Happy Monday! In honor of yesterday’s holiday, I didn’t have to work today. However, I have a whole bunch of crafting to do, so I used today to catch up.
I’ve had some lovely vintage ceramics sitting around the house and I finally had a chance to play with them today. I had a lot of fun with the salt and pepper shakers and the vintage pitcher.
salt and pepper shakers
Floral Party pitcher
Birdies and Coffee Creamer
Birdies and Coffee Mug
Hello! I’m a little Green Teacup.
I picked up this little dude during a girlie trip to the Ames Antique Store a few months ago and have finally spruced him up.
Let me just say, this is some gorgeous dinnerware. It’s Franciscan El Patio and I would LOVE to have a full set of these dishes. In any color. Preferably multiple colors, actually. The texture and detail of the teacup is just beautiful.
Judging by the color and the shape, I’m guessing this came out of the early to mid-seventies. Either way, they only had one piece at the antique store, so I snatched it up.
I thought it could use a really regal-looking tea bag. Maybe some Earl Grey, hot — ala Jean-Luc Picard.
I’ve just been posting quilt tops on my blog so far, but this is the first FULLY completed quilt. I posted the quilt tops for this one a while back.
I had given the top and the backing/binding to my good friend Adria to get it quilted since my machine wasn’t about to handle it (actually, it broke altogether a week and a half ago). I met up with her and a bunch of my girlfriends in Chicago last weekend and she gave me the completed quilt. I’m SOOO excited since I’ve done so many tops and never seen one completed before. 
Without further ado…. here it is!
I can’t ever wait until a project is completely finished OR until I have good pictures of it…I guess I’m super impatient (how I do quilting…don’t ask!)…
I’ve been hoarding this jelly roll of Hello Betty fabric for over a month. I’ve been looking for an easy pattern for a jelly roll (since it’s pre-cut into 3ish” strips). I decided on a rail fence pattern…super easy! (also, did I mention that pretty much all quilting websites and fabric websites look and navigate like they were made in the mid–late nineties??)
Anywho, I got to work and finished the top. There’s a couple of crooked areas, but I zipped through it because I knew if I had to put it down then I wouldn’t finish it! I had a few block parts leftover and one entire strip of the checkerboard in brown (I hate the checkerboard fabric!)…so I made a pillow for my friend Adria out of those. I had 2 full blocks leftover, so I’m going to make 1–2 pillows out of that.
This quilt is for my mom who likes these retro fabrics (heck, granny used the original version of some of these in a quilt we have at home!) and she loves browns with blues and oranges and pretty much browns with anything.
Anyway, here are a few really crappy photos of what I’ve got. I will post better ones later… when the thing is finished. I need to get batteries for my camera (aka find my rechargables!).
the colors are really off because my flash wasn't working...but this is a better picture.
again, colors are off. It's more of a red orange and the green is more turquoise...it's brown, not black too!
I’m planning to use the above fabric as the backing piece…not cheap, but I have to buy 4 or so yards of it, and fast! I can only find this in one store, and I LOVE this one! I’m also going to do a 4-inch cream border on the front of this quilt and I haven’t decided what the binding will be… most likely it’s going to be that solid red/orange, which I will also have to buy up rather quickly!
Also, here’s the pillow I made…. I need to finish the seam on the side where I stuffed it, but like I said…I can never wait to post projects!
I also cut most of the fabric and pinned most of my mermaid bags tonight… yay!
andddd…. SLEEP!
