Swap Angel

How exiting!!!! I have received emails from my swap angel. I have also sent some to mine. I have been stitching and doing little presents for her. I finished one today but I´m not going to show yet. Instead I am taking one of my UFO and show you a pic, I have decided to finish it by the end of September wish me luck. I don´t know why but it reminds me of Great Britain, must be the triangles.

Half way there

I finally finished sewing the first border, I still have to embellish it as well as the village. I thought you would like to see a pic. Let me ask my daughter to help meOoops!!! Wait, don`t put it down, ok here it is.

Borders

It´s been a week since my last post. I have been busy with school´s first week and making the Toscana´s first border. As soon as I finish it I will show you some pics. I have to put myself to work since the stitchers´angel swap started, and I have also enrolled in a Christmas project.
So I better start stitching.

Selvages

For a few years I have come across some projects made with the selvage of the fabric. So I decided to keep them, instead of throwing them away. I already had a few when in the Mc Calls magazine I saw the cutest tote made with selvages by Karen Neary visit her Blog at http://sewkaren-lycreated.blogspot.com/ . As soon as I saw the Tote I knew I had to do it. So I put everything aside and made the tote during the weekend. Here are some pictures for you to see.


Thanks Karen for such a wonderful design.

Flowers in the Village

And after a few days of French Knotting
I guess that´s enough little flower, I still have doors, windows and roofs to do.

Toscana

I have been doing some roses. I was going to show you a pic, but then I decided that I would send it to an angel, so I´d better not spoil surprises.

So instead, here is a pic of a new proyect that I found in Mc Calls quilting. This is the center of the wall hanging and still have to embroider it before I can continue. I hope that I will be able to show you a picture of the finished center by the end of the week.

So I better start working on it.

Roses

Today I´m going to do roses. I had an idea and I will make it out to see how it looks, when I am a little more advance I will show you some pics.

Me

Look what my daughter did. She made a cartoon of me. I will use it as my Photo.

Mandala

This quilt is the one that I am most proud off. I made it from McCalls quilting magazine. I wanted it exactly the same as in the magazine. I even bought Mark Lipinski´s fabric. Then I decided a little embroidery wouldn´t hurt. Although I already hang it on my living room I still want to embellish it a little more. Here are some pics.


Here is a pic of my living room all the paintings were made by my daughter. She´s a real artist. you can look her up in http://mariesini.deviantart.com/.

I was only going to embroider the small mandalas.

But I ended embellishing a lot more, and I am not done yet

Meg´s Garden.

I bought a magazine named Homespun from Australia were I found a beautiful quilt by Kellie Wulfsohn made by freehand raw-edge applique which I really enjoyed doing it.

THANK YOU KELLY.

What to do with old Jeans

We had a lot of old Jeans that didn`t fit anymore or were ragged so I decided to make a ragged edge quilt with them if you look close you can see pockets and embroidery in some blocks. The quilt is in my sons room as a rug.

My first Quilt

I made my first quilt for my daughter, she was 12 years old then. she was into pink and flowers. So we both designed it. here´s a pic

All the quilting was done by hand as well as the appliques I was so proud. She loved it.

Then I made one for myself. I made 96 diferent blocks and put them all together and I ended up with this:

And finally made one for my son. He said no flowers please. I made him one of Lynette Jensen´s quilts:

Next time, I show you what else I have done and what I am working on.

Here I go

Finally, I will start writting a blog. It is exciting every day when I turn on my computer to read all the blogs I love. that I finally decided to share my thought and quilts.
My love for Quilts started at age 7 when I went to New Hampshire, USA. I was so intrigued with all the colors of fabrics and all the small pieces sewn together. I decided I wanted to learn how to quilt.
Back in Mexico City, I looked and looked for classes and I never found them, until I was married and went to live to Queretaro. Here I met Alejandra and started taking quilting classes with her. visit her Blog at http://panenka.squarespace.com/.