Sew Sunshine

A little blurry..sorry! I am working on a project and not sure of some of my color choices so stay tuned. :)  Not sure what I am doing or if this is a go but one must go for it!  ...lots of kona solids Linking up with WIP Wed with Lee Freshly Pieced and Let's Bee Social with Lorna HERE

I made this quick little tote bag out of some Sew Mama Said fabrics I had left over. I used the main part of the tutorial from Very Shannon Reversible Box Tote . I did my own twist on binding the edges with some left self made binding. In hindsight I didn't look at the placement of the dots so on the binding around to the back it looks slightly different.  I also made another iPad rest/ pin cushion based on a tutorial from Michelle at Factotum of Arts . Super easy and so cute! The tote is reversible but it is pretty stiff with the interfacing I put in it. It stands up by itself.  I love the mix of fabrics. Linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it up Friday  and   Where Valerie is hosting today at Val's Quilting Studio

"Mighty Scrappy"   Time for Season 6 of Project Quilting with Kim over at Persimon Dreams ! I saw the first challenge go up Sunday and I was not sure I could do it fitting with my goals to finish some things laying around here. I thought about it until Wed or so and decided I could do this challenge " Trees" with scraps and that would be a win win!!!  So here is my " Mighty Scrappy". Mighty Scrappy 18w x 22l all scraps fmquilting made in Ne If you pop over to Kim's site her first photo of a tree was my inspiration. I tried to add some shading but the scraps are pretty bright. If I do it again I think I would try some applique over the dark side. Stay tuned I think she is going to open up for voting by the public later this week. VOTING till Jan 16th click.   linking up with Sherri over @ A Quilting Life for Scraps Monday

  A Friday Finish!! This is my little wall hanging made from the free pattern over at SewKindofWonderful HERE  using the Quick Curve Ruler. I wanted to make a scrappy (from my stash and scraps) wall-hanging using the ruler.  This was super fun AND......drum roll please! I tried two new techniques for me on this. First, because I spiral quilted it, it was pretty wavy. I was able to figure out how to block this since it was so small. super easy and now it is very flat even though in the photo it looks wavy on the bottom. That is because I launched it out in front of me in the snow..haha! Second, I tried the fake piping binding. Super easy!! This is scraps of AG Indian Summer fabric. It has such a soft hand. I love the fun way the pieces are just shades in this scrappy piece. I am calling this one : "Black-eyed Susan" 24" x 24" spiral quilting fake piped binding scraps/stash fabrics     Here you can see a bit better the binding. I

      Starting the year off with an easy one I hope!   This is the Urban Abacus pattern from SewKindofWonderful  using the Quick Curve Ruler.                      Linking up with Fiber of all Sorts and Bittersweet designs HERE also linking up with      WIP Wed   with Freshly Pieced and with Lorna Sew Fresh Quilts                                                         

Table topper I made for my niece for Christmas. I didn't give it to her until recently so that is why I had to wait to show it off now.   New Ironing surface!!!!!! yeah...happy new year to me! :) Today my project was to try to clean up my sewing room a tiny bit. I moved my ironing board over to get into a corner and sure enough, stepped on the ironing board leg and the whole thing went over and everything on it went flying. So I told my husband I was going to Target to get the wire rack I had seen. Bonus it was on sale for $5 off!!  We had an old piece of particle board in the garage that I was saving just for this. It was left over from our shed we built a few years ago. I took out some old décor fabrics I had. I decided to go bright and springy and this piece was left from a display from a job I did once. So rack on sale, board free, fabric free! I used some old batting that was odd shaped and I added a piece of Insul-bright. Stapled that baby together and now I ha

  My niece with her Elsa/Anna pillow I made for sleeping over at the Grandparents house! Grandparents each received new pillow cases to match...can there be too much Frozen in your life? :)   and     her brand new baby brother mmm...new baby snuggles!     Mason jar pincushions from my moms stash of flour sack material. I made hexi flower tops and then divided up some of the buttons she had saved.  All the kids used to play with her button can which was an old canned ham container.  This was one of four I made so far.     Signing up for an online Friendship Block Swap and asking a fellow blogger, Jen,  from my same city to join in.  We both had fun making our quilt tops and then we     had fun meeting Luke Haynes together. :)     My first entry into the county fair since 4-H days.    Tried my hand at value design of my own.     Tried totally improv curvy leaf designs and lots of fmqing which you can't see well on

Finally getting around to posting my challenge piece. I struggled so much coming up with something I liked using these fabrics. I did get something done as you see, and I submitted it but alas it was not accepted.  I do think that I was a tiny bit disappointed but then again I have been really distracted from sewing because of a recent illness with my husband. So, I am just now pulling up my knee socks and moving forward. I call this "Spumoni Sunshine".  It is pretty small at 30" w x 28" l with spiral quilting.   I used the fat eights that were sent and a bit more of the yellow and white and then gray and black of the MM  solids.  If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...right?  So maybe next time. :) Linking up with WIP wed with Lee HERE and Let's Bee social with Lorna HERE

Long long ago...I used to blog! I think I have some catching up to do. I almost forgot about this quilt I quilted for our quilt guilds cuddle program. I took the top and the back home and just had to do some simple quilting and binding to finish this one up.   Not fancy but I am sure it will go to a good home. Feels good to get something finished.

   Do you make special coordinated labels for on your quilts?  any kind of label????   When I first started back into quilting I was making little tabs and writing info about the quilt on them sometimes. I usually always put the year it was finished on. Then I got kind of lazy and now I have quilts I don't have labeled....not even a hand written date. sigh..... So not much sewing going on here of late but I was just working on the back of my Micheal Miller pastel challenge and made some scraps into a label of a sort that I think will work. I will probably still hand write on it but at least it will have a permanent label. I think in the new year I am going to invest in some logo type labels that I can sew in the seams of my pieces. For now I am going to try to make scrappy labels before I forget about them. Best laid plans..... Happy Thanksgiving! Linking up with Lorna at Let's BeeSocial HERE and Lee at WIP Wed HERE

  This is my layout of the Friendship Supernova Swap blocks. I am not sure I have it right or if I like my scrappy border so I am letting is stew a bit. It might be better from a better camera angle but it is too too cold outside if you catch my drift? :) Half the blocks were made by my now friend Jennifer under the Juniper tree linking up with WIP Wed at Freshly Pieced HERE and Let's bee social with Lorna HERE

Yeah I have a finish!!  It feels like the end of a dry spell...maybe? This was a quilt I made for my modern guild challenge - Not afraid of solids. This is a pattern from Modern Quilts Unlimited magazine by Missy Shepler called "all about gray".  It measures approx. 48" x 58" I made one more block for the back and used this lovely feathery looking fabric in gray and greens. I think it fits with my title.   I straight lined the quilting after I did a few zig-zag outline stitches.     Linking up with Crazy mom Quilts Finish it up Friday and   HERE