Felt Jungle

What else does one do during a blizzard in Fargo other than make things out of shrunken sweaters?

Elephants based off a pattern by Heather Bailey

A ferocious alligator eating Fred's finger

Tails before their final trip through the washing machine

Alligator before final felting

Alligator after

before final felting

after

before

after

Quilt Challenge #3

The challenge:
Half-Square Triangles + shower bottle colors

• Use (ONLY) the half-square triangle block, in any size(s) you want: http://quilting.about.com/od/quickpiecingtechniques/ss/halfsquaretria.htm

• FABRIC: any prints, solids whatever you want, but to define your color scheme, choose one of the bottles currently in your shower (shampoo, conditioner, body soap, etc.), and use only colors found on that one bottle.

• As usual, create a 'baby' size quilt

Mom Wenzel's inspiration bottle:

Mom Wenzel's finished quilt:

Mom Ueckert's inspiration bottle:

Mom Ueckert's finished quilt:

Heather's inspiration bottle:

Heather's finished quilt:

Quilt Challenge #2

For our second quilt challenge, Mom Wenzel challenged us way outside our comfort zone with creating a 'Mojo Doll' rather than a pieced quilt. Here are the results.

The specifics of the challenge:

• Create your own Mojo Doll - a personal good luck charm
• I found this in Quilter's Home Magazine; they are having a contest and I thought it would be fun
• Cut out the pattern and start slapping it together. Include items or ideas of what is important to you; wishes, dreams, etc. Just have fun and make it your own.
• If you choose, add a few comments of what and why.

Mom Wenzel's Mojo Doll
'My Mojo is about me: wrinkles, pearls, obsessed with ribbons (hair), love for my family (heart), love to stitch (thimble earrings), and check out the bling!

My wishes: thin waist and big hair
On my 'cape of hopes': to keep making quilts, remain mobile, get better at computer skills and become an art quilter.'

Heather's Mojo Doll
For mine, I wanted to incorporate all the fabrics that I love the most, plus give her big fat braided hair, which I have always wanted.






Mom Ueckert's Mojo Doll
[still to come...]

Mouse Mitten

Whenever I work from home I set up the laptop
on the countertop at the bar. Unfortunately the
Silestone is VERY COLD and after about
10 minutes I can't get warm.

So I made myself a mouse mitten to keep
my wrist, palm and fingers warm.

Quilt Challenge #1

My Moms and I created a quilt challenge for ourselves at the beginning of the year, and here are the results.

The specifics of the challenge:

• Curvy Rail Fence Block (here's a link with directions for sewing curves)

• Batiks + Solids (+ whatever, if you want to add something else)
  
• Final size is ‘baby quilt size’

Mom Ueckert's final quilt:

Mom Wenzel's final quilt:

My final quilt:

Baby Quilt for Roberta

It's a Girl!
Due 3/17/10

My felted sweater project

When I was home over the holidays, my Mom & I went on a wool sweater hunt at some local thrift stores, and felted (fulled) what we found. I was determined to create a new sweater out of whatever I found, and I came up with this. Sewing the felted pieces together was much easier than I feared- adding the non-stretchy trim was not quite as easy.