Link A Finish Friday #46

These are the first 2 of many 12 day wall hanging that our family is making for gifts for Christmas.  We wanted to make 40+ of them but we are running out of time we have these 2 completed and about 10 basted and another 5-6 tops completed.

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It is now time for Link A Finish Friday.  Today I would like to start with a big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes.  This month's winner (December) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend on Fat Quarter Shop.

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Baby Quilt from A Flower Blooms in the City

Scrappy Tea Towels from The Crafting Fiend

Hexagon Shell Pouch from Handmade by Farah Lin

Quick Quilt from thREDhead

Are 4 of the the items linked up last week.  Link up yours and lets see what you have been making.

So for the rules.

1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.

2) Add a link to your finish blog or where ever you show off your finishes (Not limited to quilts but I like them the most).
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to $15 gift card from Fat Quarter Shop.

Not required but fun to do

1) Follow my blog.
2) Follow the blog of all those that link.
3) Link back to my blog.
4) No finish, go quilt and stop reading the web.

Finishing Touches on Christmas

Tanya has 6 step brothers and sisters (her dad remarried two years ago), so we don't really know them.  They are married and all have kids of their own.  As part of our making every one a quilt we decided for the step siblings we would give each family a  lap quilt and each kid would get pillow case.  So between all of these we need a dozen or so pillowcases.  So this weekend Tanya and I cut out about 2 dozen pillow cases. So far I have sewed the tops onto 11 of them and completed 5 of them.  Above is the first one done (which I claimed and is on my bed). 

We have been trying to figure out what to get Rebecca for Christmas.  We talked about a sewing machine or a serger, but the cost of them was more then I am willing to spend on a 14 year old girl.  So I bought myself a serger (after all don't you just need to serge pillow cases?)  I am sure some of you are saying no its not needed.  You might find this funny, but I own a serger now, but have no intent to use it.  I got it so my daughter can work on her home work assignments from her sewing classes at school.  So far she has made a hoodie, shorts, a quilt, and now mostly done with a dress and she is going to make a matching one for Julia.  Any way it is for her, but not for her.  Any way we now have the most styling pillowcase.

Here are the other 4 that are finished, we will have a few more done in the next few days.

Red, White & Blue Sampler

My 4th of July looking sampler quilt is finally done.  Started as part of the beginner quilt along.  Richard started this quilt along with one other while Tanya made her quilt and soon realized that the pace for making these quilts was too slow for his interest.

The quilting for this quilt was done with echo quilting around the big blocks and then in the ditch though the 9 patch block themselves.

This quilt will make a great summer fun quilt.

Lizard Rag Quilt

Around our house we love lizards (or so Richard keeps telling every one) Here is a great child size lap quilt made with some lizards in a cute Blue/Yellow/And Green combo.

The back of this quilt is all in Green Tie Dye.

Here is a close up of them.  So cute if I say so myself (Richard Speaking haha).  This is a Christmas gift for our 4 year old nephew.

Teddy Bear Rag Quilt

Tanya has been busy the last few weeks making rag quilts.  She has had great success selling rag quilts on our Etsy store (and giving away about as many also).  She realized though that after I gave away the last boy rag quilt that we were in need of some more.  This rag quilt has random left overs of various prints we have used in the past and BOY! is it cute.

Tanya is getting much bolder on her color choices for her Rag Quilts and has started to add unique color pop to them by putting neat colors in the middle so that when ragged they just are so neat and amazing.

You can see on this one that the back is a light blue and the brown in the rag is from the middle layer.  

My Solo Cup

This quilt is made from material I got from the Door Gift from the SLMQG mixer for Sewing Summit  It is a line named MAASAI MARA by dear STELLA

Tanya wanted me to make a quilt full of Solo Cups for lack of a better name.   I made the front as you can see above out of that.  Then with the left overs I had fun making the back.

After making this quilt I think I like the back 100 times more then I like the front so if you saw this quilt at my house above would be my front.

Here is a close up of my solo cup on the back you can see that I Echo Quilted this one following the cups from the front side.  This quilt is a gift for Christmas for one of the Step Sister In laws.

Cupcake Rag Quilt

Tanya over the last weekend wanted to use up the last of our sewn Cup Cake fabric and the original plan was to make a doll quilt. But as it turned out she found even more then what she expected and ended up making this baby quilt instead.

The cupcake material was bought last Christmas as a clearance item for a killer deal and has been in many different quilts that Tanya and Rebecca have made.  I am sad to see it now finally all gone.

It will though make a fantastic pink baby quilt for some lucky little girl.

Puppy Dog Rag Quilt

This brown and gray with Puppy's Rag Quilt is our newest boy baby quilt.  We found this fantastic material last weekend when out shopping and knew exactly what we wanted to do with it.

On this quilt Tanya alternated brown, gray, and Puppies.  Our Daughter Rebecca has started helping mom out on her quilting efforts and spent the holiday weekend over Thanksgiving cutting material up for her mom.

As you can tell from many of our quilts we love the Tie Dye gray and it is often used in our quilts.  This quilt it is in 1/3 of the front and the full back.

Stars and Jeans Rag Quilt

Last week one of the kids down the street had a Birthday and Tanya and I decided we wanted to try out a Rag Quilt with Jeans.  What we underestimated was the over all weight of a said Rag Quilt made out of Jeans.  We figured a full quilt out of Jeans would be too heavy and did every other square Jeans.  Well I am here to say that, while its lighter then a full blanket it is WAY, WAY, Too Heavy.  The only saving grace is the kid getting this quilt is Autistic and they tend to like heaver blankets (you often see blankets made with weights in them for autistic kids).

On the alternating material we decided stars would be fun and dug into the stash for random stars.  Here is a closeup of the quilt you can see that I added in as many seams as I could as I love the extra style it adds.

And lastly the back is made of blue flannel.  It also has flannel in the middle.  Again this is a nice and heavy lap quilt and will keep any kid warm.  (Oh and Tanya says it was like wrestling a Alligator to sew haha)

Tanya would also like me to announce the winner to her rag quilt giveaway (well rag quilt scissors giveaway) Jared pulled #19 out of the bowl.  Gene Black is the winner.  He seems to be lucky as he has won from us in the past.

Gene Black said...19

I have a pair of those "not strong enough" scissors....yeah I bought the wrong ones.

My favorite "weird" color combo is purple and green with some yellow accents. - actually if you think of a purple iris, it is not so weird.

Plus Plus

 The plus quilt is finished.  This quilt is out of the Reunion line by Sweetwater.  It has echo quilting in variegated thread.  It has a somewhat scrappy binding, with part red part blue chevrons. This is one of my favorite quilts.  I am glad we are giving it to one of our own kids. James (our 17 year old is its recipient).

Applique Flowers Quilt

This is the first pieced quilt that was started by Tanya.  Each row has three blocks with appliques and one with a fussy cut. The quilting done is echo quilting.  The fabric is from the Amelia line by Me & My Sisters for Moda.  The white is a white on white with a paisley print.

The back  is scrappy as well.

Here is a close up of a couple blocks from front. This is a Christmas gift for a sister in law that claims she is a girly girl. Hopefully it is not too girly.

Mom's Quilt

This quilt is made from a top that was done months ago.  Each block has 25 colors in it.  The back  is  the same white as the borders in the front.

Echo quilting was also done around edges.  The center has a x through each block.  The binding done is a black/rainbow stripe.

Here is a close up of one of the blocks.

This quilt is for my mom.

This cross-stitch magazine and floss was one from http://simplesew.blogspot.com/  Rebecca has claimed this prize and she has already picked the one she is going to try first.  She is a little slow at cross stitching but it is something she really enjoys.  Lucky for us Halloween is now a year away so she has plenty of time to make the one she picked.