Grateful

We've caught the grateful bug over here. It's contagious so we thought we would spread it today! We are thankful for quilting and quilting and more quilting. And family and pie and stuffing and snow and Thanksgiving and all the little things. (We'll spare you the rest of the list.)

All the little things EXCEPT the little triangles up there ^^ See that "59" up there? Times that by 10000000000000 and that's how many baby triangle friends we have.

Anyone ready for another slice of pie? Adios. That's where we're headed :)

hola

Hola. Just wanted to give two thumbs up to this cute tutorial. D.I.Y. projects are the best...and even better when they aren't Pinterest fails or aren't too difficult---yeah, that too :) Anyone else think it's weird that "Pinterest" must be spell-checked every time you type it? Maybe it's just us.

Wait for it...a wrinkly picture of the whole (over-sized) sweatshirt! 

Red Sweatshirt: $2 thrift store find

Fabric Paint: Michael's

 

 Looks like Black Friday came early this year. 

And we couldn't resist tying a bow around our fabric store goodies...it makes us feel as if we have made our own fabric line (Just go with it.)

Imagination is a good thing...and we are pretty darn good at matching prints, don'tcha think? ;) :)

In Lieu of Waiting

So the original plan was to make this post about our latest quilt (can't wait!) but instead we reverted to Plan B...a post about some doings in lieu of waiting for the camera to cooperate. The camera is getting the stink eye for this one: the battery is dead. Waiting for a battery to charge is too much to handle on a Monday afternoon :)

Old pic of Happy-Go-Lucky Hopscotch Quilt

And on a more important note: ordering fabric online should be a big no-no. We were playing the matching game where you match solid color fabrics online with the solids in a quilt and we ended up with different shades than pictured online. That's never happened before. It's a fair guess that we will never learn :)

In this picture the solids match perfectly. But in real life, man, these solids are far from perfect. Bummer.

P.S. Does anyone else see paint chips when they see that picture?

It's Time

It's about time to give you the run-down on some of our new projects.

And time to show you a cute picture of some polka-dotty balloons.

It's also time to start a new quilt. We need to put our thinking caps on for this one...What do you think we should make? Or, on second thought, we could just ask Pinterest ;) That works too.

You know what else it's time for? It is time to hit the sewing. HARD. Because the shop is in disarray. The kind of chaos where there is nothing---nada---to buy. Yeah, that is chaos.

We snuck in some quilting time this week (who could blame us?) and so it looks like we have a head-start on our quest to fill the Etsy Shop. Tell ya what, whoever ends up with this quilt is LUCKY with a capital "L" because it smells like fresh laundry. **JEALOUS**

We will show you pictures of this quilt in a day or so. The binding, the backing, the front...the whole works :) Oh, and we will do good on our promise to write you a tutorial in a few days. Or weeks.

Thanks for listening!

Five (somewhat random) Things

Just wanted to fill you in on some things that have been happening 'round here. 5 things to be exact. Okay, so maybe there are 6 things...BIG DEAL! We all knew the twins over at quackadoodlequilt were never good counters ;) But the sixth item is really just an afterthought, so we should be good.

#1: A baby boy quilt is in order, yes?? The fun part is trying to figure out what pattern to make. Or is that the hard part? :)

 
#2: All (four) of the quilts in our shop can be purchased for 20% off when you use the coupon code FUN2SEW upon purchase. Yippee! Sewing is always fun :)

#3:  We've discovered that we have plenty of quilts. Crazy, right? So a trip to the hills for some stargazing and cookie-and-popcorn-eating was planned on the fly.

#4:  We are putting these mason jar mugs to good use this summer. When it is hot outside, smoothies hit the spot every time.

#5:  We've been dying to show you a glimpse of the swirly machine quilting we are doing on our Swoon quilt.

Sidenote: Please excuse all of the strings in this picture.

#6: We have a quilt top tutorial to show you this next week. Thanks for listening to the update!

Hello

Hi everybody! Since there is not one, but TWO scatterbrains over here we haven't been to this blog space in forever.  We have been quilting though. Imagine that :)

For Christmas we got  Wallflowers by Allison Harris for Windham Fabrics. And we are totally freaking out.We love the saturated colors and country feel. Any ideas for what quilt pattern we should use? We have to be 100% sure before we cut up this cutie stack. Or we'll be hating life.

We finished a little baby quilt top with scraps from this quilt. All it needs is a little love...aka ironing.

Speaking of ironing, here's another wrinkly quilt block ;) There are eight more just like it. Puhleesee.

Irish Chain Quilts

A few months back, we cut this fabric into 4.5” squares and made a whole lotta 9 patches:

So many, in fact, that when sewn together it was a KING SIZED quilt. Since quilting that large of a quilt sounds like no fun, we unpicked that quilt into two smaller quilts, each measuring  57” x 66”.

 The machine quilting was simple: swirly loops for both. 

The quilts are not exactly identical, but would make a cute pair. 

 

 

Irish chain quilts are very traditional, and it was fun to use modern fabrics to mix things up a bit. So there you go. Two matching quilts.

Crazy

 Once upon a time we went Black Friday shopping at JoAnns. The end. Which explains the 16 yards of fabric.

(Don't look too frightened.) Yes, we waited in long lines with a bunch of crazies...but at $1.90 a yard, we could deal with the holiday madness. Barely. Bet you can't top that story :)

Plus we found the perfect color for binding. Hey, who could resist a fabric called "Raspberry Anna"? Wink. Wink.

 

To add to our sewing madness, we are playing with fabric. So many choices....

 

Eerrrmm...there are even strings on blocks we've had tucked away forever. That's embarrassing. It just adds to the craziness :)

Chevron Top

 The best way to spend Thanksgiving is sewing ;) Last week we scored these pre-Black Friday fabrics for 50% off the original price! Christmas came early this year :)

A few months back we pinned this quilt on Pinterest and last night we finished sewing all 15 blocks. It's the quickest quilt we've made in a while.

We love the jumbo sized blocks. Bigger is better. Especially chevron blocks made with chevron fabric.

The finished quilt top is roughly 36" x 40" which is perfect for a baby. Now to choose between sewing some more, or eating some more pie ;) Decisions. Decisions.

Shipping, Cutting, Fixing

  Shipping, cutting, fixing craziness over here. Pretty much sums it up.

 

*The Gingham Christmas quilt was shipped*

*A new quilt was cut*

 *Aaaaaaaaaand.... our sewing machines have been in time-out all week*

Pretty lame week as far as quilting goes. The machines are fixed now (as of 5 minutes ago)...so we should jump on our chance to use them :)

Chatter

Since we're in the in progress mode you get a stack of fabrics. Yeah, yeah. We get it. Where are the quilts? Cominnnggg. 

The ladies at the fabric store loved us when they saw our cart. Until we realized we left the coupons, and only bought what we absolutely had to.

Our next order of business? Find our missing sewing machine screw. Easy peasy. Or so we thought... Looks like we'll have to track one down. Groan.

Pow Wow

 

Alison's Pow Wow Pattern is the cutest thing ever ever ever.

We found the perfect fabric (to match the pattern) at Hancock. Love that place.

Have you seen the Briar Rose fabric line? We loosely based our color scheme off of it. And we bought all floral prints to keep the vintage vibe going.

 

We started making this quilt at 10:00 at night. And realized that zombies can't sew :) In the morning we realized that we had sewn all the blocks wrong. Suffice it to say that we ended up making our blocks 1" smaller than planned. We shouldn't sew at night anymore. Even though we still do :)

So our quilt ended up on the small side. Some baby is going to love it...(you can buy it here)

The lighting on the picture above is a little crazy, but it shows off the crinkly goodness. The machine quilting is the best part of this quilt.

We machine quilted the flowers on our own home machines using  Oh Fransson's machine quilting tutorial. We are smittten. 

 This might win the most-favorite quilt contest. Along with the last 50 quilts we've made.

The backing is a vintage yellow sheet which doesn't really match the front of the quilt, but brightens it up. The best part of quilting is that everything doesn't have to match perfectly. Who knew right?