A Boy's Story

I have the privilege to work at The Gathering Place, located just a few short minutes from my home.
I have learned MOUNTAINS of information dealing with sewing.

I only work a few times a month, but being surrounded by all the other wonderfully talented women that work there has been awesome.

Another perk, that comes with the job is doing store quilts to display at the shoppe.
I came across "A Boy's Story" pattern book a while ago and just had to have the shoppe owner carry it in the shoppe


With being the one to find the cute pattern....all the way from Australia {!} ;)
I was the one that was in charge of picking out the material and making a quilt out of it! :)

Reveal time:

I spent ALOT of hours putting together this quilt!

Each block took on average 2-3 hours to complete. EACH BLOCK!

All the applique is hand turned, so there are no raw edges exposed. Then you add in the embroidery in most of the blocks. I put alot of time into this.

But after seeing the finished quilt, it was worth it.


A closer look at each block:

Planet Zark:

Sailboat, complete with an anchor:


Airplane:


Castle:


Train:


Mr. Robot:


Fishes in the sea:


Kite:

Cute little puppy:

I think the quilting on each quilt completes it. The {super} talented Bonnie at the shoppe quilted it for me and she did an amazing job! Look closely to the quilting around the robot! Then look at the cute sun around the dog block. You can't really tell in the pictures, but each block that has anything dealing with water, the quilting is wavy like waves! Fun huh?!??!

Of course, I LOVE minky material so the back is a fun turquoise/blue minky dot. Perfect for cuddling that sweet baby boy in. :)

I. Am. In. Love.


Now to move on to my next project.....

Craft Fair

Well, it has come and gone and I am exhausted!
The night before the big day I only got 3 hours of sleep and after a (long) full day of standing in my booth, I was in bed at 9 and didn't get out until 9 this morning!

Here are some pictures of my booth. I decided Wednesday morning to make some receiving blankets (11!!) and then Thursday afternoon I was making some more tutu's!
As soon as we got to the school to set up I was VERY surprised by how small an 8x10 booth is! :)
After all the totes, boxes, table, hutch, bench, clothes and quilt rack and all 4 pegboard panels were hauled in I was starting to get worried that I had too much! :)

It all turned out, and I owe a HUGE thanks to my dear friend Lindsay for helping us haul all the goodies inside and help me set up. I couldn't have done it without her!
My sister and Lindsay helped me out in the booth the day of and I have to say thanks to them again!

The one person that really really needs a big shout out is the hubby. He put up with me through all this. He built my peg walls, then had to take them apart, shorten them and put them back together! AND THEN he was there for the hauling in and taking down of all my stuff. Thanks Troy! Love ya!

Overall, I had a great experience and learned alot. Most likely I will do it again, but maybe I will KNOW for sure in a couple weeks after I get some much needed down time. :)

The booth

My trusty hutch. This hutch use to be at my parents while I was growing up. Shortly after Troy and I moved into our house, it was given to me. It has sat in our garage until this week. It worked out great for the booth. :) Thanks Mom! Notice the skirt on the mannequin??? That was my best custom order request. The one on display was Taylor's so it wasn't for sale. If it was it would have sold fast.....

All of my many skirts, dresses and blessing dresses.

The wall with all the hair bows. There would have been more on the wall, but we ran out of pegs so the table had a lot of baskets holding bows. The table also held all the cute little ties for the boys. The diaper envelopes were a big seller too.

The back wall. Those little capes went really fast. Super man on one side and batman on the other??? How could one resist??? I also had pink/purple with princess crowns for the girls.


Ahhhh, the receiving blankets I decided to make last minute. Along with my purses. I love that bench. We have A LOT of pictures with that as a photo prop and holding my stuff.

Burp rags in the basket. And the top seller of the day, the crayon wallets. Those went so fast!
Note to self: do A LOT MORE next time :)

Quilts & skirts
The little pillows you see hanging, were tooth fairy pillows.

The front shot of the quilts. The second one down was touched by so many people it was crazy!
I was a little surprised it took until the end of the day to finally sell.

That's the tour of my booth. All the things that didn't sell will be listed in my etsy store soon!

Quilt for Jessie Jayne

My niece (she is two years younger than me) just had her {third} baby yesterday!

We had {BOTH} of our first two kids just months apart from each other, but I wasn't getting back on the train for baby #3 (not yet anyway! LOL)


I saw {this} baby quilt awhile back and I just knew that I had to make this for her baby girl, Jessie Jayne (LOVE the middle name! ;P) Right down to using the same fabric line!

I wish I could have gotten a better picture of the quilting I did....I am totally in LOVE with my quilting frame....



The back, I just did a simple add in piece, but still turned out cute.

Congrats on Baby Jessie Jayne, Matt & Ashley! Can't wait to meet her in person!

Fabric: Aviary By 3 Sisters

Simplicity Quilt

{SOLD}

This adorable quilt was the first (of many) that I made in preparation for the craft fair.

The day I took it into the quilter's, I was stopped by a young Mom wanting an opinion on some fabric. I am no pro.


I gave my two cents, but it went farther. The truth was revealed that the quilt I was holding in my hands was going to be sold, so she was so kind and bought it from me right then!


It's going in the mail tomorrow (she came down from the Boise area to the {WONDERFUL} "Gathering Place" shop here in town) so it's being sent her way.

I {LOVED} how it turned out....







Fabric: Simplicity by 3 Sisters
Pattern: Baby Mine by Thimble Blossoms

A Baby Quilt

I made a baby quilt for my friend's little girl.
I was going to try to do the quilting myself, but I REALLY hate working with the minky material (which is on the back of the quilt) because it is so stretchy. So I took it into my local quilting shop.

It took 2 months to get done! (Holy cow!)

The DAY I was taking the (below mentioned) blessing dress to Emily's parents house to be delivered to another state, I was able to pick up the quilt!

I had to stop by my Mom's house for some quick pictures because I LOVED everything about it! :)




Last, but certainly not least. Emily sent me some pictures of little Sophia sporting her blessing dress:





Thanks for the pictures Emily! Sophia looks GORGEOUS!