Two Little Finishes, #6 and #7

These two baby/children's hats were started 4 - 5 years ago.  All I had left to do was sew the seams (my least favorite part) and make pom poms.  They're so cute that I'd like to make more but can't find the pattern!
I did a lot of work on two unfinished quilts this month..........maybe I'll have one ready for April.  It's still Saturday here (5:45pm) so I just made the March finish!  YEAH!

Finishes 4, 5 and 6!!!

FINALLY! I finished our RUFFLE quilts! I first saw this idea here and started collecting those beautiful vintage sheets for our throws. I was making one for both girls and one for myself so we could all sit and watch movies with our 'girly quilts'. My plan was to give these to my girls for Christmas in 2010 but I quit sewing on them because I hurt my back. I was so discouraged that I couldn't give these to my girls that I put them in a laundry basket and there they stayed. I had everything cut and ready to start sewing.

In my Year of FINISHED UFO's~ this one was one of high priority to me. I sewed ruffles and more ruffles and more ruffles! I broke needles because my ruffler was so busy, it would jiggle the alignment off and my needle would hit metal or the sheets were too dense and I didn't want to slow down! I had tension issues, thread breaking, sewer problems and many other 'life issues' come at me all at once while working on these for the past week--- but I did it! I finished our ruffle quilts! I am in love with each one all for different reasons! Sew-- here they are:

All 3 of them with their backing sheet

I learned-- sew on ONE ruffle at a time and pin the next one!

These are HEAVY!

One VERY happy little girl!

and one very happy doggy!

One finish for January

I guess the time stamp on my post will be 1st February but it still 31st January for just under 3 hours so I can report my first finish for the year and the month but my 6th finish since I joined the group last year! I managed to put the last stitch on the binding of one UFO tonight. I finished a candle mat that I started in November 2010. This was for a swap and with the instructions given, we were making two at a time. Of course I finished the first one then and there to send it in time for the swap. But the second one was half pieced and languishing in a plastic bag until last month. I finished piecing the top in December and was hopeful it would be all finished by year end.

But that was before Baby Daughter made her entrance into the world on Christmas Day! Anyway, it is now finished and I will be able to give it away as a birthday present later this year.

Celine

finish no.6

I made this Amy Butler bag called blossom. Together with some ladies of a quiltingforum we did a SAL. And finally we finished it. Yippie. It was so much fun sewing this bag, I made it a little bit smaller than the original. It's a freebie and we found it on the Net. I'm not going to post the link, because we have to finish before we can start something new.

Groetjes Mai

One more off the list - but 2 Finishes!

Here are my photos of My Give Thanks wall hanging and with Verse 1 attached. This is going to be such a lovely collection.  (From Jenny of Elefantz)    I only had the Wall Hanging on my list of UFOs but there are going to be a lot of little verses to add so they are not included in my original tally.

Lurkers

Do you have lurker WIPs? They are the type that have us wondering how on earth they got where they are. They seem to appear when we are making a dent in our WIP pile just to make the numbers grow! I'm pretty sure I have more than one lurking just like that.

This mug rug was one of those lurkers. I made a small tablecloth at the end of last year and had just enough of the red leaf fabric left to make a mug rug. I find these really handy. This one is just the right size to fit under a big bowl of soup. (Curling up with a bowl of hot soup in the summer with the air conditioner on is heaven.) That was its secondary purpose....They are fun to make, whether simple or complicated.