Choo Choo Chugging Along

I love it when I finish a project that has been hanging around just a little too long. My fabulous grandson T has a birthday coming up this month and I love to being able to give him a little something I made.

The front was a Sew Cal Gal FMQ Challenge for May

The back

I love the buttons - all three are different!

I'm hoping that this will appeal to a very hip, cool, four year old. No baby stuff for this boy!

How can you not love that face?!?!?!

I'm linking up with Sew Happy Geek for Manic Monday, Plum and June for Let's Get Acquainted Blog Hop, A Quilt Story for Fabric Tuesday and Freemotion by the River for Linky Tuesday.

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Fresh Sewing Day June

How can it possibly be June??!! May might of had 31 days, but they when screaming by! What did I get done???

My mosaic looks kind of meager this month, but I guess with all of the yard work I had this month I can't complain.

Row 1: Left to Right

1. My big finish this month is my Storybook Quilt. Pretty excited, I'm in the top 5 nominations for Favorite Bed Quilt at the Spring 2012 Bloggers' Quilt Festival. 

2. Sew Cal Gal's May FMQ Challenge - Choo Choo Train pillow top!

3. Urban Nine Patch quilt - all of the parts are ready to be sewn together

Row 2: Left to Right

4. Goin' Fribbon Egg-Shaped Block for QuiltCon block challenge


5. Rose Window Block for QuiltCon block challenge

6. All of the blocks are quilted in my QAYGFMQQAL quilt (QAL at Quokka Quilts)

Of course I'm linking up with the lovely Lynn at Lily's Quilts for Fresh Sewing Day!

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Sew Cal Gal's May FMQ Challenge

Choo Choo Train

 When I first saw Leah Day's FMQ design/tutorial for Sew Cal Gal's May challenge, I knew I had to do something with a train. My grandsons love trains. So I decided to combine some of my new FMQ skills and create this pillow top. I found a coloring book train image on the internet and printed it. I then used last month's technique to transfer the design on to the fabric.

I guess you could say that I "thread painted" the windows and filled in areas in the train.

Small scale "zippling" to fill in behind the train.

Boxy Railroad tracks around the border.

Learning and applying all of these new FMQ skills has really improved my confidence, I feel like I would be willing to try any design.

I'm linking up with Sew Cal Gal for the May FMQ Challenge and with Happy Quilting for TNT Thursday because of all the new FMQ designs and "thread painting".





Color Me Quilty!

Pat