Simply Quilts

When I watch Simply Quilts I take pictures of the screen and even video some of the teaching segments. I wanted to take a least one post to list all the projects I'm looking forward to doing. There are at least a couple of quilters who read this, so for everyone else, might want to skip past this one. I get all geeky excited about some of this :-))
Here are some techniques I want to learn:





Especially this one, it combines my two favorite hobbies, quilting and scrapbooking:


This is a picture mosiac, those are 1" finished squares, wow what patience!


I can't wait to start seasonal projects:





The fall projects, I could tweak a bit and coordinate with the colors already in my living room:


I'm drawn to the baby quilts, the colors are so great:





I really enjoy incorporating photography in the quilts:

This is the back of one , apparently on your printer settings you can "tile" a picture, then I could print it on the fabric that goes through my printer and piece it all together, very excited about this prospect.

Here, she actually pieced a picture she had, this is sooo cool, maybe I'll get skilled enough to do this one day :-)



The projects I do I like to be a surprise for the recipient so I don't usually post the quilt until I've given it away. This combines the baby quilt and the photography. Well Amy knows I'm doing this for her little girl and it's just the front, the back is a still a surprise, hehe. It has some applique on it that Brooke taught me how to do, my lines are getting straighter each time.

It's so much fun to do!!

Craft Gadget

With some Christmas money, I indulged a bit on a scrapbook gadget. I usually don't do infomercials as I'm always concerned it's not really all it's cracked up to be. This cutter is really fun and neat to play with for scrapbooking, card making, etc, so here's my plug for the Craft Lite Cutter

Present Given

Here we all are with the quilt. He loves it! My nieces within minutes started telling me the colors they wanted theirs in. Thank you Brooke!!!!!!!

Quilting & Family

Today I gave my nephew Mark a quilt that my dear friend Brooke has been helping me make over the last couple of weeks. Mark is going to live with his dad. If you're reading this you're a good friend, so I ask that you pray for my sister and my nephew as this transition will be hard for both of them. Mark and Leah came over a few weeks ago so my sister could tell him. I asked if there as anything that I could make to help remind him of his mom every day. I offered a scrapbook, but he didn't seem interested, so somehow I offer a quilt ( have never made one before in my life) his eyes lit up... and I'm seriously thinking, what have I gotten myself into? So I start the journey to learn to make one. Brooke makes tons of them and they are all beautiful so I sought her expertise and priceless friendship.

Also one last prayer request. My brother in law is open to my dad contacting and spending time with the boys. Definitely an answered prayer from God. There's division in my family and a cycle of unforgiveness that brings me alot of sadness. I simply give that up to God as best as I can....