Packing in ...

My sewing room will be renovated / painted because we are selling our house because we have bought a new place that we will move into sometime next spring.

So I need to pack in a lot of my fabric loot ... yikes! That means that I need to plan ahead what I want to work on until we move next year.

- Night on the Tiles
- Twoo hoot
- Christmassy Disappearing Nine Patch

There will have to be one "creative" or scrappy project and one woolly one, probably this cowl. The scrappy project is a bit of a challenge so maybe I should peruse http://scrapquilts.com/ ...? Or maybe even doing a Fading Charms quilt?

This should be interesting!

Next up: tablet cover

Once I am done with Nostalgia - deadline is this Saturday, I will make myself a cover for my tablet using this tutorial from One Shabby Chick.

Getting out of my sewing funk

Whenever I finish something, I have a head full of ideas and can't seem to choose the right one to pick up and run with so ...

88 ... 8*8=64 and 88-64=24 - and 24/3=8 so 8 wide and 8+3 tall ...
and 2 left over ...

We shall see! twooo hooot!

Rainbows in a Bottle

I love the idea of keeping small scraps in jars and then using them in projects like Ticker Tape:

Resolved to sew: Resolution 2012 and a give-away

Ever since I completely failed at my resolution of not buying any fabric during a particular year (I bought even more than usual, so the fail was epic), I have stayed away from NY resolutions for my quilting endeavours. This year however, I will attempt to make as much from stash - and there is a lot of that, believe you me - as I can. There is a vague list in my head of quilts I want to make so let's see if I get around to them:

- quilt for C's bestie mate
- quilt for my bestie mate (her daughter already has two)
- finish my Night on the Tiles in Manchester

Everything else will be a bonus and I will be happy if I get additional projects to the pre-binding stage.

Seeing how I want to mainly work from stash, I might as well attempt to add to it by winning a give-away called "Resolved to Sew 2012 at Very Berry Made. Click on the link to see what is to be had!

Happy New Year

Christmas has come and gone - and despite the best of intentions, there was minimal crafting to be had this time around. I think I will just have to start earlier in the year ...

2012 has been kicked off with work on UFOs, I finished one top and failed at stippling, thankfully, straight-line quilting is so much more NOW:

Another WIP is almost quilted. I had originally chosen too thick a wadding and now had to sandwich etc. the whole thing again. But with the straight-line quilting almost finished, I am quite pleased with the results:

It's not like I have time for this .... but:

Apron in an Hour - available as PDF tutorial by Jona at Stop Staring and Start Sewing

"Takings" at Festival of Quilts

There were a few things that I couldn't walk away from:

Lurvely fabric:


A membership to the Quilters' Guild, patterns, bobbins, needles ...


But before those get put to good use, there must be an end to this:

Bunting Mug Rug

Made by Anna of Something Sewn
Brilliant!

Making headway with fabric selection

I have finally managed to find enough Kona Solid in blue to start fretting over colour arrangements for the top ...

What also wants to be addressed is the sewing room and the heap of mending ...:

But the ironing is done and the room is already looking much better with everything else put where it belongs!

the plaid scottie: Finished Whack-a-Bunny Quilt

Check out this brilliant baby quilt

It's The Plaid Scottie's Finished Whack-a-Bunny Quilt: "I finished binding Bry's giveaway prize , the ' Whack-a-Bunny ' quilt, late last night. Sorry, but all you'll get today is a quick photo pa..."

My 15 Seconds of Fame: Someone referred to me in a tutorial

... because I should do something else which is tedious and I am too exhausted to focus on it, I have been trolling my flickr statistics and saw that I had a few referrals to an older photo and project.


This was a progress shot of my Fall 2009 entry into the Blogger's Quilt Festival, where apparently Leila stumbled across it and referred to me in her post on fabric recommendations for the Skill Builder Sampler.

As you can imagine, I am quite pleased with myself ;-) especially because nothing much has been happening on the Quilting Front because I am simply too exhausted at the end of a long day ...

Congratulations, Catherine & William!

Bee Modern close up - superb use of scraps

.... can you tell I am avoiding having to do last quarter's book-keeping ...?

I just bought issue no 5 ...

of Fat Quarterly, which is all about pre-cuts! Looking forward to cleaning up my sewing room and getting to work!

Sewing Room overhaul

Because I have a bit of a tendency to put cleaning and straightening off until later, a lot of things just get dumbed on available surfaces. This week, it was the girls' spring and summer clothes that I keep in this room's wardrobe. Once I cleared that away, I move onto the tall shelf in order to sort through the books, make more room and have better access to what is in there.

Obviously, when they say "things have to get worse before they get better", they were right. So off I go to another afternoon or re-jigging. But I do have big plans once I am done. One of them's already on my design wall, the other one involves Fandango charms ...

Bloggers Quilt Festival upcoming

I have no idea which quilt I will share but there is still time, right?

Great idea, AmandaJean: Using batting scraps

I have always derived a strange form of satisfaction in using all my batting ... and AmandaJean is showing how to turn those left-overs into a rag quilt ... go check it out!

Edited to add a link to the finished product: Rags to Riches.

Repurposing: Shirt into Skirt with Yoga Style Waist

Make It and Love It: Repurposing: Shirt into Skirt with Yoga Style Waist: I will definitely give that a try this summer!

On the chopping block

Isn't it great when sticking to a New Year's Resolution allows you to drag your heels? In the spirit of "more finishes", I have been avoiding cutting into the fabric selection for the as-yet-unnamed quilt.