Rachel's Steelers Quilt

Rachel at Pizza Hut had already ordered a pink and orange quilt from me that actually looked really pretty. She liked it so much that she decided to order another quilt for her boyfriend. He was out in California and his favorite team is the Pittsburgh Steelers (who also won the Super Bowl this year!) so it was obvious what she was going to choose. I did an "Around the World" pattern again and placed a Steelers pattern in the center of the world.

A Hawaiian Baby

Justin's dad was in the army while Justin was growing up. This caused the family to move from Georgia, Virginia, Germany and Hawaii. While they were in Hawaii they became friends with a musician named Willie K. I guess he and his wife had a new baby the last year and Robin (Justin's mom) wanted to send them a quilt. She picked out all of the fabric and had me make it to send. This was the farthest that I have ever sent a quilt. It's kind of fun to think that something I made is now in Hawaii. This last picture is a picture of the back which we used just a piece of material without cutting it or anything.

Rachel's Quilt

Justin, my husband, works with a girl named Rachel. She was interested in buying a quilt but all of the ones around here were way too expensive for her so she asked Justin if I could do it. I was excited that it was my very first quilt that I was going to sell. I was excited that was until I heard her colors ~ pink and orange. What?! Um, yeah, that didn't sound as pretty as I would hope for, but I agreed to do it and hey, it wasn't going to end up on my bed so what's it matter, right? Well, I went looking for the fabric and found a great maroonish color with bright pink flowers on it and it all began. Finally, I finished with the garish quilt and came to a realization. I discovered that I actually loved the look of it! In fact, today I have a large portion of it as my computer wallpaper and I even was able to track down the flowered fabric and bought it for myself in hopes of one day having my own pink and orange quilt on my own bed!

Stacy and Jim Wedding

April/May of 2008 was the month of weddings. You see, my little, Kelsey, got married in April. Then at the end of May Justin's cousin, Stacy, got married to a man named Jim. I figured that the two of them might like a small quilt to put on the back of their couch or chairs or something. Their wedding colors were a wine and pink which looked really nice at their event.

Kelsey and Dane Wedding

In college I was in a Christian group/sorority called Kappa Phi Alpha Zeta. In the group each girl gets what is known as a "little sister." This is basically where the girls of the group each get to have a new girl who has decided to join the group. The older girl then becomes like a mentor to the new girl. Well, I was pledge mom and got to pick my own little ~ Kelsey. (And she's the best one ever! lol) In April of 2008, she got married to her fiance, Dane. Her favorite color is purple so when it was coming to pick out the perfect present it was easy for me to see that I was going to make the happy couple a purple and white quilt. To add a special touch, I took it up to an embroidery shop in Painted Post (yeah, that was an experience) and got their names embroidered in the middle of the "Around the World" pattern. I think they really liked it :-)

Stepping Stones Preschool

I did this for the place where I work. I'm a preschool teacher at Stepping Stones Preschool in Mansfield. Anyway, we were working on the letter "Q" and thought it would be neat to have the children put their handprints in paint and then sew them all together. Each of our five teachers did it as well. You can see that at the bottom I wrote the name of the school. I have since added a picture I drew of a small schoolhouse. We didn't do it this year but I think it would've been a lot of fun if we had.

Picture from previous post

So this is the quilt that I made for my grandma for her 89th birthday. It was the first "big" quilt I had made and as you can tell not all of my blocks were as straight as they should have been haha. But of course, Grandma LOVED it and cried because we all know that grandmas love anything their grandchild does. That's the power of a grandmothers love :-D Anyway, I couldn't figure out how to go back and post the picture with it so here it is.