PinkPetunia's House

Mamma's making a Girly Girl Quilt

I did it. I bought a quilt kit from Fat Quarter Shop to make Patricia Bravo's Sweet Girly Girl quilt that was featured in Quilt magazine issue #108 (February/March 2010). I went to Fat Quarter Shop's website and they had the kit but not the magazine. I searched high and low online but could not find a back issue to purchase so I emailed Art Gallery Fabrics directly asking where I could purchase a back issue or if they would sell me the pattern. Within minutes, and I mean only a few minutes, I got an email from Walter. He scanned the pattern from the magazine for me and was happy to share it with me. How nice is that? I swear, in a good way, crafty people are so nice and so helpful. So now if only my kit would get here...

Anyhow, this is the picture that I fell in love with. I am really thankful Walter emailed me the actual scan of the magazine because I would not have known about the free pillow pattern download. They are so cute and I clearly have pillows on my mind of late.

Here is the full quilt.

Look at all this yummy delicious fabric. I cannot wait!
 

There are even fabric baskets you can make. How cute would all of this be in a little girly-girl's bedroom? I am thinking my little girly-girl will love it...SHE BETTER LOVE IT!
 

Now wish me luck that I can get my act together and actually make the quilt and pillows. So excited!

Yellow brick road quilt

So I started a yellow brick road quilt for my dear friend Tammy. It was supposed to be for Christmas...LAST year. Fast forward 6 months and it is still not done. Why oh why do I procrastinate so much? I know I have a small child and I work full time but I see so many others out there with the same time limitations I have and they sew, sew, sew all the time. Is it just me being slow? Lazy? Tired?

No matter what the reason, I am putting it out here and that means I will get it done. I cannot exactly tell you am going to complete it if I am not, right? That would just not be right in blog-land, would it?

It is up to all of you to keep me on task. I have to finish this before Christmas 2009!

Moda Arcadia fabric

Does anyone love the Arcadia fabric line as much as I do? As soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted some. It turns out the hubby likes it too. I am going to make a quilt or duvet cover out of it. Any suggestions? My initial thought was to get a layer cake of ten inch squares and do a simplified version of this. It could be done as a quilt or as the top of the duvet cover. Do you think that would work or should I do something a little more complicated...like piecing the ten inch squares?

  

Peek a boo quilt

Ellie's peek a boo quilt is done. Do you like it? I know she does. I finished it up Saturday night around 10:30 pm. I just love how it turned out.

 
 
 
 

Another super simple quilt

I am on a roll and trying to finish my many WIPs. This time, I finished another super simple quilt for Ellie. It has cute little butterflies on it. I just took two butterfly themed fabrics and quilted around some of the butterflies. I cannot imagine her liking it as much as the first one but I do think she will like this one too. Since she takes blankets with her to daycare, I need to make sure we have plenty on hand and clean (key word is clean - sometimes the laundry gets a little backed up at our house).