A month or two ago I decided to clean out the fabric scrap bins (yes, it is embarrassingly bins). So, I went through all of them and started sorting them by color. I threw away small pieces (I know some of you are cringing right now), gave away two grocery sack of others...and then got down to one bin of my own! Major improvement. And when I was done the oranges and grey scrap piles ended up next to each other...which made me think it was time to cut them up into a Halloween quilt. Which ... View the Post
Indian Summer Quilt Along–Finishing your Quilt Top
Day One--Cutting Your Fabric Day Two--Making Your Quilt Block Today we are going to be finishing up our quilt top! Wahooooo....it's always an exciting day to finish up a top. Let's get started....remember the pattern? The first thing we need to do today is to put your blocks together into rows. Lay out all your blocks as seen above, but this time you will need to add your 7 1/2 by 2 1/2 white pieces that you cut on day 1 (they are your pieces shown on the right in the picture ... View the Post
Indian Summer Quilt Along–Making a Block
If you are just joining us today, we are in the middle of a quilt along where we are piecing together our quilt blocks. Day One of Cutting your fabric is here. Remember our pattern? Today we are going to focus on making our smaller bocks. The ones with 2 4 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches of fabric with the 1 inch strips in between and the 7 1/2 inch by 2 1/2 inch blocks (you will see it clearly in the photos below....don't stress yet ;) Let's get started.... Here is the layout of the ... View the Post
The Hexagon Quilt and Invisible Thread
The hexagon quilt is finally finished, washed and on its owners bed. Yippeee! I know you have seen this hexie one before (it's been a work-in-progress with the binding for awhile). But, I am so happy with the way it turned out. And I have a binding tip that maybe some of you already know (and you should have told me a long time ago)....but INVISIBLE THREAD is the bomb dot com (okay I never say that so I have no idea why I just wrote it). But, it really is. source I found this ... View the Post
Baby Coin Quilt
(Don't I have the best assistant ever? And thankfully she has a thing for gold shoes as well...) I told you earlier that one of my goals this year was to do a bit more quilting. It's been kind of a full-circle thing, because baby blankets and quilts were some of the first things I started sewing again after my first was born. And it's been really enjoyable to have a quilting project going that I can pick up and leave in between garment sewing. This one was a baby quilt for a cousin's ... View the Post
A Chevron Quilt and some scraps.
Happy Thursday everyone! I don't know what it is about this week, but I am ready for a weekend. I think it might be all the last-minute HUGE school projects that we are trying to get tucked away before the end of the year--but I will be happy when they are turned in and done. It's been a LOT of homework time. Also this week I have been working on some quilting projects. The hexagon quilt is finally back from Melissa's sewing shop and is ready to bind, which I am dying to get done. The ... View the Post