Coaster project

My daughter refinished a table. It turned out beautifully and she didn't have any coasters so I wanted to make her a set. These are cheap tiles from Lowes with paper and a clear dimensional sealer. I was browsing through my HUGE paper collection (kind of embarrassing) and I happened upon this paper. I don't know why but it caught my fancy. I guess it is the nostalgic feel.

I made a set of 6. The pattern tended to repeat when I cut the paper so here are three examples.

I like the fading in this paper, looks vintage to me. I did put some ink distressing along the edges (surprise).

I painted the back to make it look more finished then put felt circles to protect the furniture.

New Quilt Project

This is my new quilting project.  I have never tried this type of quilt and it took some concentration to figure out how to cut the fabric initially.  Once that was done it was pretty straight forward. You have to align the long fabric panels so when you cut the triangle they will match. This enables you to make a hexagon kaleidoscope.

This is what the fabric looks like. You look for the repeat in the pattern and then cut to that length. After this you stack the panels on top of one another and align them.



After they are all aligned you cut a bazillion triangles.  I cut 165 sets of 6 triangles.

Now the fun starts...you have 3 ways you can put the triangle sets together to make the kaleidoscopes.

As you can see....there is quite a variety of colors and shapes! I love the fabric my daughter picked for this project. The contrast will be stunning when I get it together.  When these are all done....they you put them on a design wall and play with the placement.  Very fun and exciting project.
The book I used is One-Block Wonders by Maxine Rosenthal.

Mallory's Quilt...All finished!

I had a picture of this quilt almost finished...now it is totally done!  Mallory came for a visit and we took a few pictures. It is a queen sized quilt. I hand quilted the WHOLE THING! I don't know what possessed me. 

The pattern is called court house steps.

Yarn Wreaths

My oldest daughter showed me some similar wreaths that are popular on Etsy. It took me quite a while to find the right size styrofoam wreath base.  I looked at every JoAnns and Michaels for several weeks until I finally found them. I guess "wreath making" is popular!  My daughter Mallory made the first wreath.  She is quite the Halloween fan.  She makes all sorts of different wreaths with flowers etc.  The second one is mine.  I think it needs something else but I had to finally put it aside today to ponder exactly what else I wanted to add.

Two different yarns are used on this with rolled flowers and of course alittle bling. I bought the cabachon on line.

Love this knobby yarn.

This is a spellbinders rose die.  I used white felt and colored it with ink.

Fun night at Sunny's House

Even though I am not a member of the group any longer I went to Sunny's house to play on Tuesday.  Very fun!  Such a wonderful group of women.  Here are the cards we made.

Isn't this a happy card?  The edge is a bookmark.

Love the vintage look of this card and the tone on tone.

I  guest designed this card.

P is for Postal

There were some great ideas in this swap. I really like the mail truck and I didn't even think of using an envelope.  Sunny and I must have been on the same wave length with the Paris theme.  I think I saw her rolodex before I made mine but I didn't remember it was a Paris theme and blue...but obviously I did in my subconscious! Copy catter!

Mine

Gretchen...isn't her little trademark cat stamp cute?

Jerri

Sunny

Deb

O is for "Outside"

I got all caught up with the rolodex swap!

Deb

Gretchen

Jerri

Me

Sunny