Sewing Up My Fabric

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.

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.

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 17^th

May 19^thMs P Designs USA
Patchouli Moon Studio
Beaquilter
Hill Valley Quilter
Quilted Delights
Stitchin At Home
Sew Many Yarns

May 20^thSamelia's Mum
Inflorescence
Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel
Words & Stitches
Websterquilt

That Fabric Feeling

May 21^stJust Let Me Quilt
Days Filled With Joy
Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting
Quilting Gail
Lianne Makes Stuff
Quilt Fabrication
Food for Thought

HAPPY BLOG HOPPING!

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 17^th

Creatin' in the Sticks
Vroomans Quilts
Homespun Hannah's Blog
Scrapdash
Kathleen McMusing
Just Sew Quilter
Just Because Quilts

May 18^thMooseStashQuilting
Selina Quilts
For The Love Of Geese
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Quilt Schmilt
Life in the Scrapatch
Sewing Up My Fabric
May 19^thMs P Designs USA
Patchouli Moon Studio
Beaquilter
Hill Valley Quilter
Quilted Delights
Stitchin At Home
Sew Many Yarns

May 20^thSamelia's Mum
Inflorescence
Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel
Words & Stitches
Websterquilt

Saturday, October 10, 2020

Cleaning out my stash bins.

THREE EMPTY BINS

These bins were full of leftover projects and scraps. I have been working on sorting the contents for about a month now. Most evening, I try to get them sorted out while watching tv with my husband.

PRECUTS

Out of these three bins, I was able to cut a tall stack of 5" squares, several folded fabrics that were more than a yard each, a stack of 2-1/2" strips, 6 stacks of 2-1/2" squares, a few fat quarters, some small squares for small projects, a stack of 10" squares, some lace, ribbons, and a zipper (I have a place for these so why didn't I just put the in there in the first place?) And in the very front is a miss mash of orphan squares, strip sets and on top is some wedges. I just couldn't cut those up!

STRIPS AND STRINGS

I had quite a few strips that were less than 2-1/2" wide and some strings. I separated solids from prints but that is all the sorting I did at this time. I do have a place where I keep this type of fabric.

TRY NOT TO JUDGE ME ON THIS ONE! LOL

The gallon ziploc baggie on the left has leftover fabrics with fusible on the back and the one on the right has tiny strings. I also have a place for these. If I don't get around to using them, I know my granddaughters will enjoy playing with them so there is no loss here. I also am not appopsed to throwing them away at some point.

I wish I could tell you that is all the bins that I have, but sadly, I have quite a few more! It is my goal to get them all organized sooner rather than later.

Thanks for stopping by.

The Magic of Christmas

THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS

This was a 2016 sew along. The blocks were tiny and I really struggled about half-way through it, but I put it on my UFO list for 2020 so I was determined to finish. I really enjoyed the quilting process.

This is the back.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

April PHDs in 2020

Linking up with Quilting Gail and fellow UFO Busters

click here to go to the link

April UFO commitment
This is a 2016 QAL by Lisa Bongean called "Christmas Magic"
25 six inch blocks - what was I thinking? They have so many tiny pieces. This month I will conquer this UFO which has been haunting me since 2016!

Close up of quilting

Tulips
This was my March UFO and I finished it! Yaay!
I rescued these tulips from a local thrift store. They were very primitive and no two blocks were the same size or fabrics. I really felt I needed to give them life. It looks kinda retro with my scrap 2-1/2" squares. I'm pretty happy with it and it is finished.

Baby quilt from leftover scraps. Just needed quilting.

Back shows the quilting better

I had to stop and make about 40 masks for my healthcare worker family members

Projects list is moving along. I think I am staying focused.

STASH BUSTING 2020

	Fabric		Batting		Bobbins Empty		*Thread Spools Empty*
MONTH	used	bought	used	bought	small	large	small	*large*
January	18	0	1	5	3	13	0	0
February	18.2	10	4	0	12	9
March	26.75	6.5	3	0	17	13
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Year-to-Date	62.95	16.5	8	5	32	35	0	0