Alphabet Quilt finished!

I got the quilt top done!  And it's on the long arm.  I thought I had thread that was black, white and grey, but I couldn't find any.  So I just used grey.  I think it worked well.  I just did a meander.  I also wrote their last name in it.

Here is the top all finished, quilted and bound. I just used solid black for the binding.

And then the back.  When I found the box that housed this WIP (work in progress) it was heavier than I thought it would have been for having a few quilt blocks in it. That was because I had put some fabric with it I wanted to use!

I had just enough to do the backing for the quilt.  The main piece of the back has music terms on it, and then middle line has piano keys and then some instruments

Alphabet quilt

I did not have enough of the fabric that I used as background to do sashing, so I have some of fabric that is similar, I know it's hard to see in the picture, but the background is black with grey music notes.  The sashing is black with white music notes.

I decided to just do a 2.5" sashing, since that is what many of the blocks used.  

It actually came together really fast.  I am mad at myself for not doing this sooner!

Alphabet quilt

It's spring break! which means lots of time for sewing! I have been going through some of my WIPs (works in progress) and I found this one!  

I realized I never shared any pictures of it!  I shared a few on my instagram, but never all of them.

Here are all the blocks finished and on my design wall.

I started this quilt in 2016! When we were first moved into our new house.  

They are spell it with moda alphabet blocks.  I used a different fabric for each letter.

I started this for a friend that had twins, but the twins are 4, so I think they each need their own! (I'll share those in a bit).

These blocks were found on Moda's website.

I enjoyed making the blocks, they were straight forward.  I would love to use them again to spell something out, but I also like just making it as an alphabet quilt.

Hawaii

My husband had to go to Hawaii for work.  So of course I took the opportunity to go down and visit him!
 

He found a fabric store! So I had to get some fabric!! 

Look at all those rolls of fabric!! 60 yards on one of those!! So much more than the 8 yards on bolts here on the mainland.

They also had some on bolts.  It was such a cool store, I wanted to buy SO much fabric.  But I managed to control myself.

Christine, my quilting buddy and I decided to buy some of the same fabrics.  And we are going to make it like a challenge quilt, we can add 1 yard of fabric, and then we will see what the quilt turns out like! We want to have them done by Thanksgiving.

I have an idea of what I would like to do for this quilt.  But you will have to wait to see it :)

I want to make a quilt with these, we will see the design I come up with.

And this one is for hubby & I  have NO clue what design I will do, but I should have enough for a full quilt!

Chevron quilt

I had cut out enough to make plenty of chevrons!  But if I kept adding to the bottom it was going to be the longest quilt in the world.  It did need to be a little wider, so I added a border to the sides, that I did not add to the top and bottom.

The only thing I might have done different was added one more row to the bottom so it wasn't pink on pink.  But not much I can do about it now.

I don't know what to do about the back now.  I had originally thought about using some of the chevrons on the back, but I don't have enough of the other fabrics.  And I don't have an issue doing a scrappy back, BUT it's not just by colors, it won't match the colors I have used in this quilt.

Kite blocks

I am a teacher, and we are now taking a break from school.  We will still be doing online learning, but no more going into work.  I decided to use some of my time to do some sewing.  (Still getting my classroom work done, no worries, I am good at multi-tasking.)

I have been cutting out kite blocks.  And I needed something mindless to sew because I had been working on a commissioned project, and I was having some issues.

Here is one layout.  They kind of look like rain drops!

I think this might be my favorite layout. It kind of reminds me of the periwinkle (or hummingbird) quilt that my great grandma made.

I thought this layout was fun.  We will see which one I end up doing, I don't have much done, so I don't expect this quilt to be finished anytime soon.

Kite Block

I decided to buy the kit block to cut out with my accuquilt.  I thought it would be a good stash buster, because I can do light/darks, or by color.

I cut some out, and couldn't decide if I wanted to make sure all the background were all different or

If I would make each background different.  I don't have much cut yet, but I think I am going to go with a scrappy background but keep two of each color in the blocks (maybe)!

Churn dash quilt

Well I finished the blocks I needed for my churn dash quilt.  But I felt like it needed something, there was only one yellow block.  So it felt, I don't know, kind of "heavy".

So I made two more yellow blocks, another pink, and a purple.  But now I am not happy with the size, it's SO much longer.

So I think I am going to do something I have never done, I am going to make it square, currently it's 6 blocks by 4 blocks, I am going to make it 5 by 5, which means I need one more block, but I think I will enjoy the size quite a bit more.

I am excited to finish this quilt! I have had it too long! (I started it in 2014!)  That's one of the good things about cleaning and organizing my sewing room, I am able to get to some of these projects that have been hiding.

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Twin shirts

One of my friends has twins.  I saw shirts that had these saying on it.  So I HAD to make it for her girls.

The first set are actually black, with purple glitter

I meant to use a different font, but I forgot :/ But I did these in glow in the dark vinyl.

One of my husband's cousins recently had twins.  And so I decided to make her some onesies for her twins.

I love having my cricut and all the fun things I am able to do with them!

Sewing cats

I have been having a lot of help in my sewing room.

Minnie loves sitting on my ironing board (especially after I have ironed something!)

She is just too cute for words!

Earl for once was not sitting in front of my machine ;)

Beer quilt with the kitties

I am not sure how I get anything done without these two!  Minnie helped me trim the quilt so I could put the binding on it.

See, it isn't going anywhere with her sitting on it!

Earl was making sure it would be warm enough for Scott.

Once he decided it would be warm enough, he decided to help hold it down as I put binding on it.  He was not too happy when I had to move him!

Fabric shelves

I have posted pictures of my sewing space before (here)

I had some large plastic shelves that I had rubbermaid totes that my fabric was in.  It felt big and intruding, and I wanted to have more space, AND be able to see my fabric.

So Scott bought me these lovely shelves from IKEA.  It is a Billy Bookcase. 

I have bought some mini bold boards, and have been wrapping my fabric.  I had put some on the first bookshelf I bought, but pulled most of them to put them here.  On the other shelf I am putting all what I guess would be called Novelty fabrics, character fabrics, etc.

I love how it looks!! Hopefully it has enough room for all my fabric!

Easy press mini

My mother in law gets me the BEST Christmas presents! My favorite gift was a new LED lightbulb for my featherweight.  It's so nice to have, and nice to not burn my finger!

One of the gifts she got me was this, a Cricut easy press mini.  I haven't really been too interested in getting an easy press because I have a heat press.

I wasn't too sure how much or often I would use this, since it's so small (and adorable!)

But it is VERY handy when I am doing my little blocks, or working on my wristlets and I just need to get in a small space.

It's also nice because you have to push a button to turn it on, so my cats won't be able to accidentally turn it on if they knock it over!

Thread chicken

Well that was one game of thread chicken I lost!

For those that don't know, thread chicken is where you are nearing the end of your spool of thread, and you try to finish whatever you have before your thread runs out.

No worries! I have plenty of thread left, but I was hoping to finish the spool and the project at the same time!

Design Wall Monday

It is a design wall Monday!! And I have something newish to share.  Newish only because I haven't done anything with it in FOREVER.  Not sure if there is a reason why, but I spent sometime over the weekend cleaning up my sewing room and found it.  And decided it needs to be finished!

I realized I never shared a picture of this while I was working on it.

These are fabrics I have had for YEARS.  I have used these HST in another project, I decided to use them here in a pinwheel design.

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More organization

I have decided I wanted new shelves in my sewing room. I found this book shelf on Facebook market place. So I’ve started putting fabric on it. (I have more shelves in it now).

I want to be able to see what I have instead of it hiding in Rubbermaid totes.

Beer quilt - done!

I finished the Beer quilt!! Scott was very happy with it.  But he said it was so big he couldn't even hold it up! (Just to give you a little frame of reference, Scott is 6'5"!) so we took it to his parents so he dad could help him hold it up.

It was windy and this was about the best I could do.

Here is a close up picture of the finished quilt

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Bow ties

For part of winter break we went to Tennesee to see my friend Christine.  I decided to bring along her teal bowties so she could see how they are coming along.

She's very happy with them!! There are 106 currently!  Considering I only started these in May, they're coming along a lot faster than my bow tie quilt did!

Wristlets

You could definitely say this was a "Dog under my desk" Christmas!

I bought her wristlet pattern and decided a few female members of my family would receive these.

I chose to use the boxed version.  And since these were my first ones, I didn't add an interior pocket.

My cricut also helped.  I used it to cut out the fabric.  And then used it to cut out vinyl with

I LOVE how these turned out, and will definitely be making a lot more!

Here are the three I put initials on.

Ornaments & circle zip pouches

For my nieces & nephews this year, I thought I would make them gifts.  So I made them Christmas ornaments with something they like and their favorite color, and circle zip pouches.

Here is a close up of one of the zip pouches.  Some of the kids got the same design, so I put their initials on the backside.  I used glow in the dark vinyl.

Here are most of the zip pouches I made. I think I have posted about it before, but the pattern for the circle pouch is from Dog Under my Desk. If you make anything with zippers, or want to learn how she writes some of the best patterns!!

And here are the ornaments I made.  I used disc ornaments from Michaels, polycrylic on the inside then glitter.  Then I used my cricut to cut out the designs.

I made some ornaments last year that were NOT the flat discs.  I definitely liked putting the designs on these better!