Handprint quilts hands

While getting things organized here, I'll be bringing over a few posts from an old blog. *UPDATE: I think I want to do something similar to this for baby girl's first year... maybe her hand and feet prints every month for her first year... I think it would be super cute in all black and white! While I was on vacation, I woke up one morning with an idea in my head. I grabbed the hotel notepad, sketched it out, and went back to sleep. Fast forward a few weeks, and you've got this cute little…

I got several pictures at my friend's retirement party but I was helping her hold the quilt up and forgot to have anyone take a picture w...

More pictures and the story at www.missbutterflybs.com - click on My Portfolio My daughter, Erin, designed the entire quilt. I pieced the front. Erin free-motion quilted the top and added the binding (and she did lots of cutting!). The blocks are all pieced. The hands are printed with a very high-quality fabric paint that washes up and remains soft. See her site above for all details - and see what it brought at auction!

Remember how I’ve been hinting about some other project I’ve been working on that was super secret? (Even if you don’t, nod anyway.) Well, the veil of secrecy has been lifted̷…

I love it when your "no set plan for this quilt" comes together. Inspirationally...after less than 24 hours. This is the first time for ...

Welcome to the downhill slide of another week, friends! Spring has definitely sprung, and around my house, that means evenings and weekends at the baseball field and enjoying the perfect temperatures as much as possible. Today, I have a finished anniversary quilt to share with you. My friend's parents are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this month, and my friend asked me to make a special quilt for them (for privacy reasons, I've blurred their identifying info that is embroidered…

Let me just say that a little OCD can be a beautiful thing. Remember when I started this quilt back the first part of November for my youngest's kindergarten class? Here is the finish Once I got the idea on how to put this quilt all together it just sort of ran away with me and I didn't want to work on any of my other projects. (And there are plenty of others...) Thrifted striped sheet for the backing. On opposing corners I had to make an additional 9 patch because there were only 22 kids…

This is the quilt I made for our school fundraiser--each child and adult has a handprint.

I am linking to Lee at Freshly Pieced this week! Hold on to your crafting hats ladies because I am going to blow you away with lots of fun ...