Dogs and Puppies

I thought it'd be fun to take all of you through how I made the pink and brown puppy rag quilt. More or less. I made this one differently then usual. The backing was all one piece, other than the ears and arms, so I had to go about sewing and cutting much much different then I'm use to.

This is what the front looked like before I stitched it together and before I added the eyes. I took about a half hour to cut out all the pieces and go through them to make sure I had them all. Which I didn't. In this picture the right paw is being replaced. It is actually a pink fabric. Once I finished that I started sewing which took around 2 hours to finish.

 After that I sewn it to the brown backing and batting. I know it looks awkward at this point, but I promise it looks amazing now! And now on to the dog! The quilt is the puppy and so we must have a dog to fit the name...

See here my lovely boyfriend helped me because my back was hurting so bad at this point. He cut all the loose thread and extra batting . He then helped me cut up the edges to give it the ragged look. And the next steps were to run it through the washer twice before drying it. This creates a fluffy ragged look that is just so cute. It also cause a LOT of lint. Never wash these with other items and make sure to clean the lint trap before and after or you got a major fire hazard on your hands. So now this cute little thing looks like .....

Well at lest this is what it looks like with my mom holding it up. Hope you all enjoy it.

I plan to update in the next few days with some side projects I want to start while I'm free of orders. Though don't let that stop you if you want to order. My side projects can always be set aside to make you lovely people beautiful quilts from the heart.

Quilts Quilts and more Quilts! Oh my

Well I wasn't going to make a separate blog for my quilts, but after thinking about it I realized it was a good idea to do this. I am now selling my quilts and and so I believe this will make it easier to talk about without them getting mixed in with my personal life.

So just so you all can see what I've been up to here

This was the quilt that started it all. I made it for one of my nieces and fell in love with doing it. So I also made another for my other niece that looks like this

These take me about 3 - 4 days to make and are so cute! Right now I'm working on one for my step dad's coworker. She wants it to be a christmas present for her new born granddaughter. It's going to be a pink and brown puppy. I should have it done tomorrow night so check back to see it all finished. Right now it looks like this:

Once its all sewn together it will be about 6 inches smaller and have a brown backing. They're not shown here but the eyes are going to be black. She also asked me to make a quilt out of her old denim jeans and so far I have 6 pieces of denim cut out and 5 pieces of cotton. It's going to have a fleece backing and no batting. If I put in batting it would be way to heavy.

I believe this quilt will be done sometime next week or right before christmas. It takes a lot just to make a few pieces because it's hard to cut through jean. I'll post updates on this one as I go. Anyways hope you guys like everything so far. I'll try to post tomorrow with the finished Pink and Brown Puppy quilt.