What the Bobbin?

I’ve been playing around with my Mother’s Day gift …Electric Quilt 7! Being the lazy person that I am, I decided to create some foundation pieced blocks to replace the hand pieced blocks from the Skill builder BOM.

Here is my EQ7 mock up of block 7 substitute:

Here is my EQ7 mock up of block 8 substitute:

All together:

Since I had all my orange and blue fabrics out from my Skill builder blocks I continued the color theme with my Block Rockn’ Block 6:

Virtual quilting bee block 5:

VQB blocks 1-4:

There is still time to join The Secret Tote Bag Swap hosted by Lia @ Lia’s Handmades.

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May to-do:

• Spring Color Wheel Swap #2 due 5/6
• Le Challenge #2 – Wings due 5/15
• Dreaming of Spring Mini Quilt due 5/13
• Friendship bag swap 5/13
• Umbrella Prints Trimmings Competition 2013 due 5/30
• Skill builder – alternate blocks 7 & 8, blocks 9 &10
• Forest QAL – Eurasian Jay, Roaring Deer, Liverwort, & fern flower.
• Virtual Quilting Bee block 4 Block 5,block6
• Modern BOM2 block 2, block 3
• Harvest vine quilt – quilt it already
• Block Rock’n BOW 3,4,5,6,7,&8
• Citrus block for Bee’s Helping Bee’s
• Pretty in patchwork – drawstring bag I will skip May and finish my quilt

Future projects:

• Quilt Alliance Twenty challenge 6/1
• Over the rainbow charm swap 6/3
• Car seat pillow for D due 6/10
• Pillows for K due 6/10
• Le Challenge #3 – Maritime – 6/15
• Quilt giant wonky star quilt due 6/30 – FAL
• Finish Harvest Vine quilt 6/30 – FAL
• Secret tote bag swap 6/30
• Pretty in patchwork sew along -Fun Fun Holiday Bunting- June
• Datura top for ME due 7/31
• McCall’s M6560 top for ME due 7/31
• M quilt with LV swap FQs – AQS Due 8/2
• Quilt Scrappy Trip Along quilt due Nov
• Insulated tote due 12/31
• Quilt iSpy quilt due 12/31
• DS granny square quilt due 12/31
• Jeni gym bag for F 12/25
• Pearl bracelet charm beach bag due 12/31
• Seaside king quilt due 12/25
• Dress for ME Simplicity 1800 due 12/31 -
• KF Swoon or Kaleidoscope due 12/31
• Day at the park bag due 12/31

I have two finishes from my 2013 Finish-a-long Q2 list so far. Yay!

I made cute pillows from some orphan blocks:

I just finished my Harvest Vine quilt:

Back:

This is my lucky #13 quilt! I can’t believe it! It shrunk quite a bit to 41″X49″, but I just love it anyway.

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Linking up with Plum & June

I’m excited to share my entry for the Quilt Alliance “Twenty” Contest.

This little quilt was a lot of fun to make. Even better, I used scraps for all the wonky Xs. Can you find the X with chicken feet? haha Don’t you just love the low volume grey background? The background adds a lot of interest to a pretty simple mini quilt. I’m happy with the end result. Off it goes.

You still have time to enter, the due date is June 1.

Happy Thursday!

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I spotted this on Facebook the other day – Seamingly Smitten Cover Photo Contest.  I ordered the Love me knots dress pattern, and cut out the pieces in one day. I sewed it up on the next day. Do you think I used enough pins?

I was a little surprised at how quickly the dress came together. I then bribed my little model with promises of ice cream (NOT while wearing her new dress of course) and we had ourselves a little photo shoot :

I’m so glad I have a  little girl to sew dresses for

What do you think? This is only the second dress I’ve ever made, not too shabby.

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I finished watching The Great British Sewing Bee. My only complaint is the lack of confidence in the contestants. I swear on each episode every contestant would be sure they’d be the one eliminated. It is a competition, they should act a little competitive. It is difficult to  root for someone when they all seem wishy-washy. I’m not saying there should have been a fistfight over some Liberty of London…well that might have been interesting. How about a little British smack talk next time? I guess I’m just too used to American style “reality” shows. Maybe being super nice will be the “new reality TV”. HA!

Anyway, look who finally basted the harvest vine quilt.  Now just to get the quilting done! With all these blocks I’ve been making lately, I am craving a finish soon.

A little peek at the quilting that I’ve just begun:

Have you seen this amazing art? Quilts made of wood!?

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May to-do:

• Spring Color Wheel Swap #2 due 5/6
• Le Challenge #2 – Wings due 5/15
• Dreaming of Spring Mini Quilt due 5/13
• Friendship bag swap 5/13
• Umbrella Prints Trimmings Competition 2013 due 5/30
• Forest QAL – Eurasian Jay,  Roaring Deer, &Liverwort.
• Virtual Quilting Bee block 4
• Modern BOM2 block 2
• Harvest vine quilt – quilt it already
• Block Rock’n BOW 3,4,5,6,7,&8
• Citrus block for Bee’s Helping Bee’s
• Pretty in patchwork – drawstring bag I will skip May and finish my quilt

Future projects:

• Quilt Alliance Twenty challenge  6/1
• Over the rainbow charm swap 6/3
• Car seat pillow for D  due 6/10
• Pillows for K due 6/10
• Quilt giant wonky star quilt due 6/30 – FAL
• Finish Harvest Vine quilt 6/30 – FAL
• Secret tote bag swap 6/30
• Datura top for ME  due 7/31
• McCall’s M6560 top for ME due 7/31
• M quilt with LV swap FQs – AQS Due 8/2
• Quilt Scrappy Trip Along quilt due Nov
• Insulated tote due 12/31
• Quilt iSpy quilt due 12/31
• DS granny square quilt due 12/31
• Jeni gym bag for F 12/25
• Pearl bracelet charm beach bag due 12/31
• Seaside king quilt due 12/25
• Dress for ME  Simplicity 1800 due 12/31  -
• KF Swoon or Kaleidoscope due 12/31
• Day at the park bag due 12/31

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Linking up with WIP @ Freshly pieced:

Remember my wonky bee block? I thought I’d double dip (triple dip, I crossed off a drawstring bag for my girl too) and use him for the Le Challenge #2 “Wings”.

Front of the “Bb drawstring backpack”:

Back:

Inside:

I used this tutorial on Martha Stewart.

The backpack with my little model:

Smile! Err…snarl.

Kinda cute aren’t they?

I can’t wait to see what the next Le Challenge will bring.

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linking up

First of all, if  you haven’t joined a swap of some kind, you must do it. It has been such a delight to participate in the friendship bag swap. I had so much fun making the bag and picking out the goodies for my partner. The icing on the cake was receiving my own friendship bag with goodies too. It’s pretty awesome.

My partner was super sweet and sent me this bag and fun goodies:

See what I mean!? What’s not to like? I’m one happy swapper.

On top of that my awesome Sister sent me this really cool Thirty-one utility tote.

I’m a spoiled girl lately

Receiving that tote spurred on a little organization. Here is a view under my cutting table before:

* That green plastic pizza cutter is my Daughter’s pretend rotary cutter to keep her from trying to take mine, it works like a charm.

And now it is slightly more organized thanks to that lovely tote:

It looks nice holding all my batting and pillow forms. Thanks, Laura!

Our resident photo bomber:

Now I’m off  to mess up my sewing room again

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Interested in joining a rainbow charm swap? Fill out the form below. It’s hosted by Stacey @ The TiltedQuilt.

Here is the flickr group.

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What a fun contest this had been to participate in. Here is a shot of my Umbrella Trimmings pack:

I immediately fell in love with the little elephants. Aren’t they cute? I wanted to find a way to incorporate a little bit of each of these fantastic prints in the finished product.  This quilted wall hanging is what I came up with:

The blue elephant, umbrella, background, and binding are all from my stash. I raw-edge appliqued the bits to my quilt sandwich with my machine blanket stitch. Don’t you just love the texture this stitch added to the piece? I think those decorative stitches on our machines should get some love from time to time too. Fittingly, this photo was taken in my backyard after a light rain.

Between the 1st and the 5th of June (EST) visit Umbrella Prints Trimmings Competition 2013 Pintrest Board to vote.

To vote all you have to do is pin an entry from Umbrella Prints’ board.  Thanks!

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Linking up