After nearly 3 years in the making, our king quilt is finally finished! It all started in 2011 after I finished a quilt for Vince (and a few months after I finished my first two quilts for my parents). I decided I wanted to make a quilt for our bed, one that we could use exclusively in the summer, and over our blanket in the winter. For our second anniversary Vince gave me a gift card to Joann Fabrics (since the 2nd anniversary gift is cotton), and I could finally start on the king quilt. My mom bought me the book, Modern Basics by Amy Ellis, where I found the quilt pattern I wanted to use. Over the next several months I began collecting fabric for the quilt top. I bought some of the fabric at Joann’s and the rest at various quilt shops. By spring of 2012 I finally had collected enough variety in fabric to start cutting. I finally finished the quilt top in August of 2012, but with the quilting being so expensive we put it off until last year. Autumn of 2013 I finally bought the fabric for the quilt back (I decided to just use a solid cream), but didn’t send it off to be quilted until after Christmas. With the crazy busy semester the binding wasn’t finished until a few weeks ago, finally culminating several years of working on the huge quilt! Now that it’s finished I am in love!!!!!!!!!! It was worth all the money and time put into it, and something that we will treasure forever. I can’t say I ever want to make another king sized quilt again, but I sure am planning on a few others.

How it all started

After organizing the fabric by color and size

Organizing the fabric into blocks

Rows of the quilt before I sewed them together

The finished quilt top

After coming back from the quilter

The finished product

An up close detail of the quilting

It’s perfect!!!!

It’s hard to believe that Father’s Day is already this Sunday! In case you haven’t already made or bought a card yet, here are a few of my favorite Father’s Day cards from the last few years.

Although I am moving away from a solely scrapbooking/card making blog, that doesn’t mean I won’t post a few on here. Today I wanted to share a few favorite birthday cards I’ve been working on.

The first two cards use papers from the Stella and Rose Mabel 6×6 paper pack, in addition to a few solid scraps I had laying around. The sentiment on the first card is from “Friendly Phrases”, a Stampin Up stamp set, and the sentiment on the second card is from the “So Much to Say” Lawn Fawn set.


Papers on this last card are from Pebbles’ “Front Porch” paper pad and use the same sentiment from card 1 from “Friendly Phrases”.