My Survivor and 1st T-Shirt Quilt

I am 2 years out of my chemo treatment now and my tests continue

to be good.  I am so grateful for all the prayers that have been sent up

on my behalf and I am thankful that God has given me the time here on 

earth to be with my family.  And grateful that he has used this to teach me.

He has taught me that I should put more trust in him.  And I need to trust

more in his word.

Matthew 6:26-34New King James Version (NKJV)

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
²⁸ “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; ²⁹ and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
³¹ “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

So I just wanted to share this.

Christmas before last I went through my closet and cleaned out all of my t-shirts and decided to do my first t-shirt quilt.  A couple of them were gathered from CARTI and from relay for life that my sister-n-law was involved with in our area.  

 I had the purple and neon green material that I had bought some time ago just

because the colors popped and I just loved the green and purple together.  I used

a decorative stitch with purple thread.  And

when I went to putting it all together I think the colors just went so well with the tees that I had for my quilt and I just love how it turned out.

 So this is my survivor quilt and I have been sleeping

under it for several months now.

Finish, Attempts at New Techniques and My First Label

Update:  I just realized there is a credit that I failed to include.  And that was my inspiration for my free motion quilting which came from http://leahday.com/.  I have only done stippling but one day hope to branch out and try some more.

I have finally finished my sister's angel heart quilt.  I have

tried a couple of new techniques and put my first label

ever on this quilt.

These are just some close ups of some of the details on the blocks.

This one shows one of the new details that I tried on this quilt.

You can find a tutorial here at Podunk Pretties for this scalloped border.

And here is a tutorial for this piped binding at Aunt Marti's 52 Quilts. 

I really like how it turned out and I think the corners mitered better than I have ever been able to

get them to in the past even if they are not just perfect.  The miter on the denim was from the tutorial mentioned above for the scalloped tutorial.

And lastly is the first label I have ever made.  I must admit that I did lots of searching on the internet

for tutorials on this element.  But probably used Dolls and Daydreams for the best part of my inspiration.  I wound up with a product called Blumenthal Craft, Crafter's Images Computer Crafting at Home.  It is a 100% Cotton Poplin but I think at some point I am going to try the freezer paper with a white cotton poplin or similar fabric.  I wasn't absolutely pleased with my label and so I want to play around with that more.  The directions on the product said that it works with all Inkjet Printers but I was really concerned about the ink not setting so I ironed it with a very hot iron to try to set the ink first and then poured vinegar into a shallow dish and wet the entire label and rinsed before taking it back and drying it with the very hot iron.  The label was just a little larger than I liked and when

I did my binding you can see where I sewed across the corners.  I don't so much mind that the thread from the binding was on that side but I don't like that it went across my label.  So I think I need to work with making a design that will set away from my binding far enough that my sewing line won't go directly across the corner of my label. 

All in all I am still pleased with the way it turned out.  I so love the red against that denim.

It just sets against the blue denim so pretty.

Start of Another Angel Quilt for my Sister

I think this is about how I have decided to do the layout for my sister's quilt.  Not sure about this so suggestions would be welcome.  Also I'm thinking about doing a small heart with yoyo's right in the middle of the next to the last row because I think it might make the hearts in the middle look a bit like a heart.

I just was not satisfied with this layout because it looked a lot like a big "H".