I'm Sewing Mama, I'm sewing!

I'm up late, stressing about life and yet updating my sidebar with my projects I'm working on. Oddly, with too much going on, I'm actually finding a lot of comfort in digging out some old projects and completing them!

The baptism pillow is in the mail (hooray) and I dug out my daughter's kitty quilt and plan on finishing it....it's actually going faster now that my friend suggested I "TAKE OFF THE HOOP". This may seem silly, but removing the hoop from the monotonous blanket stitching has helped me move along faster and also I can see the picture emerge as I stitch. So, two blocks down, only 4 to go and it's going to be a wall hanging! Hooray!

The greatest news is that my Ribbon tutorial was featured on the "Sew, Mama, Sew! Blog", my friend Claudia encouraged me to submit it and so there's the link! Wave if you found me from the SMS Blog! :)

Ok, well I'm finishing my glass of milk and I'm off to bed. Night all!

Labels: applique, finished projects, tutorial

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RMCQ day in the mountains

If you've been following my friend's "Trading Spaces" adventure, I'm putting up the last of the pictures today on my other blog!

However, for Crazy quilt stitching people, I wanted to share one of our member's homes...Mary Jo...she hosted the last meeting at her home up in the mountains (a GORGEOUS drive in the convertible)...and wow, what scenery. THEN we discovered all the lovely work she does and her doll collection (oooh, ahhh!)! All the work on the walls are her brazilian pieces and get a LOAD of that tree!

All of the stitching is hers....there were two full rooms like this and then more pieces scattered throughout the house. The quilt below was completely amazing tho...hand dyed lace with the dolls throughout the piece 3-D with dresses done beautifully. Amazing!

Then there was the scenery (I would be inspire to stitch all the time out there!) This is where we had to sit and eat lunch...poor us, eh?

It was lovely and like a mini vacation! So quiet! You don't realize how noisy the city is until you get way up into the mountains! Anyway, thanks Mary Jo for a ton of inspiration and fun!

Labels: applique, Crazy quilt, embroidery, inspiration

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crazy quilters stitching night.

The Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters had their "casual" stitch night on Tuesday night...I'm always amazed by the talent and interesting projects that go on there.
This is a block for our group swap. Tammy started embellishing the block, but isn't the book that goes with it adorable! It's actually crazy quilted and embellished paper (real stitching on paper) and then glued on or put onto sticky paper (couldnt' tell which) and attached to the notebook. Cute, cute! (I'll post my block when I finish it!)

This is the always amazing and talented Rhonda's HUGE brazillian project. Not sure you can see, but this garden goes way up into her lap and includes lots of beautiful stitches.

AND! TA-DA! The progress on Tina's Wedding dress quilt! I have done the face 2x and wasn't happy with it yet! So, I'm still working. However, all of the applique is done and now it just needs some details! I think the rest of this should go quickly! (and I'll post more soon!)