Liebster Blog!

This week two lovely ladies gave me the Liebster Blog Award.  I was so excited to get it the first time, and amazed to get it the second time!  Huge thanks go out to Pauline at The Little House on the Hill and Heather at A Passionate Quilter

The award goes to your five favorite blogs with 200 or less followers.

So now I get to pick my favorites.  I spent quite a bit of time figuring out who to award, but here they are...

Rebecca at Pieces and Cream

Karen at Ramblings of...a novice quilter

Unnamed at LittleBook Notes

Phoebe at Pixiecup Industries

Diane at Life Scraps

Enjoy!

Quilt 13: clothesline

I put up a clothesline last week. Partially to help dry baby clothes (they take forever in the dryer!) and partially for my quilts.

Although it was nice and sunny this morning, it was almost too sunny. The nice background direction shows the quilt back through the front.

So here is the uglier direction.

I'm in the middle of quilting. It takes me forever to do the quilting and I have several more waiting in line. I'm also using white thread to quilt white triangles on the white pieces. But here's my question...I don't have enough colored thread to do all the little outside triangles. How should I quilt that area? Just the white triangles? Sometime else?

I'm linking up with Sarah's Whoop Whoop party on Friday, Quilting by The River on Tuesday, and WIP Wednesday.

Something new

My dad needed some pants hemmed, so I tried the blind stitch for the first time.  It worked well!  

I'd never changed the presser foot before, but it was significantly easier than expected.  I guess I can't use that as an excuse to not try new things now.

Quilt 13: HSTs

I finished piecing my quilt for the festival of half square triangles!  I'm a little sad that I wasn't able to completely finish the quilt by the deadline, but I'm just not that fast.  I am really happy with how it turned out though.

The top is called "Don't touch me."  The colors only touch each other at their points and the same color never touches itself.

The back is "Hug and make up."  I even made the corner squares (that look solid) out of HSTs, to preserve the pieced look.

I'm also linking up with Quilting By the River and Freshly Pieced

About Me

Hi!

My name is Amanda.  I started quilting in 2009, when I decided I wanted to make a quilt for my bed.  That quilt has several flaws, but it got me hooked on quilting.

I have an M.S. in engineering, and have worked in several different fields.  Then in 2011 my husband and I  moved back home to Western Michigan, had our first child, and I decided to stay at home for a while.  I am putting a little more effort into quilting and see if I can at least make it sustainable.

Besides quilting, I love to read, play games (board games, computer games, Frisbee), and spend time with friends.  

Quilt 13: top finished

This week I finished the top of the quilt I'm making for the HST festival.  I'm calling it "Don't touch me!"  (Sorry about the wrinkles.)

I just started the back...it will be "Hug and make up"

And I'm linking up with Sarah!

What's on my bed?

This is the quilt that is currently on my bed.  And I love it.  It is soft and I love the pattern and colors.  It is store-bought (bed, bath, and beyond, I think).  However, this quilt is important because it is what got me started with quilting.  I wanted to make a quilt that was similar, but more spring/summer colors.

This is the result.  (It was taken a while ago, in a different house.)  This was the first quilt that I made.  It is almost time to put it back on the bed again, but it needs some TLC first.  It turns out that having more than a 1/32" seam is really important. :)

I'm linking up with the "What's on your bed?" linky party.