Friday Favorites 6.14.13

1. Still plugging along, 2. UrbanPatch_13_detail1, 3. Starry Night Quilt, 4. modern ABC Quilt, 5. Mini quilt top #tula100, 6. damon quilt, 7. {Forest QAL} Pillow top done, 8. A Garden In Spring Quilt, 9. Feet to give sense of scale

Quilted Favorites

1. Around in Circles Pillow, 2. Colour Bars, 3. Close up of quilting., 4. Wannabe Feathers mini (2)

Happy Friday!!

Open wide zippered pouch

You might recall this picture I posted on a previous post and Instagram.

I started this cute Hello Kitty project while we were in the hotel & finally had a chance to finish the other weekend at the Oahu MQG sew-in!

My teenage nieces LOVE Hello Kitty & Hawaii is certainly the place to find everything Hello Kitty. Since they are older, I was trying to come up with a project that didn't scream little kid. As soon as I came across the perfect fabric for each girl, I knew the Noodle Head, Wide open zipper pouch would do the trick!

Anna has a great tutorial on her blog, with multiple sizing options! I chose to make the medium and large sizes. They are the perfect sizes for art supplies or make up or snacks or anything else your can think of!

My oldest niece, Alyssa, is the girly, pink girl. I used a pink & red print for her & lined the pouches in aqua solid (which I forgot to take a picture of).

Completely opposite, Natalie loves black & purple. & as fabric seems to never let me down...this is what I came up with for her!

These fun pouches are now in route to the mainland, hopefully they will make it safely & the girls will love them (teenagers are always hit or miss haha).

As I usually stick to quilting, this was a great, quicky, project for me to achieve near instant gratification while being away from my stash! They are also perfect for last minute, handmade gifts that you can throw a few goodies into!  

***PSA: That post sounded like everything went as smooth as butter, didn't it?! Well I do have a little, funny(now), disclaimer...I always use zippers longer than what I actually need and then cut them down to size, so I hopefully always have a zipper that will fit almost any project! Smart right? If you're like me and do this too, be careful. I completely made up one of these pouches then promptly cut the zipper to size (cutting off the metal stopper) so I could sew the cute fabric stopper on the end. I ended up cutting the zipper and leaving the pouch alone for a few days, then coming back to it, only to fling the zipper open...and right off the track (AHHHHHHH)!!! After about 30minutes of tedious manipulating of the teeth & feeding it back into the metal pull, I FINALLY got the zipper back together. I did have a little panic moment and flashes of having to rip out the whole bag to replace it with a whole new zipper, but thankfully that didn't have to happen. So needless to say, in the end, if you're going to cut your zipper & walk away...make sure you put a pin in the end so you don't accidentally fling the zipper off the tracks, like I did!

Friday Favorites 6.7.13

Friday Favorites 6.7.13, a photo by Bluprint Textiles on Flickr.

1. Weekend Plans, 2. #Tula 100 / #Tula 70, 3. +++ inverted, 4. Wonky star quilt -WIP, 5. my first swoon block, 6. single girl baby quilt, 7. Summer in SF, 8. A finish!, 9. finished Icky Thump block

Finally Moved in!

Let me get you guys up to speed a bit, since I haven't had a chance to post recently. We have officially moved out of the hotel room after 60 days! Yuck! And are now in our new house, which brings new, but good, stresses...like unpacking lots and lots of boxes.

I am happy to report that all 19 boxes of fabric arrived safely, along with all of my other sewing gear! Whew! I was worried about my Heather Ross stash amongst others going missing. We did have a few broken pieces of furniture, like our marble butcher block & and stool, and a few things that went missing during transit, but for the most part everything made it!

Bella is loving her new home & enjoying her new, fenced, back yard. She is also enjoying her long walks in her new neighborhood, multiple times a day!

The sewing room is coming together slowly, I have a temporary set up in the room right now since I am waiting on extra pegs to the Ikea shelving, before it can be put together. Those should arrive early next week. It's been so wonderful having my stash back and not having to work from what little I packed in my carry on & trying to refrain from buying all of what is in the LQS. After being away from it for 2 months, its like a whole new set of fabrics, with new ideas bursting in my head.

Here's an IG recap from the past few weeks.

As you can tell, Bella has such a rough life, not! Its so nice to finally start to settle in, although it would be great if these boxes would unpack themselves and hop into cabinets!

Friday Favorites 5.10.13

1. Untitled, 2. MSM mini quilt, 3. Greenbacks Wallet Trio PDF sewing pattern, 4. "LAMQG , 5.

Giant Scrappy Dresden Plate Quilt, 6. chicago-star-finished-no-hats, 7. Teacher appreciation gifts, 8. the last 50 stars are done! next up is adding borders., 9. working on another pocket to the Weekender

Quilted Favorites

 
1. elongated hexagon quilting, 2. Dream Quilt sateen cotton backing and quilting detail., 3. Snack Time, 4. do_Good-Feb-Finished-corner-ft-ImFeelinCrafty, 5. Orb quilt detail, 6. Quilting Closeup - Retro Flowers, 7. Baby quilt for Theo, close up, 8. Baby Cross quilt, 9. IMG_0146

Thanks for the inspiration!
Happy Friday & Happy Birthday to my sister!

Inspired

I get my inspiration for my quilts and designs from all things that surround me. Sometimes when I get back to the drawing board I still have an idea in my head, but I have forgotten where exactly it came from. My latest quilt idea fell upon when while searching through good old Pinterest! I haven't been able to get this amazing print made by Allyson Johnson, out of my head.

 

Isn't it awesome!! Allyson has this design for sale in her Socitey6 shop, on multiple items!

A few weeks ago when I stumbled into one of my new to me LQS, here in Hawaii, I saw Lotta Jansdotter's Finn Sunspray stripes & instantly knew I had found the perfect fabric to recreate my own version into a quilt! I also came across some Dr.Seuss, wonky, black & white, stripes to create the organic look of the chevrons. 

 

As you guys know, we're still living in a hotel (but hopefully only a few more weeks until our house is ready) and I haven't done much quilting on my Bernina in almost a year, since I've been longarming, and I'm an instant gratification kind of girl a lot of the time so Miss. Bernina go to do the piecing & quilting again! She ran beautifully, as usual. I used my favorite thread, Aurifil 50wt, to piece, quilt, & bind this project, it always works like a charm!

I quilted simple, wavy, organic lines to keep the interest in the quilt top, by using my walking foot.

For the backing I used the "Life Defined" print in the Sunkissed collection by Sweetwater for Moda.  

The binding is one of my favorite Andover stripes, but I've never been able to find more...so if you know where I can get some, let me know! :-) As you can see, it gets used in many quilts!



I also tried a new (to me) batting in this quilt, that came recommended, Quilters Dream cotton batting. & let me tell you, it feels amazing & drapes so wonderfully!!

And last, but not least, we can't forget my hand sidekick, helper, Bella! It's a tough job supervising all these projects and fabrics.

Hope you're having a great week!

Friday Favorites 5.3.13

1. Block - #4 my Anchor!  @tulapink #citysampler ♡♡♡, 2. Binding, perfect for a Friday evening, 3. It's coming along! I should not be working on this, but it was calling me!, 4. bright blocks, 5. nine., 6. Modern Gears - full frontal, 7. Field Study Linen bag - Other side #fieldstudylinen #antihoardingpolicy @annamariahorner, 8. + + + finished, 9. Sun, Please!

Quilted Favorites

1. Squeal! Last sneak!, 2. Done! Off to my swap partner somewhere.... #nofilter #fablittlequiltswap #lonestar #konasolids, 3. detail2, 4. Single Girl Quilt, 5. String Star Quilt, 6. Mod Hex 2, 7. Dancing Stars, 8. Detail of quilting, 9. P5010001

Happy Friday!

14,000ft

14,000ft is the height that hubs and I decided to ditch the perfectly good airplane we were in yesterday and plunge to the ground. Sounds fun right? Well it was absolutely AWESOME!

We had 60+ seconds of straight free-fall before the chute opened, then several minutes to glide back to the ground. The view was the most fantastic thing I have ever seen! We jumped from Mokuleia, on the northwestern shore of Oahu. Scenery consisted of mountains on one side & crystal clear ocean on the other! SO gorgeous! We had such a blast & we're ready to do it over & over again, possibly even considering doing it as a regular hobby! 

If you ever get a chance you should try it! Words can't describe how exhilarating it was!

Now on to some quilty business. I'm happy to say that the Jaybird Quilts, Fast Forward quilt top that I've been working on here and here is now complete!! It was such a fun, easy, user friendly quilt. I can't wait to get it on the longarm, in the next couple months!

 Now I'm off to play with some new goodies I've been picking up at a few LQS. What are you guys working on this weekend?