Lorelie, Etc.

The secret is out.  I love fabric.  One designer that I leap toward is Lorelie and her absolutely devine whimsical fabric choices.  At the annual Quilters/Craft Festival last January I came upon Lorelie's booth and I went wild with glee.  I not only purchased darling fabrics but I bought her two embroidery designs; one for cats, one for dogs. It is also no secret that I love to make lap quilts.  If I get into a quilt that is large, I am drawn to finish it but also drawn to the stacks of other projects I am anxious to start.  So, making smaller quilts is my bag.  Here is one of the sweet whimsical cats, embroideried in gold to coordinate with the fabrics I selected. 

Here you see a lap quilt featuring the embroidery cat designs.  So cute.

I do labels for the backs of all my quilts.

Here you see wonderful Lorelie florals mixed with embroidery designs from another embroidery CD with a Paris theme.  This small lap throw was gifted to my friend Cathy ... she and her husband went to Paris a few years back and she was delighted to get my Paris quilt.

Distorted photo but nonetheless it captures the cute whimsical and very colorful cats from the Lorelei line.  This quilt just left with my friend Jean and her husband Ed who were my visitors for a few days.

 I have a lot of Lorelei fabrics left to create with so stay tuned.  And if you did not see them before, please scroll down to the Card Camp at Pat's house a few weeks ago.  She made THE cutest greeting cards using some of the Lorelie fabrics.

Here is my first Dresden Plate quilt.  Lots of boo-boos on this because I applied the Dresden design to the white block and then sized the block 2 inches out from the Dresden point.  My bad... My friend Yvonne who did a Dresden said she sized the block and then put the design on it and that created a nice uniform block.  My mistake was not realizing that the points on each of the Dresden designs did not lay the same so 2 inches on one block was not 2 inches on another.  I had to resize some of the blocks and needless to say this quilt will remain here with me, boo-boos and all... and next time I will know what not to do.  Still, the colors are pretty, doncha think?

Arm Candy

A few months ago my friend Stayce asked if I could make something that would carry a diaper, a bag of baby wipes and would be something that could hook on a wrist for convenience sake.  I remember the days of having a small baby and the lugging that was done when going anywhere.  This is what I came up with.... I used some cute baby fabric, quilted it for sturdiness and attached a wrist loop.  Came out cute, I think, and Stayce was very pleased. 

It was soooooo simple.  I just used 2 long pieces of fabric with batting between, quilted the entire piece, folded it 3/4th of the way up, added the handle, sewed the sides, sewed on some velcro and it was done. 

That's it.... I am working on a brightly colored quilt with cats ... can't wait to finish it and show it off.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card Camp Fun#2

"September 5th and 6th ...two fun filled days at Pat's Card Camp in Sun City West.  It was our "usual crowd" with Pat, Lois (Queen Elizabeth), Judi and moi'....  I have been known to whip out about 80-90 cards at card camps but that is because I am totally prepared to slam dunk.  I have the folded card, and shoved inside are the papers, die cuts, sentiments.  Slam dunking with this process is a fast process.  This weekend, however, I lugged in tubs full of papers, die cuts, sentiments and I had to sit and select items to create a card. ... I wasn't very productive but we had such a great time.  Below you will see Lois and I standing, Judi is seated and that mess to the right of me is my mess. 

 Seated is Pat, standing ...Lois and Judi.  We all tease Lois...she looks like Queen Elizabeth.

 The three at the long work table.  Pat always has her house set up for wonderful creativity.

 I made about 23 slam dunk very simple cards, mostly "Thinking of You", "Happy Birthday", and "Sympathy"..with a few get well cards stuck in.

 Now onto the real fun stuff.  I do a lot of sewing (you don't say!) ... Pat saw my Lorelie fabrics and asked if she could have some to make cards from.  She loved the cuts so much, she bought some of her own fabrics.  Below are the cards.  They are fantastic.... she fussy cut the whimsical Lorelie ladies, glued the fabric to papers and then created the CA-UTEST cards evahhhhh.  Here they are...  The fabric images pop on the cards and she has added washi tape.

 More Lorelie ladies

 Lorelie ladies ....

That's all, my friends.  I thank you for stopping by.  I don't post on my blog like I did when I was active on the design teams but I hope that when I do post, it is something you like to see.