Giveaway

giveaways are always fun to enter.. And winning would be even more fun! It is also a great way of finding great new blogs to stalk. I mean follow.

Everyday Beautiful is having is giving away awesome fabrics!

A cute little octopus...

Pattern by Jessica at Happy Together.. Found here on Etsy



Tanika insisted on having the pattern side up.

A change of heart.

I picked up the fabric today to finish the Ugly Flowers quilt, I had just picked out a natural colored linen. Not long after I got home I had the brilliant idea to use gray instead, it would make the colors pop and hopefully really give the quilt the look I am going for.

So, back to town I go tomorrow to get more fabric.. If only I would have had that genius idea in the store!

Quick and easy doll quilt...

T needed a new doll quilt, We bought her a new doll bed to keep at my salon. (she comes to work with me now) So naturally I needed to make her dolls their own blanket.

Circa 1983 Cabbage Patch Kids pillow case used for the front







I have this sheet as well, I want to use it as the back for some baby quilts, It is twin size so it should get a lot of use.

It's my blog I will post multiple posts in a row if I want to...

I have never had so many unfinished projects going at one time. Usually I like to finish one before I start another, just because it annoys me having unfinished things.

But Christmas is coming and I don't have a lot of time to spare and a lot of gifts to make. I start things that I can work on at the moment but might be missing some supplies for and then put them to the side and start something else until I get what I need..

The doll quilt still sits because I need to pick up the free motion foot in the city..


Why do projects look better in my mind? This quilt doesn't look anything like I wanted it to, I can only hope that once it is quilted it will somehow change it's appearance and actually look like a vintage sheet quilt and I will like it. I love the vintage sheets look but it never looks the same as I thought it would.



Then there is this started quilt, Ugly Flowers I am going to call it. *lol* I find that blue flower fabric pretty hideous, but was hoping when paired with other fabrics and put in a quilt it might not be too bad, I am going to do some form of a Chinese Coin quilt with a light beige linen to contrast the bright colors that are in the squares. My sister, J loves the color orange and somehow the blue fabric reminded me of her...(is that bad?) So she will get the quilt. I still have hope that once it is all together it will look pretty decent.


Tonight I took some quilting time off and finished another outfit for T, her fall and winter wardrobe still needs expanding and with all this quilting business I haven't been able to get any clothing sewing done.


Then I tried out reverse applique on a bought shirt.. It was easy peasy but the flower turned out to be more like a star...

Now that they have been received

I can post the surprise items I made up that went with Dayna's stuff...


The Market Skirt--

I wish..

I had a bigger fabric stash. Mine is fairly measly compared to some I have seen.. I used to only buy fabric when I needed it for a project but that has gotten me nowhere, I need to start buying it by the bunches with no specific use for it in mind. I always get motivated to make awesome things and then when I go look at my stash and have almost all the right fabrics but am missing some important coordinating ones my motivation disappears.
Not to mention I get bored with the same fabrics, so usually once I use them for a project I don't like using them again, not for a while anyways.

I also wish my fabric stayed all nicely folded...


.. These are being made into a quilt, not yet sure for who....I would have started on one of the many Christmas projects that I should be working on but I need new fabrics for all those.