Quilt projects I am working on

I am working on this quilt...it takes time to place the pieces in the right places.

This is what I did with some black and white 5" squares I had.  You can see the
white wonky stars but if you look closely, you can see the dark ones too!
I can not wait to have quilt this one!
Let me know what you think!

Scrap Happy

Hi,
Last weekend I visited an aunt that I have not seen for quite a while.  She makes beautiful quilts...makes mine look like Crap compared to her work.  She gave me a big bag of scraps.  I can not wait to go through them to sort out and see what I can use for another quilt.
I hope everyone has a Happy 2011.
beebee

Merry Christmas

fabric giveaway

I just visited a new blog...well new to me anyway!  She is going to do a fabric giveaway. 
Here is the site
http://www.retromummy.blogspot.com/
Check it out!

Quilt Binding complete!

Over the last week I put the binding on:
2 queen sized quilts,  1 King sized quilt, 3 baby quilts, and 2 lap quilts!
Yea!!!! now I feel I can finally start a new project.  Oh, I still have 5 quilt tops to put on the quilting frame but I will get to that soon enough!
I am also trying to arrange my material closet.  I am going to try to sort by color I guess! 

Pain Filled Day

For some reason I am in lots of pain today.  My ankles, knees, hands, wrists  and shoulders......this RA is rough but I will not let keep me from living.  I have to keep moving.   The weather her is cool and damp.   On cool, dry days I am much better.  I will be taking my Humira shot today (#5).  I think it is helping but today is really bad.   I guess I will have days like this.
I want to spend a little time sewing this afternoon...my hands may not be so swollen then. I hope everyone had a great day.

Bind that quilt

I have several quilts that need binding!  I have decided that I will not start another project until they are all fininshed. I have about 4 more to do.   I find this step in the quilting process to be my least favorite thing to do. Anyone feel the same way? 

I woke up very stiff this morning...my knees and elbows were hurting a lot.  I guess it is the change in the weather.  I am much better this afternoon.  Sitting at  my sewing machine helps me focus on something else besides the pain!  My hands are very swollen too!  I determined not to let it stop me from doing the things I need to do. 

New URL for my blog

the new URL for this blog is:
http://beebeesquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/

I hope everyone can still find me.  The other URL was too hard for me to remember when I wanted to tell friends about it.  This way the URL matches the name of the Blog. 

I have enjoyed keeping track of all the other blogs on my page.  I have made some wonderful, talented, quilting friends!

I am even in a Goat Herding group...imagine that!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Check out these scraps!

I made three more of the 10"  squares last night and went to bed.  This morning when I opened my eyes I thought?????why not make them half solid and half scrappy and then I will have enough to make a small quilt.  This playing with scraps thing is  addicting!

Here is a photo of what the quilt will look like once I sew them all together!
What do you think?

Neat Huh?  I love this way of making blocks. It is fun.

Working with scraps!

I decided to try something different.  I went to a quilt shop in Houma.  I bought a $3 bag of scraps...yes, scraps...A few weeks ago I gave someone a big black garbage bag full of scraps.  Who knew I would want to try this.  It was a nice assortment of pieces.  Here they are!

I pressed the pieces and sorted them by color and then sat at  my sewing machine.  This is what I ended up with after about an hour and a half.  I have 9 very interesting 10 inch squares.  I plan to connect the with a dark fabric and make a quilt with them.  This was fun to do. 

Sisterhood of the Traveling Goats

Here is a photo of Honey, my sweet little goat.  She will be visiting Suzanne, then Sue, then Jan and then home to me!  She will visit, Iowa, Western Australia, and Alabama.  I can not wait for her to return home so I can see what she had been up to while traveling!

another attempt at making a purse

This was a fun project.  I used 3 fat quarters for the exterior of the purse and some cotton fabric I had in my stash to make the lining.  I need to learn how to put in a big snap or one of those magnetic closers . I used white velcro. It keeps the purse closed but it does not look so great.

My attempt to follow a pattern from a quilting magazine!

I found this pattern several months ago in a quilt magazine. I just had to try it.  Looks a lot harder to do than it really was.  It was a neat pattern to follow.  I usually make up my own stuff but I liked this one so I went for it.  I added strips on each side to make it big enough for  a King size bed. 
What do you think?

What do you do with a bunch of 4 inch squares?

I was going through my fabric closet and found a pile of 4 inch squares that I had bought on EBay several years ago.   I figured it was time to use them.  These two quilts fit on a queen sized bed.  They came out pretty good I think.  All I have left to do is finish the binding on them.  They were fun to make!

thrift store treasures (quilt tops)

I found this quilt top at a local thrift store...I paid $8 dollars for it.  It is very large, it is wide enough to hang over 24 inches off each side of my king size bed .  All - ALL-  ALL- hand pieced. It must have come from a quilt shop that did quilting classes and they put all of their blocks together.  An incredible find.  I machine quilted it and we use it on our bed in the winter.   I would have preferred to hand quilt it but my hand quilting days are over. .Several years ago I had an accident while on a sail boat in the middle of the British Virgin Islands and I broke, actually crushed my right elbow.  I have 3 plates and 17 screws holding the arm together and my hand and wrist can not turn like they used to.  Oh well, I can at least machine quilt the tops I make and find. 

 Here is another great thrift store find.  All hand pieced.  Beautiful. It fits on the queen sized bed in our guest room.  I machine quilted it with a butterfly design. It came out really nice.  Oh, and this one cost me $6.00.  I just could not pass it up.  Every piece is no larger than 2 inches square!  Quite impressive on a bed.

I found this one at a thrift store too.  Paid $5 for it.  All hand pieced also.  I machine quilted it.  It fits nicely on a twin bed.  The fabrics are all vintage. It is really beautiful..I put an off white fabric on the back of all three of these great quilts.

a butterfly quilt

I made this butterfly quilt for my friend that lives in Colorado Springs, CO.  The butterflies  are flying north but one of the butterflies is flying south.  A   hint that I would love for her to move back here to Louisiana.

my grandbabies

These are my baby boys.  They are both 2 years old.  Alden is 5 months older! We love having these babies here with us as often as we can.  We take care of Reed everyday, his mom is a teacher.  We try to have Alden here at least once a week so they can play together.  They are so funny to watch.  Alden is on the left and Reed is on the right.  Hope you like the picture! 

Cloth diapers

A friend of mine wanted to use cloth diapers when she takes care of her grandbaby.  I made a few for her.  She loves them.  I thought I would post  a couple of pictures. I think they are so cute!

cat quilt

here is a photo of my cousin's quilt that I quilted.