Kesa's Horse Quilt

Kesa LOVES horses so I made her this quilt to go on her bed. She is so excited and I hope that it will help her want to sleep in her bed! :)
The horse fabric was expensive so I only bought 1 1/4 yards and then bought some matching plain colors. It needed more horses to break up the plain colors so I cut out individual horses and zig zagged them on to random squares. It was fast to put together and tie. To bind it I used the sandwich idea (top right side up and bottom right side down then batting, sew together leaving a hole to turn it right side out then hand stitch the hole closed.)

We were able to tie it in about 1/2 hour! It looks so cute on her bed with a pillow that is also pieced and I still need to make the dust ruffle out of the yellow color.

Cherie

Junior Critter Week, Post 4 - Table Runner

Here some table runners I have made for seasonal decorating!

-Kelsey

Junior Critter

What a quilt!!!

When Braxton went through his treatments my mom would come from Idaho to stay and help with Kelsey. During radiation, we had to be to the hospital at 5:30 in the morning, five days a week for six weeks. We would be done around 11:00 a.m. So my mom and I had alot of time together, we couldn't go to alot of places because of Braxton not being able to be in public. During this time we worked on alot of projects, So when Jaden was diagnosed, my mom and I got this quilt pattern to work on while she was here helping with the kids. Well needless to say I was never home while she was staying at my house. So the quilt pattern just sat. After the whole cancer things was over, my mom and I pulled it out and have been working on it when she comes to our house. This last weekend she was here having her last eye surgery done and we decided to pull the quilt out and get the top completely sewn before she goes back home. We have had fun doing it together and we both love the pattern that we are going to make another one so that both of us can have a quilt. I think it will be an awesome keepsake for my kids when they have children, to know that their grandma and great grandma made this quilt together and the story behind it. (o.k calling myself a grandma just totally freaked me out, yikes!) So now that I got through this long post; here is the finished quilt top. Close-up of one of the squares.

Quilt holder

I have been wanting to have something to hold and display Caitlynn's quilts. I have seen these and decided that I could make one - with hubby's help of course. It was really easy to make, we had extra pieces of wood laying around waiting to be used - LOVE THAT.
You can pretty much use anything. We used 2-1x3's cut it to 64" tall (When cutting the bottom we cut it on a slant, so when we assembled it, it would stand flat.

We started from the bottom and measured 10" up and placed the 1x2 across the two 2x3's and then measured every inch and placed each board across.

There is a slant to the ladder, the bottom is 26" apart and the top is 16" apart. We used a brad nailer and nailed the boards. Notice all of the wood and saw dust, that was from cutting out the "family" blocks for our creativity day.

Puttied the holes . . .

and then sanded.

Now time to paint!

I didn't want it to look rustic at all, since it was going in Caitlynn's room. So once I painted, it was done and ready for quilts.

Love how it turned out and now Caitlynn's quilts have a home. Yeah! I had hubby make me one, so when I get all of my quilt projects done, I will have a place to display my cute quilts. I will post when that project is done . . . so many, where does one start, sigh.

Happy Creating!

Caleen

Quilt

I made this quilt for mom for Christmas.