Another Ottobre 2-2007

After making the version of the dress for Darth Monkey, my mom fell in love with the fabric and requested for me to make her a shirt from it.  She doesn't wear sleeveless items and I didn't have enough fabric for more than that so I made it thinking that it would be muslin.  

 I also forgot to add the seam allowances so then  I really didn't think it would work at all.

She decided that she likes it a lot and has been wearing it for working out at the senior center.  I've also cut up a bunch of her t-shirts and reshaped them to fit her better.  I've also resized some t-shirts for the girls so that they would fit them better, too.  I've decided that unless you really like the t-shirts for some reason it is easier to make a t-shirt than to resize one.

Grandmother-in-law's Churndash Quilt

I finished my grandmother-in-law's quilt tonight. I used an all over feather pantogram with a dark green thread to tie in the border she used in the rest of the quilt and because my mother-in-law wanted to take attention from the large number of bright competing fabrics used in the churndash blocks. Usually I try to not to have the quilting compete with the actual quilt top, but I think it works okay in this quilt.

Here is a picture of the quilting in process.

And the completed quilt (my MIL will do the trimming and binding)

And a picture of my mom just for fun. I sure do love this woman.