Christmas Quilt

This is a Christmas quilt my Mother made for our family last year.  I love it so much that I thought I would share it with you all.  I'm proud to say that my Mother is a very talented quilter.  If you look closely the quilting design all over the quilt is poinsettias.  You can really see one pop right above Santa's head.  When I was gifted with this quilt I had just had my first son who was two months old at the time, so it was really special to receive a quilt featuring a sweet little boy with Santa Claus.  I love the vintage feel it has, and I am very fond of all of the colors in this quilt.

Then she made us two very large stockings to decorate our house for Christmas.  I love the old fashioned looking Santa Claus, and my son is just now starting to dig Thomas the Train.

 

These are very large stockings about 30 inches long and 14 inches wide.  Sure would love for Santa to fill these up this Christmas!  :-)  She purchased the kits to make these from Jo-Ann Fabrics last year.  They look so sweet hanging on the walls in our dining room.  We sure are lucky to have a quilter in the family.  Something we treasure very much!

 

I was looking around on Amazon for other stockings.  I have mentioned before in posts how much I love snowmen.  Here is a smaller stocking that I found online that I think is absolutely adorable.

 

   

Jo-Ann's Holiday Inspirations 3-D Snowman

 

Decorating for the holidays is so much fun!! 

Superhero Collection

This is our design for the BE MY HERO Contest at Spoonflower.  BE MY HERO is a contest to design a novelty print for boys ages 6-12 that will be manufactured and distributed to fabric stores all over by Timeless Treasures, one of the leading producers of innovative fabrics for the quilting and crafting markets.  Our design for this contest includes superheroes from our comic book coming out this fall 2012 featuring brand new never seen before SUPERHEROES!  Introducing the amazing law-abiding and justice serving SGT. JOHN LAW!  Fighting crimes is his middle name...it's BLASTERONIC...and pouncing bad guys is his game!  Last but not least there is COMMANDER ZYGAR  rescuing damsels in distress and bolting across our skies commanding with honor and saving lives!  Together these three join forces to fight evil.  If you would like to check out the entire Superhero Collection please click here.

ZAM! BAM! POW! NEW SUPERHEROES IN TOWN!



  

You do not have to be a member to vote and you can vote for as many Be My Hero designs as you would like.  The contest begins Thursday, November 1st and best to get your vote in by Monday, November 5th.  If you like our design and would like to join in on the fun we would be so grateful to get your vote!!  Go!  Go!  SUPERHEROES!!!

Also here are two of our superhero shirts for sale at our zazzle shop! 

Superheroes T-shirt!

Superhero

 

Ladybug Cheater Quilt

Okay so yesterday I designed my first cheater quilt.  I think I am addicted to designing cheater quilts now.  I am not a very experienced seamstress and I honestly believe this is something I could make.  I'm thinking perfect gifts for my daughters, son, nieces, family and friends. I will post my attempt once I have received the material from Spoonflower.

Ladybug Cheater Quilt

This ladybug design was inspired by a dear friend of mine.  She has so kindly asked me to design ladybug material for her precious daughter's first birthday coming up.  If you would like to see the Ladybug Collection please click here.  If you are interested in any of the fabric please contact me and I'll make it available for purchase as soon as possible. 


The Ladybug Cheater Quilt is also part of the Ladybug Collection.  One yard of this fabric would make an adorable ladybug quilt.  I was imagining all kinds of embellishments like red, pink, or light green soft satin ribbon around the four edges or even adding on more fabric pieces from the Ladybug Collection if you are an expert sewer.  I designed the ladybugs to look like buttons so it could be a really cute addition to sew buttons onto the quilt too.  There are two fabric pieces that I'm thinking about for the back side of the quilt.  I think I'd like to try a yard of either the Daisies & Red Ladybugs On Green Background or Pink Daisies & Ladybugs.

I copied a link here to get basic instructions on putting together your own cheater quilt.  If you are a novice sewer like me click here for the How to on eHow.

I will be sure to post my cheater quilt adventure.  Wish me luck!  Maybe since this is a ladybug quilt the ladybugs will bring me that extra luck I need, you think?  I'm going to surely need it!