Baseball quilt

My cousin placed my first order for a baby quilt and pillow. Her request was for a red,white, and blue color scheme with baseball and/or football. I stuck with just baseball. I wasn't too sure about it until I put the "baseball" border on it. I just loved it as soon as the borders were put on! This one has corduroy squares and backing. It's really soft and I hope the recipient gets lots of enjoyment out of it!

Sew, Sew weekend...

I was able to spend Saturday afternoon taking lessons on my new embroidery machine! I am in love with it! I have had four quilt tops ready for the recipients names to be applique onto them for a couple of weeks. I had planned on doing it the "hard" way, by hand, but when I got my machine, those plans changed!

I have two identical quilts for two special little boys, that don't belong to me! Of course, these still have to be quilted, but I just couldn't wait to show off my newest trick!

This is a close up of my nephew Garrett's quilt top. I hope he likes it. Buzzy liked it so I feel pretty confident that Garrett will too!

I have part of my material ready to go for my first ordered quilt! I can't wait to get it put together. This one is going to have corduroy squares instead of the minky. I think it will be really nice and soft also. I have lots of other projects either just getting started or ready to be finished up! Too bad most of them are Christmas presents. I won't be able to show them off for a few months!

Christmas Presents....

All of my sewing lately has been on projects for Christmas presents. It's killing me because I can't load pictures of them, because the recipients will see them! So, this is as good as it's going to get until after Christmas. Wouldn't it be nice to know which one is your's, family members?

New Direction

So since Facebook has taken the world by storm, my pitiful little blog has been tossed to the wind. I spend most of my mornings, evening and any free minute in between searching inspiring crafty blogs. So this is where the 'new direction' comes into play. You are now looking at the new blog of Leslie Ashley. I will be posting the journey of my quilting projects and any other project that I have in the works. This may bore most of you, but then again, it may not. Who knows! So, sit back, relax, and wait six months for my next post!