While at the fabric store....

While at our main LQS (Stitch-n-Frame in Bovina, MS.. check out their website!) getting the binding for Jack's LSU quilt, I found some gorgeous fabric to use for a sewing machine mat.  The cover I made a while back is a bit wild... bright green with pink, turquise and purple. Decided to play us the purple and pink a bit with a larger scale fabric.  The cover is a contemporary graphic pattern.. the new fabric more traditional. They definitely juxtapose each other, but I think they will be great together.  They are both very much "me" fabrics. I am very ecclectic in my tastes!

Also found this great Christmas fabric that will be transformed into a stocking for a sweet friend who is a nut about owls!  Isn't it cute!?

What a Hoot!

Owls are the rage right now.. as they have been many times in the past. Last year my daughter asked me to whip up some bibs and burp cloths for a friend who was having a little girl. She mentioned that they loved owls.  I found the cutest fabric and ordered much more than I needed. Whipped up a bib and burp cloth and set the rest aside for future use.

Well that use arrived.  A sweet young couple in our church had baby #2 in Dec. When I learned the nursery was going to be done in bright pink, lime green, white and sky blue I knew I had just the right fabric.. the owls!  I grabbed it out of my stash, went through my nickle charms and pulled a bunch that would work, sewed a bunch of big nine patches... sliced them into 4ths... put them back together and created this cute Disappearing Nine Patch. I really do like this pattern, especially for baby quilts. It goes together quickly and turns out so cute!

Hubby quilted it basically in-the-ditch, but he kept the lines going from block to block.. creating an implied 9 patch. He used the same petal pink thread he used for Lou's baby quilt (previous post).  I love the way it looks on the back against the lime green!

2 of the 2011 baby quilts down... 1 more to go....

"Belle"