Tucker's Christmas Quilt

I just finished binding my nephew Tucker's quilt.  I didn't know that the binding would take over an hour to do.  LOL.

Secret Santa Pouch

I am doing a Secret Santa gift swap with some other teachers at my school.  With my homemade Christmas this year, I've been researching and experimenting with fabric gift bags and pouches.  I came across this tutorial from A Spoonful of Sugar today and HAD to try it.  It was so easy.  It only took about 15 minutes!

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Homemade Christmas

I have decided to do a homemade Christmas this year.  It has been quite a challenge trying to complete everything.  Here are some pictures of projects I'm working on.

 I may keep this one for myself!

 I still have to finish the binding on this one.

 A quilt for my nephew.  (Front)

 (Back)

 These were the November project at the quilting guild.

You make them using a tape measure for the closure.

Quilting Guild Quilt

So, I know it has been a couple months since my last post.  There has been so much going on.  Moving, starting a new job, getting settled in, surviving the first quarter of the school year, etc.  I have been sewing.  It's just been a bit hard to post photos since my camera charger is STILL in Korea.  I borrowed the school camera to update you all.

I joined the local quilting guild.  It has been a lot of fun for me.  Last month we started on a large quilt project.  I can't remember the name right now, but I'll find it and post it later.  Here is a picture of what I have so far.  I have the last row sewn, I just haven't attached it yet.

lessons in free motion quilting

My wonderful mother is letting my use her Viking Ruby sewing/embroidering machine.  It is a WHOLE lot different than the little Janome that I was using in Korea.  One thing that I really wanted to try was free motion quilting.  I had been reading and seeing a lot about it online and wanted to give it a try.  A few weeks ago I picked up some fall fabrics by Robert Kaufman (the Nutmeg Collection)  They Are just beautiful!  I decided to make a couple of table runners out of them, then quilt those.

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This is the first one I made.  For the quilting, I just went around each of the leaves.  This was a really quick project.  I still need to bind it.

#2

For this one, I went around each of the leaves and stars.  That looked ok, but I wanted to leaves to really pop.  So, I did some stippling (sp?) in the area between the leaves.  I REALLY like the effect.  Overall, this one is my favorite.  I am thinking about making some of these using winter fabric and giving them as Christmas gifts.

I'm not sure if you can see the details, I'll try to get a better picture soon.

New Quilt

Well hello blog readers!!  I know, it has been way too long since my last post.  I've had such a busy summer!  I have been sewing, but my camera charger was left in Korea, so I finally grabbed my mom's camera to show you what I have been working on.  First is my new queen size quilt.  It is the first big quilt I've done.  I decided to do a disappearing nine block pattern.  I finished the top earlier this week, and the back today.

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Sewing Withdraw

Well, I know I haven't posted in a while.  I wanted to drop a quick note to explain why.  Next week is my last week of the school year.  I'm also moving back to the States from South Korea.  So, I have been a busy girl packing everything and closing up my classroom.  I have been going through a HUGE sewing withdraw.  The movers come this weekend, so I'm hoping to have a little time to sew next week.  I am doing 2 mug rug swaps and have everything cut out for the first one.  I'm also going to make a neck pillow cover tutorial in the next few days.  So, stay tuned!!


I don't like to post without a picture, so I'm posting one of a project from a while back.  I made this as a birthday gift for a VERY special lady!!