December Quilt Group!

Yes, I know it's March... moving on. :)

Most people brought their present quilts to the December Quilt Meeting, but I will include everyone's so they'll all be together! Since it's been so long and my memory isn't what it used to be, please let me know if I mislabeled someone's quilt or forgot to post someone's and I'll correct it asap! But let's start with what's most important, right?!?

Here are the delicious handmade & hand-dipped cookies that Diane served! They tasted amazing!


And here is a picture of the cute mugs of hot cocoa mix that Diane made for each of us! They are so darling!



Diane also made this gorgeous Christmas ornament!



Here are the Present Quilts:
I love the border fabric on Roxanne's, it's so pretty!


The detailed bows on the corner's of Barbara's are so cute!


Barbara made another present quilt with her other quilt group. I love the different sized presents!



Here is Diane's present quilt!


And she made another one with all new presents she made all herself because she's awesome!


Here is Jana's present quilt:


The fabric she found for her back is so cute:


Here is Emily's present quilt! She had hers finished last month! Love the gray!


Here is Marietta's all quilted! The ricrac is so cute!


Here is Brenda's! I love how she did her border!


And here is mine, front & back!



I also brought my Christmas Tree Quilt. It was a quilt group block swap several years ago. It was the first time I tried applique.


Marietta brought two Christmas quilts to share:



And Brenda made the CUTEST robot quilt for her grandson! It's amazing!

Bellevue Botanical Garden D'Lights!

We visited the Bellevue Botanical Garden D'Lights display tonight! So beautiful, but very cold!

Stocking Garland

My friend, Lacey, made this beautiful stocking garland for me for Christmas! I put it up in my front room!

My Present Quilt Finished!

I finished my present quilt a few weeks ago! I love it! It was such a fun trade with the quilt group! I made a scrappy border and used a striped binding. I added a scrap of the packman fabric to the binding for some fun!




Here's the back! I used the theme fabric on the bottom, a stripe of extra present blocks that I got from some friends, and a fun green polka dot to the top!

October Quilt Group!

Wow! There were so many amazing projects finished by members of the quilt group this month!

Marietta made these cute pillows for her mom for Christmas! Here are tutorials on how to make the pleated and shag pillows!


She also recovered her kitchen chairs! So cute!




She made this Halloween Garland so quickly using Steam-a-Seam 2 and a zigzag blade on her rotary cutter!




She also finished her present quilt top! She's going to attach the red rickrack after it's been quilted!




Emily brought this amazing knitted stocking advent calendar that her mom made! It made me wish I was a little more skilled it the knitting department!



Here's a close-up of my favorite stocking:




Emily finished both of her Christmas quilt tops! Here is her present quilt:



Here is her Christmas quilt made from the Kitchen Window Pattern from The Practical Guide to Patchwork by Elizabeth Hartman.



Diane finished 3 quilts this month! Here is her pinwheel quilt... it looks a lot like the one I made with these blocks that we swapped... I donated mine and I still miss it!




Here is her cute Halloween Circle quilt! I love how she used a blanket stitch on her circles (as opposed to the zig zag stitch I used on mine). I also love the circle swirl quilting in the middle of the circles!




And here is her Scientist Halloween Quilt!



A close-up of my favorite block!



Brenda finished her present quilt top too!



Barbara finished her quilt top and spent hours of time on these small cute bows that she is going to add to the corners:




And here is her quilt!




My favorite of her creations this month is this adorable pillow! Love the puff ball trim!




Brenda was hostess this month and she made a scrumptious dessert! Ginger-Pumpkin bread with homemade caramel sauce and apples! If you use the recipe be sure to add 1 cup of roughly chopped pecans like she did!



We've reached the end of the post and you've probably realized that I haven't listed anything I've completed this month... well, my one quilting accomplishment is that I've trimmed my present blocks and have them all arranged how I would like to sew them together! It's too bad I didn't have time to sew them together before the meeting because now I'm seriously reconsidering my arrangement... should I add sashing, or make it 5x5 instead of 4x6? Everyone else's quilts were so cute! What am I to do? :)

Quilt Group

Last night our quilt group met! We exchanged our first set of present blocks and they were all so cute! Mine is the super-cute owl one!



Diane finished this amazing seahorse quilt:



Barbara finished 2 pinwheel quilt tops from our pinwheel block exchange a few years ago and her bookshelf quilt!



My flash must not have worked for this picture... the quilt looks so much better in person!



In the bookshelf quilt I made the white snowdrop flower on the bottom shelf of Barbara's quilt as one of the blocks I exchanged. It is the first paper piecing I've ever done. The first block took me 4 hours to make, but once I knew what I was doing the rest of the blocks only took me an hour each!

Felt Heart Wreath

Last night I made this cute heart wreath at my friend's house! I hung it on the inside of my front door! I love it!




Here is a tutorial!