Updates on Sewing Up My Fabric!

Since I originally posted my description of this blog, I have somewhat erred from my intention. I have actually bought much more fabric than I had but ................. in my defense, I got the solids at 50% off and the quilt shop fabric at 75% off, so that doesn't count, right? LOL

Friday, August 27, 2021

BATS AND BOOS

 TOP AND BACKING ARE READY TO SANDWICH!


Thanks to the Fat Quarter Shop  for hosting this free Quilt Along. I am so glad to have the top finished and even have the binding pieced and ready. They are patiently waiting for me to start the quilting!


NOW I need to finish the Spooky Sampler QAL with Pat Sloan and Melissa Mortenson at Polka Dot Chair. 


Halloween is not a favorite holiday of mine but I really like the color combinations so I just had to make these two quilts!

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Sunday, July 25, 2021

SENSORY QUILT

 This is a small post of my first attempt at a fidget blanket.  I have a friend whose mother has dementia and I wanted to make her a fidget blanket. I can't tell you how many YouTube videos I watched.  Looks simple and straight forward I told myself but it took me a long time to finally get it done.  I just didn't feel comfortable putting those gadget type things on there so I finally went with what I call a sensory blanket. She likes to watch Cupcake Wars so I put cupcakes on there. She lives in Texas so I put a few fabrics representing Texas. I found that faux lamb's wool and thought that might feel good and you can see the rest in the picture.  It turns out the faux lamb's wool is her favorite part and her daughter says she holds tight to it when she is changing her sheets! The goal was to make her happy, so I think I did ok.



I chose something totally different for the back for variety.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Fairy Tale Blog Hop

 Fairy Tales Blog Hop

Hosted by CalicoJoan at MooseStash Quilting

I am pretty excited to be in this blog hop.  There have already been some great interpretations of "Fairy Tales" in the blogs today. Each one so different. Normally, I would not consider myself talented enough to join one of these adventures but I remembered that I had some fabric that I got in Germany about 4 years ago and I really wanted to make something out of it.

Since I was in the land of castles, I just had to buy this fabric. I had no idea what I was going to do with it. And then came along this blog hop!



I tried to make a castle in EQ but I am not that good with it but I did remember that Alice at Blossom Heart Quilts had made a castle pattern.  OK, I hate paperpiecing but I did buy the pattern and manage to made the castle. Fortunately, it was large enough that I only needed to make one.






54" x 59"




Back turned out pretty nice.

Laural of Slice of Pi Quilts posted about making quilts which were featured in children's books and I thought maybe I could find one about fairy tales.  Well...........you can find anything on Amazon, right? Yes I did. I found the perfect children's book.  It tells all about knights and what they wore and about dragons, etc. just perfect! Now I need a little 4 year old boy to read to for nap time! LOL




Thank you for visiting my blog and taking the time to read it.

Below is a list of all of the blogs in this blog hop and the dates they will be sharing their fairy tales. I hope you find the time to stop by and see each one of them.

Monday June 21

Creatin’ in the Sticks

Samelia’s Mum

Kathleen McMusing

Becky’s Adventurers in Quilting and Travel

VroomansQuilts

Food for Thought


 Tuesday June 22

Quilted Delights

Stitchin at Home

Karrins Crazy World

 Quilting & Learning - What a Combo!

Sewing Up My Fabric

Selina Quilts


Wednesday June 23

Just Let Me Quilt

 Websterquilt

Inflorescence

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Just Because Quilts

Domestic Felicity

 

Thursday June 24

Scrapdash

That Fabric Feeling

Ms P Designs USA

Quilt Schmilt

Patchouli Moon Studio

Days Filled With Joy

Goofin' Off Around the Block

 

Friday June 25

Quilt Fabrication

My Bumbleberry Life

Songbird Designs

Words & Stitches

MooseStashQuilting








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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Jolly Bar 3 Table Runner Sew a Long Sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop

So very far outside my comfort zone!


This was a bit of an experiment.

I pulled 42 - 10" squares from what I call "Pam's Vintage Pre-cuts".  I randomly chose the fabrics to make a layer cake. Then I cut them in half to make two Jolly Bars. The second Jolly Bar was going to be used with Pat Sloan's Friendship Bracelet QAL using the Jolly Bar 3 book. The reason for the orange background is that I let my husband choose it!

(I take my scraps and cut them into precuts starting with fat quarters, 10", then 5", 2-1/2" squares and 2-1/2" strips. These are all sorted by color family.)

This is a hanging view. I am still working with my lighting.


I feel like I really hit the jackpot with the backing fabric. Matched perfectly and gives me an entirely different look on the table.


Fabric from 2009! Just had to show the selvage. Why did I buy it? Probably because it was on sale. LOL


I figured I should check my scrap bindings to see if I had anything that would go with this group of random fabrics. I couldn't believe my eyes! Perfect. It was even pieced and ironed and rolled up! I had about 18" left after binding the table runner! How many times does that happen?



Just to be sure, I turned the corner to see how it would go with the backing! Another win!


Thanks for your patience. This is my final picture.
I asked my husband to pick up a bundle of cheap flowers when he was at Walmart.
How perfect is this?


Thank you for stopping by.

Please check out the FatQuarter Shop and Pat Sloan's Website to see what others have done with this project.



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Monday, May 17, 2021

Born to be Wild

Born to be Wild!!!!!!!

When I saw Carol's invitation for this blog hop, at first I didn't think there was any way that I could do this, and then I remembered that I had a half-yard pack of animal print (bottom of pic from Quilted Twins) and I knew I had some other jungle type fabric.  When I saw this print fabric, I opened it up to find that it was blocks. Oh yeah! I think I can do this! So, I contacted Carol to sign me up! 


The panel fabric is over 30 years old. 


The blocks were about 4"x6". So I decided to cut them up and lay them out on the design wall. I thought it might add a little interest to them if I made the strips around them off-centered. I was getting pretty excited about this. I had been wondering what I would ever do with that fabric so knowing that it will have a purpose made me happy.


BORN TO BE WILD!!!!!
50"x71"



I had quite a bit of the print fabric left and I knew I didn't want to make anything else from it, so it obviously became part of the backing.



I decided to try to give it some dimension by quilting wavy lines.

Even though this is pretty wild for me, I enjoyed the challenge and want to thank Carol for hosting this blog hop.

Below is a list of all of the bloggers and the dates which they will reveal their challenge. There have already been some great ones.


 

Check out the wild side of these bloggers!

Click on each blog name to go to their site.

May 17th



HAPPY BLOG HOPPING!




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Sunday, May 16, 2021

Catching up!!!!!!!

 Well...............trying to catch up!

I haven't posted since October 2020 because I didn't like how my pictures looked with the sunlight peeking through the fence so I got discouraged and didn't post any pictures. I attempted to make better pictures yesterday but I didn't realize that when I was taking the pictures that the sunlight was coming through so strong, so the back is showing through in all the pictures!


I said all that to say that I am up for Tuesday, May 18th for the "Born to be Wild" Blog Hop and I need some good pics. Nothing like pressure to get this right!

Fortunately, my pics for the Blog Hop came out pretty good so I bought myself a little time to figure out my lighting situation.

Below is the listing for the Hop. Hope you have time to visit each one.

May 17th

























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