Cute-ified Totes :)

A long time ago I mentioned to Annelise that I had wanted to decorate totes. Well, the other day she found some at walmart and she asked me if I wanted to come over and decorate them with her. On tuesday, Stacy Jackson was kind enough to give me a ride to Joanne's. I got two fabrics, some buttons and ribbon. Here are the pictures :)

I purchased an extra yard of the blue in hopes that I will be able to use it in my next quilt!! Yay Fabric!

Bloom Where you are Planted

So if you have seen my facebook posts or read my blog before today, you know that I have been working on a quilt. It all began at YW in excelence. Jenni Warner brought her Super cute quilt and I loved it and asked her if she could show me how to make it. This morning, at 5am, I finally finished! It took me 7 hours to hand sew the binding on the back but I did it and took it to church today and used it for personal progress. Everybody loved it and It felt really good to have accomplished this on my own. I wanted to ask somebody else to quilt it for me but I decided to do it and it all worked out. Anyways, I forgot to take pictures during the process, but I just took some after shots so here they are :]




Some people name their quilts. Some think that that is weird, but I think it's cool. I named this one Bloom because of a quote that really worked with what was going on in my life. "Bloom where you are planted" means that even if it's in garbage rocks, you still need to do your best.

So this is my first quilt, but I want to do More! Here's the one that i'm thinking of trying next! Does anyone know of any good fabric stores? Let me know :]

So here are the pictures from quilting attempt day 1. Annelise came over to work on her's and Jenni Warner came to give us the low down. As you can tell, we didn't get super far, but it is super hard so it's okay. You have to make sure that there are no patterns and that the different fabrics arn't close to eachother. There was a drama showcase that night as well so our time was limited. Anyways, here they are!

Here is my sewing station. My mother kindly let me borrow her machine!

This beautiful piece of beautifulness was created by Jenni Warner who is the person helping us make this style of quilt for ourselves. Thank you much :)

Annelise laying out her quilt. She picked 10 different fabrics which was a really good idea. It's a ton easier to spread them out and make it look random.

One of my rows. It's coming along SLOWLY


Hopefully we'll have more time soon to get this thing laid out and sewn. Until then, wish us luck!