Busy October

This has been a busy past October.  The girls went to the pumpkin patch early October where they: ran around a corn maze, looked at farm animals, played on the playground and picked out pumpkins to carve. 

 With all the leaves still on the ground, and no snow yet.  The girls have had a lot of fun jumping in piles of leaves. 

Of course we cannot forget trick or treating.  Daddy skipped his class so he could be with them.  It was Naomi's first time. She liked getting candy, but really didn't understand why all these people she didn't know were giving it to her.  And honestly, Halloween is an odd holiday.  Allyson was a clown and Naomi wan owl.

Here are all of Mommy's projects that she finished in October.

 This is a practice quilt I made to cover up our breaker box. I bought the pattern and wanted to make a small one to see if I really wanted to make a twin size one for Naomi. So maybe in a few months I'll have the quilt top done of a Twin size one for Naomi. The pattern is called Painted Ladies by Fig Tree & Co.

 This is a pillow I made for a Christmas present for someone. They don't know it  yet though.  It is the first time I have used hexagons.  Not as hard as I thought, but I didn't get all my points to meet either. I'll probably make another one, since I still have enough hexagons from the same fabrics to make another.

 This is the front of a baby quilt I made. I saw the pattern on Pinterest, but it was for a twin size quilt, and it had the same amount of blocks, so they were pretty big.  So I just did the math and made my own pattern. I made it with scraps from my Etsy shop. After I finished the quilt top, a nephew was born. So I put his name on the back.

Strip Quilt Finished

Topside of the Finished Quilt! 

Backside of the Quilt

Well here it is. After not too much hard work, I have a new quilt for my bed. 

I saw the patterns for the Jellyroll Race quilts and liked the concept, but not the lack of control over the finished product. I also didn't want the strips to be so narrow.  I made my strips 4" instead of the 2.5" jellyroll size. 

Too make it was pretty simple. I cut 26 - 4" x wof strips of my patterned fabrics. 13 - 4" x wof strips of each solid. I used Kona Snow and Aqua. Then I took one of each solid, stacked them on top of each other evenly, and then cut both of them in 2 strips. Then you pair up the opposite colors so their lengths combined equal wof. I did this with all the solid strips, but varied where I cut them into 2. I made one so there was no white strip, just a whole aqua strip. Then I sewed the patterned strip between the two solids.

Before I sewed all the strips together  I laid them out my floor to decide on the order of the strips.  There were 3 of each of the fabric patterns , except for about 2 of the patterns there were 4. I put them all in a repeating order except the 2 extra one I had to fit somewhere. Then I just sewed the strips together in that order.

The white side has a 15" border added to it after all the strips were sewn together.  I wanted the pattern to be off set.  I measured it so that the seam to that boarder would hit my mattress on the corner, so the entire boarder is the part of the quilt hanging on the side of the bed.  That area I free motion quilted on. The rest of the quilt I quilted 1/4" on either side of the seams horizontally.