Tuesday, January 14, 2025

What's New & What's Done

 

What's new?  All these pre-cuts from Scott!
What's done?  All the labels added to the back of
these quilts for the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
Looks like the Maryland camp will not open until
2026 so I'm going to send 150 pillowcases and 
150 quilts to the Connecticut camp in the spring.
What else is done ... the Huggable & Loveable 14
collection of soft books and toys.  These are being
donated and sent to The Child's Haven.  This is the
group I send 80-100 Christmas stocking to every year.
Made the large chick stuffed toy into a 12" pillow.
Boy was this ever time consuming and a lot of work!
Books, stuffed toys, a play mat, a 12" pillow and 2
draw string bags nearly pushed me over the edge!
Let's Glow Crazy - glow in the dark fabric with
the blender fabric called Starlet in various colors.

I just started working with another collection last night
which I love.  Fed-X dropped off a big package
of fabric yesterday afternoon which had 3
new collections in it.  I'm going to be a
very very busy girl!




Monday, January 13, 2025

Huggable & Loveable Soft Books for Kids

 

It's amazing how time flies by!
I've been so busy catching up in my sewing room after being
sick for almost 2 weeks with a nasty cold that turned into
a sinus infection.  I did manage to re-watch some of
my favorite TV shows while flat on the sofa.
This is the newest collection called Huggable & Loveable
from Studio E Fabrics.  This is collection #14.
While easy and fun to make it did become a little 
tedious making the entire collection of books and soft toys.
I still need to photograph the rest of the collection and quilt.
I took one larger book panel and made that into a reading quilt.
The second large book panel I will give to the guild for a 
monthly give-a-way later in the year.
Finished Projects:   Let It Glow - Glow in the dark fabric.
I made 3 quilts with this line.

I have one more collection to work with and have my
schedule of fabric being shipping to me through April.

Scott sent me [and other Brand Ambassadors] a bunch
of pre-cuts plus he let us pick out 10 bolts of fabric
from Henry Glass & Studio E to use in our 
projects throughout the year.  I love this guy!

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Done & Started

The Aussie Oz-born collection is done!
The 'X' blocks are from a pattern that Missouri Star offered.
I wanted to squeeze out 3 quilts from this collection so
I put a filler block in-between the 'X' blocks.  If I made it
per the original pattern it would be all 'X' blocks.
This is the soft book panel made into a reading quilt.
I find making these into quilts are more beneficial 
to the kids instead of making them into a book.
The panel with simple borders.
With fabric leftover I started incorporated it in the
 backs of the quilts I'm making.

Each quilt gets a matching pillowcase.
"Let's Glow Crazy" from Blank Quilting is a glow-in-the-dark collection.
This can be found in stores sometime in January.
With leftovers of Starlet [also from Blank] this gives a much
needed pop of color to the black/white prints.  I'm in the process
of making two kids quilts, giving 1/2 yard cuts of several of these
fabrics to the guild's meeting give-a-way, and with the
remaining fabric ... I'm not sure what I can make.

Hope everyone had a great holiday as we
 count down the hours to the new year!


 

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Catching Up

 

Derby on the Aussie Oz-Born collection.


Final pics coming soon!
Susan Q. sent me a surprise gift of a Junk Journal.
It's really cool.
I tried to take pictures by the tree but Derby wouldn't let me.
I admit I never knew about Junk Journal's. 
Susan mentioned she needed a break from quilting and started
making these and now she is hooked.  She tucked in some fun
things like clips, needles, a tape measurer, etc.   If you are interested
in learning to make these go to YouTube for a lot of video's.
Susan also sent me a new tree ornament.
I've always wanted to make a Seed Packet quilt because the
fabrics are beautiful.  Free Spirit had a post on FB which
asked what was on your Christmas wish list.  I commented
a Seed Packet kit plus the keys to the fabric warehouse.
I got one of the two items I wished for which was pretty
darn cool.  This was a total surprise gift and I have my
Secret Santa Scott to thank for sending the kit.  
I can't wait to start on this one! 
The day before I received another box of fabric from Scott.
I put in a request for wide back fabric and he
had some at his house which I gladly accepted.
The patterns in the Jelly Filled book are large blocks 
which in turn make large quilts.  Sure I could piece the
backs together but this is so much easier.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS




Sunday, December 15, 2024

FINISHED: FLOCK STAR * BEGINNING: EASTER WISHES

 

These projects were done days ago but was 
putting off taking photo's for some strange reason.

This is a fun and vibrate collection which I 
totally enjoyed working with.

4 single sided napkins
A fancy fold thanks to Pinterest

The placemats are pretty much the same size as printed on the panel
that came with this collection.
Both quilt patterns are from the book "Jelly Filled" by Vanessa Goertzen 
of Lella Boutique.  If you order the book it has 18 quilts using 
2-1/2" strips.  Of course I take liberty with the overall quilt
size because I don't make overly large quilts.
Soft scalloped edges on the top/bottom of both quilts.
Next Up:




Each block is 26" and I made 2 blocks across
and 2 blocks down.  The pattern calls for 3 blocks
but that's way to large for my needs.

I requested wide back fabric from Jaftex so I could finish this.