I am a fan of Amazon.
I can scroll for hours and add things to my cart and sometime I ended up buying, but sometime not. Eitherway, I had fun. In this post, here are some fun and exciting deals to watch out for in the next few days while Amazon Prime Day is going on!
Here is an updated deal lists that I have selected that you don’t want to miss on!
I am a fan of Amazon.
I can scroll for hours and add things to my cart and sometime I ended up buying, but sometime not. Eitherway, I had fun. In this post, here are some fun and exciting deals to watch out for in the next few days while Amazon Prime Day is going on!
Welcome to the 17th’ week post of the 52 weeks of hot pads / quilted pot holders. In this post, we’ll be making a herringbone quilt block hotpad.
Here are the list of past week’s posts in this 52 Weeks of Hot Pads Challenge:
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.
Sometime a good simple patchwork is all you need to work on. Here is a simple patchwork baby quilt I made last weekend.
I have a fun quilting tip to share with you today.
Have you ever kept those leftover triangles hoping to use them someday in a scrappy quilt?
And then when it is all mixed up, you ended up throwing it away instead?
I have been there, done that.
Sometimes, these are leftover triangles from piecing long binding together using thee mitred method or sometimes just leftovers from the stitch and flip method.
Well, in this post I’ll share with you a little tip on how to just get those scraps out of the way and straight to making use of it.
Just a heads up for a special sale that is going on this whole week at one of my favourite quilting shop for their 16th Anniversary.
They are holding a whole week of sale and today it starts with lots of fabric bundle on SALE up to 50% off!
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I love the shop for several reasons:
I may have to drop my promise not to buy more fabrics too. I am so tempted with all the beautiful bundles. Don’t ever trust me to be an accountable for not buying fabrics. Even I can’t hold myself accountable. I cave in so fast! LOL.
The shop is turning 16!! I have known the shop since I started quilting 7 years ago and have love purchasing there since.
A note from Fat Quarter Shop ::
I asked google to pick a random number
And on the timeline list – the winner is:::
– tell me in the comment below what would you love to get from the SHOP.
I’ll pick a winner before the SALE end ( 14th June 2019 8.00 pm CST)
Welcome to another “Three of 3 on A Tuesday”. I will have THREE things or links of 3 topics for you to visit/read on Tuesday to either showcase tutorials, inspirations, random daily thoughts or it could be any fabric/notion sales running that particular week. So for today, here are the THREE of 3 things:
It has been a while since I last posted three of 3, but you can always visit the archives HERE>
Welcome to the 16th week post of the 52 weeks of hot pads / quilted pot holders.
Here are the list of past week’s posts in this 52 Weeks of Hot Pads Challenge:
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 a few weeks , I’ll try and catch up)
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.
I am ready to quilt this medallion quilt, and I find myself compelled to write a post on the journey of making the quilt.
When I was making the quilt, I was out of my blogging phase. Instagram kind of took over.
So I didn’t even have an official blog post on the progress. Though it took quite a long time to piece this quilt together.
But I am glad at least I have micro-blogged about it on Instagram. At least I have a sense of the timing and the photos of the progress.
Here is a little progress I made this week, and it is on a scrappy quilt. My favourite kind of quilt.
I didn’t have much time to sew this week, and I crave for some sewing time by the end of the week.
This morning, I pulled out my long left out leaders and enders project from the top drawer of my sewing table and I brought them out from my sewing room (where my little boy is still asleep when I have free time to sew) to my living room where I have another machine set up (this sewing cabinet closes into a small buffet table, this one is Australian made – you can find similar table HERE if you are in the US)
Originally I planned to work on these in between other projects. Hence it was going be my leaders and enders project. And that is the reason it was on my top drawer under my sewing machine.
But let’s be honest here, I never got to it.
Well, at least I tried right?
Anyway, this week I only had 5 minutes here and there, and I got 4 more blocks done.
2 of each, the A set and the B set.
It is all in making time for it. Even little time adds up!
The thread mess on the yoga pant is always a sign of a good sewing time.
The pattern of this quilt is SCRAP VOMIT by Katy at “I’m a Ginger monkey”, but the website is now closed and I can’t redirect you to the pattern.
But they are basically a 7×7 of 2.5″ patches. The A block is all scrappy, whereas a diamond shape pattern is arranged for block B.
Hmmmm, let me tell you a little secret : I started the first block in 2012! That is about 7 years in the making.
[related post: Scrappy Trip Quilt I and Scrappy Trip Quilt II]
I pulled out the stashed pressed blocks and rearranged it and I so want to call it done.
I usually don’t press open but scrappy quilts like this makes me cringe when I think about all the seams to match!
It is crazy work I must say to press it all open. In the end, I didn’t think it was worth it.
Besides, I feel like seams press to side is much stronger. And pressing open actually made it harder to match seams between blocks because they glide over so easily as there’s no nesting.
Hm, maybe I rather have bulky seams than having to deal with all this. How about you?
So, I think I am ready to put this together into a quilt top and get it quilted.
Initially my plan was to make it a large queen size quilt, but I figured a finish would be great too. Besides, I was running out of the yellow little blocks for the centre of the B blocks.
There are plenty of pieced rows still, and maybe I’ll make another one next time, similar but different.
I rarely make smaller size quilt, as we don’t really need to cuddle under them in Malaysia’s hot weather, but I love the idea of having just small little quilts that is easy for me to gift away.
I think I have enough of king/queen size quilts for now.