Diamond Star Quilt continued

The quilt is now at stage 3. The first stage= the 8 pineapple diamonds, stage two = the square pineapple blocks and stage three = the eight pineapple diamonds going around stage one and two.

There are two stage left. Anyway here are a couple pics.

Diamond Pineapple Continued

This is how far I've gotten. I have made the eight Pineapple Squares and sewed three into the top of the quilt and three into the bottom. I pinned the side squares and the middle as I want to work with half a quilt as much as I can.

The next step is to make eight more diamonds and lay those between the outside two points of the squares. This is an awful lot of sewing and I am getting tired lol.

Diamond Pineapple Continues

I did five Pineapple square Blocks and pinned them to the star.

 

You can now see the light garden going around in a circle and you can also see a couple other rings. I love the effect of what light and dark can do.

 

I still have three more square blocks to do and then if you look at the top left, I have laid a diamond paper pattern between the two star points. This is the next step and that will be another eight diamonds.

 

 I like the effect of the teal ring disappearing in the dark and exiting again. When the other diamonds go in, that will create another effect.

 

I am halfway there. What was I thinking when I tackled this project lol?

 

 

Sharon Rexroad's Diamond Stars

Hello Everyone, I know it's been five months but I am back as usual with lots of good stuff to share. I will be sharing the process of this fabulous quilt by Sharon Rexroad.. I have had the book and the paper piecing packet for some time and as you quilters all know, we will get to it some time or the other. This will be my first quilt for 2013.

I liked the quilt that Sharon pictured inside the book called the Fairy Ring but that particular quilt is not in the book

I had studied the quilt now and then and I knew it was just the pineapple diamonds and then also pineapple square blocks and half squares etc. I printed out a 15.5 pineapple pp block from Block Base . My quilt won't be the exact same one as Sharon's but the idea will be the same to me. I will call my quilt the Fairy Garden.

Here is a pic of the book  and paper patterns and the fabrics I pulled to pick from.

Puppy Chronicles 2

I took some more pics of the babies that I thought were cute.

So sweet.

Reminds me of Winnie the Pooh and one of her friends lol.

Let me out please. We call it, prisoner at the gate lol.

Hello, feed me.

THE PUPPY CHRONICLES

I haven't had a new baby puppy in 18 years and I couldn't stand it any longer lol. I went on a search and found this darling Pappillion/Chihuahua, mix. I named her Emily.

Emily weighs 2 lb 2 oz, as far as I can recall but they alway look bigger in the pic. Hubby is holding her.

Ever since I can remember, when I was a kid and we would get a puppy, we would make it a hammock. Well here is Emily in her hammock and she loves it.

Here is Emily as she only manages to get halfway in lol.

Asleep with her Cow.

I knew Emily would be loney and she needed some buddy to grow up with, so I went on the search again. I am a bit partial to a Chi mix. I found this little cutie at a wight of 1 pound. She is a mix of Chi/dachund/mini pincher. She has no tail. It was a bit of touch and go with her but with the Vet's help we got her going.

Her name is Milly. She has beautiful brindle black and cream on her legs. She is the tiniest, cutest little thing. I made them both matching t-shirts with a tab on the back to put the leash. The are now both potty trained. They go outside. It's never too early to train them.

Of course Milly had to have a hammock as well. Emily is trying to coax her out to play.

Here she is sound asleep in her own private hammock.

Here is a pic of both of them napping.....lol

When we first got Milly, last Friday, she cried for four nights straight. I had to get up every 2 hours or less to hold her. It was like having a baby with colic. Last night was the first night she slept through the night and we found out how.

This morning, we found both of them in the same hammock. I suppose Emily couldn't take the crying and got in the hammock with her. It's amazing how quickly they learn to get in and out of the hammock and it's their favorite place to sleep at night. At one pound milly sure gets around now...playing and eating and fighting with Emily lol....

We have made the tv room into a nusery for them....oh well, it's our joy lol...here is a pic of the nusery. I have put the end table on top of the the other tables and just arranged it so it would be comfortable. The bench in the front holds the extra t-shirts, food, leashes, diapers(for wrapping and holding Milly) and baby wipes.

I made them their own couch from pillows that I saved from an old couch. Most of the time, it is where I am on the floor, playing with them or just watching them...what great therapy.

PLACEMATS AS YOU LIKE IT

I have been wanting to make these for a long time now and the mood has finally arrived. These are made crazy patch style, my favorite style. I love mindless, just do it.

I used a lot of jeweltones and inserted some Laurel Burch for the center of interest in each matt.

I then did another set of lighter value with a cat in each one.

I just love turtles and my little Maggie pin cushion was such a successful pattern, that I decided to make large pirate turtles. I call them Pirates because they are loaded with sunken treasure from the bottom of the ocean (in my fantasy world Lol). I have finished drafting and tweaking the pattern and am getting ready to write the instuction.

I made two pirate Turtles. Atlas and Atina. She is at the store and I don't have a pic of her but will get one when I deliver the patterns and upload. She is decorated diffrently than Atlas. This is Atlas and I am showing you his belly too lol...he wears a tag that says...."Hi, I'm Atlas" on the other side of his tag it says...."pirate treasure"

He has large and medium brilliant beads all around his shell, two strands hanging down his shell, all down his neck and a small bag of jewels hanging behind his tail from under his shell.

When I made the cat placemats, the panel also included some cut and sew and stuff cats, so I did those too.

And last, here is a pic of a table runner. I think I have made up the time I spent away from my blog.