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Jan 19, 2015

Snapshots QAL, cake

I'm making Fat Quarter Shop's Snapshots quilt.

When I saw this, I fell in love with it...and I have a difficult time resisting a quilt along, especially when other designers are involved.

I love seeing everyone's version of the same pattern.

The Fat Quarter Shop has requested that you give a $5 donation to St. Jude's hospital for each pattern that you download.

You can get more information here.

This quilt was made from "Day Sail", Bonnie and Camille's latest fabric line from Moda.

I have a good collection of Bonnie and Camille's fabrics already, so I decided to use their fabrics from other lines.

I divided my fabric into blocks, and labeled all 12 of them.

Then I put the piles into a basket and will take out one block at a time, each month.

January's block is a four layer cake, yum!

I cut out all the pieces and marked them with Alphebities.

These are the fabrics I'm using for the cake block.

Voila, here's my tasty cake!

I'm pinning all the designer's blocks on my Snapshots QAL board if you want to follow it on Pinterest.

Jan 12, 2015

Thimble Blossoms and Heather Ross

It's time to make another baby quilt for a little grand daughter who is due at the end of February :)

I perused my patterns and found this old Thimble Blossoms pattern.

I thought it would be a great pattern to showcase some pretty fabric.

My cherished Heather Ross collection came to mind!

I really love Heather's fabric, and have the entire Far, far away line in my stash.

I adore this unicorn in her lovely field of wildflowers!
Just imagine how heavenly their scent is....

I pressed Wonder Under to the circles, which is so easy to work with.

I used a blanket machine stitch to attach them to the background.
Before I did that, I had to buy some more Aurifil thread to match the unicorn circles, yay!

I disected the unicorns in half vertically, for the half squares.

One of the halves has a unicorn head and the other has the unicorn's behind! Ha ha!!!

I didn't know how else to do it!!!
Kind of weird because they're all chasing their rear ends....
What made me think of pairing Far, far away with this pattern in the first place, was how I could place the cute Princess and the pea images.

I tried lots of different sashing colors to frame the unicorns, this bright orange stood out the best :)

I love the outside border, pink with yellow polka dots which sort of gives a hint of orange.

Now which color rick rack?

I like the pink, but needed another opinion.

My daughter Lindsay liked the pink best, so the pink won!

I hung the quilt on my tree in the backyard for the best light.

The sun was shining brightly so there was a little too much light!

Did I tell you how much I love these unicorns?

Notice the strawberry fabric at the top?

They are from Heather Ross' Briar Rose line.

Yes, I have that entire line in my stash also :)

Here's the finished quilt, bound with yellow.

It's backed with really soft pink minky, I didn't use any batting.

This method (without batting) gives the quilt a silky drape.

The quilt is so soft and pliable, that it kind of ripples a little.

This quilt will be perfect for swaddling babies.

I machine quilted this quilt with a wavy stitch which is apparent on the minky back.

I didn't design this pattern, but I did do a lot of designing in the way that I used Heather Ross' fabric :)

I'm going to make some matching burp pads with the leftover minky and more Far, far away fabric.

Jan 5, 2015

Claira and Clancy, a sewing pattern

I love making stuffed animals, although the thought of it is often intimidating to me.

The detailed instructions and photos were so easy to follow.

The pattern pieces were printed on one side of the paper only, so there was no tracing involved, I just cut the pattern pieces out.

That saved me a lot of time!

I cut out all the pattern pieces, began sewing and stuffing.

The arms are pinned, ready for me to hand sew them closed.

Lots of extra cute details too.

See those water soluble blue pen marks?

Those are the markings for their dimpled arms and legs :)

The bodies are completely sewn, and the legs are sewn into the body seam.

I just need to stuff them, easy peasy!!!

Notice their little noses?

Another detail is the snout, which will be stuffed and sewn on later.

Ta Da! All stuffed, with the snout sewn on and the arms attached.

The only thing that worried me, were the arms.

I used a doll needle (about 6" long) and attached one arm through the body, to the opposite arm, and though the buttons.

I sewed back and forth quite a few times.

I think these little pigs are meant more for a bedroom decoration and mild play, rather than being touted around by a young child.

The arms did come loose after some play and needed some general surgery to reattach them!

I am in love with the felt eyes, with a little bead in the middle.

The pattern had instructions for lazy daisy eyelashes, but I preferred mine without them.

The felt flower adornments and ribbon are precious too, they add a loving touch.

Clancy's eyes are a different color than Claira's, and isn't his corsage adorable?

What a lovely couple Claira and Clancy make!
Both dolls are 24" tall.

I used all of Heather Bailey's fabric for these pigs, except for Claira's dress and bloomers....I used Lori Holt's Flower Patch fabric.
The hoofs aren't Heather Bailey either, I don't know who designed that fabric.