The Pirate Quilt

Many of you know I have been working on a pirate quilt for my grandsons first birthday. Well that special day was yesterday and although the quilt was not completed it was far enough along I got to present it to him and then quickly took it back to finish. I am posting some early pictures of the quilt, before I had it assembled or even completely layed out. As soon as I am done with it I will post final pictures. Some of the quilt stores that carry my other quilts want to see the pattern when its finished, so I need to get that all put together and packaged also. Let me know what you think. I ended up painting some of the elements and I have changed some of them since this picture. I think he will enjoy it and I think I managed to keep it happy verses dark and too old.

Grandkids Project day

I had the opportunity of having two of my grandkids over on Friday, Mikey 12 and Kylie 9. It was great fun, since every time they come I try to have projects and keep them creative. My goal is that they remember me as the one that introduced them to their creativity and imagination. I had these fabric crayons,which I have never used before, and some canvas bags so I told them to draw anything and we would transfer the designs to the bags. I told them they could use them for books or for Trick or Treating at Halloween. They both decided to make Trick or Treat bags. They both drew two pictures each and we colored them very good to make sure the design transfered well enough. After we did that I just loved their designs so much I scanned them into the computer and printed their pictures on fabric and we sewed a quilt for them to have up during the holiday. I let them sew the sashing on the squares and then I quilted it in "glow in the dark" thread! Now their scary quilt will glow when the lights go off! Its a great idea for anyone looking for a fast project for kids. I now need to clean up the mess that the whirlwind project day left me with!! My sewing room looks like a bomb hit it, and all of my straight pins are pushed all the way to their heads into each pin cushion, why do kids love to do that??? LOL