Stockings!

Hey all!

I have been having so much fun the last few days with my Stocking die - I just had to share!

 

So far I have cut well over 50 complete kits - outside, liner and tab from fabric donated by a dear friend!  Our guild is going to make these and donate them to a local charity that provides Christmas gifts to needy children in our community.

Since the pattern on the Accuquilt site leaves the seam allowances exposed I came up with a different way to make the stockings and I decided to make a video about it so that I could easily share.

I hope that you all like it - if you have any questions please feel free to let me know!  Ok now to get back to making more stocking kits!

Bright Strata Star

Hi all!

Yesterday was a meet the teacher day at my LQS so I was there answering questions about the classes that I was teaching.  While I was walking around carrying my Christmas Strata Star I saw these beautiful bright batiks and wanted to turn them into a Strata Star too!

 

 

Aren't they yummy!!??  I cut them up and worked on my table topper this morning.

 

 

Ahhh what a sizzling table topper!  Because this is a no-bind project it is ready to go - even without the quilting being finished yet.  I will decide how I want to quilt it tomorrow I think.  For now, I think I'll just enjoy the colours!  Hmmm, this one is a little summery - I think a fall one might be in order ;-)

Don't you love batiks!

Scrap Quilt Challenge

Hi all!

I did something I've never done before!  I entered an online quilt competition.  I hope that you will take a minute to check out the quilts, maybe draw some inspiration for your next scrap quilt, and, take a minute to vote!  You can see the quilts and vote at http://www.fabricsnquilts.com/ - Mine is the SunShowerQuilts-Scrappy Spool Illusions - the first entry. You don't need to sign up or enter you email - just one click I promise!

You can see the entries on the Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/fnqscrapqc2012/pool/with/7900432960/#photo_7900432960

Ok so hop on over and vote! http://www.fabricsnquilts.com/

I Made a Bag

Happy Septemeber!

Remember in July when I found a bunch of scraps from a quilt for 2008?   I knew I wanted to do something with them but I couldn't decide what.  I thought that I would use them on the back of a quilt but I didn't.  I looked at them yesterday and decided I would sew them together to make a bag.  I had an idea that I thought might make a cool bag pattern and a little tutorial for you all.

 

Here's the bag!  But, no tutorial.  My idea worked - sort of LOL!  In the end I got a bag but I had to really fight for it to work.  So, here's the finished bag, which used up all of those scraps, but, no tutorial because I didn't like the way that it went together.  :-(  I do like the finished bag though!

Best of all - this is all from my stash!