Liberated Wedding Ring quilt from LMS

Welcome to Friday's Quilt Feature.  This is the second time we've featured Corey from Little Miss Shabby.  Her first feature can be found here.   Today we're sharing her Liberated Wedding Ring quilt, and the fabulous news is she has the block tutorial here so you can make one yourself!  Enjoy :)


I took advantage of some sunny weather today to snap some pictures of my Liberated Wedding Ring Quilt that I finished up last week.  I finally got around to sewing together the blocks that I received from the Red & Aqua Bee over on flickr.  The fabrics are a mix of Reds/Aquas & Pinks from various lines of fabric–Dolly Dresses by Lakehouse, Moda Sweet, Kei Dots, some Lecien and a bunch of other random fabrics.  The blocks were made using my tutorial.





Since this is a smaller quilt only 3 blocks by 3 blocks, (an advantage, I suppose to being in a bee where you don’t receive all of your blocks back LOL! ) I thought it was a perfect time to practice some stippling.  I enjoy stippling on smaller projects but this is the largest quilt that I have done.





 The quilting is far from perfect but it’ll do.  Machine quilting is something that I will just need to keep practicing on.




I finished off the quilt with a fun stripey binding.




And a finished quilt!  It finishes out at about 41.5″ square.  Hopefully this will motiviate me to finish some of my other bee quilts. =)

Fat Quarter Shop contest winner!!!

Announcing the Fat Quarter Shop winner...

receiving five yards of Quilted Fish fabric...

Teje said...

I would use the fabric to make my dream quilt!

We can't wait to see the dream quilt!!!  Fun contest, thanks Fat Quarter Shop!

Mountain Quilt from Spotted Stone

 Welcome to a Wednesday feature!  Today we've got Krista from Spotted Stone.  Her blog is a fun mix of family, quilting and other fun sewing things.  She's got some impressive finishes!!  Make sure to see her Etsy shop with cute sachets and a ridiculously cute mini sailboat quilt!  Today she's sharing a special quilt she made for someone special :)

I just finished maybe my favorite quilt ever.

    Imade this abstract landscape for Rob, who has mentioned a few times that I make things for everyone else but had yet to do something just for him. It took me awhile to figure out what to do, but his love for the mountains inspired me. Anyone who knows us in real life can attest to the fact that Rob is happiest when he is out on a trail. It doesn't matter if there is snow, rain, mud. He's out there enjoying every bit. He has shared this passion for the outdoors with me and our kids, and for that I'm so grateful. Rob is the best husband, the best father. I'm lucky to have him.

Quilting details-- The quilt measures 28" x 27". I made it entirely out of shot cottons, save for the few pieces of Kona Snow and Aqua. Most of the fabric came from my scrap stash. I started the sky at my sew-in day last weekend but completed the rest in the last 24 hours. (Rob is away at a conference, so I was able to stay up extra late to get it done!) The mountains were pieced in sections and appliqued onto the sky, then the rest was improvisationaly pieced as I went along.  I took extra time with my quilting since there were so many starts and stops in the middle. I made sure to hold my thread ends and wove them into the quilt, so the back is as neatly stitched as the front. I also didn't square it up until the quilting was done, since the shot cottons are so thin and flimsy. Here's a photo of the top before it was quilted:

On the surprise part-- I'm 99% positive that Rob doesn't read my blog, and I just couldn't wait to post the photos! This is destined for his office at work, but I'll be hanging it up to enjoy here until he returns home.

Just a reminder, in case you've totally missed the memo, today is the last day to sign up for a fab giveaway from fat quarter shop, so check it out! :)

Fabric Tuesday #29!

Hello!  Happy Fabric Tuesday :) Hope everyone has had a fabric-licious week, I certainly have.  A LQS had a major scraps/remnants sale, and although I have more project than I can handle, it is way too hard to pass up current gorgeous designer fabric lines for $2 or less a yard!  Ah!

So this week we got to most everyone who linked-up last week, but I know some where left out.  We had the most link-ups ever last week, by about 20!  We love doing Fabric Tuesday, you all have such great projects week after week.

Speaking of which, here are a few of my favorites from last week:

Ridge Top Quilts; disappearing 16 patch

loving these colors, can't wait to see how it turns out!!

Don't Call Me Betsy; Bookshelf mini quilt

Love, just plain love.

Mama Roux; Mezzo Messenger Bag

Loving this bag and the color combinations!

KT Quilts 4 Fun; Tag Along Tote

I love how this is put together, and it looks so fresh!

Jane of All Crafts; Fabric covered eggs

Such a cute idea and tutorial, love the "scrappy" look!

And now for more link-ups, if you need a refresher or are new to the party, please review the guidelines to play.

PS do you have a quilt block tutorial?  We'd love for you to add it to our permanent linky for block tutorials!

Fabric Tuesday

edition 29

Bloggers Pillow Party

Have you seen or participated in Rachel from Stitched in Color's Blogger's Pillow Party? (that was hard to say!)  Well I've been admiring for the last couple of months, and since I've been on this kick of making holiday and seasonal pillows, I thought I'd enter my spring pillow!

This is my Valentine's pillow (which I'm not entering) but I'd never posted about.  I was finishing up my Spinning Coins Quilt and I had leftover fabric (that I'm ridiculously in love with) and had to find a way to use it.

And here is my Spring Pillow

Originally I was thinking of an Easter pillow, and using a bunny instead of a deer.  But then I realized I like deer more, plus it will be Spring and I can keep it out longer!!

I love my deer friend.  I'm still playing around with her name.  Any thoughts? :)  I played around with how to design it, considering a white background and patchwork deer.  Ultimately I liked how the deer stood out in white with the pink embroidery stitches.

I wanted the background to be scrappy, but in the same color palette so nothing really stood out.  I believe there are 12 different fabric prints used.  I just started with one square and started sewing and trimming!  Came together really fast.

There you go!  Check out the Pillow Party for plenty of cute pillows :)

We'll see you tomorrow for Fabric Tuesday and a great feature on Wednesday!

  

We interrupt...

We apologize to be interrupting your (hopefully) super crafty weekend for a couple little things to say!  As you can see to the left there, we are trying to annoy you in every way possible...and coming from a family with 7 kids, Heather and I are pretty awesome at that.  Oh the stories we could tell... well we've had our facebook fan page set-up all week and thanks to everyone for "liking" us!  We have two more fun little adventures to tell you about.

Flickr
We've created a group, QuiltStory Inspiration.  (You can access it by clicking on those little blue and pink dots to the left) This is a place to share your photos of ways in which QuiltStory has inspired YOU!  Whether you were inspired by a feature, us or one of our tutorials, we'd love for you to add it to our very lonely Flickr group!  Also, if your quilt was featured here, we'd also love for you to add it :)

hang in there...just about done...

Block Tutorial Link-Up

We've started a permanent link-up for Quilt Block Tutorials!  We have a button on our sidebar so you can always access it.  We wanted to create a central place to find and share block tutorials.  This linky is very lonely!  We'd love for you to add as many tutorials as you have, it doesn't matter how long ago you made them.  Also, multiple entries of the same block is great, there are so many different ways to do things.
We'll see you on Monday for another great quilt feature!

Over the river and through the woods....

When Jeanene submitted this project, we were blown away! Look at all the detailed hand embroidery, look at the intricate quilting! What an amazing quilt and fun story to go along. Make sure to go say hi to Jeanene at the queen bees hive! 

Finally, here’s my latest project:

my “Over the River and Through the Woods” Quilt

(The pattern is by:  Crabapple Hill)

This was actually my summer project. I fell in love with it last spring when I saw it hanging in a shop in Logan. Loved it immediately, but looked at all that detail and embroidery and decided ‘no’.

Then I saw it again, in one of my favorite little  shops near home, and knew I had to get it!

You remember the song don’t you? “Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we go, the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh….(finish it up);)

We had a few road trips last summer, and I stitched all the way, over the hi-ways, and through the bi-ways!

I usually machine quilt them myself, but this was was extra special, so after I got it pieced together I had Kaylene  at ‘My Little Quilting Shoppe’ do it. Look at that detail work!

Then I had to bribe my little nephew to come and hang it over the stairs for me.

Her new home!

She likes it there!