Some of My Recent Work...

I thought I would share some of my recent work. 

 

This is a Santa Claus wall hanging that I made for a Christmas gift for a family member.  They are going to love it! 





 

 

 

I made this beauty for my husband for our anniversary.  It's completely made from men's shirts.  The pattern is a bowtie variation, set into "circles", and it also has a scrappy border using the leftover blue shirt scraps.  He loves it. 

 

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This summer, one of the pumpkins in my class had a baby sister, and we decided to make a present for her.  I brought in my sewing machine and precut squares, and the kids sewed them together with my help.  This is the big brother working hard... 

 

 

Below is the finished quilt, and my class was so proud!

 



 

 

The quilt below is one I made for a fundraiser for my school, which is located at the University of Central Florida.  Our symbol is the Pegasus, and this quilt is hand appliqued and machine quilted.  It's gorgeous, if I do say so myself.

 

 

My Sewing Space...

This is a t-shirt quilt that I recently finished as a custom order,  I just love the way it came out with all the purples, it practically sparkles.  

 

 

 

 



This is what my main sewing area looks like.  At least this is where I sit to sew at the sewing machine.  I'm working on the hubs to recess the sewing machine into the table so I can sew for longer periods comfortably, but you know, everything is a process.  The plastic drawers under the table hold my bobbins, thread, thimbles, and things like that.  To the left of the ironing board is a huge bookshelf with quilting books on it.  The shelves to the right hold my bins with small pieces of fabric sorted by color.  I also have a few project boxes there, holding everything I need for a particular project (for example, all the food fabrics for canning jar quilts). 

 

 

Behind me is the  Gammill longarm quilting machine (my most favorite toy!) and next to that is my desk with my computer and a large table where I keep projects waiting to quilt and projects ready to ship.  That's about it.  Nothing really fancy, but it works for me. 

Schedules, etc.

Hello Saturday morning!  I love weekends because I feel like I'm so busy all week it's hard to do things for myself.  Let me tell you a little about my life:  I'm a preschool teacher in a university lab school setting, so I not only have 20 children in my class, I also have many, many college students that are education majors working in my classroom also, in the form of volunteers, observers, interns and work study students.  It can be crazy!

I also have a small quilting business that includes a shop on Etsy called (SHOCKER!) QuiltCraft by Amie.  This means I have to make time each week to sew or quilt products for the shop or work on special orders.  I try to do the majority of that a couple of evenings during the week.  For example, Wednesday night is STRICTLY for working.  A couple of times a week, I hire my daughter, who has been helping me with quilting all her life to come over and put a quilt on the longarm for me while I do other things, then I do the quilting.  I think this is the most efficient way since it takes a bit of time, and this way, I'm still productive while she takes care of this for me. 

I take care of house responsibilities early in the morning.  I get up early, and while the hubs sleeps in I putter around doing whatever needs to get done.  This includes taking care of my chickens, who I adore. 

Somehow I work lesson planning and preparing in there somewhere. 

I do all of these things under the close supervision of our Boston Terrier, Sophie.  She has a bed near my sewing area and likes to keep me company while I work. She's very nosy curious about what I'm up to.  I think of her as the quality control department. 

I would love to hear how you fit in all the things you like to do into your day or week...

Welcome!  My name is Amie and I am a quilter, teacher, and Etsy shop owner.  I've been quilting for 25 years and have tried almost every technique there is out there.  I've been a professional longarm quilter, and taught quilting for many years.  My hope is to bring a love of quilting to the world through this blog as well as my Etsy shop, QuiltCraft by Amie--visit if you'd like to....

My favorite quilt pattern is the Drunkard's Path...I'm not sure why, there's just something about that curvaceous layout that I love.  Maybe because I'm curvaceous... it's worth considering, I guess.  I've made several quilts with this pattern, this is the latest one with a little different technique.  (Not sure why the photo looks so washed out, need to get that figured out).

 

My husband and I camp quite a bit.  (IN OUR CAMPER!)  I'm not much of a sleep-on-the-ground girl.  Nope.   This is my morning view when I'm camping.

 

 

 

Do you have a favorite quilt pattern?  I'd love to hear what it is and why it's your favorite.