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.