Progress on Value Proposition Hexie quilt

I am up to block 11 on my quilt along with Karen At Faeries and Fibres. I have always wanted to do an English paper pieced hexie quilt and. Have been keeping up! Karen posts a block every 2 weeks and there are just 7 more to go. Here is what I have through block 10:

And here is block 11:

Karen challenged us to try making our own fabric with drawing so I did some Zentangle hearts on plain fabric for round one. Here is a detailed photo:

Block 12 was posted today at www.faeriesandfibres.blogspot.com. 

Happy stitching!

Deb

Another Soft and Stable bag.....

Remember the back pack I made for my daughter? She loves it, yay! But she just announced yesterday that she REALLY needs a matching carry on bag for her upcoming trip to England that she is going on with my dad (lucky her!). Fortunately I had already purchased this pattern but had not planned on making it quite yet!

It's another By Annie pattern, and once again has terrific instructions, but LOTS of pieces! So I spent a couple hours last night just cutting everything out and labelling with the handy sheet of reference labels in the pattern. I do need to run to Joann's to get some zippers though. I have until Friday to get it done before  our trip to the Adirondacks. Yikes! 

Another thing I was hoping to get done by then is a skirt. I was blog hopping yesterday-don't you love the bunny trails you end up on sometimes following one link after another? I started with Faeries and Fibres where I am doing this hexie quilt along:

Karen had a link to a cute little project bag that I thought about making:

This tutorial is at the The Zen of Making. Well then I found this cute skirt tutorial there too:

I have such a hard time finding skirts that don't make me look like the side of a house and are not too short. For two yards of fabric I might just try it. I'll let you know if it ends up in the scrap pile or not!

OK, off to Joann's for supplies!

Happy sewing!

Deb

Ready for some new projects!

I just finished a big fund raiser that I do every spring and now I can get back to SEWING!! YAY!

For the fundraiser I made this quilt for a raffle.

I also made 115 of these chapstick holdesr! Very easy. I got the pattern on Pinterest. The tutorial I used has been removed I just discovered:(  but there is a similar one HERE. I used home dec weight fabric.

I did manage to stick in a little personal quilting over the past couple of weeks and finished this little table topper from This and That patterns. I think I mentioned before that Sherri Falls does a little mystery project every 6 months and this was the latest. You can find her blog HERE.

Although I have been quilting for quite some time now, I have a few traditional quilt patterns that I have always wanted to try but never had. The first is a grandmothers flower garden. This isn't exactly that, but a hexie project that Karen at Faeries and Fibres is doing. Just scroll down to Value Proposition for the links to the first 3 blocks. She is posting a block every 2 weeks and there will be 18 all together.  Here are my first 3. This is my watching tv hand sewing project.

I have also always wanted to make a log cabin and this week the Missouri Quilt Company posted a YouTube video tutorial for a curved log cabin that looks pretty easy.  All you need is  a jelly roll and a honey bun. Check it out HERE

The last one I have been wanting to do is a tumbling block. Today I found a Moda Bakeshop tutorial using the Honeycomb precuts. I love this! I may have to look for a honeycomb and try this too.

The recipe for this is HERE. 

There is a shop hop coming up in a couple of weeks so I will be on the look out for a honey bun and a honeycomb for these projects. If I have specific things to shop for it's much safer than random shopping!!

What else I have been working on.

There are some other things that I have been working on while finishing up the alphabet quilt.

First is Karen's Soupcon quilt along from Faeries and Fibres. She is celebrating the one year anniversary of her blog and is doing a giveaway! Go HERE to check that out!  This has been a fun wallhanging to work on with some different techniques I had not tried before. Hexies, a little applique, embroidery and paperpiecing.

I just realized I don't have pics of my other projects so I guess that will have to wait for another day!!

Don't forget to leave me a comment about your favorite alphabet block HERE for a chance to win some 30's charm squares!

Happy Sewing,

Deb

Quilt-Alongs that I have started

I posted last week on some of the many Quilt-alongs I have come across on the web. I decided on two (for now LOL).

The first one is from Karen at Faeries and Fibres that started a week ago. It is a biweekly QAL.
This is my first part done with english paper piecing:

I really enjoyed doing the paper-piecing and will definitely try it again. 

The second one is Pat Sloan's Globetrotting BOM. This one is through Free Quilt Patterns and Washington DC is the first block.
Here is mine:

This is a large block that will be the center with smaller blocks around it. 

Back to working on alphabet blocks now! 

Happy Stitching!

Deb

Quilt -along Heaven

We just returned last night from an 8 day cruise from NYC to the Bahamas. What a wonderful time we had! The weather was so-so, but there are so many activities on a cruise ship we had a blast. On the car ride home from New York, which was 5 1/2 hours, I caught up on some blogs that I follow, and there are so many new quilt alongs starting. Here are some that I am considering:

From Faeries and Fibres: Soupcon, a wallhanging size mystery with english paperpiecing, embroidery, and traditional piecing.

Aurifil`s 2014 Block of the month, hosted by Pat Sloan

Pat Sloan's free BOM for Free Quilt Patterns, Globetrotting

The Hexie Blog, Block of the month

Don't you love a free quilt-along?

I will be posting my next alphabet block shortly. I worked on a couple of those on the way home yesterday too!

Bye for now and Happy New Year!