Thing 1 & Thing 2

We decided on the theme of Thing 1 & Thing 2 for the boys' birthday party for 2013.  When I first went looking for Dr. Seuss fabric, I could not find anything.  I decided to make up my own Thing 1 & Thing 2.

Thing 1 is for Keegan.  When I was drawing the "Things" on paper, Keegan selected the cartwheeling Thing as him.  It was pretty funny when Keegan was attempting to be in the same position with his limbs as his Thing 1 quilt.

I tried to do modern quilting on the quilt.  I have straight lines coming out of the blue hair.  I also did some pebble quilting in the body of the quilt.

Dillon is Thing 2.  Dillon doesn't really care about his quilt.  Dillon just rolls around on any fabric that is on the ground.  Dale & I tried to jump up in the air like Thing 2.  It hurt.  I guess we are just too old to jump like that.

I quilted intensely in various sized circles on Thing 2.  I really like the way it turned out.

Nancy Sasse of Four Winds Quilting hosted a modern quilt show at Grace Methodist Church November 2.  It was a non-judged show.  It was a just for the fun of it show.  The hangers of the show decided that since my quilts were so similar that they would hang on the same hanging frame.  I can see where they are coming from although it made me sad.  Of course, I wanted my quilts to show well.

These quilts were not finished in April for the birthday party.  Since I had been working on them for a while, I thought for sure they would have been one of my monthly 100 items.  Since they were finished in October and the Sunflower quilt was more quirky, these did not make the list.  I am still happy with these quilts.

Thing 1 & Thing 2 are just under 60" x 60".  I used scraps on the back.  The backs are wild.  I would have thought that I wouldn't have any fabric left that I have identified as backing fabric.  I still have a drawer left.  It is amazing how much fabric I really have!

Sunflower - #18 October

This was originally created as part of my Thread Fusion demo for longarm group in May.  I had intended on finishing it and turning it in for the Community Quilts challenge.  My sister was browsing through stuff that was in various stages of completion.  She said that she wanted this for herself.  When she put the other quilts back in the cabinet she put the Sunflower back in on top.  She told Keegan that she did that so the Sunflower would be completed first.

Denim stretches.  Oh my.  Since these pieces were intended for Community Quilts, I was using up denim that I have in my stash.  No matter what I tried, it seems like I got tucks in the top where I was quilting.  Messy.

I also used bias binding to make the Sunflower a circle.  And I made the binding the piped binding.  It was cool.  I had fun and was happy with the binding.  I considered the binding a success.

Brown Bag

This year I am participating in the day guild brown bag exchange.  I received chicken fabric.

 

 

One chicken panel:

A little bit of complementary fabric:

 

So far, my plan is Attic Windows.

Cars Curtains

Dale's boss gave him some Cars fabric.  I suspect she had purchased it as a decoration for an occasion.  Since the occasion has passed, she decided to give the fabric to me.  Since we put Cars wall decals in Keegan's room, I thought I could also use the Cars fabric in his room.  I created curtains.

 

 

I had some leftover fabric so I created 7 little squares.  I have no idea what they would be called or even for what they would be used.  Keegan likes them.  He packs them around all of the time.

Block Exchange

I created this block for the day guild block exchange.  I only needed to create one block this month since I presented.

The block was supposed to be scrappy.  Scrappy it is.

Halloween Mats

I originally created these small mats as part of my thread demo for longarm group.  It would have been nice to have them done by Halloween of this year but that did not happen.  I did get the binding hand sewn down the first week of October.

The spider web is quilted using the green Sunburst thread from Superior.  It is supposed to change color from white in the house to green in the sunlight.  I do believe this does happen.  But I don't think a spider web to be displayed at night during Halloween is the best use for this thread.  I will dream up some other project to use the Sunburst thread.  But this worked for my demo.

 

 

I used NiteLite thread from Superior to create this skull.  It glows in the dark!  It is really cool.  Keegan said he was scared of it when it first glowed but he is fine with it now.