Quilt for NAM 2015 continued...

So between work and juggling my child's activities and my other obligations I have not finished my quilt for NAM yet. With my deadline quickly approaching (sat feb 14) it looks like I will be submitting 2 next year. 

With that said I want to post the progress I have made so far. I have even gotten Miss K involved :)

Some of the blocks I have completed. 

Here is the stack I have ready to piece together. 

Miss K's contribution and her learning how to sew. 

Quilt for NAM 2015

Here is the starts of another quilt I am making to donate to NAM this year. I try to make and donate one every year for the Quilting Bee my church hosts. The quilts go to women and families who are getting out of bad situations and starting over. 

These are some of the fabrics I will be using. I have added others since this photo that I added from my stash. 

This is my inspiration. I originally saw this on Pintrest and then I saw it come across my facebook feed so I took it as a sign that I should do it.

Here is one of the blocks I have come up with. I changed it up to make it more my own. Only about 95 more to go and sashing and borders... Oh my I better get to work. 

Houston International Quilt Festival! 2014

I got to go to the Houston Quilt festival today. Went with my mom, my sister Stacey, my dad and my beautiful attitude filled 10 year old daughter. She loved it even if she did get hungry and tired. I loved it too, left there feeling inspired and ready to create some pretties. My mom went there in search of a new machine and to find a new dealer. My sister and I went to scope out the competition in the booths and the vendors, and of course look at the pretty creations. I took pictures of the red work quilts and some of the star quilts. However a lot of quilts I loved I could not take a picture of.

This was a miniature red work quilt. I love Christmas quilts. 

My daughter loved this one. The artist used stripped fabric and it looked like actual thread on the spools. 

Of course we can't go without stopping at the props set up for photos. Selfie time!

This astronaut made a quilt block in space and there was a challenge for others to make star blocks and submit them. There were 28 quilts made from the blocks that were submitted. 

More hanging red quilts

I'm going to make one of these trees!