3 Quilts for Christmas

I had an order a couple weeks before Christmas for 3 couch sized quilts. I had specific directions on one (Tennessee fabric on the back, Orange and White front) and for the other 2 was more of whatever I would like to do :)

Here's the College Spirit University of Tennessee Quilt

I like how the orange is double the size of the white :)

Here's the second one... blues and whites for this persons mother

Excuse the wrinkles :) It was very late when these pictures were taken...

Here's the third one... My Favorite

I am going to admit Dan, it was really hard to mail this one! I love every piece of fabric used in this quilt! What colors!

New Sewing Studio

Hello All! I am so excited to present this post to you!!! My New Sewing Studio!

View from the door. My *free* cutting table (Thank You Juanita), newest T-shirt Quilt (all Andy Griffith Shirts) and my bookcase.


This is the view from the closet wall. Don't you just love that wall color? A Big Thank You to my sister for helping me paint!


This is my sewing desk. Nicely labeled from www.picnic.com (great website for free photo editing)


Here is my bookcase all organized. Organized things make me so happy :)
I also have a nice sized closet in this room. I am thinking of doing shelves to the floor to stack all my fabric on...

Hope you like my new studio, I know I love it!

CCQuilts has been Feaured!

CCQuilts has been featured on another blog... Momfessions!

Shelia has has a blog carnival for the last week with different gift ideas, my t-shirt quilts were mentioned under the Something Different category.

Another idea for something different for gifts:

-Etsy.com: A fabulous website of handmade items. I have given and received gifts from Etsy and have always been so pleased with what I have bought. The garters for my wedding were ordered from Etsy at a great price. You can find any and everything on Etsy!

-Stationary and Stamps: I love writing cards and notes. There is just something about recieving real mail and knowing someone took the time to create something so special.

-Green Gifts: We all want the world be better place, why not express it in gifts? A cute reusable shopping tote, some new energy efficent light bulbs, stationary on recycled paper, the ideas are endless!

Sheila's T-Shirt Blanket Complete!

Its completed! I think it turned out great, so cuddly and soft!

20 of Andrew and Sheila's shirts made into this large couch throw (it is laying on a Queen sized bed). Instead of having batting in the middle, this is backed with flannel. It has been hand tacked at every shirt square corner. Perfect for movie night at home!

Thank you so much for letting me make this for you Sheila! Hope you love it!!!

Sheila's T-Shirt Blanket in Progress Part 3

The top is complete, now just to get the back on and tack it! Should be ready soon!

Sheila's T-Shirt Blanket in Progress Part 2

Another little update on the Stover's T-Shirt Blanket...



All the blocks are now strips! Its coming together nicely! :)

Sheila's T-Shirt Blanket in Progress

A friend of mine from college contacted me last month about making a t-shirt blanket for her. I told her I would love to do it! Sheila, her husband Andrew and 2 young children are going overseas to do mission work and this blanket is a "Sheila and Andrew" memory blanket, with t-shirts from them both.

I have been working on them for awhile now and I got all the shirts cut, interfaced, and measured. Here they are all laid out... please ignore Dad's exercise bike! Haha! Mom and Dad's house has a big open floor for me to lay my quilts out in.



I love the colors in this quilt. Sheila asked for a soft gray or another neutral for the backing. It will be tacked in the corners and there will be no batting in the middle. It will make a fantastic blanket to snuggle up with for a good story!

I had to take a picture of my favorite block... This is my favorite for a lot of reasons:



1. It is the shirt Sheila was wearing when Andrew proposed *Awwww*
2. It has lime green stripes
3. Isn't that strawberry too cute?
4. Buttons, I love buttons.
5. This is the first time I have ever included something besides a T-Shirt in a blanket/quilt. This shirt was a polo. Thanks for being so trusting with that Sheila, I think it turned out great!

Now to get each block sewn together and to get that backing on it and it is off to Sheila and Andrew to enjoy!

Mom's Coin Quilt

Mom has been kind of hinting that all the quilts that I make go to other people, and I think she wanted one of her own. Well, I decided to surprise her for her birthday with an adorable yellow coin quilt. I chose yellow for many reasons.... 1. My mom sits in a rocking chair in their dining area and watches TV and uses her laptop, their kitchen is yellow 2. When I was growing up yellow was my favorite color 3. It is such a sunshiny happy color to sew!

So I have had this quilt completed for about a month now, but I finally got to give it to my mom tonight! So here are pictures of the little yellow coin quilt.


This is the front and the back. Each yellow rectangle is 1.5x3.5 with 2 inch white sashing. Each row of yellow has 18 different yellow prints, doubled for 36 coins per row. I did "stitch in the ditch" for each row to quilt it.

Here is a picture of the back and binding up close...


I just love the back fabric! It looks like yellow bubbles!

I think mom really liked her quilt :) Happy Birthday Mama!

Ava's Monogrammed Towel

My sweet Ava received this towel from Matt and I for her 5th birthday. I can see me making more of these in the future... They are just TOO cute!!!

Up close on the adorable polka dotted "a" for Ava!

Father's Day

I really enjoyed making these few little goodies for my Daddy for Father's Day. My Dad loves to the play the guitar and goes out a few times a week to play with friends. He mentioned to me a while back that he wishes he had a way to pick his guitar case out from everyone else's quickly. So I thought that making a little luggage handle roll to velcro around his guitar case handle was perfect. Well then I still had fabric left over, so I decided to make a guitar strap too. I made it fully adjustable and it has thick webbing underneath the decorative fabirc so no guitar droppsies!

The wooden guitar picks were ordered from a wonderful website called Etsy. These picks were hand carved, they are gorgeous.

2 Couch Throws and A New Block

I have been busy busy with making Carolina Courage quilts! After a few people saw the one that I made previously I had 2 orders for them! So I have just finished 2 couch sized UNC rail fence quilts. I love them, they are beautiful!

Here is a little gem I am working on for Matt and I. It is called a Whirlygiggle Block. Don't you just love that? When you see multiples together they look like they are turning pinwheels.

Jessica's Quilt

Jessica had a really neat idea for a quilt. She wanted a "House Divided" quilt. ECU colors on one side and State fabric on the other. I really like the way it turned out.

This one is also a rail fence pattern, which is so nice for college colors!


Here is an up close of the fabrics.


All bundled and ready to be delivered.

Carrie's Quilt

Carrie's Quilt is a lovely tribute to her sorority days at ECU


The back was super cute. Carrie had some little owl fabric shipped to my house from Hancock Fabrics.


There was a little bonus for Carrie, 2 pillowcases!


Here it is, all bundled up and ready to be delivered.


Thanks Carrie! I hope you love it!

Stephanie's Quilt

Stephanie's Quilt is a gorgeous reminder of her sorority days at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Here it is laid out on a Queen Sized Bed.



Here's a look at part of the process that goes into making these quilts...

I stabilize and cut each back with a rotary cutter.

Ta Da! One block ready to be sewn! Only 25 more to go...

For this quilt, I didn't have quite enough shirts to make the size Stephanie wanted so I was able to take the pocket designs off of her shirts and combine them with solid shirt colors to make more blocks!


I added these blocks along with the 26 others to make a nice Queen Size quilt top.


Then, I make a "quilt sandwich": quilt top, batting, and UNC fabric (for the back). I then machine quilt around each square.  Here's a little look at me quilting along...

Finally, I add the binding around the edges and its ready to go!

And here it is bundled up and ready to go!


Here is Stephanie loving her new quilt!

 



Another satisfied customer :)

Stephanie's T-Shirt Pillow

Stephanie had 4 shirts from High School she wanted something out of. I thought a long barrel style pillow would be perfect!

Side one: 2 shirt backs


Side two: 2 shirts pieces plus pocket designs

Very cute way to use just a few shirts!

Carolina Courage

This is a quilt I made for a boy who was diagnosed with leukemia. He is a student at the school where I teach and we made a little goody basket for him and this was part of it. It is 44x60, a perfect couch throw.

The pattern is called a Rail Fence in the 3 UNC colors. This pattern is GREAT for college quilts since it uses 3 colors. The back is UNC Chapel Hill fabric.

Here it is, bundled up and ready to go!

Amy's T-Shirt Quilt

Amy's Paul Frank T-Shirt Quilt was the very first T-Shirt Quilt I made. It was 9x9 blocks and I tacked it with buttons, no batting or machine quilting. I really love how it turned out, very fun and playful. The back is lined with a cotton fleece which made it oh so soft and cuddly! Perfect for the couch! Final measurements: 44 x 53

Amy had 15 shirts. I used the front logo for one block and a matching plain colored block out of the back of the shirt.


This is a good picture on the back of the quilt. Kelly Green, one of my favorite colors.


Here is an up-close of the buttons I used to tack the quilt together.