My sister-in-law had a bunch of leftover fabric after re-upholstering some chairs, so she asked me to make some pillow covers!
I took this as the perfect opportunity to learn how to install invisible zippers. I used this tutorial and it was totally painless!
The fabric is Panama Wave by Waverly.
Oldest son photobomb
Filed under Fabric, Pillow, Techniques
I – like many quilters – am a fabric lover. I noticed I was avoiding wearing a couple of t-shirts because they had sad, saggy, pockets. Finally it occurred to me to replace the pockets with some of my favorite fabrics.
Yup – my last scrap of mermaids : )
These are not actually pockets. If you are really using the “pocket” function for these shirts, I don’t know what to tell ya. Here’s how I make them:
Authentic 1950s fabric
I just got this fabric recently from an Ebay auction. It’s said to be from the 50s and it certainly has that feel! Spoiler alert – if you’re in my guild, you could land a half-yard of this at the next meeting’s swap! Wouldn’t it look cute with Flea Market Fancy?
The color of the year is Tangerine Tango, according to Pantone.
In celebration of inspiration, there’s a Tangerine Tango Quilt Competition gearing up on flickr. I really love participating in quilt challenges, and I’m intrigued by this bright orange shade, so I’ve decided to participate! Wish me luck.
For now I can tell you the quilt will be called “Patti Page”…
Filed under Challenges, Fabric, Inspiration, Quilting
Everyone got spoiled for Christmas. Greg and I were lucky enough to recieve iPads from his parents (!!!!!) and my mom got a Kindle Fire as a gift from my dad. So I whipped us all up some electronics cases using this tutorial from one shabby chick! I changed the measurements for my mom’s Fire – and I wish I could tell you the measurements I used, but that information is now in my brain’s trash bin (had to make room for remembering-where-every-dinosaur-in-the-house-is).
Greg’s case features an iron-on Star Wars decal. Mine uses one of my absolute new favorite prints from Fasset, and also some black cording, which I used for the very first time.
My mom just made an awesome under-the-sea quilt using some batiks, so I reflected this latest passion in her case.
I hope everyone reading this gets a little spoiled today!
Why am I so bad at math?! I’m really not – I took calculus in high school and statistics in college, but yet, I always screw up my calculations while sewing. These blocks were a disaster of math screw-ups. Tack on another border, tack on another border, tack on another border… iy yi yi! Truly unprecedented stupidity on my part… but at least the stakes weren’t too high.
Anyway, here are my blocks for the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild’s charity quilt made out of Jay McCarroll’s Habitat fabric (previously posted about HERE) donated to our group by Free Spirit Fabrics.
I like the fabrics I selected from the line and I could see a cool quilt (maybe just a simple patchwork) our of these swatches…
Filed under A2MQG, Challenges, Fabric
Hello all!
The Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild participated in the Kona No Prints Allowed Challenge.
Rules:
• Kona solids only
• Must use at least 30 of the charms/at least ½ of the charm piece
• Up to (3) additional Kona solids can be added
• Minimum of 120” outside perimeter
• Due date – June meeting
• Must be quilted and bound
Here’s what I came up with! All pictures of the quilt are courtesy of Anna!
I used the Dusty Charm Pack as well as Kona Snow, Coal, and Ash.
I call it “Dusty Springfield”
The back got slightly askew when I was basting, which is a bummer…
I made the cross blocks by doing strip piecing and saved a couple of extras for the back.
I was inspired by this gate in April and Andy’s house from the TV show “Parks and Recreation”
Thanks for looking! This is a judged competition – I’ll let you know who the judges pick! In the meantime, you can view more of the guild’s challenge quilts in our flickr group!
Filed under A2MQG, Challenges, Fabric, Quilting
It was just in the nick of time (we set an arbitrary deadline of Saturday, June 12) but I finished Lloyd’s quilt and slapped it on his freshly assembled Big Boy Bed in time for the inauguration!
This is my version of the Denyse Schmidt Cog + Wheel Quilt.
I had a bit of a hard time getting my blocks to lay flat, due solely to my imperfect curved piecing. However, I starched the heck out of each block and that helped considerably.
Then I did something a little crafty… I was so worried about basting this blanket because it was a little warped and wonky – so what I did was baste just the top to some batting, and did half of the quilting without the backing attached. Then I attached the back and quilted the rest of it and everything worked out great! I’m not sure how much it helped to do half of the quilting without the back, but in my head it saved me from worrying about bunching the backing and allowed me to just worry about the top.
The backing was made out of Castle Peeps (which I got from Pink Castle Fabrics).
The pattern called for a more sophisticated concentric circle quilting pattern, but I like my design.
For one, it was a lot easier to do on my machine with my free-motion foot. For another, it looks a little more scribbly, which is nice for a kid’s quilt.
Lloyd loves his big boy bed and transitioned to it perfectly. Slept the whole night through without a peep! For safety we got this inflatable bumper you slide under the fitted sheet – works like a charm! He can’t get out, which is just the way we want it ; )
Thanks for looking!
Filed under Fabric, Quilting, Techniques
I was the lucky recipient of a Pay it Forward giveaway a couple of weeks ago. I got a darling lavender sachet and a fat quarter of echino! Thanks Kate! (Check out Kate’s beautiful blog).
We were just finishing up remodeling our upstairs bathroom, and I decided this fabric added the perfect touch of much needed color. So I had my wood-working father cook up a frame (www.woodlandssawmill.com), and here we go:
Sorry for the imperfect photo. It’s hard to photograph glass!
jenna brand 