I Spy

This is a quilt I posted a "work-in-progress" picture of last summer.  I finished it somewhere around the end of last summer.  It's a scrappy "I Spy" quilt.  I just cut out pieces of novelty fabrics that I really like, then bordered them with wonky borders, then cut them all down to squares and rectangles and sewed them together.  Here's the finished product:

Old Pictures

 I was looking through all my old pictures of my bears, and I thought I'd share some of my favorites :)  All of these little guys are two inches tall, except for Petunia.  Petunia is one inch tall.

 This is Brambles.

 

Butterscotch

 

Coco

Eggnog

I love these pictures of Gingerbread :)

 Petunia

Robert

 Seafoam stars in some of my favorite pictures.

 Stardust

This is Stu, he's another favorite.  I actually sewed and then tie-dyed his shirt :)

Tim

Wesley

Alec

Here's one of my latest one-inch bears!  His name is Alec, and he's fully jointed and made of ultrasuede.  I have him on etsy here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/76662247/alec-ooak-1-miniature-teddy-bear

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I'm on etsy!

Well, I finally got myself on etsy.  Here’s my “store”: http://www.etsy.com/shop/katrinasminiatures

Right now, I’m posting all the animals I’ve made over the last few years, but never gotten a chance to sell.  Some of them are a little old and others are quite new.  I’m hoping they’ll do well.  I’m also hoping I’ll be able to get new ones made, so I can keep putting new ones up for sale.  I have so many ideas and so many projects I can hardly keep up with myself sometimes!  As long as I keep things balanced and work on things a little bit at a time, I think I can keep going at a slow and steady pace and get things done.  It’s a little challenging to balance everything I want to do (work, studying, art, reading, school…), but with priorities, deadlines, and patience, I should be fine.  I just need to set aside a little time for everything each day, or each week, and I can slowly work on getting everything done.

Store Sample Quilts

I just keep making quilts as store samples for Mom :)  Here are two of the latest:

This first one uses a book panel we have at the store, but I made it into a quilt instead.  I love it.  It reminds me of a book I used to check out of the school library all the time in the third grade.

I really like the fabrics in this one, too.  I tend to like animal fabrics, and I really like the animals in this one.

Quilts of Valor

Well, after a long absence, I thought I'd see about maybe getting this going again.  I'm back working at Mom's quilt shop now, so I've been mostly making store samples.  I've made quite a few since coming home!  One of the first ones is a Quilts of Valor quilt.  It was designed by Robert Kaufman, and it's my first quilt with actual pieced blocks!  It'll be donated to a wounded veteran.