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Hooked on a book. When we were down in Washington on holidays this year I stopped in at a quilt shop in Marysville that I had visited a couple of years earlier. It's a cute little shop with a variety of beautiful fabrics. I stumbled upon a book called Sweetwater's Simple Home and fell in love! I bought the book as a birthday prezzie to myself and have thoroughly enjoyed reading through it multiple times. There are beautiful project patterns for every room in the house and I am determined to make at least one of everything out of the book! One of my new favourite patterns in the book is for placemats. I'm always on the look out for a great placemat pattern. One that's functional but still contemporary. These ones are perfect! They will make perfect presents! I'm having fun switching the pattern up a little and strip piecing some of the tops. They're super easy, and not too time consuming. Now, I realize that this should have been photographed with a lovely table setting showing off the beauty of the placemat, but at this point in time I can barely leave the sewing room to even do a blog post...so this is it for now!
Yikes, Open House is creeping up fast, as it always does! Check out my sidebar to the right for details.
I'm going to give a sneak peek each day leading up to the Open House to let you see what I've been working on.
Today, it's these chenille quilt tops that I recently pieced. Now, I realize that the colours are a little 'old school' but there's something irresistable about a soft, snuggly blanket like this one for a newborn.
I still have to quilt them and bind them but here's the gist...
Here I was, sitting at my computer when I should've been sewing. BUT, if I had been sitting in my sewing room, sewing away, I wouldn't have heard the knock on the door that brought a pleasant surprise to my day! My friend, Rhonda, drove all the way out from Chilliwack to drop off a giftie for ME! Why? I have no idea...the card says 'Thanks for being You'....well, Rhonda, I say thanks for being YOU! You brought a smile to face and a bright spot in my day. I don't know what I did to deserve it, but I appreciate it! You have always been a generous person. I love, LOVE the gifties. A beautiful fall wall hanging that will inspire me to stitch waaaay more neater, and a book that's been on my "I 'need'" list for awhile now! (After all, I am a Farmer's Wife.....) Well, now that I'm inspired, I'd better go sew...
I definitely want to do this project again, but with a line of fabric that is more conducive to this pattern. I plan to finish each of these 4 swoon blocks individually as table mats. They'll be available at our annual Christmas Open House...check out the 'deets' on my sidebar to the right!
I was so happy to complete this custom order quilt last week! It's the first quilt I've made using the black/white and green colour combo. I'm really happy with how it turned out and I trust that the darling baby girl who it's going to will enjoy it also! I used a nice sage print for the small pinwheels, 3 different black and white patterned prints to create the large pinwheels, and a sweet black and white pin dot pattern for all the background piecing. Sending a shout out to Kim for adding a little stippling to the quilt for a nice, finished look! For the first time ever I did a pieced backing on the quilt to create something fun on the reverse side. Now that this project is crossed off my 'to-do' list, I'll be moving on to preparing for the upcoming open house...details to come soon!
I'm loving the look of these blocks. Not loving my choices of fabrics, but loving the actual blocks. Can't wait to try it in a different line of fabric, or maybe just scrappy? Either way, one more block to go in this set!
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