Raining Day in Missouri

 It's another raining day here in Missouri. That means more cutting fabric and sewing.
I have been cutting the pieces for DWR, I will start sewing them together today.

 

There is a craft show in October that some of the girls from the guild is going to have a booth. They have asked me if I would like to make some things for the booth.  Of course I said yes... but I haven't ever done anything to actually sell.  I seen these really cute dress form pincushions and thought that they would be good and then I thought about some mug rugs, bags and maybe a couple of baby quilts.

Here is my first attempt to making the dress form pincushion. (Still need some work)

 

 

 

 The second one that I did, I used a lot of pins and curves looks much better.  These are like chips, you can't just eat one. I made three of them yesterday.  I just need to find something for the stands. They used candle sticks for their stands on the tutorial that I seen these on. But when we moved I sold all of mine.  So I need to get creative and find something.  Will post when I find something.

I am heading to my sewing room for the day.  
Until next time, have a great day.

EQ7 Summer Drawing: Block 4 - EasyDraw + PatchDraw blocks

This is the last block for the  EQ7 Summer Drawing Series

I have really enjoyed this series.  I am challenging myself that for the month of August I am going to actually sew all these blocks together and make a wall hanging.  So hopefully by the end of August you will see the finished project.  (If I write it down, I most likely will complete it).

Here is a picture in fabric and also in solid colors.

I will be posting my progress through out the month on my blocks from this series and then the finished project.

Skill Builder BOM - Lesson 7 - Block Lesson

Pile O' Fabric - Block-Lesson-7 skill-builder-bom

I am catching up on my BOM projects that I have started. I know that I have a couple lessons that I haven't done yet on the Skill Builder - BOM, but they are foundation paper piecing and English paper piecing. Right now my printer isn't working to print out the templates. So as soon as I get a new printer I will get those done. Can't wait.

But for now here is what I have done so far for Lesson 7 - Blocks.

Haven't sewn the curves together yet. Hopefully I can get too them today.  This was really cool you have two blocks out of one.

 

If you haven't been doing the Skill Builder BOM you should check it out.  I have learned so much. I have always had the fear of curves and she has a great video to help you out.

 

EQ7 Summer Draw and Sew Along - Mid Month Mini Lesson #3

 

EQ7 Summer Drawing Series: Mid-Month Mini Lesson #3 

 These lessons have really helped with EQ7. Learning so much from all these lessons.  I haven't sewn any of them yet, but will soon. 

Maybe next month that will be my challenge. To sew all of these lessons.

 

Lesson 3 of the Aiming for Accuracy Quilt-Along

Lesson 3 of the Aiming for Accuracy Quilt-Along

 Here is my block for lesson 3.  This Quit-Along has been really fun. Learning a lot with it.

 

Here is the virtual quilt.

  I am counting this as another day for #sewwithpat. July Challenge Sew everyday in the Month of July.

 

Weekender Travel Bag

I went to a sewing retreat this weekend with the Springfield Modern Quilt Guild. Instead of making a quilt me and two theirs decided to make Amy Butler's "Weekender Travel Bag".

Here is mine that I made.  I used a old curtain panel that I had. I can't say that it was easy to do for being the first time putting piping on and all those layers, but it was wonderful to see the ending results.

One Seam Flying Geese Quilt Block

I was searching the web this morning on if there was a easy way to do the Flying Geese.

Boy, I found a lot. But the one that I had to try was the one from Ricky Tims . "One Seam Flying Geese Quilt Block".

I am hoping that I'm not breaking any rules for showing this from You Tube.  If for any reason you can't watch if from my blog... go to YouTube and search for "One Seam Flying Geese Quilt Block" and it will come up. It will amaze you.

I just love watching Ricky and Alex.

Below are the "One Seam Flying Geese Quilt Block" that I sewed together and then the second one is sewn in a row.  They were so easy to make. 

I hope you will try this method and let me know what you think about it.

Until tomorrow keep sewing.

Lesson 2 of the Aiming for Accuracy Quilt-Along

Here is my block for Aiming for Accuracy Quilt-Along 

I really like those colors.

I think the quilt is going to look really good when it's all put together. Here is the two lessons that we have completed so far. I think the first block is a little bright, but we will see after I do a couple more blocks.

Finished tote / Hand sewing packed

Happy 4th everyone.

I finished the tote here's a picture

 

Today we are traveling so I have my hand sewing all packed 

Have a great 4th of July. 

Tote - July 2013 Sew Every Day Challenge

Yesterday I was working on a challenge from my Modern Quilt Guild and thought that this would also work for Pat Sloan's July 2013 Sew every day challenge. 

At our Guild Meeting we draw names and whoever's name we draw we had to make something for them out of the  40 - 2 1/2 squares that they picked.   I draw "Lucy", so I'm going to make her a tote. 

                  

 

I have been doing HST a lot lately so of course I made more HST, but putting them together as a tote.  I have the exterior of the tote quilted. 

Today I will be doing the handles, pockets and the liner. 
Here is a picture of the tote so far.

Come back tomorrow and see the finished tote.

Happy Sewing!

EQ7 Summer Drawing Block 2– PatchDraw Pieced

EQ7-Summer-Drawing Block-2 Patch Draw-Pieced

I was going through my blog and noticed that I didn't show my block 2 that I created in this EQ7 Summer Drawing - Draw and Sew Along.  So here it is.

EQ7 Summer Drawing Block 3 - Patch Draw Applique

EQ7 Summer Drawing Block-3 Patch Draw-Applique

Before I start to sew today I thought that I should do the EQ7 Summer Drawing Block.  Here is the one that I did this morning.

These series has been so much fun to learn some different things in EQ7 that I didn't know about. Know since I need to make sure that I have something to quilt each day this month, this will be great to sew out these applique.

Better late, than never

I did actually sew yesterday on the 1st of July for Pat's challenge.  Here is what I did yesterday.   

July 2013 - Sew Every Day Challenge  by Pat Sloan.

I have been doing a lot of HST this year. Of course that is what I was sewing on yesterday was some more HST's I actually did 30 of them yesterday.  I am going to make a king size quilt out of all of them, so when I make the I put them into a bin until I have enough to start sewing them all together, these are mainly made out of scraps from other quilts that I have made. I went and bought a HST ruler yesterday, it really makes life so much easier when trimming all these HST.

 


Have a great day and I will see you tomorrow.

July Challenge

July 2013 - Sew Every Day Challenge  by Pat Sloan.

Pat Sloan has a great challenge going on it's sew every day in the month of July.  I am going to do my best to at least sew something every day.  Then post it here. Which will also help me this month to write something everyday to my blog.  

Here is a couple of ways to chat and post pictures of you daily sewing project.

FACEBOOK - click here PatSloanQuiltFun

On here online Quilt Group - Click here Quiltmashup.com

She even has a Flickr Group -  Click here for the Flicker group

She even said there may be prizes.... so Let's go Sew with Pat Sloan for the month of July.

Sampler Block Quilt Along 2013

Here's another quilt along by Beaquilter



If I have time, I'm gonna do this one also.  These quilt along give me practice on my piecing and then I have something that I can practice my quilting on.

Another Quilt Along

Another Quilt Along..

The Quilting Gallery  and Pat Sloan’s  have done it again. Another Quilt Along -  Aiming for Accuracy Quilt-Along   

I did one with them last year and learned so much.   
There will be lots of great blocks to make that you can use up those fat quarters you have laying around and not sure what to do with.  There will be some wonderful prizes. 

Come join the fun..

I will be sharing all the blocks right here on my blog along the way. Check out The Quilting Gallery blog and see the quilt. It is amazing.

New Ironing Board Cover

My Ironing board cover has seen better days. I've had it for more than 10 years, so it's about time for a new one. I went to see how much they where at the store, then realized I could make that for less. I already have fabric that I don't think that I wouldn't use in a quilt right now anyway.

So I made a new one today.   I even sewed the cording back on it to make it tight underneath.

Here's my new cover... Now I just need to get a new iron to go with it...

Got to love all the flowers!

Nice and colorful!

The 350 Blocks Project: 2013 - May Count

My May Count for the 350 Blocks Project: 2013 with Prairie Moon Quilts

Here is the running total of the blocks that I have done each month.  I can't believe how many I have done so far this year, I will keep track of the blocks until the end of the year, just to see how many I do in a year. I've never done that before. So it will be exciting.

Yearly Counts by Month.
Running Total = 438
January = 32
February = 246
March = 50
April = 15
May = 95

Tutorial for making Hexagons from circles

On March 7th at my Guild meeting I will be doing the Tips and Techniques.
We have been talking about Hexagons so I thought that I would do some different views of creating them.

The first one will be creating a Hexagon from a Circle...

First you will need a 5" Square .... Fold in half

 Don't throw away the extra... I will show what I did with that later.

 

 

Here's what you can do with those extra pieces...

 

Add another 5" square under the extra.

 

Create a small quilt with it...

Here's the front

 

 

Here's that back..

Wasn't that fun....it was easy...