Modern Siggy Swap – Round 2

I couldn’t do it… I couldn’t hack up this piece of loveliness, Tufted Tweets.  Instead I used a little of this and a little of that to make my siggy blocks.

 
Is it normal that I measured each individual block?  No, really?  I kept moving my needle over to get my 1/4” seam allowance perfect but each time I moved my needle I still came out with the same size blocks.  What?!?
I’m really loving these blocks.  They are so easy to make!  Check out all the other combinations of modern quilters in the Flickr group!

Edited to add:  Info on Siggy Swap can be found here.

Hunky Hexagons

This marks another project complete…with only one WIP!!

Many thanks to Julie for inspiration and of course leading the quilt along.  I’m so happy with how this turned out. 

Project time:  April 20th – June 15th

Fabric:  Made with 1 jelly roll, a few charm squares and yardage (for backing/binding) of Hunky Dory by Chez Moi for Moda.  I pieced a few charm squares in the backing which I love.

This was made for and given today to a coworker undergoing treatment for cancer.  She didn’t believe I made it though…guess she didn’t see my signature on the back yet!

Sunday Stash

This week I received lots of goodies in the mail! 

I ordered some more Make Life from Fabritopia.  2 charm packs and some silly writing that I had to have….a Make Life quilt is in my very near future.  Also, the charm pack I won from Tula Pink….I love it! 

 

I won 2 Sew Mama Sew Giveaways….TWO!  So this week I received a roll up and yard of Tufted Tweets from Robert Kaufman, hosted by Julie of Jaybirdquilts.  The fabric is for the modern siggy swap lead by Julie….but I don’t think I can cut the Tufted Tweets fabric up so small.  Oh dilemmas!  I also won a layer cake of Frolic from Amy at Amy’s Creative Side.  I’ve got big plans for it so stay tuned!  Finals are Tuesday so I don’t anticipate much sewing in the mean time…the only good thing about finals is the 2 week break I get before summer classes start!  Wooo-hoooo!

My first quilt…

 

Charisma quilt made with a Charisma jelly roll by Chez Moi and some Kona solid and binding and backing with Boutique by Chez Moi.  Pattern from Jelly Roll Inspirations.

Project time: April 1, 2010 to May 31, 2010

For me!  So obviously this isn’t my first quilt, but it’s the first quilt I get to keep.  I loved sitting under it on the back deck hand sewing the binding.  Binding is definitely my favorite part of the process…at least for right now!

Aren’t my hubby’s feet peeking out the cutest?

WIP Wednesday

I love this quilt.  I’m starting to feel that way about all of my quilts though.  It must be the delicious fabric I’m using!  I’m hoping to finish the quilting on this one tonight.  I decided on straight line quilting for this to make the quilt as soft and cuddly as possible.  I’m quilting on the inside of the outer hexagon and the inner hexagon (you can see this in the picture above).

Did I mention I love this?!

Blogger’s Quilt Festival

Amy over at Amy’s Creative Side is hosting the third Blogger’s Quilt Festival.   Over 650 people have entered their quilts this week.  There are so many amazing and talented people in blogland.

Here is my very last minute entry:

This was a quilt for a coworker expecting her first baby, a son, in March.  It was made during round 5 of the Old Red Barn Co quilt along on flickr led by Dana.  It was my first experience with pinwheels and I loved it.  The quilt was made with an animal alphabet charm pack and white solid.    The backing was my favorite part of the quilt! 

All quilted, bound and washed just prior to running out the door to the shower!

Thanks for visiting!

Wonderland

Check out these double hour glass blocks! 

This quilt is going to be my favorite ever…I just know it.  My original intentions were to make another hexagon quilt by sewing a white strip to each jelly roll strip.  Instead, I cut my strips using a half square triangle ruler and came up with this - each strip set yielded 2 blocks.  Fun!

So why did I finally use my coveted wonderland jelly roll!?  Because I found something even better, a wonderland layer cake online, which btw they have plenty of jelly rolls and honey buns of wonderland in stock!  So excited to add this to my stash, but what’s a stash if you aren’t going to use it?

I’m in love…

with free motion quilting…stippling…whatever it’s called.

I had two quilts basted & ready for quilting, one I had no clue how I was going to quilt and another I was planning on doing straight line quilting.  Normally I’d start the one in my comfort zone and knock the straight line quilting out, but one day last week I was feeling gutsy and just took the leap.  I haven’t looked back since…except maybe when it was 11 o’clock at night and my eyes could no longer focus.  It’s coming along nicely…so nice (in my humble opinion) that I’m thinking my hexagon quilt (slated for straight line quilting) is going to be stippled.  The only thing I didn’t count on was the time commitment and massive amount of thread I’ve gone through!