If you’ve never come across a jelly roll rug before, well you’re in for a treat. I am sharing a newly finished jelly roll rug that I just made.
Another fun quilt-a-long has just started! This time it is the mystery Christmas Quilt-A-Long which usually runs in July. This is a free pattern by Fat Quarter Shop and will be released each week together with a video tutorial.
Check out more details about the quilt-a-long HERE>
This year, the mystery quilt is called the Christmas Time Quilt-a-Long!
Now, I don’t celebrate Christmas but I do love the season. With all the glitters and decorations, it is always magical. And I love the joyful colours of Christmassy fabrics.
I have been working hard trying to keep my scraps in control. The more projects we work on and finish, the more scraps we’ll end up with. Today I’m updating a little start to my scrappy ocean wave quilt.
Here’s an update on some of my slow stitching projects including my Home Sweet Home Cross Stitch, Chalk Talk Quilting and Grandmother Flower Garden EPP project.
Now that I have come back to cross-stitching, I am making more time to sit and enjoy a little bit of hand-stitching or cross-stitching with Audible on or a movie.
Usually, I also have my little one in my arm watching tv with me too, so my choice of tv would be all the kids move or Blippi. That’s why Audible books are on my ear while we enjoy the cozy times together. Lately, I have been enjoying the more available selections from Audible Plus Catalogue. Some great fiction selection there too, which makes the subscription much more worth it as we can get more books a month.
Cute project bags, plastic bags, boxes or baskets?
How do you keep work-in-progress (wips) organized?
I am not sure about you, but I am a multi-project-at-one-time kind of crafter. I love being able to jump from one project to another! It keeps me motivated and excites me. P
But the downside of that, is the amount of things to keep tidy. There’s just so many things that can just be everywhere around the sewing room if things are not well kept together.
Hence, one thing I do is to at least give all of my project a home. When I am not working with them, they have to go back home. All of the related pieces.
So there are a couple of ways you can keep work in progress at one place, and in this post I’ll share some of my favourite ways.
I finished a fun little Halloween quilt, the BOO crew a while back which was posted HERE with the links to the FREE pattern.
While I was tidying up the scraps leftover, I couldn’t help myself to try out the new paper pad I received from Fat Quarter Shop and use up my scraps right away. These fabrics were leftover from the quilt I made, it is the Stacy Iest Hsu Halloween Collection HERE and the MODA grunge is Olivenite HERE.
Using up leftover fabric
I find it easier to use up as much of the fabric and sort them right away before I put them away out of sight.
There’s a lot of benefit to using up your scraps as much as you can before they are piled on with the other scraps.
For one, you are already working with a good mix of fabric colours and prints. If you make a small scrappy project, it will be quick and easy plus it’ll match your quilt!
Another quilt done and bound. This is my first patriotic quilt. We don’t usually decorate our house with patriotic things, but some of us do. An even if they do, it is normally just outside their home. I’ll share some of those when August comes.
As Malaysian, we celebrate our Independence Day in the month of August. 31st of August will be the date we were free, in Malay we called this Merdeka. This year of 2022 will be our 65th Year of Independence.
Hence, I’d like to call this my Merdeka Quilt.
If you’re wondering why the colors are the same as the American flag (Americana colours) except for the yellows, you can read more about the colour choices at the beginning of making this quilt HERE>.
America’s flag and the Malaysia flag is very much the same isn’t? Which is lucky for me because next time, I can also make the same stripes from lots of patterns available.
There are plenty of Americana Quilts Patterns out there that I can use too which makes it a lot more fun.
Patriotic Quilt
As with all the sampler quilts, this one was definitely an enjoyable one to make.
I get bored when piecing or cutting 100’s of the same size units, hence sampler quilt is my go-to quilts.
You can seee some of previous Sampler Quilts in my previous post below:
This time, I took the time to get some more Drone Photos just like when I did with Sewcialites Quilt! It is always exciting to get to do this and I ought to do it more often. Looking at quilts from far above is quite a view.
Yeah, we have reached to the end of the Halloween Quilt free quilt-a-long with one of my favorite Online Fabric stores as the host, the Fat Quarter Shop! This one comes with the free pattern, so you can save them if you didn’t sew along this time round.
If you did join along, let me know how did you go?
I love all the fun cute blocks we have to make this time round. FQS always have super cute patterns and their sew-a-long are a lot of fun to join in.
I started off with these fabrics from Stacy Iest Hsu Halloween Collection HERE and as for the background, I’m using a MODA grunge background named Olivenite HERE. The pattern calls for a purple background, but I thought I’ll do something a little different with a yucky mushy green.All of the fabric were sent by Fat Quarter Shop.
You can use your stash, use your own choice of fabrics like I did or you can also get a Boo Crew Quilt Kit.
You can read more about the previous blocks in the previous post:
Boo Crew Halloween Quilt-A-Long LINKS:
And here’s my finished quilt!!!
Isn’t it cute???
I have to admit, since the SUMMER SALE, I have been doing few trips of quilting fabric haul. I just have very little resistance when it comes to fabric.
But it’s all worth it.
Why do I buy fabric?
Fabric makes me HAPPY in a lot of different phases of their lifetime with me.
I am HAPPY WHEN:
- …I buy and shop for them – browsing for fabrics online or in store, is such a pleasure. Seeing all the colours, the possibilities. Such a fun thing to do for sure.
- …I get them in the mail. Who doesn’t love happy mail?
- …I have to keep them in place. I love organising fabrics, petting the fabric, and bundle of fabrics in a collection is so beautiful to look at.
- …I look at them on display in my sewing space. They keep me inspired and gets me giddy to get things going in my sewing room so I can start making with them and just so I can buy more. Haha. The cycle goes on.
- …I start working with them!
- …they’re in my quilts or items I used. And I keep loving them until they are all worn out and used out full of love.
So isn’t that worth it?
LOL
I know I don’t have to justify my purchases, and we totally can buy fabrics or anything we love for as long as we are in our budget and means. And for as long as we are HAPPY. I like to say that I am also supporting small businesses and designers.
Fabric SALE and quilting fabric haul
Recently, I grabbed a few things from the SALE section HERE and some from the monthly BASICS sale for background fabrics.
I always buy BASIC backgrounds only when they’re on sale. This is one way to keep the cost down aside many more ways to budget and save when making a quilt. –> you can read about how to quilt on a budget HERE for more ideas.
So here’s my recent quilting fabric Haul and my plans for them.