Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Sew Much Fun

I have had a lot of fun having my husband home to watch my son so I am able to sew with hardly any interruptions. It has been a blast and I have made great progress with the crib quilt I am doing. It is so not perfect, lot's of puckers, but really not too bad for my first time doing any sort of a quilt. Here are some pictures of what I have been up to lately.

The average day at our house during a snow day.

Finished the squares and then sewed the strips.

Got all the strips sewn and I didn't do too bad matching the corners.

Here I am quilting. Learning to twist the material and stuff it through the arm of my machine.

Here is a sample of my quilting. I know it isn't perfect but hopefully I will have many years to improve. I have done 9 squares now just 21 left.

8 comments:

E said...

why did I never know this blog existed until I stumbled upon it from my friend Erika's blog? How fun!!! love the quilt

Bonnie said...

I don't really tell people I guess. Glad you found me:)

Brian and Tonya said...

Wow, good job. That looks great. Do you do the quilting on your normal machine or do you have a quilter? If you do it on your normal machine, how do you do it? I have a quilt top that I need to finish, but don't want to spend $100 to have it quilted.

Julie said...

It looks like you are enjoying yourself and having fun. I'm glad to see it. Your place looks very nice! I can tell that you are a much better housekeeper than I am. ;)

Bonnie said...

I do use my normal machine. I just use my straight stitch as normal. I don't think I could quilt anything bigger than a crib size and I can't do really any cool stitches but it works for most basic quilts.

I am having fun and Levi is a much better house keeper than I am. I love having him home:)

Bobby Sue said...

It is beautiful! I love the squares! I don't think I could ever do anything like that. It has got to be so nice to have Levi home though! I know I'm looking forward to all the time off Nate is taking with the baby.

Samuel said...

Both of your blogs, have a blog that ends with "...much fun".

Jones said...

looks great! I still need to do the back of my quilt and buy batting...then I'll take a crack at the actual quilting.