Finished quilts update

Dallas Cowboys Quilt

 

 

Daisy Mae quilt

 

 

 

Poppies Quilt

 

 

 

Old trucks quilt

 

Wine Quilt

Update on the custom ordered quilts and new designs

This week I have been playing around with new quilt designs and I tested out a star pattern:

 Worked for a little bit to put borders on the vintage flower quilt top which was ordered by one of my customers as a gift for a family member:

Still have to miter the borders, iron and find a backing fabric for this adorable quilt :)

I love the pretty fabrics used in this throw size quilt.

New flannel PJ bottoms are ready

My new flannel PJ bottoms are done
Super soft, only $7 fabric cost, 2hrs of sewing and long enough
I think they look like clown pants though but I love them! LOL


Off to make the next pair tomorrow :)

Better picture of my latest sewing project

Here is a better picture, taken in daylight of my latest sewing projects:

Another sewing project finished :)

I totally forgot to share with you the sewing project I finished yesterday.

Part of the reason was that they were used immediately :)

That's a good sign though...

Look in my Etsy Shop (the link is at the left top above the header "my Etsy Shop") for more of my creative sewing projects since that's the way I support my blog and projects here...thank you :)

Or click here: www.etsy.com/shop/calicreative 

First pillow case (the big one), I finished a few weeks ago already.

The smaller ones I finished yesterday :)

Sorry for the dark picture...:(

Start of the Poppies Wall hanging!!!

Finally, I got some important things that needed to be done squared away today and I still had some hours left in the day to work on my Poppies Wall hanging :)

 

But first I need to tell you that this chalk tool is AMAZING!!! See it has a little wheel on which the chalk falls out to draw a line. 

I still had it in my sewing box and I refilled it with chalk.

So easy and I don't remember the brand so I took two close up pics for you, in case you want to look for it.

 

 

 

 

I couldn't find my rotary cutter nor could I find my quilting ruler so I had to cut all the pieces needed for my wall hanger with scissors and measure with my yard stick.

 It took a little longer but it works.

 

Remember this is the wall hanger I am making.

 

I set up my ironing board after I finished cutting since I will be needing it while assembling the wall hanging.

Love my iron too, only $30 and it has a safety automatic turn off after 30 seconds!!

I rarely fill my water reservoir in my iron cos I use a spray bottle. It keeps my iron from getting calcium build up everywhere.

 

 

 

Can you see the gold sparkle fabric I found dirt cheap ($2/yd), love it!!

 

2 hours later the front frame part is assembled :)

 

 

It's looking good!!!

Hopefully tomorrow I will have some time again to work on it!

 

Have yourself a merry little Christmas...

First of all, I like to say to everyone and your loved ones:

 



 

 

 

So we have that out of the way :) let's get back to creating beauty again...

Besides that I love fiberart, I also love sewing. Not so much clothing but quilts/wall hangings etc., smaller projects so I don't get bored that fast :)

Today I went to Joanns since I have this poppies wallhanging quilt in my possession forever and the Christmas coupons from Joanns made it possible to buy the materials.

It was published a while ago in Sewing Savvy 2008 (discontinued) but if you are interested, thanks to the internet, you can still buy the pattern here for $3.29 free shipping PDF file.

So with the batting I already had in my stash, these are all the materials you need besides some embroidery floss (yellow) and your sewing tools.

• Top green is for the backing
• Dark green is for the outer border and binding
• Yellow is for the inner border
• Off white with a little gold in it is for the background behind the flowers
• And the two packages of yellow/red and light to dark green are for the leaves and poppies.

 

So this is what I am going to be busy with over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Most likely I will not finish it in 2 days but that's ok :)

 

Again, Merry Christmas everyone!!! Be safe!!! xoxo

 

NEW SEW ALONG and update on Christmas lights CAL

I have been contacted to hold a sew along here on my blog.

And since I have been looking around to start sewing again without starting on a whole big quilt...

I just want a small project but easy and useful I came up with this.

 

The idea is to do a sew along with MUG RUGS.

What is a mug rug?

As it says, it's a "rug" for your mug...like a blown-up coaster.

You can do all kinds of things with sewing/quilting techniques to your mug rug to fancy it up!

 

Well, it requires probably me writing a tutorial soon to show you how easy it is. Yes, pictures included but I have to go dig up my fabrics and see if I have to go "shop" to be able to make some.

 

I don't wanna get in trouble with ownership of certain pictures so you Google "mug rug"

or just click here for examples.

 

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Next thing on my list:

 

the daylight pic of the Christmas lights CAL

I think it looks great!!! :)

 

 

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I had so much spinning around in my head to share but I am probably too tired cos I can't think of it now... :)

Well if I do I will write another post again soon, sorry

 

But do let me know if you want me to post about the mug rug tutorial!!!

 

 

I need your help/ideas for my windows…

Here is my question:

I don't wanna look at my neighbors walls/windows but I want to be able to look outside (not people looking in my house) and don't lose the light coming in, in my kitchen and bathroom windows.

And I don't want it too look like "grandma's" kitchen...you know what I mean something modern, airy in white or color...HELP!!!

 

So I am looking for crochet ideas/patterns to make that happen...

 

btw my kitchen is all white with butcher block counter tops.

 

let me know what your ideas are (please link patterns too).

 

Thank you!!!

Kitchen windows

Bathroom window:

Almost done with my Christmas Lights CAL...

Today I have planned, in between errands and wife duties (laundry, cleaning etc), to make the "cable" for the Holiday Lights from Jean Herman's free pattern that you can find on Ravelry and hang them by the entrance of our front door under the covered porch :)

 

It's so great to see that a lot of you joined this CAL and I am looking forward seeing more pictures showing up in our Ravelry group.

 

And we have to start looking into our next January 2012 CAL/KAL.

 

Before I forgot someone asked me if I would consider doing a SAL (Sew Along) too...

I think that's a great idea so some of you can take a little break in between our CAL/KAL/SAL.

 

I made an adjustment to the pattern by crocheting the connectors on the lights instead of making them seperately and sewing them on later. I just dislike hand sewing...LOL

 

12 lights with connectors:

 

 

 

 

Yesterday I met my knitting/crochet group at Starbucks for our weekly get-together to have this time a secret Santa game. And yes, they stole my presents twice but I got to steal back and ended up with a little Christmas sock (see pic below).

Below is a picture of all the Christmas ornaments that were made for the Secret Santa game: 

 

 

 My Secret Santa Christmas Sock ornament:

 

So this was it for today...I will be diving into finding new patterns for our projects so we can start voting :)

Still I hope I am not boring you all with my blog...