My Quilted Creations

Finally finished with the tshirt quilt!

2009-06-28T21:44:00.002-05:00

Man, this sure was a tiresome project. My machine was not happy about it at all, but I am finally finished with it. There are 56 squares in it to make it a generous queen, and the tshirts that I got were great. They really made it a fun quilt. The label and the backing color were both specified by my customer (a great, really understanding woman who trusted me- a complete stranger- with her son's memories... yikes). I think it turned out pretty nice, though, and I am looking forward to tackling the next one that comes my way!

Newest creation

2009-03-23T15:45:00.001-05:00

I have started working on another tshirt blanket and I am so excited! It only took about 3 hours to cut everything out which is a new record for me! There are 56 squares that I am using to make a queen size quilt, so it was a lot of cutting. Anyway, I am really looking forward to getting it sewn together and quilted so I can give it back to the lady I am making it for. Hopefully it will be a quick one! We will have to see how it goes though.

Lovely Girls in Bonnets

2009-03-07T17:01:00.005-06:00

Here is a quilt I just finished for a friend of mine. She gave me this quilt back in January and I finally got around to finishing it for her. She had the quilt all put together and the quilting inside the squares with the girls was all hand-done by her. I just did the colored squares/rectangles, and I added the color on the white border (it was all white when she gave it to me but the space was too big to quilt nicely, so I decided to add the color to break it up a little bit). She did it differently than I normally make quilts, so that added an extra challenge, but it was fun and now it is nice to finally see the finished product. Thank you for letting me do this for you L.A.!

First tshirt blanket for sale!

2008-11-02T14:45:00.003-06:00

Here is the first tshirt blanket I made for a customer. The girl I made it for was awesome and totally trusted me, which I really appreciated. This is what a blanket will look like if you order one, at least more like this than the other tshirt blanket I made. If you are interested just let me know.

Interested?

2008-10-04T18:14:00.004-05:00

So I have now decided, due to a lot of interest, to make and sell customized t-shirt blankets. I am in the process of making my second one for a girl whom I never met before she contacted me. I will post pictures of that one as soon as I am done, but it is pretty exciting! So if you are interested let me know and we will see if I can help you out with preserving your memories (and your t-shirts) with a special blanket you can have for years. Feel free to email me if you want more information or have any questions about anything (that includes the baby blankets as well!).

Girly baby blanket

2008-09-22T22:07:00.005-05:00

Hooray! I finished my first girly baby blanket! This one gave me tons of trouble in the beginning but it was totally worth it because it is so cute! If I have a little girl somewhere down the road she is going to for sure get a blanket just like this one. I don't have anyone to give this to, though, so if you are interested in purchasing it let me know. Or if you want one that is custom colors (only red hearts or something like that) I will be happy to make you one. This one costs $100. Enjoy!

For sale!

2008-08-23T09:08:00.007-05:00

Here is the first baby blanket I have made that is not for someone I know. It is hopefully going to be sold at an arts and crafts fair (or off this website?) for about $70. That sounds like a lot but it is all made by hand(or sewing machine as the case may be)and really good quality, so not only do the materials cost money but my time too (though if I charged for all my time I know for sure the blankets would be WAY too expensive). If you are interested let me know and I hope you enjoy looking through what I have made.

Branching out

2008-08-06T18:46:00.002-05:00

I've decided to branch out! With the help of my cousin I am going to start baby blankets for anyone to buy at Arts & Crafts fairs. I have no idea if people will even be interested but I figure I would give it a shot. She came to me with the idea and thought we could try to sell our stuff together (she sells way more things than I do and she is very talented. p.s. I am liked to her blog... the fiber one). We will see if people actually want them but if they do then that would make me pretty happy! So, if you are interested let me know because I am officially open for business!

T-Shirt blanket

2008-07-20T16:31:00.005-05:00

So, this blanket was quite a challenge. A friend of mine wanted to turn her old t-shirts into a blanket, something I have never done before, so she just brought them over, cut them out, and we started putting them together. It was really hard to get an exact fit so we had to improvise once we actually started sewing, but I think it turned out OK. I know how to do it next time much more quickly and easily, and it might look a little better. Luckily she was a great, not picky customer and we had fun working on it together.

Making dresses is hard!

2008-07-16T10:31:00.002-05:00

Ok, so making dresses and making quilts are nothing alike. I think I am pretty good at making quilts, so I decided to make myself a dress before a wedding I am going to in August. Well, this dress is giving me fits. I don't fit into one size on the pattern, so I have to fake it to get the size right. And even then it doesn't fit in random places (the inside of my shoulder, my theighs, etc.) and I don't really know how to fix it. Grr, it is so frustrating! The pattern claims it is easy but I just don't know what I am doing wrong. I wish the pattern wouldn't assume I already know what I am doing but explain everything in great detail. If I didn't have my mother-in-law's help I wouldn't have even made it this far. Anyway, hopefully I will finish it before the wedding I am going to or else I am just going to have to wear an old boring dress that I have had for a long time. Wish me luck! I will put a picture up once I get it figured out (with more help most likely...).

Easiest dress ever!

2008-04-23T22:02:00.003-05:00

So this could be the easiest dress ever made, but I still made it! All I did was sew the seem to make it the right size and sew the hem. Like I said, the easiest ever! It looks super cute on Holley though! Oh, and not only was it easy, but super cheap. Let me know if you want one ;-) (Sorry the picture is crooked...)

Blue and Yellow Quilt

2007-12-20T16:37:00.001-06:00

Yay! I finally finished the huge quilt I have been working on for about 6 months. My cousin gave me some fabric and asked me to make a quilt with what she had. I wasn't sure I was up to the task because I don't have all that much experience doing things like that. I took on the challenge, though, and I think it turned out really nice. And on top of that it was fun and I was able to try new things!

Second baby blanket

2007-12-02T14:13:00.000-06:00

Unfortunately, I didn't remember to take a picture of the second baby blanket I made, but it actually looks a lot like the other one that I already posted. The border fabric is rainbow stripes, and a couple of the other fabrics are different prints, but essentially the same colors. It is really cute and I like the way this one turned out, especially for it only taking me like 2 weeks to do (I wanted to get it done really quickly). Anyway, if I get some pictures I will put them up, but like I said, they aren't really needed!

The quilts are getting bigger!

2007-11-28T18:19:00.000-06:00

This was a collaboration. My cousin made the top of this quilt for her son, and she asked me to quilt it for her, so I can only take part of the credit. This took me forever, and I am not really sure why, but it was still fun. Enjoy!

First baby blanket

2007-11-27T13:51:00.000-06:00

I made this baby blanket for my sister's baby, born in April 2007. The pattern called for some strange fabrics, so I changed it a little to make it unique, and I have since made one almost identical to this one. I thought it was pretty special, especially since this was the first one I did on my own, without any help at all. And besides that, it is just so darn cute!

First quilt ever

2007-11-27T13:45:00.001-06:00

So, this is the first quilt I have ever made. While my husband (then my boyfriend) was away at college and I was still at home, his mother taught me how to make quilts. In fact, that was my birthday present from her. I had a lot of help on this blanket. I actually used it all freshman year in college, though, on the bed in my dorm room, which was pretty cool. So anyway, there you go.

Just started

2007-11-26T13:55:00.000-06:00

Hello everyone! I have just decided to put my quilts up online so I can kinda show them off. I will do more than that on here, though. I really want a place where I can write about some things that seem to happen in my life. If you don't care about those things I will make the titles of my blog very obvious, so you know whether it is a quilt I am posting or if it is a personal rant. Let me know what you think of my quilts as they go up and how I can improve them, since I am still new at this I would like some advice! Thanks so much and I hope you enjoy this, I will try to keep it interesting.