Farmer's Wife Quilt Along

While perusing new projects, I stumbled upon this group that is making Farmer's Wife sampler quilts. I've got my book on order and am going to quilt along with them. They are on week 27, but I'm going to jump in and see what I can do. There are 111 blocks to make. They work on 2 each week in whatever order they want. It's so fun to see all of the different color choices and all of the beautiful blocks. I'll share my progress here every once in a while! Group resumes in February...so I have a little time to catch up!

This Jelly's Gonna Roll

My next project...isn't she lovely?! I picked out the one with the smoothest top since I knew she would be photographed.

More I Spy Fun

If the one huge I Spy quilt wasn't enough, I decided to make four more for Christmas gifts - two for family members, and two for my cousin to give his friends as gifts. Here they are...

First up...a variation on the stacked coins idea. I really like this one. Clean lines and fun, fun, fun prints!

Here's the back. This was the first time I've ever pieced together a backing. I really love the way it looks.

This one is a four patch. I sewed the four patches together with one solid square per block (always in the same spot). When we were deciding how to arrange them, this cool diagonal appeared. Serendipity!

Here is the back. I love piecing the backs together so you can use the most of your scraps!!

Here is the first one for my cousin. This one is also a four patch (one solid square in the same place in each block). I arranged them a little differently and came up with this sort of checkerboard.

Here's the second one for my cousin. This one is the four patch arranged with the diagonal pattern just like the second one above.

I bought a twin sheet set on clearance and use that for the backing on these quilts. It's so fun and colorful! I just love them.

Five quilts in five months...that was a little crazy!

Look what I found?!

I was digging in my fabric stash when I found this quilt I started making around 15 years ago! I already had all my tools out so I just turned on my iron and sewing machine and got to work. I have decided 2012 is the year I'm going to finish all those unfinished projects! Yoo- hoo!

I can't wait to see what all of your quilts look like! Has anyone finished theirs yet? I don't know why I picked to make another log cabin, but oh we'll. I'm going to finish this one for my daughter Ainslee. Her birthday is in September but I do not want to procrastinate!

By the way: my sewing machine also does embroidery so if anyone wants to embroider on their quilt let me know. I'm making my husband a new quilt since his current one is rags and I'm going to embroider on that one. I'll let you all know how it turns out.

Hexagon Placemat

Here's the finished Hexagon placemat. It is just six 60 degree triangles sewn together. I love the look of it with the striped fabric though. I think it turned out pretty cute. I'm not showing a great picture of the middle because somehow...all the stripes lined up except for the very center...go figure.

I quilted it with my new walking foot along the stripes in the fabric. How have I lived this long without a walking foot? I LOVED it! You'll be seeing more little quilty projects from me since it's so easy to quilt them on my machine now!

A little closer angle...

Happy Halloween!