Sew & Tell Friday #12

It's the first Sew and Tell Friday of 2010!!!  Yeah!!  I can't wait to see all the creative goodness that has been going on.  Click on the button if you want to see as well.

I couldn't show you this Christmas present before, because Max is a frequent reader of my blog!  Ha!  Obviously that's not the reason.  It's because I didn't complete it until now.  I really think Max likes his new dog bed!

Do you remember my waverunner quilt top?  Can you see that it is finally quilted?  I used a variegated thread and just quilted straight lines. { I got the idea from Joanna over at Applique Today.  Thanks Joanna!}  Did you guess where the quilt top is now?

Thelma suggested I make it into a bed for Max, and Max is so glad she did!!!  The cute little girl behind Max actually did some of the quilting.  Max's bed is actually the first step in my office-to-studio makeover.  Max seems lost when he comes into my sewing room because he doesn't have a spot to hang out.  The wood floors are so cold, but Max likes to be where I am.  I am hoping this will solve the problem.  {Actually, I think that is the reason Ally helped me quilt Max's bed.  On her own, she read yesterday's blog post and said she wanted to help me with my "studio".  How sweet is that?}

In case you missed it yesterday, here is my small color wheel embroidery quilt that I made under the instruction of Amy.  I really like the way Amy quilted hers with circles around the main color wheel.  Since I didn't want to be a complete copy cat, I had to come up with something different.  I quilted around the inside and outside of the color wheel, but then quilted straight lines out from the individual color spokes.

I used the same variegated thread to machine stitch the binding that I used on the waverunner quilt.  I decided not to donate this to AAQI.  As I mentioned yesterday, I am not happy with the binding strips which is one of the reasons I went ahead and stitched the binding by machine rather than hand.

The back is some Alexander Henry fabric from my stash.  It is from the same line as the binding fabric originally used in the Angel Tree quilt.  I think if Amy agrees, I may make another color wheel for AAQI.

Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays and had an awesome New Year!!!

Have an amazing weekend!!!!!  {

I'm hoping to do some de-cluttering in my office.}