Aliens

This was a fun blanket to make!  

This was a gift for the 2 year old son of one of my  husband's co-workers.   I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE buying remnants!   You can get some super cute fabrics for a fraction of the price!    Anyway, I had a bit of the alien fleece and went thru my cabinet of fleece fabrics looking for colors that matched the design.    At that point, I pulled out my accuquilt cutter and got busy.   I could do about 2 layers of fleece at a time and a couple times during the cutting price, I had to pull out the tweezers and pull out all the fleece chunks that got stuck in the die.

 After all the pieces were cut, I sewed together strips and them sewed them all together.   Thanks to the cutter, all the fringe was ready to go.

I even had enough scraps to make a cute little matching pillow  :)

Another kit

Here's another quilt that I worked on.  I loved the picture that was on the kit, but I don't think it had the same fabrics in the kit.  It came with this brown fabric that was supposed to be another border for it, but I really didn't like the way it looked so I added the fabric to my scrap bin instead of the quilt.     I used a nice soft flannel for the backing, and then folded it over to make the binding.  I used stitch in the ditch for going around all the blocks and tried free motion quilting in the corner blocks (daisies) and a butterfly in the center block.   

While bumming around on the net, I found  Project Linus .  What an amazing organization!    I contacted the leader of our chapter and got all the information I needed.  During lunch today, I did my drop off of the first quilts.   Hopefully, they are well loved!

Day One.

It's the first day of the new blog, and I’ve decided to call it TotallyAmy.   Whenever I go shopping and I find something I like I always say “It’s TOTALLY me!”     I am a computer programmer by day and teaching myself to quilt in my free time.     For Christmas my husband bought me a new sewing machine ... a Singer XL6000.  I must confess it's a bit intimidating!  I'm still scared to try the embroidery part of the machine.     He bought it from a nice woman on EBAY who decided it was too complicated to use.  Yeah for me!

Anyway, this is the first quilt that I attempted to make.   It came from a kit that I think I purchased somewhere in Utah when I was visiting family.  And I think it was on clearance!   I had some problems when I was doing the triangles!   Sometimes they matched up perfectly, and sometimes they didn’t.  Yeah for hte yo-yos that are covering that part! 

Have I mentioned that before I got my new fabulous sewing machine, I hadn’t touched one in at least 10 years?