Finish It Up Friday

I showed you photos of the wedding from last Saturday.  I will show you the quilt I made.  

I used the Newport Fantasy pattern (found on Craftsy).

 It was an easy pattern to make and went together pretty quickly for such a large quilt.

 This is the block, basically.    

Didn't that multi-color sashing work so well with these colors?

I had the label hand embroidered long before I had the quilt finished, LOL.  

I sewed it into the back.

I don't think I even took a photo of the back!

My good friend, Robin took some photos of the quilt once it was finished and this was me being silly, which she captured, haha.

Close up of the beautiful quilting done by Elizabeth Bowman.  Thanks, Liz!

I am sooo happy with the finished quilt!!!!

I was told her colors were "gray".  I added in some blues and blue grays.

I found the perfect gray print for the border.  It was different from the sashing multi.

All the triangles were different gray and blue solids.

I hope that they love it as much as I do!  I would make this pattern again too. 

 It would be a cute baby quilt.  

The triangles are large enough to put some cute fussy cut things in them.

One parting shot of Nicole and Jerry as they opened the quilt.

Have a great weekend and hope you all get some time to sew!

~XOP~

Finish It Friday

I just realized that I have several finishes from Christmas that I did not share!  

I tried to make something handmade for my family. 

 I got most of them.  

I couldn't show them before they were gifted so I forgot about them!  

I will share now.

First up, I did some pattern testing for Unicornhearts of this snake block.  

I made this little wall hanging to mimic my daughter's snake named Clove that is brown and gold.  The border is my own idea and I love how it came out!  

I hand quilted using pearl cotton, around the snake and I have to say I love it.  

I put those little hanging triangles in the upper corners so they could hang it on a wall too.  

  

I think she liked it.  

Although I'm not so sure about my SIL.  

I don't think he likes snakes much.

VERY last minute I decided I wanted to make pillow covers (which I put over pillow inserts). 

I wanted to make one of my daughter's cat and her boyfriend's dog.  

Max is a Border Collie. 

 I like to look for coloring book pages and translate those into applique.  

Isn't this dog so cute?  

I added some fabric that says Made with love, and a couple of cat fabrics to Max's pillow. 

 I quilted the front in a cross hatch design.

Next up was Mitch, the cat. 

 I used the same Made with love fabric on one of the squares and used several fabrics that I had used in her sister's wedding quilt.  

I quilted this with wavy lines. 

 I used Essex Yarn Dyed Linen, steel I think, for the backgrounds.

This was when I gifted these at Christmas time.

Same daughter asked me if I would make golf club covers. 

 HUH??  

 I guess I can do that.  

Then the fun of trying to find a pattern began.

  I finally found something both her boyfriend liked and I thought I could manage, but it was written by a guy and his directions were awful!  

Then said boyfriend wanted very specific colored fabric, tweed to be exact. 

 I took many photos at JAF and we finally agreed on one.  

Here they are, and he was very pleased with them!

Front

Back

I used fleece as the lining.  

She had asked us for a splatter guard and he thought it was hilarious to use it with his golf club cover like a hot mitt.  

smh.

Next up was a fish quilt for my husband.  

I still need some better photos of this quilt, but I was so very pleased with how it came out.

I used a golden retriever flannel for the backing.

I had it quilted with fishing flies.

That just left my son. 

 He was feeling a little left out as there was no gift for him.  

Technically he was not the only one as I did not make anything for my SIL,

 but the snake wallhanging was for both of them. 

 Little did my son know that he would be receiving his quilt the day after Christmas, for his birthday.  He has been asking and asking for a Detroit Sports Quilt so that's what I made. 

 He LOVES it!

I put gray Minky on the back.

While I realize that I have shown some of these at Christmas 

I did not specifically list them as finishes. 

 I would like to link up with Crazy Mom Quilts Finish It Friday and share all these finishes.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

~XOP~

Finish It Friday

Its FRIDAY!!!  I hope you all had a great short work week and first day of school.  

I don't have littles in school any longer but I still enjoy "back to school" time.  

I especially love that it signals apple orchard time!  

Honeycrisp should be available soon, YAY!!!

Now to what you and I have been finishing.  

Hmmmm, it has not been much of a finish kinda week at my place.  How about at yours?

I did manage to finish one more block for my Hallowedding quilt.  

The medium sized bat block!

The pattern is called Midnight Bite and this one was soooo much easier than the smaller one.

This was the half way point, phew!

Finally all finished!  

Now just the large one to work on.  

So while it is technically not an entire finish, it is one block closer.

I am not going to do a linky as no one seemed to link up anyway.

Let me know if this is something you want me to continue.

I will link up to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish It Up Friday.

What have you managed to finish this week?

~XOP~

Finish It Friday

I have no additional finishes from this week except for the oven mitts I have already shown. 

 I will show them again because a post without photos is not very much fun!

I will be taking the long weekend off but should be back next week.  

If you have anything that you have finished and want to share,

 please use the linky button and link up!

  

We all are encouraged by other people's finishes.  

Have a fun and safe Labor Day Weekend!!

~XOP~

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Finish It Friday

I don't have an entire project complete but 

I am concentrating on the things I am finishing for the Hallowedding quilt.  

Each block is it's own mini project (and they all take a lot of time so far!) 

 I managed to finish the one potion bottle last night.  

Can you even believe it took me 2 hours to make this little block?  

I love it though.  

I think the line fabric reminds me of smoke coming from the potion in the bottle.

If you would like to make one too the pattern is free here.

(www.fandominstitches.net)

 As usual my helper was a BIG help!

Now let's try this again.  

If you have a finish please link it up!

The linky button will be under my name and it is blue from inlinkz.

~XOP~

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