"Trees for Sale" by Pieces from my Heart

My friend Amy works at Bernina a material store, and she asked me if I could make a store sample for them. I was way excited, I didn't really have the time to do it, but thought it would be a fun little project, after a few late nights, it was finished! It was a way fun pattern to sew together. The material was in a Layer Cake by Moda, way cute fabrics! I am getting it quilted with a navy blue minky fabric on the back. I know these are crappy photos, and I am supposed to be a photographer, but I was in a hurry!

Jewelry Holder

Awhile back, my friend Jenna and I, we thought we were frame makers. We made a ton of these wood frames and never really used all of them. I saw the wire idea at Pier 1, but they hung photos on it and it was a little bigger.

Fun Aprons!

My room mate just got married, and I wanted to make her something. Awhile back she made me love Amy Butler fabrics, we looked at her website a lot to get ideas, so I wanted to do something with that fabric. My aunt Ginge, made these cute aprons, so I had to try it. I love how it turned out, I need to go get material for mine. I think it will be fun to have a sexy apron, not that I cook for anyone, one day I might.

Spring Fever Quilt

I finally finished the top of this quilt, I still need to ad the borders and get it quilted, but I am way excited about it, so I had to show it off!

Hair Bows

My friend Becki had a little baby girl this week and for her baby shower I wanted to make some cute flower bows. They were so fun to make, I just wish I had a little girl to make them for! I made some for my little neighbor girls, I hope their moms don't think I am weird, I just love making stuff.

New Office/Craft Room

Well this week has been a crappy week, so I needed to make some projects to work on. I couldn't make myself work on weddings, I think I would have had a nervous break down! :) So I worked on a million things this weekend. I started my weekend off with some quilting on Friday night. And Saturday I decided to transform the spare room. While at Home Depot and Lowes I kept getting ideas for projects. So I got some paint for my room and then some wood to make shadow boxes. I started the shadow boxes, and nothing went right. The board was warped, so it didn't connect very well and then when I was sanding the straight board and two of the pieces broke in half. So I intended to make 3-4 boxes and only got 2. I was a little disappointed. I still need to get them painted. After that I went home and began to prep my room to be painted. I got the first coat on Saturday night. Yes I know I had a very exciting weekend. Monday morning I finished painting. I am so impatient when I get finished, I rush too fast to peal off the blue tape to see what it really looks like.

Awhile back I tried to make all of my frames match, it all went good until I put the top coat on and it bubbled up the paint on all 10 frames. I was a little angry, so I bought some stripper stuff and never finished them, because I was frustrated. So while my paint was drying in my room I took off all of the paint on the frames. It was very messy and annoying! I finally finished and then re painted them. They are now drying waiting for a second coat and then they will be my Peru collage in the hallway. I am way excited to get my photos of Peru up.

So my room mate moved out last weekend because she got married. So I decided to turn the extra room into my office and craft area until I find someone else to move in. I painted it a light blue with a hint of teal and a little on the bright side. When I started with the trim, I hated it and was mad that I was going to have to go buy more paint. As soon as I got the first coat on I started to like it, and then the second coat, love it! I know the picture frames are empty, but I wanted to get them up to see what it would look like. I can't decide what photos to put in, I might have to wait for my trip to Italy and Greece to fill them in!

Above my desk I am going to make a big magnet board so that I can try to keep all of my stuff organized. To the side of it I am making some window boxes to put some of my old cameras in. I am pretty excited to get those finished up.

I am going to paint my sewing table a dark teal color, just to add some fun accent colors. I also need to find some red to go somewhere. I am excited to decorate.

Well that was my weekend, it occupied my mind for awhile and now I have to start working. Hopefully I can move on! I hate the dating game! Hahaha!

More Projects

I love buying and collecting material! I bought some more to add to my stacks and stacks of projects. One of the patterns is called "Spring Fever" by Buggy Barn. I am using bright retro fabric from Moda called Snippets by American Jane. I love the pattern, I bought this fabric for my birthday and right now I have about 15 squares done, a little more than half way done.

The other is black and white fabrics that I have been collecting for awhile. I am going to use another Buggy Barn pattern called "Crazy Stars."

I am kind of obsessed with buggy barn patterns right now, but I am starting to collect some fabrics and making up some patterns for some more modern quilts. I am in love with Amy Butler Fabrics. I want to make a few quilts out of some of her lines of fabric, I love them!

Roman Shades

These are the curtains I have been working on forever! I was afraid to mess them up, so I just never worked on them. I am pretty pleased with how they turned out. They are definitely not perfect, this was my first attempt on curtains, and I am not very good with using pins, I think they are a waste of time, so my curtains don't lay very flat They look really boring right now with plain white walls, but eventually I am going to paint the walls a light blue and put black and white photos all over. Around the room I am going to accent in red. Who knows when I will actually get to the point of decorating.
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Christmas Break Quilts that just got Finished from the Quilter

Crazy Squares (Buggy Barn)
This quilt is for my mom, but for Christmas in 2007. I had all of the squares cut out and one sewn together, and told her it would be coming later. I never worked on it during the year, so a couple weeks before Christmas in 2008 I started working on it. Hopefully I can have it to her all finished by her birthday this year. I am so bad with giving presents on time, I have good intentions. I made two of these, this is the first one to be quilted, the first one is my moms and the second one will be mine. I love the quilting on all of these, I can't stop looking at them! If any of you want the ladies name, I will give it to you. She is amazing!


Crazy Hearts (Buggy Barn)
This quilt is for my Step Mom, I gave her the top part for Christmas. I started this quilt less than a week before Christmas. I stayed up all night for that week, but it was well worth it. I was able to listen to all of the Women's Conference, it was great, I learned a ton! I love the quilting on this one!



I got the material for this quilt when I graduated from High School, so I have been working on this quilt for like 5 years. I didn't really like it when I was working on it, so I just put it aside. I finished the top a couple of years ago and then just never took it to the quilter. I love the quilting job on this, the lady did an amazing job. I still need to do the bindings on these quilts, but I hate that part, so we will see how long it takes to finish it all of the way.

Malta, Idaho

These are the projects that I will be working on in the next few days, so hopefully I can post some photos of completed quilt tops when I get back!

Circle Quilt

I don't know the actual name of this quilt, but my cousin Ashley and I have been quilting together lately. This is the pattern that she is working on, and I loved it, but I didn't want to have to buy more fabric, because I have enough projects for now. I have this material that I found in my moms closet, so it is all really old, and some of it is really ugly. But I am really excited to see how it turns out. After you sew the three circles onto the square you cut it in fourths and then sew it together again. Ashley's is really cute, she used a lot of bright random fabrics and it looks great. I tried to stay with pastel blues and pinks, because that is what I had.

Crazy Square

This pattern was so frustrating at first, so it sat in my room for a lot of months before I actually started it up again. I ended up making two, the first one was intended for my mom for Christmas last year, and then I finally finished the top for Christmas of 2008, now it is at the quilters and it will hopefully be done for her soon. I had a lot of extra fabric, and I really liked how it turned out, so I made one for myself.

Bento Box

This quilt is also from scraps from another quilt. My aunt Karen gave me this pattern, and I like it a lot, it uses up all of those random strips.

HIdden Nine Patch

I love nine patches, I did one a couple of years ago that I just love. After I made the quilt for my step mom, there were a lot of strips left over, and I hate throwing material away. So with all of the scraps I have put together these hidden nine patches. You first make regular nine patch squares and then you cut it into fourths rearrange and then sew it back together. My pieces are a little too small, but that is what I had from my scraps. The square ended up being about 5 1/2 inches. Eventually I will put a sashing in between the blocks.

Crazy Heart Pattern

I love this pattern, I just finished one for my step mom and it is so cute. I will post photos as soon as I get it back from the quilter. I started one for my self, at first I really loved the colors and fabrics, it was in a bundle pack at Jo-Ann's once I started working on it, I haven't liked it that much, but usually I don't like them until they are done so we will have to see. I put one of the photos of all of the pieces, it is crazy to cut up, but I put pennies on all of the stacks to keep it in order.