hello Friday! hello and welcome! if you are new here…I hope you will swing back through from time to time…. I am super excited to be sharing my project using Hand Picked fabrics as you can see…I actually have two projects… the computer sleeve project will actually be featured in my newsletter this month…so make […]
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t-shirt quilt top finish + winners
hello Friday! if you are looking for the Christmas in July blog tour post…click here… so if you remember… in my last post about the t-shirt quilt project… I left you with the top and bottom sections together….but not the middle… the middle area did take a bit of fussing with… but here you can […]
noel tablerunner + giveaway
hello Thursday! welcome! today I am thrilled to be the next stop on the Windham Christmas in July blog tour!! so excited to have these Christmas fabrics arrive at my house! fabric in the mail is the best! this line is from Windham’s in house design team called Noel… I decided for my project to […]
t-shirt quilt progress – wip link up! + giveaway
hello Wednesday! I have been making some progress on my t-shirt quilt project… amidst the summer mayhem… so…sometimes the best way to approach a big project… is to break it down into smaller pieces… I decided to use that method with this project… here you can see the bottom two rows are sewn into one […]
t-shirt layout – wip – link up! + giveaway
hello Wednesday! so….if you were here on Friday…then you saw that I finished bordering all of my t-shirt designs!! hooray!! now..the next big step was to begin laying out the quilt… how do you do that?? so…I like to use this lovely iris quilt as a guide.. it actually serves several purposes.. one, it is […]
meriwether tote bag finish + winners
hello Friday! well…still trying to get my bearings this summer, but loving the days full of time with my kids…they grow up so fast in this season! so..if you remember this is where I left you on Wednesday… so…I want to share just a bit about my bag… I used 3.5 inch strips for the […]
color purple finish + winners
hello Friday! so happy you are here to see my finish… so…if you were here on Monday…this is where I left you with my Color Purple project… click here to read the full story… and so here is my finished top… what do you think?? I decided on some simple curvy quilting… I thought that […]
color purple + giveaway
hello Monday! about a week ago…I had a client request a purple placemat… and at first I wasn’t sure I had much purple… but I was wrong! so we decided on these prints… does the designer look familiar?? I wanted to experiment with something a bit different… I started with 2.5 inch strips… I also […]
dreamer improv finish + winners
hello Friday! remember my Dreamer improv project?? click here to read the last post… getting closer….really like the effect of this stitching… after I finished the stitching… I trimmed up the outside edges… decided to add some borders of the Kona shadow… I off-centered the piece and selected some variegated thread for quilting… and here […]
dreamer hand stitching wip link up! + giveaway
hello Wednesday! so…if you remember, I shared about this project here… these are the squares I decided to add to my piece… since this is a bit of an improv piece…I decided that hand stitching the squares down would fit right in with this project… I found this delightful thread from Julie….perfect for this project! […]