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Garden Snail Quilt : Update 3

this quilt is going to be awesome! these are my snail blocks i made during March. all of my snail shells are made with various Lizzy House prints and the snail bodies are constructed with prints and solids that coordinate nicely. this has been a great stash busting project with the added bonus of using my favorite designers collections that i have been hoarding. for more information about this snail paced sew along check out Gnome Angel for more details!

Finishing WiP's : Cotton + Steel Modern HST Sampler

currently i'm working my way through my current list of WiP's to clean out projects before starting any new projects! this is my list: Hello Darling Easy Bake Quilt Christmas Pillows Orphan Rainbow Block mini quilt Curve it Up Sampler Tilted Stars quilt Orphan block sewing machine cover Checkered blocks from my bee Modern HST sampler i am in LOVE with this quilt!! last year i participated in the Modern HST Sampler hosted by Blossom Heart Quilts . plus this brings my WiP's down to just 2!! for this quilt i used my Cotton + Steel stash with Essex Yarn Dyed Linen in Black for the background. the final effect with the bright Cotton + Steel fabrics is perfect, but working with the linen did present some challenges. (the linen liked to stretch) but it was a good challenge to work through. i did not feel like adding sashing to this quilt, but i did want to make it a little bigger. so i added the scrappy 4-patch border, made with the scraps from the blocks

Garden Snail Quilt : Update 2

well i had great intentions of keeping up with my blocks for the Garden Snail Quilt-a-long, but life and well, i just plain forgot a few weeks. so here are the blocks for the rest of January and February. i have enjoyed working with my Lizzy House stash and pairing it with some of my other favorite prints for the snail body. i've found it very useful to make 2 blocks at a time and i have very little waste from my background prints. and since i'm caught back up and even ahead a little bit, i will share my March blocks at the end of the month! if you are interested in joining the Snail Paced Slow-along-Sew-along, check out this post from Gnome Angel. Happy Sewing!

Sewing Room Mini Quilts

so two years ago, i made the "SEW" mini from the Moda Spell it with Fabric patterns, reduced by 50%. my original plan was to create a series for my sewing room of "CUT", "PRESS", and "QUILT". well that didn't happen and the idea has been on the back burner ever since. so when my modern quilt group organized a UFO to CEO program, i signed up and made my list with the few remaining items from my WIP pile and some projects that i've had the fabric for but just never got around to creating. after working on some of my other WIP's this was a nice palette cleanser. A simple and straight forward, that came together quickly. since i wanted to word and fabric choices to be the stars, i kept the quilting simple with organic straight lines, my favorite for a fast finish! i love knocking out WIP's. so far i have been pretty good and not starting any major projects without making progress on my list of WIP's first, only 3 major

Geometric Millennium Falcon : A Finished Mini Quilt

the second quilt for our wall of geekdom is finished! i love decorating my house with mini quilts that i have made or have received from swaps. so in my family room, there is a blank wall behind one of our couches. so i decided it was the perfect spot to display some of our favorite fandoms. i love using up small scraps! Quiet Play patterns are great for using those small scraps. for my Millennium Falcom i used a wide variety of low volume scraps. for the background kept it simple with a solid black. for the quilting, i decided on organic straight lines after a failed free motion quilting fail. while i was upset after the fail, i recovered nicely and went back to my tried and true straight lines and i'm glad i did! i love the texture that the organic lines create. for the back, i found this awesome Millennium Falcon print from JoAnn. time to start working on my next mini for our wall of geekdom! Quilt Stats Pattern: Geometric Millennium Falcon by Quiet Play D

Finishing up WiP's : Curve it Up Sampler

Follow my blog with Bloglovin currently i'm working my way through my current list of WiP's to clean out projects before starting any new projects! this is my list: Hello Darling Easy Bake Quilt Christmas Pillows Orphan Rainbow Block mini quilt Curve it Up Sampler Tilted Stars quilt Orphan block sewing machine cover Checkered blocks from my bee Modern HST sampler according to Instagram, i finished my Curve it Up Sampler on June 11! well at least it didn't take me a year to finally finish it, close by not quite. this was a Block of the Month (BOM) through my local quilt shop and it was just the push i needed to conquer my fear of curves. needless to say, i've conquered them and then some. i actually love curves now. this quilt was my first that is entirely made of solids. normally i am a prints kinda gal, but lately solids have been growing on me. with that i don't believe i will be making another solids quilt for a little while. bu