Quilt and Sew Forever: Spring Just for Fun Projects

Just two days ago it was snowing! Today we got up to 66 degrees! The next two days we should have very warm days but then the temperatures are predicted to drop considerably for the remainder of the week.

I'm SO tired of cold weather, snow, etc. This is the time of year I start to go a little crazy. It's time to make some Spring projects. My daughter Amanda loves to decorate her home for every little or big holiday, season, etc. I'm trying to slowly but surely make her pillow covers with this in mind so that she can simply change out the pillow covers as often as her heart wishes.

I had a nice chunk of bright turquoise fabric left over from backing a quilt last year. I found some cute embroidery designs on emblibrary.com that was part of their weekly sale. A few hours later I had an adorable set of 18" x 18" pillow covers to go on the pillow forms she already owns.

She asked for cutesy rabbits...

And the second one....

Since my embroidery machine was warmed up and all of my threads were pulled out I thought I might as well make a Spring bib for little Miss Ava....

Isn't she adorable?!?!

She enjoys her bright and colorful ball pit....

Some days I get spur of the moment ideas and run with them.

I fell in love with that adorable bunny on Ava's bib. There were three other precious animals in the collection so I decided to make myself a wall hanging.😁😁

Once again I searched through my stash of scraps. I found a nice wide strip of a quality muslin that was left over from a previous quilt project.

This bunny is for ME!

And this duck.....

And this lamb....

And finally this chick.....

I pulled out my box of 2 1/2" wide strips, chose four different fabric strips in pastel colors....

I then found a solid pink fat quarter for the setting borders and one blue 2 1/2" strip from the box for stepping stones....

Rather than use my longarm, this time I just wanted to sit at my trusty old Pfaff and do a simple quilting by stitching 1/4" from the seams.

I pulled this pretty metallic Amethyst thread made by Hemingworth....

Started quilting....the metallic thread shows up nicely and sparkles in the light....

Here's a peek at the back to prove I truly did a simple quilting of this project....

O boy....time for binding. I really didn't want to cut into a large yardage piece so it took a few extra minutes to turn up this piece that was about the perfect size to bind my hanging....