a bag and my siggy blocks!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful day. I did get some sewing done today. First, I adjusted the sleeves on my MIL`s new winter coat. The sleeves were too long and the opening too big. So, I fixed it for her. She was very happy.

After she left, I started working on a little bag. I was still working on it when my daughter got home from school. She wanted to keep working on her Blush quilt top that she had started the night before. She had 36 rail blocks sewn and just needed to start sewing them into rows with the plain blocks. She did all the sewing on these blocks herself. She did do some of the ironing, but I did have to go over the blocks too myself. I cut out all the strips for her. I am not yet comfortable with her using my rotary cutter. I want her to keep all her fingers. She sewed all the blocks in rows. All she has to do is sew the rows together. I think she is doing really well. She is so excited about sewing with me. We were like two peas in a pod, last night and today. Two sewing machines on the table and us sewing at the same time. She talked non-stop the entire time and I had a big smile on my face. It was a lot of fun. So here are the rows she sewed today.

I made a little bag while she was sewing. Its nice to make little projects that can be done in one day. I used some Jennifer Paganelli -Dance with me, fabric to make the bag. It is so bright and cheery. I really like it. I used a vintage button on it. It adds a little bling to the bag.

Last night, I worked on my modern siggy blocks. I have half of them done. These are so cute. I just love these blocks. I think I am going to make myself more blocks like this for a more vintage quilt. These are so fast to make. I love them.

I have enjoyed my two days off. I have one more to go, then back to work for 6 days. hopefully I will have the chance to sew a bit more tomorrow. I have a lot of stuff to do though. So, we will see.

Ariane