Snowfall in the snow

 I took some pictures of Snowfall after the snowstorm last weekend. 

You can see the quilting better in these sunny pictures, but also the wrinkles from being folded up. It was hard to maneuver it around on the snow by myself. 

I guess I need to throw it in the dryer for a bit to shake the wrinkles out and take more pictures. It did look pretty on the snow. 

Piping Hot Topper

 I've designed a series of tabletopper/runner style quilts that I'm teaching monthly right now. The first one was the Piping Hot Topper. I chose it to be first because it's an all around fun design and easy to make using just about any fabrics. Holiday prints and other novelties can easily be fussy cut and used in the square in a square blocks. We had a lot of fun checking out everyone's fabrics. I gave them a precutting list, so some of them finished the top in class. It finishes at 30". 

If you click on the pictures, you can see each one had a theme. The pattern can be used in different ways. I made these pillows by using the pattern but differently.

This pillow uses the center of the pattern only.

This pillow uses the whole pattern except the last border. It showcases the cute gnomes in the square in a square blocks too.  I like patterns that can be adjusted to make other things. This one does it very easily. Now that I've taught the pattern in class, it is offered in my Quiltinjeanie Designs Etsy shop for purchase. The others will be offered there as well once I've taught the class. Next up in class next week is Spicy Jars. 

my Piping Hot Topper

Family times

December was a busy month and we had a couple of family gatherings. It was nice to get together with family again. I got to meet my new great nephew, Hayden when he came to visit from Wisconsin. What a cutie and had lots of smiles to share. I had made him a quilt using 2 different block patterns from Sew Fresh Quilts.  I love her animal patterns and she offers quilt patterns and also some of the cute blocks as stand alone block patterns. I used the Love Birds block, the Elephant block and some half square triangles to make a design of my own. The patterns are easy to download and follow. I've used several of her other patterns to make similarly adorable dog quilts. I'm working on some cats now.

 

Do you label your quilts? I try to and have started adding a baby pic to the label for these family quilts.

Elephant Walk

This really has nothing to do with anything, but doesn't Conrad look warm and comfy? I made this basket a few months ago, but it was empty the other day and he claimed it.

I have been quilting and finishing some quilts I designed and taught classes on when I started teaching classes about 16 years ago. I gifted one each to my sisters and brother. (He was gone when I took this picture. I also gave quilts to my daughters and son-in-law for Christmas. 

This is my daughter Wendy with her quilt. I need to nudge the others to take pix with theirs so I have them. 

I bet there were lots of quilts gifted over the holidays!