the binding is way cute (if i say so myself)

soooo i don't know why that is small. i just know that its true.

i made this blankie for richie. its a way good blankie. but i sort of remembered how much i hate sewing for adults because they are so big.

some of the fabric is from gee's bend. which means some cute little lady hand dyed this.

anyway its kind of puffy. lets pretend i meant to do that. i really do like how the brown lines don't really line up. i did do that on purpose. but truth is i probably wouldn't have been able to line it up perfectly due to the fact i don't really "measure."

i hear elephants have funerals

so for baby rosalie i decided to make an elephant instead of a quilt.

she complained a little but you know babies can't always get their way.

also, you can't see them but this elephant has cute pink heart eyes which if swallowed by a baby shouldn't cause too many problems.

tiger tiger.

burning bright.
i think this this is maybe my favorite fabric ever.
maybe.

covers for cover

rainbow quilt!

valentine patch.

this quilt actually has two fronts. which is fun. but hard to quilt i wasnt sure which side to cater to if you know what i mean (and you probably dont).

there are iron ons on the tan patch. see (and you probably don't).

i didnt actually bind so i left it naked and i sort of like it. its my favorite binding yet.

i cant believe how much i like this binding (and you probably dont).

it was like taffy

so i had this idea for a quilt. it involved sewing strips together then cutting those strips and sewing those together and then it would more or less be squares. i might have repeated the process a third time. anyway, here is the result. what i learned from this is that you should probably use a wider variety of fabric than say i used. i would recommend at least ten different colors.

you cant see this but i bound it with a flower stitch. which is cute. really it looks like an oversized place mat so i think its pretty versatile.

my quilts are getting smaller and smaller and someday will probably just be napkins. speaking of place settings.

i heard that its all a coverup

so i have been marginally busy lately so i havent been posting as i should.

here are the last two quilts i have made...one is for teresa for her birthday. i realized i sewed the soft side on the inside and it resulted in a christmas fight with me and my mom. however, that was the only fight on christmas so i am going to go ahead and count that as a holiday success. it will just haunt me forever. (i wish my mom read this and felt marginally guilty but she doesnt so i will have to try other passive aggressive ways to communicate with her).

this was the quilt i imagined would be all stripes.

and this one is baby welkerjensons quilt. i made it sort of small. which seems like a terrible idea reflecting on the heights of her parents...baby welkerjenson i apologize in advance if this quilt doesnt cover your toes.

and baby welkerjenson i hope you like purple and pink and the feminist movement.

songs of soloman

i cant be sure but i think this baby quilt could double as a beach towel. i, personally dont like beaches, but maybe the baby does.

its just not fair

this quilt is really wrinkled but i can't be bothered to iron it just imagine it unwrinkled. actually i did iron it to submit it to the state fair. i made it for my friend tanya with all my extra time and fabric i had laying around.

my dad and i had a great debate on whether i should enter this quilt or the keep utah clean quilt which he likes a little more but then he decided this quilt looked like the desert and thought it was ok after all. then he asked if i have a job yet. still no.

close up of the wrinkles. i feel bad like im showing my quilts age or something. sorry quilt you will always look young to me.


i think the back reminds me of the four corners part of utah. i wished i would have thought of that to tell my dad.

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the best part of the fair was obviously not my quilt but the pigs and the boyz II men concert. but thanks to everyone who went to see it.

babies can be monsters

twins!

singles!

your surprise is in that note

quilts for boys with b's. not bs. or bz. z is the new s.
i hear.

someone stole my bike

i made this here quilt for my parents. for christmas. its july or august or something. what does time mean to me? here are very similar looking pictures but i only have these two and with a picture intensive blog i feel that i should post both and consider in the future perhaps a nice close up or two.

you know how im into ganster rap right

nephew finally got his baby quilt. although it made me late for his blessing and i missed it. and i like blessings. i always want them to change the babys name last minute but i have never seen it happen. i was mad because everyone forgot to invite me but then i accidentally found out about it and had to drive to eagle mountain which i hate. i hate eagle mountain and since i hate it and had to drive there i cursed it with a sore cursing.

but then i got there and i heard a pretty interesting talk about how mormons should hate socialism but not me i love socialism and then i dropped my purse which i was organizing (multi tasking) and i think everyone knew i was liberal.

the back.

enjoyed by a former friend

if you went to art city days you would have been in for a treat this year. here are some of the quilts we saw. and by we i mean me and my parents. at the quilt show we ran into my great aunt who doesnt remember me (or really anyone to be fair) but she remembers she likes quilts. i think this quilt is about joseph smith jr.

you probably cant see this quilt but the little animals in the middle are walruses. a pink blue and green one but you probably can see that part. whoever made this one is clearly awesome.

flags and flowers were common themes.

as were egyptians.

across the street in the art museum there was a flower show. i went over to the art museum to get an entry form for some quilt show they have there but i probably wont get into it so dont get your hopes up. were your hopes up? get them down.

back to the foliage an entry included a doll looking at herself in the mirror. looking good dolly!

there were balloons and cotton candy everywhere of course.

here is my family at the parade. i would put up a picture of myself but i sort of look like an alcoholic in the morning. i dont promote drinking i just look like i do.

we all showed up to support my mom who is on this float. she is obviously the super excited person under the umbrella. she made me pick out a new outfit months in advance but decided not to wear it due to "weather concerns" but really i heard she was worried she was wearing a rival cities colors.

oh yeah at the quilt show i got to talk to my neighbor who makes birds out of garbage and puts them in his yard.

he is making a new chicken out of a toaster or something. he had a clever name for it which i promptly forgot. i was never good with coming up with or retaining clever names other people came up with.

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