My First "Free Motion" Quilt Experience

Part of the binding put on.

I will finish it tomorrow.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Can you see the meandering?

Don't look too close but from a distance it looks great.

Sick baby with one sock on & his new pillows


Sweet grandson snoozing on pillows.

I am so excited! I found a tutorial on Nettie's Blog! It shows how to make a baby quilt with strips. I think I had mentioned that it was on sewmamasew.com in an earlier post but it was on Netties Blog. She made it so simple to understand. Then I decided that I was going to try the free motion quilting. I went to youtube.com and watched how different people did this meandering thing. I saw a 4 year old little girl do it, so I thought surely I could. I started it and didn't think I was doing it as good as I could and was just about to quit when I heard this one lady say to give yourself permission to make mistakes. Then she explained that if you start out with a baby quilt or even just a panel and just practice you can do it. My meandering doesn't look professional and it is my first attempt so I just kept on. I actually was having so much fun. I also heard that same lady on youtube.com say that once you get it finished that no one will notice the imperfections. I am only showing part of the quilt because I don't have all the binding finished but I have to say it is looking pretty good. I just couldn't wait to show you. If you are a professional quilter, turn your head and please don't look. I will get better at it but I am still proud of it. As soon as the binding is finished which should be tonight, I will be ready to start another.

I also had a little sick munchkin again today. I made my "sweet grandson" 2 pillows with some scrap fabric and let him lay around on them. He loved them. His Mom didn't want to take them home though because they didn't match his room so I guess they will stay at Gran's house and he can use them here. He has Red and black in his room. Georgia colors- what was I thinking? It was just scraps though. I think my "sweet honey" liked the pillows. As soon as the grandchildren left he got the pillows and layed on the couch with them. He told me how comfortable they were so at least the pillows will get used. They aren't anything special but just thought my grandson would enjoy while he was sick. So now I guess they are Papaw's & Grandsons pillows!

Weekend

Very Simple Strip Baby Quilt Top

Isn't it so cute?

I think I will use red for the binding.

Left:
My dad, Mom, Baby Sister
Right:
Me, My other sister, Nephews, Tyler & Robbie

We had a great weekend. Today, I called my BFF, Vicki and talked with her on the phone (my black rotary phone). Most of the time we just send an email here and there but I wanted to hear her voice. After we got off the phone I whipped her up one of those buckwheat neck pillows that I have been making. I will have to try to see her this week to give it to her. Maybe we could have lunch, right Vicki? I already had it cut out so it was easy to put together. I hope she likes it.

I put together a quilt top tonight. It is just a baby quilt but I am excited about doing it. I found it over at sewmamasew.com and just used what I had here. I have all of the strips sewn together. It is not squared up but shouldn't take long to get it like I want it. I did this in just about an hour. This is a very easy quilt top, but of course it is smaller. I am not making it too small though. I was just thinking today that doing baby quilts might be the way I can get some experience so I can work on larger quilts. Here is just a sneak peek of the quilt top.I hope to have it finished in a couple of days. If I can get up the nerve, I may attempt to do some free motion quilting on it. I will let you know if it turns out. I had so much fun doing it.

My "Sweet Mom" called and asked me to come and meet her, my sisters, and my dad at a restaurant. I was so excited to see my family so off I went to meet them. The picture shows us all along with my 2 nephews. It was so good to see everyone. It was a wonderful weekend.