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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

American Tribute Fat Quarter Bundle Giveaway!

Below is copied from favequilts.com

American Tribute Fat Quarter Bundle Giveaway

American Tribute
Gifted by Windham Fabrics
www.windhamfabrics.net
Reviewed by Jessica Nichols, Editor of FaveQuilts.com

The American Tribute fabric collection from Windham Fabrics features 30 fabrics that you'll love to use in your patriotic quilts. Whether you're making a quilt to honor a service member for Memorial Day or a decoration for the 4th ofJuly, you'll find the fabrics you need in this collection. From small prints featuring stars and stripes to large prints with national symbols like eagles, American flags, and U.S. badges, this collection has every fabric you could want for a patriotic project.
As you might expect, the American Tribute Collection comes only in shades of red, white, and blue, with each of these colors serving as background to a wide variety of prints, many of which fall into distinct families. The collection offers almost more star prints than you can count. A simple gold star pattern comes in both navy and bright red, while a playful pattern of white star outlines overlapping each other in small clusters comes in navy, red, and a crisp, bright blue as well. Another star print family features monochromatic red and white prints in which stars of varying shades overlap each other and a navy print with red, white, and blue stars in the same pattern. Yet another print family features a lattice design interspersed with tiny stars. Gold on navy and red on antique white are the perfect color combinations for this subtle print. It contrasts sharply with the larger, brighter white-and-red and navy-and-white prints that also feature a lattice of stars. In matching navy and antique white prints, white and red stars are accented with chevrons reminiscent of military badges. More classic prints include a pattern of lines of stars separated by colored stripes and a pattern of large stars in two colors printed in simple rows of alternating colored stars. A lone star print, which seems to have no family, features subtle tan star outlines in varying sizes against an antique white background.

Aside from the numerous star prints, the American Tribute collection also offers several prints featuring U.S. badges or eagles interspersed with words like "honor," "glory," and "strength." The collection also features a pattern of flying eagles and American flags against a bright red background. A classic motif of two crossed American flags also appears scattered across navy and white backgrounds in two of the fabrics. Two of the more modern prints, in red and white, consist of patriotic words like "valor," "freedom," and "peace" printed in different fonts and separated by stars. The most unique designs in the collection are one fabric striped with white, red, and navy and shaded to show texture and another printed with red and blue stars, American flags, maps of the United States, and duo-tone prints of national monuments.

A patriotic quilter can't go wrong with the fabrics in the American Tribute collection. The variety of prints and styles in this collection ensure you'll be using these fabrics in all of your patriotic projects. Moreover, a portion of the sales of American Tribute fabrics are donated to the Wounded Warrior Project in order to further honor U.S. service members.


This give away is for one fat quarter bundle of American Tribute (30 fat quarters) to one lucky winner. 

For complete instructions and to enter for a chance to win this prize, click on...

Monday, April 2, 2012

KoolBeenz / Wish Upon A Quilt: Give-Away #29

Hey everyone...there's a Give-Away taking place over on the KoolBeenz blog!
Wish Upon a Quilt is this week's sponsor and this is their 1st GiveAway on KoolBeenz's blog!  Wish Upon a Quilt is located in North Raleigh, NC close to the Brier Creek Shopping Center.  It's an awesome place to shop where you can get pretty much anything you need:  Fat Quarter bundles, Jelly Rolls, Yardage, Patterns, Sewing Supplies, etc.  They have alot to choose from! 

Head on over and check it out for your chance to win an 8 Fat Quarter Pack of Solids!
(Retail Value of about $20 USD)

This give-away will run for a work week from (Sat) 3-31 thru (Sat) 4-7 @ midnight EST.


Sunday, April 1, 2012

Another Pick-a-Pocket Purse

I love making these purses!  Thanks to allpeoplequilt.com for putting the pattern on their website!
This pattern was designed by Monica Solorio-Snow of Happy Zombie.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

I recently made this lap quilt for a customer and didn't have a chance to post the pictures until now...


All materials used in this quilt were purchased from
JoAnn Fabrics & Crafts
Plover, WI

For Sale:

Bedspread / Quilt - $300 USD


I made the quilt, but I outsourced the long-arm machine quilting to
Quilts & Quilting, Princeton, WI.


Two different views of the back...
Depending on where the sun was at :o)

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Fire Fighter's Blanket...

This blanket was a special request from a friend of mine... I used an actual American Flag purchased from Kmart in Ripon, WI as the background!


I printed letters on paper, cut them out, and used them as my templates for the orange & black fabric letters, which I then appliqued onto the top of the quilt.  High loft batting was used for a nice thick finished quilt.  The fire fighter uniform was made from fabric that was cut out to look like a uniform.  Silver satin was used for the reflective stripes in the uniform.

Harley Throw Pillows

Made from scraps of Harley Davidson fabric I purchased on eBay...the picture shows the back of the pillow on the left and the front of the pillow on the right...


These are one-of-a-kind pillows!
I pieced together scraps of remnant fabric pieces...quilting the top for added depth.

Handbags, Purses & Totes...

It's been awhile since I've been able to post something new.  Life has been hectic, and I haven't had the time to sew nor a place to sew since my recent, temporary move to my parents' home.  Lot's has been happening, but for now, my sewing is limited so I don't have a lot of new things to post.  However, I will post some pictures of the bags I made over the holiday season for a few of my customer orders.  All my patterns are packed away in a tub in storage right now, so unfortunately I am unable to share with you the patterns for the following bags that I have pictured...








Monday, December 5, 2011

Boutique Pillow Covers

I have really gotten into making pillows lately.  I just love making them!  Especially quilted and patchwork pillows.  Here are a few recent ones that I made...

The pattern for these two Boutique Pillows is from the Annie's Attic Creative Quilters Fabric Club, Girly Girl Fabric Collection Monthly Kit.  The pillow with the pink flower, these fabrics came with the kit.  The pillow with the green flower, the fabrics were from my stash.  Pink and white trims were also from my stash.



SNOWFLAKES PILLOW
Pattern for this pillow can be found in the follow book:
Better Homes and Gardens
Quilt-Lovers' Favorites
from
American Patchwork & Quilting
Volume 11





As shown here, I put a zipper on the pillow cover and filled it with pillow stuffing.

This last picture shows the pillow at an angle so you can see the quilted/raised look of the pillow.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Preparing for the Holidays - Pillows & Stockings, Tree Skirts & Baby Bibs!

I've been working on some Christmas projects and I've got a couple of them done.  I still have more to go and will add more photos as I complete them, but for starters, here's the few things I've completed so far...
TWINKLE TOES
Pattern for this Stocking can be found in the following magazine:
McCall's Quilting
November/December 2011

Giant Thomas the Tank Engine Stocking

Teddy Bear Stocking

Jesus Birth Stocking

Teddy Bear Holiday Bibs

Jesus Birth Tree Skirt

Monday, November 28, 2011

A Giraffe for Edward

Recently I was partaking in a fun International swap and the person I sent to has a little boy who loves giraffes and was in need of a new blanket.  So here's what I made for him...

 I used a high loft batting for the fill, and yarn tied the quilt together after appliqueing the top of the quilt and putting the layers together.
I used a blue corduroy fabric for the top of the quilt and an animal print cotton for the back.
The giraffe is made from flannel, and the rest of the appliqued pieces are cotton.
There is no pattern for this.  It is a one and only Gina's Custom Creations original.
However, I did use a pattern to make the giraffe silhouette.
Giraffe silhouette pattern is from the quilt pattern:
"Central Park" by Kate Spain / Moda

You can see the post my swap partner made about it on her blog...



Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Mini Treat Bags

One of my favorite websites to visit frequently is AllPeopleQuilt.com.  They always have great ideas and fun patterns.  And they also have contests once in awhile. 
They currently have the BERNINA Fall Bag Contest going on until November 30th, 2011.  The pattern is a free download from their site, and I've been having so much fun with it!  It's a great little bag to make with leftover fabrics from other projects, and they make perfect treat sacks for kids' parties, or even gift bags for small items!
Here are a few pictures of the mini bags I made just this week...



 I made the Heroes and Mickey bags slightly larger to accomodate
for the images on the fronts of the bags.


Saturday, October 15, 2011

Scrappy Monet Lap Quilt

Just a small lap quilt I made from leftover Monet fabric from a previous Monet quilt.  Unfortunately I made a big "Oops" when sewing the blocks together though.  I have no idea how I overlooked this, but notice the layout of the blocks?  Well, they are not in the order they were when I laid them out prior to sewing them together.  I am so disgusted with myself for not noticing this until it was too late.  Ah well...at least the fabrics are pretty!  :o/

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Simply Girly...

Just a simple throw I made from fabric a friend of mine bought.
She will be giving it as a gift to a relative of hers.

Made from two cotton printed fabrics and pink trim.
No filler or batting used.
Very simple and fun to make!

"Nosegay" Quilt Block

Nose-Gay:
(nzg)
noun
A small bunch of flowers; posy

"Nosegay"
Quilt Block
Made: Oct. 2011
Pattern from: 501 Quilt Blocks: A Treasury of Patterns for Patchwork and Applique