Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Piecing and quilting away

Last week we had new windows installed in part of the house so while the guys were working away I had a great excuse to stay in my craft room after they installed that one. So I went through my tub of fabrics I have just for making purses and pulled out a bunch to cut out. I ended up cutting parts for 15 purses! I am getting ready for fall craft shows so it will be wonderful to have those ready to go. But it will take me quit a bit of time. Here you see I am in the quilting stage for the front and back of some. Then I will quilt the linings too before beginning the final assembly.  So today more quilting :-)


Then I had to satisfy my craving for piecing by cutting and seing up this simple little 36x38 baby quilt. I saw this idea here while perusing pintrest last week. While I was at Jo Ann Fabrics on Sunday I found these fat quarter prints in their clearance section for a real bargain.

Last week I also had the piecing craving so I whipped up this little quilt. It measures about the same as the one above. 

Joining  Freemotion at the River and Let's Bee social this week. I have posted their links on my left side bar. I wonder what goodies we get to see this week.  Also linking to FortWorth Fabric this week.



Monday, August 18, 2014

Hexie's and flying geese...

After seeing a couple ideas online I combined them and came up with this in EQ7. A fun winter table runner-who can resist snowmen!!  It measures in at 18 x 44.  I would love to put some star and snowflake buttons on it but just not sure if people would want buttons on it if they plan to set stuff on it.

Keeping this post short as I am getting ready for a friend to come sew today :-)   Hope you are all having a great quilty day too!

Pulling up this post for Val's Tuesday Archives on flying geese.






















I was in such a hurry on monday when I posted I forgot to mention that I am linking this to Linky Tuesday and Let's Bee Social-see the links on my left side bar. And go meet some new and see some old friends!

Thursday, August 7, 2014

More Squedge table toppers

I loved making the first squedge topper so much that I had to make 3 more! Actually the one I showed on Tuesday on this post was my second one.

Here is my first one I made and what I learned. I had purchased this Christmas FQ bundle on Craftsy last week and wow is their service fast!  Anyway I was so anxious to get going on this topper, I quickly picked out which FQ's I would use and cut and sewed and when I put the topper together I couldn't see enough contrast between the strips and I was pretty disappointed. So I set it aside and made that fall one, I learned using more contrast is a good thing!




So here is the third one I made from the same FQ bundle but picking with more contrast in mind.  I like it much better. 

And then I thought I would experiment with using a whole piece of fabric instead of piecing strips for that squedge, I like it too!  Would do you think? It looks really different doesn't it! Which is your favorite?

Thanks for stopping by today-I appreciate all your visits and comments. 
Linking up with My quilt Infatuation, Fabric Frenzy and Stitch by Stitch-links are on the side bar. I'm heading over to check out some fabric goodness!

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

What I worked on yesterday

And it was truly start to finish in one day, from picking out the fabrics to finishing the binding. Of courseIi had a little fun with the quilting. I was at Sue Dario's blog yesterday and she inspired me to put the oval feather wreath in the diamonds. I used an  amazing arc from Renae Haddidin to stitch around for the oval, using my longarm. This type of feather I call lettuce leaf feather, a very easy, fun and forgiving feather as there is no backtracking.



You use Cheryl Phillips Squedge 30 ruler to cut squedges from strip sets. Then cut a few from a solid piece of background fabric for the 4 diamonds. This is really an easy topper to do even though it might look complicated. The pattern comes with the ruler.



I just had to throw in this pic of my Gerbera Daisies. I have never had this many blooms on at one time-8 of them.  And one more opened since I took this pic this weekend.

Joining in Freemotion Quilting and Sew Fresh Quilts linky parties this week. See side bar for links and go enjoy some eye candy-there's always lots to see!