I thought it would be a great challenge for me to do a pot holder a.k.a hot pads every single week of 2019. (but I am currently falling way behind, maybe I’ll catch up but if not, it will just be a 52 weeks but not in a single year)
I am planning on having it displayed in my kitchen. They make great decor don’t they?
While I am at it, I am going to be sharing with you a simple tutorial on the process.
You can join in the challenge and make the same hot pads I make every week with the same design or any of your own choice.
Ever thought about which quilt batting is best for your quilt? You have a quilt top done, and just before we get to quilt it, we need to make a quilt sandwich, and then the batting comes to mind. Which one should you use?
How do you choose the correct and best quilt batting?
In this post, we’ll discuss different types of batting and I’ll give you some suggestions to which quilt batting you should use.
I thought it would be a great challenge for me to do a pot holder a.k.a hot pads every single week of 2019. (but I am currently falling way behind, maybe I’ll catch up but if not, it will just be a 52 weeks but not in a single year)
I am planning on having it displayed in my kitchen. They make great decor don’t they?
While I am at it, I am going to be sharing with you a simple tutorial on the process.
You can join in the challenge and make the same hot pads I make every week with the same design or any of your own choice.
I thought it would be a great challenge for me to do a pot holder a.k.a hot pads every single week of 2019. (but I am currently falling way behind, maybe I’ll catch up but if not, it will just be a 52 weeks but not in a single year)
I am planning on having it displayed in my kitchen. They make great decor don’t they?
While I am at it, I am going to be sharing with you a simple tutorial on the process.
You can join in the challenge and make the same hot pads I make every week with the same design or any of your own choice.
Since CreativeBug is having a FREE WATCH WEEK, I thought I’ll share with you some of my favourite quilting classes here.
If you’ve never tried CreativeBug, this is the time. It’s FREE and you can get a taste of what’s fun in the platform.
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One of my life mantra is “Learning is what keeps you going. Don’t ever stop Learning”.
And I believe that everything is “learnt-able”. I just need to go find out how or experience how. Cause, yes, people say mistakes are the best teacher.
I also believe that the learning process keeps our brain at its best, keeps it active.
One quilter recently emailed me and told me that she loves quilting as it keeps her excited to learn new things, new techniques even at the age of 91!
Isn’t that amazing! I was even inspired by her to keep this journey of continuous learning and I am ever so grateful that these days we can easily learn from the vast of knowledge on the internet.
CreativeBug Quilting Classes:
While there are many different classes available on Creative Bug, I love watching their quilting classes particularly from some of my favourite quilt and fabric designers.
Double Wedding Ring Quilt by Tara Faughnan – I have made a double wedding ring quilt before, but Tara’s approach t it with solids is also very interesting. Maybe I shall make another double wedding ring someday.
If you are looking for ways to be more organised with your quilting projects, you are in for a treat. In this post, I’ll share with you 10 tips to organise your quilting projects.
Drop down a comment down below too if you love any of these tips!
Let’s get straight to it.
#1 Ziplock bags – do all the cutting in one session
Oh gosh, I love this organizing system! I first learned this from a pattern by Elizabeth Hartman. She is one organised quilter! A very productive one too. You check out her amazing patterns here>>. I personally love the latest one! Check that one out HERE>
I made the Aviatrix Medallion previously blogged HERE> and went ahead starting the quilt by cutting every single pieces required for the quilt! It was kind of scary to do so, but I did it anyway.
As per pattern instruction, I kept all the pieces organised in zip lock bags!!! Which was super great cause I can simply store them easily and only took out the one required ones when I need to sew them.
It was a big deal for me to have kept all those in one nice organised place. Since the middle part of the quilt was quite intimidating, I didn’t start sewing until a year later, but since they were all so organised it was easy to pick it back up and just continue to the sewing stage.
#2 Organise WIP in project boxes
Here is one way you can keep all of your project in one place and stack them up nicely. Label them for easy to find what you want to work on too.
I like this size box, perfect to keep 9-12″ blocks flat and some other pieces flat enough to be working back on it.
I love the Alphabities. Especially when following a pattern. They kept me sane for having to know which one measure what without having to remeasure all the time.
#4 Portable Design board
This has saved me so much time and has gotten me so organised with all the pieces. It is easy to be moving the pieces all at once form the cutting table to the sewing machine.
You can also test out the layout of your pieces on the design board. It is then just a matter of putting it next to your sewing machine while you sew the pieces together.
I made mine using this corrugated board, wrapping it with batting and placing it on the wall using these strips. Works perfectly! And I can make lots of them around the sewing space.
#7 Block Keeper book
I made a block keeper a while ago (blogged HERE) and I love that I can keep blocks in there flat and easy to find.
You can also keep little pieces together as you would want to piece them later safely in the keeper.
#8 Use Coloring page
A lot of the patterns these days have coloring pages included and you can easily color it first to see how it would look like when pieced together. You can do this with color pencils or felt tip pens (I am currently loving this set).
Another option to that is to digitally color it. If you want to learn how to create your own coloring pages, learn basic digital art drawing if you are interested to do so. I always opt for classes in Skillshare for such new skills.
If you don’t know what Skillshare is – it’s a platform to learn all sorts of thing. You can try it for FREE here>>
#9 Project tracker
Project tracker is great to make sure you are in the know of where are you at
Be more organised with your time and block sewing time so you can get your project moving.
I personally love my EC Planner and use it every week to block time for sewing for that week. It is easy to be caught in day to day chores. So if you find that sewing is a relaxing therapy and something that you would love to do more of, make sure you block off some time doing so.
Well that is it for 10 ways to get more organise when quilting! You will be more calm and more productive when you are organised!
I thought it would be a great challenge for me to do a pot holder a.k.a hot pads every single week of 2019. (but I am currently falling behind, maybe I’ll catch up but if not, it will just be a 52 weeks but not in a single year)
I am planning on having it displayed in my kitchen. They make great decor don’t they?
While I am at it, I am going to be sharing with you a simple tutorial on the process.
You can join in the challenge and make the same hot pads I make every week with the same design or any of your own choice.
I got another flimsy done! Pretty quick when you can just make 16 blocks to make a big enough quilt.
I love large blocks.
This one is especially pretty simple and easy.
As usual, I am using what I already have in stash, and though the navy dark sashing isn’t the best choice, I think it was the best that I had in the stash.
I am a fan of productivity aside from quilting. Want to sew more or make more quilts? Read on the 5 productivity hacks I have in this post to finding more time to sew.
