Playing Catch-up by Sherry

OK. I really can't catch you all up since i last posted.  I apparently am a very bad blogger.  But finally here I am again.  2013 has been keeping me really busy.  Phil and I have moved two of our children and their families to new houses, not far from where they were living, but still, a lot of work.  I have decided I am never moving, ever, i am leaving instructions just to bury me right here, at home, cover me with fabric and I'll be quite content.  But everyone is getting settled in and happy with their new digs.  In the previous post, Kay showed you the doll quilts she made Kendall and Caroline, my granddaughters for their dolls. Here's a picture of my granddaughter with her new doll quilt.

Kendall loved her doll quilt. Purple is her new favorite color.  

I spent February taking a picture every day from a list I found on line and posted them on facebook. It was fun, but a lot of pressure .  It was also hard some days to get it done and to find a suitable picture to fit the prompt. I'd like to do it again sometime, maybe this summer.  I do have some favorite ones to share.

Something that starts with E:  Edgar Von Soosten, my dad

Walking:  two of my little guys going down the hall at school

Playing:  Gavin having a great time with the marble run.

Love:  Jesus died for us because he loves us.

Quiet:  road in front of our house after our first snowstorm. 

. Well, that's all for now.  you're caught up with me through the end of Feb.  March is a whole "nother post.  I promise to try to get it done sometime in April.  Oh check out our other blog, its listed on the right,  I have to update it to but may be another day.  We have a new exciting project to share and its a BIG one.  Later!

Kay's Doll Quilt

I recently made some doll quilts for my nieces Kendall and Caroline.  They both like purple so I made their quilts exactly the same.  I used a churn dash pattern and made them each 24" by 24" square.  I have been working on them since November and just finished them today.  I have had a focus problem and have not been able to get any of my sewing projects finished, so I was glad I finally finished something! 

Charlotte's 1st birthday, her quilt and a little bit of sunflower (posted by Lorri)

Charlotte turned one this weekend. The year has gone so fast.

Playing at grandma's house

She sure does like Ed

Charlotte with her mom and dad AND her new quilt

Charlotte's new quilt was made by her Great Aunt Kay.  The colors are so pretty.  Charlotte was more interested in looking at her quilt than getting her picture taken.

Charlotte Fay with Great Grandma Von Soosten

A whole lap full of babies!  Grandma Lorri with Charlotte Fay (1 year old) and Vada Catherine (10 months)

Vada sitting on her Papa Mark's lap

And, after our recent snow, here is a bit of sunshine:

I saw this sunflower quilted project on Pinterest.  It makes a cheery statement to our front entryway.

 

I also learned a new skill with this project. 

Here is a close up of what I learned.  The round quilting in the sunflower center is called pebbles.  I found a nice tutorial that show some pictures.

Kay's Daffodil's and Snow

Yesterday I picked these daffodils because they were about to bloom and I knew they wouldn't make it through the snow storm.  Look at them now!  Spring is on the way!  With all the bad weather the last couple of weeks I was beginning to wonder.  Here are some snow pictures from my back yard. 

Grandpa  Huning's windmill.  It keeps falling apart but Jeff and one of  his buddies put it back together a couple of times. 

I hope winter ends soon, I am ready for Spring.!

Kay's Star Quilt

This star quilt is made from leftover star blocks from a quilt I made several years ago.  As usual I cut out way too many blocks so even though I used a bunch of them in this quilt I still have a bunch more star blocks.  I think that the original quilt was a star quilt that I made for Kristy but I'm not sure.   The stars are really a brighter yellow than it appears in this photo.  It was to intended to be used as a lap quilt but I got carried away and it is a little big for a lap quilt.  These colors are some of my favorite colors to work with.  As usual Joan Westhoff did an excellent on the quilting.  I tried to get a picture of some of the quilting she did.  She quilted stars in the red and blue blocks.  It really looks nice.  I am thinking about giving it to the ladies at our church.  They can use it for a fund raiser or they can give it away.  I know that they will find a good home for it! 

New quilt and whatnot (posted by Lorri)

We got a new sofa a couple of months ago.  Of course this meant we needed a new quilt for the sofa.  My hubby was kind enough to test drive the finished quilt this weekend.

I used fall colors for this cozy quilt.  I'm pretty sure he was watching the golf channel at this point. 
 

Naturally, I had to make pillows also.  I like the feather pillow inserts from Hancocks.  Makes for a nice soft pillow.

And because I am real glutton for punishment, I made the piping for the pillows from the leftover quilt binding.  I haven't worked with piping for awhile, so a few choice words flew from my mouth.

 

All done, now what to make next?

Kay's Quilts

A few years ago I made some art quilts for the Pittsburg Art Walk.  I mean I attempted to make art quilts.  I was encouraged to make these by my daughter because she wants me to make art quilts.  I'm not much of a artist but I gave it a try. I made the flowers and leaves by quilting  them on my machine and then I applied them to to the background.  It  made them have an 3-D effect.  The larger yellow and blue one I appliqued blue pieces of material and then quilted leaves and vines,  I made little squares of embroidered flowers and animals and appliqued them on the bottom.. 

This one I made out of scraps from leftover quilts projects.  I quilted it on my sewing machine with navy thread.  I sewed different things on the bottom to finish it out.  I bought beads and put things I found around the house - Candy wrappers, things I got in the mail, parts of old earrings,  I also crocheted itsy bitsy little doilies and threaded them on crochet thread and sewed them to the bottom. 

I took these pictures out to the farm and had Dad help me with these pictures.  We were going to photgraph them on the old chicken house but it was too windy, so Dad suggested that we go over to the barn out of the wind and take pictures.  I think they look pretty good on the old barn.  The red, black and white quilt is some embroidered blocks that I made of wildflowers in baskets.  I don't think these quilts are really art quilts but I tried!