Fabric Tuesday

This week I tried my hand at something new.  A little purse.  The Buttercup Purse by Made By Rae.  It's a free online pattern too, I just love when people are willing to share such greatness without making me pay for it. 

I made one and loved how simple it was, so I made another and plan to make many more for gifts!    My mom saw it and stole the first purse, glad it found a home, she's been getting compliments on it all day!
First time doing pleats and I must say they were a cinch!  Love them!

2nd bag with Soul Blossoms scraps.

Fabric Tuesday PLUS BIG SURPRISE!!!

I got the rest of my fabric for the upcoming Kaleidoscope QAL in the mail this week.  The entire collection of LOVE by Amy Butler, cut into a charm pack, more SOUL BLOSSOMS by Amy Butler, and her solid colored coordinates to the 2 collections.  PERFECT.  Oh wait.... is that something extra in my stash....

Just in case any of you are BLIND.... here is one more look.... yep.  Baby #2 in on the way.  Due around Feb 20th 2012

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Fabric Tuesday!

I won something this week!

I am beyond excited with what I won too.  Thanks to Amy for her Bloggers Quilt Festival last week I was one of the random winners.  I know right, luck!  I won a 1.5 yard pack from Vicki Welsh over on Etsy.  She makes beautiful hand dyed and painted fabrics.  She let me decide if I wanted fat quarters or a mix of cuts or just one large cut.  I have future hope of making a rainbow quilt, all those bottled rainbow blocks on the interwebs are inspiring me, and I picked to get a 1.5 yard cut of this amazing rainbow gradient cut.

Won't this make a great large chunk for a pieced rainbow quilt back?  Like with some white surrounding it.  Oh I got all excited!  So that is my exciting Fabric Tuesday news. 

Here is a few images from her site.

The entire cut

close up of left

close up of middle

close up of right.

Visit Vicki and see her beautiful work!

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Fabric Tuesday: Singer Party

I hosted a Singer sewing party this weekend, it was through Houseparty, and was a blast.  I was supposed to do these little roll up bags, like for makeup brushes, but that wasn't something that I found practical for myself or my guests, so we made dishtowels, which will be much more useful!

 I had little gift bags for everyone with patterns, threads, a little sewing pouch, a couple towels and fabric and coupons good for Martha Stewart craft supplies and Joanne's.

 The little sewing machine setup area.

 Here I was playing "instructor" and showing some of the features of the machine.  I showed off some of the stiches, explained how to use the self threader on the machine, the drop in bobbin feature and all of the wonderful feet and accesories the machine came with.

 I taught everyone how to make ruffles and how to make yo yo's - which everyone thought was easy and LOVED.

 Tiffany {above} and Kathi {below} in action making their towels.

 Tiffany's completed towel.  She used not only the ruffle but the yo yo too!

This was my quick little sample towel.  Everyone had fun being crafty, we spent 3 hours sewing and chatting.  We also all enjoyed some of my mom's homemade angel food cake and fresh strawberry sauce.  Yum!  What a neat little girls day, and a perfect way to spend time on a Saturday.

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Legal stuff:  Houseparty and Singer supplied me with a sample sewing machine for the party and a free box of goodies from Joanne's and Singer to share with my guests.  My opnions are my own and I will be purchasing the machine because I loved it soo very much!

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Last night I decided to make my mom the bag she wanted and picked out for Mother's Day.  Here it is... It was supposed to be square on the bottom but I screwed that up - good thing rounded still looks cute!

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Fabric Tuesday

Well it's Fabric Tuesday again at Quiltstory {link below, because my blogger is having a cause of the Monday's still...} and I wanted to share a quilt I made this week for my husbands grandmother.  We call her "Lola" which means grandma in Tagalog.  So this quilt is named "Lola".  It's just a lap quilt, small, but I really love this one.  Plus this is only my second attempt at hand stitching the binding and it turned out great. 

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Fabric Tuesday!

Since I have switched this blog over to be a more sewing/hobby friendly blog I am going to start adding new features.  Starting with a new link party held every Tuesday.  This is called Fabric Tuesday over at Quiltstory.  It's simple, just share something fabric related and link up!  Here goes week 1...

This last week I have been trying to finish up Aiden's big boy room.  I have a lot of scraps left from the Dr. Seuss collection and decided to make a big pillow.  Here it is....

See you back next week, when hopefully I'll have something more exciting to share!  Click below to join in!

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