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So this is a project that I thought up mmm last May. I decided I was going to make a quilt for my mother-in-law. They had just bought a new house and she was clearly going to need a fresh new quilt for her living room!
Well here we are 8 months later and I finally sat down and made some real progress on this. I knew that I wanted to do a similar layout to what Camille did in this blog post with Summersville. I love the clean lines because I wanted to use bold fabrics to give some nice color for my in-laws new living room. I decided that the color scheme of Maya by Anthology Fabrics was perfect, as my MIL loves red and yellow.
I added some coordinating reds, yellows and teals fill in the gaps and give it more depth.
The blocks are about 10" x 10" after using 2.5" strips of fabric.
I kinda thought I'd cut enough fabric to make a big enough quilt, but I ended up with only enough for 14 blocks. I tried to lay it out with 12 and do some cool border with remaining strips, but I think I will have to bite the bullet and press on with more block making.
Since this is a long overdue project, I'm hoping to get the top done ASAP, so be on the look out for more updates to come!
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So I made some progress on my Christmas quilt finally. Finished the simple quilting and now I just have to finish up the binding. It's weird that this is only my 2nd quilt that will be finished. It's not however the second quilt I started... That one is on the back burner for a bit. I'm excited to have this quilt to cuddle with in the next couple days :)
Next... I tried to start my Oh My Stars! QAL. But here's the thing, I walked in the room, started cutting the bigger squares for the first set when I realized I had cut it just a tad too small. It's supposed to be 7 and 1/2... whoops. Therefore I am done for the night. More to come tomorrow, hopefully!
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I finally took some time to pull fabrics for the 2 QAL's I signed up for. The first one is Oh My Stars! which can be found over yonderThe fabrics I chose for that are here:I love muted yellows! I paired those with some browns and grays. Love the way this stack looksNext... I signed up uber late for the chasing chevrons QAL. That one is found right over hereI pulled this cloud 9 stack for thatI love how soft this fabric is and I think it looks lovely with kona black. I am so excited to be a part of these two quilt alongs, as they are my first! eeps!I think that is it for now.Still no progress on my christmas quilt except that I did piece together my backing. I STILL need to put it all together and baste it, but we all know how I feel about that part....
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I have been so busy lately with work and life shenanigans that I have been neglecting this here bla(h)g.Stupid excuses but that's the truth so I'm gonna go with it.I HAVE been working on some things though so I figured I should share them :)FirstThis stack of Hope Valley was cut and sewn together with some kona bone for the beginnings of twin quilts for my nieces for christmasFinished one of the quilt tops here:Speaking of Christmas I also decided to do a (very) simple Christmas quilt. I wanted to be sure that I would finished it in time to actually use it and enjoy it during the season. Also, this fabric was all HALF OFF at Joann's. Could not resist. Resistance is futile....Keeping it simple with a red and white theme. I love the crispness of the red with the bright white. So clean and lovely. The bottom fabric will be the back of the quilt. I LOVEEE the style of it. Remind me of Scandinavian style.Pic of just the backing fabric:LOVEAnd here is most of the quilt pieced together. Again, I went super simple with just square patchwork. I look the way it looks though :):)That is all! Hope you are all wellLindz
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Made some little bags and pouches with the help of a couple great tutorials.The first is the gathered clutch tutorial I found over at Noodlehead's blog. The tutorial is here. It is super cute and quick. I made these two in about 2 hours. Which for me is excellent because I'm new to this whole sewing thing. These are the ones I made:Love the look of these! I'm giving both of these to friends and I'm going to make one for myself :)Next...I also made a box pouch using the tutorial by Miss Kaelin over at her blog. The tutorial is found here.She has great pictures and made it really easy to follow. Here is my first attempt:Super cute!Then... I made a larger bag for some sewing stuff. No tutorial for this one, but loosely based off of Noodlehead's tutorial but no gathered'ness. It is here:I LOVE this fabric so much and it looks wonderful with the orange :)Last but certainly not least, I have been working on manhandling my quilt through my tiny sewing machine for quilting. Here are some progress shots, almost done!Only place in my apartment big enough to make myself a quilt sandwich, and yes I did have to move the dining room table <_<mmm Juicy Blossoms
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and here it is :)
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More progress on my quilt. I'm start to sew my squares into their triangles for my zig zag quilt. They are turning out quite nice, if I do say so myself.The orange looks like dark red here for some reason. Bad lighting... whoops. But anyway, thats the jist of my project :)I've been a bit busy and a bit scared of some parts of this project, but I'm cruising along now. I love it!
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And by progress I mean, I finally know what I'm doing and I cut out my fabric. Here it is :
Excited!
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