Handmade with Love ~ Part 2

Here I am again, at the end of another quilting project. I have been working on this one for the past few months. It is a quilt for my oldest son and daughter in law for their 7th anniversary. I decided that this quilt would be in greens, browns and black. As with my last quilt I bought all my fabrics from one of my favorite online fabric shops, auntie chris quilt fabric.
Here are the beautiful cotton quilt pieces cut out and ready to start stitching.

 Here are pictures with the quilt mostly put together and waiting to be top stitched.

 Here is the finished quilt.

 If you would like to see the post about the last quilt I made here is a link, Handmade With Love
I hope you enjoyed a peek at another of my own personal handmade projects.
Thank you for stopping by,
Kathi

My Mom

My mom passed away on Dec. 25th Christmas morning, and for me those days became a blur of emotions. I was very close to my mom and although most of my life I tried being different than her in the end I am very similar to my mom. For 50 of the last 54 years of my life I have lived within 5 miles of my mom. This was never intentional, its just how it was.
Mother's Day is coming up and I know its going to be a tough one, I want to honor my mom for she is where I received my creativity. Here is just a sampling of my mom's work. You will notice a variety of zig zag afghans, those she made for her grand children and great grand children. I hope you enjoy some of the pictures of my Mom's Stitches. She was an amazing woman and she is missed. (XOXO luv u mom)

Each of these items were given as gifts to my moms family and friends. Each of these gifts will be treasured for a long time. Because when you receive a gift that is handmade it will almost always be treasured far longer than a blanket you buy in a store or a stuffed animal stuffed in a bin at the local store. Not everyone can create such lovely items and for those that can't create you can search out truly unique items handmade by a variety of artisans in this country. You can go to a online venue that sells wonderful handmade items. I sell my handmade items at Kathisewnsew's Boutique on Artfire, my mom was proud of this and she was one of my biggest supporter. My mom never sold her beautiful creations, she always said with all the grandchildren and great grandchildren she had no time to make even more to sell.  She loved giving them to people that she knew would love and appreciate them.  The best gift my mom ever gave me was her creativity.  The above items are just a small amount of beautiful things she made throughout her life. 

Creativity is Contagious, Pass it on.

Kathi

My Studio

I don't know about you but when I get in a creative mood (which is most of the time) I tend not to be neat. Ok, I'm a clutterer. I will pile this fabric on top of that fabric mixed in with matching zippers, and oh I got another idea and I go on the hunt for a particular piece of fabric for the new idea. And before you know it I have way to much out. So then I have to reorganize a bit. So that is where I am at this point. I have some holiday ideas and about half dozen or more sewing projects cut out and waiting for me. So, the plan for today is to straighten up my sewing room so that I can get back to sewing.

My sewing studio is small, but with all those heavy duty shelf's that my hubby built for me on the back wall I have more than enough space. I will take some before during and after pictures to post here as I go along.
Here are a couple before pictures:

Before picture, looking right

Before picture, looking left

I will get some in progress shots later today.

Along with that project I need to work on cleaning the kitchen and getting ready for Thanksgiving. I'm having the family here for dinner. I will be cooking a turkey with all the sides that each of the kids like.  I am so thankful for my family, they are the best, and I know I can trust them. They support my dream of creating beautiful handmade bags and selling them in my own online boutique.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by,

Kathi

Handmade with Love

As you know I have a passion for handmade.  This isn't a recent discovery, I have always been this way. So it wouldn't be a surprise to hear that I made a gift for my daughter and son in law that had to be handmade. The past 1-1/2 months I have been working on a special project, I'm making a quilt throw for their first anniversary.
Here are some pictures as I went.

I hope you enjoyed a peek behind the scenes from Kathisewnsew's Boutique.
Thank you for stopping by,
Kathi