Ticker Tape Quilt

I love finding new ideas to use my scraps, and I really like this idea from Crazy Mom Quilts!  It's something that you can prepare and then just add to as you get more scraps.  And the best part ... you piece and quilt at the same time!  Go {here} for a tutorial.

I've also seen her do one that is more of a twin size quilt ... a lot of work, but so cute!

Memory Quilt {sneak peek}

Okay, well I finally started sewing together my memory quilt {and let me tell you ... this is a PROJECT! If the fabric is knit ... t-shirt material ... then I have to use fusible interfacing so they wont stretch too much.}. I'm excited how the first block turned out ... I'm only hoping I can pull this off!

I really have been struggling letting go of all of my girls' baby clothes ... kind of sad for me since we wont have any more kids. So I decided to keep them and cut them up for a quilt.

I took a "before" picture of most of the clothes I'm using.

Here is my first square. I'm going to do each block like this, only on every other block the outside border is going to be white. I'm going to try to coordinate each square, but as far as all of the blocks going together ... they wont.

Here are some of the clothes I used ...

{All of my girls wore this one. There are only a few things that they all wore, so I'm really trying to use those pieces!}

{This one I only used the end of one of the sleeves - so far - for the "pretty" tag}

"Just Crafting Away ..."

I hope Lindsay is okay with me posting her quilt top, but I thought it turned out so cute. I'm excited that she finished and that hers turned out so good ... gives me hope. ;) Check out her cute blog "Just Crafting Away ..." here.

Before the Rip-Out

I decided to take a picture of what I had finished before I started ripping out squares to redo them. I've completed three squares so far and they're coming out good. Too bad I didn't pay close attention the first time. I guess this is how we learn our lessons, right!

Getting Closer ...

Scrappy 9 Patch Quilt

A few weeks ago I found a quilt along on the blog, Crazy Mom Quilts, and told my mom and friend, Lindsay about it, and shortly after all three of us decided to make our own. Seeing as I didn't have 140 different fabrics/scraps (2 different fabrics for each of the 70 squares), we all shared our fabric with each other. Here is about 35 squares that are finished. 

It's such a simple quilt; 9, 2 1/2 inch squares in each 9 patch. Once the 2 1/2 inch squares are all cut it goes super quick. It's been a fun project. I'm glad we started ... now just to finish!

My stack of what I have left before I have all 70 squares done. I want to finish them all today so that I can start sewing them all together tomorrow. I'm so excited to see the finished quilt top ... I'll post pictures as soon as I have more done.