Another Quilt

I made another quilt.  The fabric is called Park Avenue, and involved a lot of free-motion quilting.

Patio furniture

We had a patio built in our backyard, with a pergola, and I have wanted furniture for that space ever since, but outside furniture is expensive! Especially if you are only using it a few months out of the year. Well, this year we decided to make some.  I found some plans and got Larry to start working on them. He built a sofa and two chairs. We bought cushions, and I made pillows to add. We went to the D.I. and looked for a table that would work out there, and we found one with a really ugly coat of green crackle paint.  It was cheap, so we brought it home, sanded off the ugly green, and I painted a beautiful sunset on it. So the pillows I made match the colors in the painting.

Then I planted a fairy garden in a pot and made a table for it to sit on out of the left-over lumber, I  repaired and hung the long wind chime that has been in the shop for a while, planted more flowers and found a small side table with a candle lantern to go out there as well. It is now a fun place to relax on the cool weekend mornings or in the evening shade.

Place mats

Seiko was having a bridal shower, and I thought about giving her some rice bowls, to honor her Japanese heritage, (even though she is marrying a Navajo boy!) so I made some placements to go with the rice bowls. I looked up the Kanji symbol for "Happiness" and appliqued that onto the placements. I like the way they turned out, and Seiko was happy with them, too.

Star Wars cookies

More cookies! This time for Star Wars Day (May the Fourth - be with you...)

So, the young women had a fundraiser, and they asked for donations for their dessert auction.  

I made cookies.

Easter Cookies

Another thing I did in the last year is play around with cookie decorating. It started at Valentine's Day when I wanted to take something to our home teaching ladies.

And then I played with other different cut outs, and ended up teaching it at Relief Society.

When Ally turned eight, I brought some cookies to her baptism celebration dinner.

I made some more for Halloween. We took them to Larry's grandkids instead of candy. 

I also made a lot for Christmas, but we gave them all away!

In the summer I painted some rocks.  I started out painting encouraging words on some rocks for an art exchange.

Then I just painted a lady bug, and one of the grandkids liked it so much they wanted to take it home, so I said yes. Then the rest of them wanted one, too.  So I painted some more.

And then I tried mandalas, but they are more time consuming than I thought they would be.

I've made a few quilts in the last year (since it's been almost a year since I posted anything - where did that time go?)  A red white and blue quilt in the summer.

And, when Rose was born we didn't know if it would be a girl or a boy, so I made two. A small red white and blue if it was a boy, and a pinwheel quilt if it was a girl.

The pinwheel fabric was left over from this project.

It was originally going to be a quilt, but the cathedral window is so time consuming, I got this much done and decided a table runner was quite enough.

Then Tesla was having a baby, so I made this quilt for her.

I love the colors.

Then I made a couple more.  My mother had some fabric that I brought home after she died.  I've saved it, hoping I would find a way to use it.  I bought some pastel pre-cuts and they were the perfect way to use the blue piece I got from her.

This one is Simple Squares, and it's a small one.

This one is called Spring Rain, and it's larger. I sent it into Missouri Star to be machine quilted.

I also had a light green piece. I used it for a couple of things. I made a rose quilt for Rose, and another simple squares quilt with leftovers from the quilt I made for Tesla.

Then I ordered a charm pack of pre-cut fabrics from Missouri Star.

It looked like a tablecloth to me, so that's what I made, a small tablecloth for our small table.

Then, near the end of the year I cleaned out the Relief Society closet and brought home some fabric pieces that someone, some time, had donated. Together with pieces from my own scrap bag I put together two quilt tops in one weekend. 

I love the blend of colors on the autumn quilt.