Productivity

Hello everyone,
I know I have not made a blog post in a long time but I have been productive in my sewing room.

My first finish before Christmas was a gift for my Secret Sister. We have a family get together and we each pick a person to be our Secret Sister. My cousin who received this gift absolutely love it. Since I love penguins so much, I have made one for myself as well. However, mine is not completed.

After Christmas, I got to spend a week with my sister, Julia @ Jada's Quilting Adventures. This was a week that I got a lot accomplished.

I finished all the blocks for her Mosaic Quilt. I was so into getting them done and sewing that I completely forgot to take pictures of the last six I made her. I have the three for October exchange but I do not have pictures for the November or December exchange.

Since Christmas, I have been busy with getting my blocks for my Mosaic Quilt finished as well as more of the blocks for my Star Quilt.

I will post pictures when I get some progress done on those blocks.

Hope everyone had great holidays and are being creative in their quilting rooms :)

Little Time = Little Progress

It has been a very long time since I wrote a blog post. Between school and planning, my sewing room has been deserted for some time. I have been able to spend very little time in my room. When I do get some time in there I am usually ironing, cutting, trimming, sewing or just sitting around. I tend to forget about taking pictures and making a blog post. So here is an update of my projects and some little gems I have purchased over the last month or so.

First of all, I can now post the pictures of the three Blocks for September that I made for my block exchange with my sister Julia at Jada's Quilting Adventures.
This goes with the Mosaic Quilt in Modern Bee by Lindsay Conner.

Second, I was so excited to get a collection of scraps from my sister in the form of triangles. I have never tried to sew a triangle shape before. Since she was just getting ride of the scraps I figured it would be a good time to play around with these triangles.

I picked out some matching colours to make diamond in the middle and some other random triangles which would make the outside box. This was very fun. However, I did find trimming them was a bit of a pain. It was fun and a good new experience. I have not decided what I will make with them yet but I will think of something I am sure.

Last but not least, I have been cutting up lots and lots of 5" squares. Some for a special project with my sister so I have hide those blocks. Some for my part of the Mosaic Quilt and some for an extra project down the road. I figured while I was cutting a 5" strip I might as well cut out as many squares as I could.

I almost forgot! Here are two gems I picked up in the last month. Modern Bee by Lindsay Conner and Pillow Pop by Heather Bostic.

Well I hope everyone is enjoying their sewing or quilting even if you are like me and have little time. Enjoy your weekend!
~Jill~

Back to School...Less Sewing

I have been very busy in the last few weeks. I was standing in a wedding and started back teaching. It's been a busy few weeks; however, I did manage to get a little time to be in my sewing room. I started off by setting my sewing machine back up and organizing my room a bit.

Then, I was able to start working on a quilt for a dear friend of mine. I am using the Stash Stars Pattern from Quilt it...today. I did modify some things slightly since I wanted my stars to be all one colour. I picked all sorts of purples for the stars and a beige colour for the background.
Here are a few pictures of my first couple of blocks.

 

 

I have also been working on a quilt block exchange with my sister at Jada's Quilting Adventures. We are both making a Mosaic Tiles quilt. I have started to cut and prepare her blocks. However, I can not post pictures just yet until she receives them later this month.

I am very excited to be sharing this project with my sister. It's going to be fun to receive the squishy packages every month!

 

I received my Kona Pewter fabric for my background, and a yellow fat quarter bundle to do some of my 5" squares. I decided I wanted my Mosaic Tiles quilt to be yellows, blues and greens. I also got some pink and purple fat quarters for my sister's quilt blocks.

 

 

 

I love how Sew-Sisters added this little charm on my fat quarter bundles that say "Made with Love"

 

 

 

I hope everyone has a great sewing week :) Enjoy and keep quilting ! :)

 

Random Appliqué Projects

Here are some random appliqué projects that I have completed in the last year.

My first introduction into appliqué. Yet again, I have to thank my sister for her lessons. She knew I would love this since I am big into scrapbooking as well.

 

After finishing the above project, I decided I wanted to do more. I fell in love with appliqué from the beginning. I love how I can create my own designs and add my personal touch.

 

Here is my second project I created without a pattern.

 



Here are some other appliqué projects I have completed in the past year.

Hope Mug Rugs

St. F X Wall Hanging for a friend

 

Hope you enjoy :) Be creative !

 

First Quilt Project

This was my first project as a beginner. My sister had lots of patience to help me learn the skills I needed to make a quilt.  The quilt top was finished in about 5 days during our first Sewing Vacation. However, the quilting took a long time.

This is a picture of the beginning...making the rows.

 

This is the quilt top finished. 

 

It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to quilt this colourful project. I decided to use a variegated thread. It is all different bright colours. I used a zigzag stitch. I am not sure if I will ever do that stitch again on a quilt. It took a lot of patience and time. But it turned out pretty nicely :)

 

After completing the quilting on this quilt, I only had the binding left. I have never done binding on anything this big so I decided to take it back on our sewing vacation to finish it up.

 

 

I am very pleased with the outcome of my first quilt. The feeling of completing a quilt is great motivation to continue working and completing other projects.

 

Happy quilting :)

 



First Attempt on a Sewing Machine

I have been watching my mom, sister and many aunts sew for years. I finally decided it would be fun to try and learn how to sew, little did I know it would become an addiction. My sister was the brave one that offered to take the time to show me a few things. She helped me make a scrappy mug rug. She began by showing me now to use a rotary cutter, how to do piecing, quilting and binding.
This is the little project I was able to complete :)

I had a great teacher to show me a thing or two about sewing and quilting. After enjoying making this mug rug so much, I decided it was time to look into buying my very own sewing machine.

 

 

This was done May 2014.