I AM ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS FOR MY BIRTHDAY FREEBIE IN THIS POST! But before that, I’m 21 today! 🙂 Woo-hoo! I’ve never been the party type, but I’m glad to be “of age” to join in on the fun during my quilting classes; some of the ladies occasionally bring a bottle of wine to class, I can participate now! 🙂 I’ve evaluated my life, these … Continue reading Today’s my birthday.. And the WINNERS ARE!?!?
So as you know, when I attended the quilt festival, they had foam tiles throughout the booths. I had to have some in my crafty room! So I went to foamtiles.com and ordered nice light wood foam tiles. Each tile is 2 feet squared and come with two removable edges for corners and sides. I took everything off the floor in my crafty room and … Continue reading Foam tiles! 🙂
OK! I’ve been so busy with SO many things! But I will do a brief run through as to what I’ve been up to and what you can expect soon! As you know, I bought some foam tiles and “installed them with Raymond, Jeanie and my amazing contractors help! 🙂 My contractor also put perforated hardboard, AKA pegboards, on both of my walls in my … Continue reading What I’m working on 🙂
I finished my tote! 🙂 What do you think? I learned to make pockets for my bag! 🙂 Linda is such a great teacher! I hope to re-create this tote soon! I received a request for a tutorial on this bag, so do check in later to see a tutorial on how to make a cute tote! After sewing my lining to my bag, I … Continue reading No-Sweat Summer Sewing Series: TOTE BAG! *COMPLETE*
I took a hand-quilting class, shortly after finishing my first hand quilted quilt. The amazing Jill, at The Quilt Cupboard, taught me how to properly stitch/ hand-quilt using the rocking motion. It was quite fun learning how to quilt the right way! Lol We sandwiched muslin, batting and some plaid fabric on a hoop. Jill had us trace and stitch a pretty medallion-like stencil design! … Continue reading My hand-quilting class with Jill!
Ok, this post is WAY overdue! 🙂 But alas, it’s here!! A photo timeline of the very first hand quilt I’ve quilted. As a self taught hand quilter, I learned most of this from youtube videos, but also missed a couple things. Lets begin shall we! I found the pattern above on Joan’s project website, then proceeded to go pick out fabric: KITTY THEMED! I … Continue reading My very first hand quilted kitty quilt! 🙂
I GOT MY FOAM TILES!!!!! 🙂 I got my foam tiles “installed” with the help of our amazing contractor! I will post on that soon! In the meantime, I will show you how I’ve been organizing my fabric with these awesome “The Fabric Organizer“‘s. ***WARNING: PICTURE LOADED*** They offer three sizes of organizers: Large, Shorty and Small. And they all have multiple snaps to attach … Continue reading Organizing my fabric with The Fabric Organizer by DeNiece’s Designs! 🙂
Hello hello everyone, I do apologize for my absence on my blog, I’ve been very busy! 🙂 But updates coming very very soon! One thing that has been eating up my time is this “pendant light for quilting” that I saw in this zippy strippy video by Quilt Crafts… This woman has a neat lamp hanging around her neck, that has a 6 foot cord, … Continue reading Pendant light for quilting- WHERE TO BUY ONE!
I attended the Quilt Festival all four days, being fortunate enough to have gotten an individual step by step demo on this incredible pincushion template, designed and created, by Deborah herself at PlumEasy Patterns. She created this sheet template, instructions, fabric kit and ground walnut shells with a great and easy way to make a pincushion!! I had to have one and give it a … Continue reading Folded Star PinCushion by PlumEasy Patterns! (MY VERY FIRST PINCUSHION!)
I finally finished and mailed off the last of my dozen freebie soft children’s books today! 🙂 (Thanks again for reading and following my blog, don’t forget to enter for a chance to win one of five cross stitch kits here) It took a while for me to work on the books, organize my crafty room, care for my new vegetable garden( that’s now threatening … Continue reading Pink/Blue Table Runner by Jordan Fabrics
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