Fruitcake Stars, Pretty Little Nightgowns and another skirt

 This will be a short post, but here are pictures of other things I have been working on lately.  I quilted the Charming Stars Fruitcake version and attached the binding.  My mom is going to finish hand sewing it on this week so it is ready to go by Veteran's Day.  I do not take credit for the scrappy binding.  That was all my mother.

I've made three more Pretty Little Dresses from Leila and Ben.  All three have been flannel and there is also a twin version of the butterfly one for my niece.  Since giving them the nightgowns, the two cousins have been dressing as twins every night.  We lengthened the sleeves just a little bit but I think I like the original version better.  I also made another skirt using Rocket Launch Club from Children at Play.  It appears to be in the laundry so no pictures today.

Round 2 of the Color Wheel Charm Swap is underway and I got green.  I chose Dark Green Jewels from Outfoxed and the Daisy circle from Just Dandy.  It wasn't easy to find what I thought would be considered a dark green.  Hopefully I can cut the charms some evening this week and mail them out before the weekend.  Slightly ambitious given Halloween on Monday.

Bloggers' Quilt Festival

My completed Summer Sampler Series quilt is my entry for Bloggers' Quilt Festival.  It is my favorite quilt for the year because I made this quilt with my four year old.  When a new block was posted, we would sit down and she would tell me which colors she wanted on what part.  I'd pull a few fabrics from my stash and she'd choose exactly which one she wanted to use.  She's a little obsessed with blue, rainbows and Mingle Dots.  The quilt replaced her old fuzzy blanket that she had since she was a baby which was way too small.  Since this is twin sized, I no longer have to help her cover her toes at 2am.  She didn't help me sew too often, but she drew diagonals for the HST, snipped threads during chain stitching and helped to put the scary and safety pins in their "beds" during basting and binding.  

  
The back is based on Oh Fransson's Charm Square Baby Quilt pattern with 10 and 5" blocks across the back of the flannel.  Her pattern happened to be re-released right as I was planning out the back and it was perfect.  Her favorite blocks are the Broken Sugar Bowl block on the top row (3rd from the left) and then the Key West Star in the fifth row (3rd from left) perhaps because they are both blue.  It might be because of the name for the Broken Sugar Bowl one.

This was the first quilt that I made without using a collection (after my first one made with  Joann's FQ).  I also am much more comfortable with paper piecing than I was before.  I quilted it with a loopy stitch instead of the normal stipple.  Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the festival.

A Skirt, a dress and some Fruitcake

The weekend started by completing this Twirly Skirt using yardage from Make Life by Sweetwater.  I think I like the Lazy Days Skirt better because there just isn't as much bulk around the waist.  Or, I did the elastic wrong.

 After seeing the dress Angela of Fussy Cut made for her daughter, I bought the pattern for the Leila and Ben Sweet Little Dress.  She picked out some Alexander Henry Freeway Dots  and decided she wanted a nightgown.  Although she didn't wear it last night, she did wear it all day today and also for bed tonight.  The bottom hem isn't as neat and nice and I would like and I twisted the elastic around the neck by mistake.  But, I actually managed to sew something with a sleeve without my mother helping.

Charming Stars from Moda Bake Shop in Fruitcake is a birthday/Christmas present to my sister-in-law.  My mom has done more of the piecing lately.  I did the random arrangement of solids for the star blocks.  I can sew random blocks together without worry.  My mom wants to plan too much.  A 5.5" white border will go around and then I will quilt it.  We're hoping to complete it by November 1st.

My 100 Quilts for Kids quilt will be delivered by the local quilt guild to a charity.  I'm not sure which one but there was only one on their list that I really didn't want to support.  I got some more solid fabric and some flannel to use for backing to make another quilt to donate.  Perhaps that will be my project for the week.