My Poor Neglected Blog

Hi friends!  I am so sorry that I have not posted in awhile. 

 Sometimes life just gets busy.  

I have not been in the mood to sew of late so there has not been much to show. 

 I know I talk about my life too but nothing very exciting has been happening there either, LOL.

I needed to make a pillow cover for my friend, Traci's, quilt shop (Something Quilty). 

 I made the Tribute Star quilt for her as a shop sample and this was made from the leftovers. 

I finally got my butt in gear and did it this past weekend. 

 I used a tutorial by my friend, Pam Gavin to put a zipper with a cover, in the back.  I

 love how the cover came out!  

This is the front.  

This is the back and you can see the zipper cover.

LOOK, you can see the zipper I put in.  

It was a magical day when Pam had us use our #20 foot to put in the zipper too.  

SO. MUCH. EASIER!  

My friend, Liz, quilted the front to match the quilt.  

I machine sewed the binding down too so I could finish it more quickly.  

I'm hoping Traci likes both the quilt and the pillow cover!

I was also working on my DNA for the science quilt and Cole felt he needed to help me.

I managed to get the entire block made.  

I have a few more blocks to go, but progress is being made!  

Isn't this block SO cool???

I found that background fabric recently and I think it looks like DNA too.

 Pattern is by Mary (Quilt Genius) if you need to make your own DNA block.

I need to make more blocks for this science quilt so trying to get in the mood to work on them.

Should I do the glassware or the bunnies next? 

 What do you think?  

The glassware is a pattern by Mary while I am using the 

Love, Hoppingotn pattern by Violet Craft for my bunnies.

Have a wonderful day!

~XOP~

A Little DNA

I decided to get back to working on my science quilt. 

I am planning on gifting this so I need to get it finished.  

The DNA piece looks like the block with the most teeny pieces so I decided to tackle it first.  

My friend Mary of Quilt Genius is the designer of these amazing patterns. 

 I decided to make the neucleotides in Blue-Yellow and Green-White.  

(to show ATGC).  

I did this much on Friday night after work.

So yesterday I got the entire DNA strand finished.  

I still need to put it in the frame and make the desk but the hard part is now finished!

I have a class to learn more about my embroidery module on Wednesday.

I'm so uncomfortable with this, so need to get into it more.

Leaving for a quilt retreat on Thursday at Creative Passions with 2 of my friends.

I will take pictures this time and tell you all about it when I get back.

Have a great week friends!

~XOP~