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Rocket Star Quilt Along is here!

May 3, 2019 No Comments

Another finished quilt of the year! Yeay, this one came together so quickly, part of the reason why I love accountability and due dates!

This is a part of the quilt-along that is hosted by one of favourite shop, the Fat Quarter Shop.

If you are up to play around with a gorgeous block – come and join us!

There are affiliate links within the post for your convenience. Please find the full disclosure here.

Rocket Star Quilt Along (3rd May) prep:

Rocket Star Quilt Pattern
Starburst Ruler – highly recommend this, there’ll be a template in the pattern, but I sliced through my homemade template twice!
Stripology Ruler – I am recommending this as I used mine for all those sashing. So, so useful.
Rocket Star Quilt Kit (Exclude backing) featuring a new line by Basic Grey – NOVA. I love Basic Grey, and this one is no exception! Just gorgeous!
You can also check out NOVA by Basic Grey HERE. Tell me what do you think of the line? I love florals and geometric – so I am definitely in love with it!

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Rocket Star Quilt Along is coming!

April 30, 2019 No Comments

A quilt-along is coming this 3rd May!

Hosted by one of favourite shop, the Fat Quarter Shop.

If you are up to play around with a gorgeous block – make sure you stop by again 3rd May for all the details and the video tutorial!

There are affiliate links within the post for your convenience. Please find the full disclosure here.

You can get all the fun stuff to get ahead first too:

Rocket Star Quilt Along (3rd May) prep:

Rocket Star Quilt Pattern
Starburst Ruler – highly recommend this, there’ll be a template in the pattern, but I sliced through my homemade template twice!
Stripology Ruler – I am recommending this as I used mine for all those sashing. So, so useful.
Rocket Star Quilt Kit (Exclude backing) featuring a new line by Basic Grey – NOVA. I love Basic Grey, and this one is no exception! Just gorgeous!
You can also check out NOVA by Basic Grey HERE. Tell me what do you think of the line? I love florals and geometric – so I am definitely in love with it!

I didn’t get to purchase these before starting mine due to the shipping time to get it to me all the way across the world. Instead I used one of my favourite “hoarded long enough” stash : Denyse Schmidt.

Not surprising, that it consist of florals and geometrics too!

I will be posting the full quilt finish on 3rd May, so make sure you stop by then too. As for now, enjoy the work in progress photos.

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Week 15 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads | Scrappy Log Cabin

April 29, 2019 No Comments

Welcome to the 15th 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.

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.

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Week 14 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads | Cross Way

April 26, 2019 3 Comments

Welcome to the 14th 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.

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.

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Week 13 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads |Highway of Flying Geese

April 20, 2019 No Comments

Welcome to the 13th 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.

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.

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My new sewing space setup

April 15, 2019 3 Comments

I thought I’ll put this here on the blog too. This was my insta story a couple of weeks ago.

I love looking at sewing spaces and I would love to share a little more of mine, so you’ll feel like you’ve been here sewing with me at some point.

Besides, it always nice to look back at all the setup I used to sew in.

Sewing Space 2011

Just look at this one – when I first learned how to quilt. That table was just beside our bed.

I think that is when the name The Little Mushroom Cap came from. I was just sewing in a small cute little space under the roof of a mushroom cap. Well it felt like that.

I loved it.

There are also many times when we don’t dine on the table because there’s fabrics and sewing machine on the dining table.

One quilter’s life is that one whole family’s life. Right?

My current space – 2019

I recently moved the furniture back into the space when I was feeling most productive. I would say, I love the setup but I haven’t yet still manage to maximise the sewing potential. You see, I am most productive in the wee early morning around 4-5am.

My kids are not up at the time, thankfully. I love them, but I really do think some quiet time is necessary.

In the early morning, I could have all the peaceful me time praying, meditating, blogging and sewing.

Do you have a morning routine?

My Morning Routine is a game changer. I love it so much. I read about it from this book and has never looked back.

However, since the current space is shared with my kid’s bed, I haven’t been able to sew much during my mornings. But, things have been progressing with this space and I am getting back more sewing mojo, even if I have to sew after cooking dinner just before bed time.

Whatever it is, I am so grateful.

Grateful for the space. Grateful for the joy sewing has brought to my life.

Well, I hope you enjoy this short insta-story video.

If haven’t followed me on instagram, you can find me at amira_littlemushroomcap. I wish to do more insta stories and videos in the future, but it does require more time just uploading and editing. Hope I’ll get more efficient at that.

I promise, I’ll try and do along video tour of the space.

If you are interested in some of the organization I have in there (besides all the mess too) – I have a post HERE that shares some those.

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Week 12 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads | Hot Plusses

April 3, 2019 2 Comments

Welcome to the 12th 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.

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.

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Quilt As You Go Finish: Sewcial Bee Sampler V1

March 31, 2019 8 Comments

Second finish of the year!

I put this off for so long. Quilt blocks were ready to pieced together a long while already.

You can find the archive for each of the block quilting HERE> (with tutorials to FMQ design)

And I think some of the reason why I was reluctant to proceed was because the final blocks didn’t excatly turned out the exact 12.5″ after quilting and the tedious process of cutting sashing.

But I finally did it.

And this is how I went about it:

Trimming the blocks after quilting:

First, I had to just clarify myself that the truth and a fact that my quilt blocks are not all equal size.. After quilting each blocks, the blocks are likely to be a different size. This is due to the difference in the density of quilting. I always find samper quilts are challenging due to this fact.

Then I had to tell myself that it is okay that I had to trim all of them to the same size and may need to sacrifice some points. Gladly most of them had borders, which didn’t matter much when trimming them.

I reminded myself that I should never aim for perfect.

I should embrace imperfection. It is way better done, learned rather than an unfinished project due to the perfectionist me.

With that I finally took action to just move it on.

So, here it is today. All done and bound and it feels great.

I used the same technique used here (tutorial for piecing quilt as you go blocks with tiny sashing).

Pretty happy with the finish.

I think the stripes is perfect for this version of my Sewcial Bee Sampler as it has lots of white background.

The colourful backing is also something I look forward to when piecing the blocks together. It couldn’t be any better. I love the colourful backing!

I did enjoy quilting all the different textures on this quilt and I love it now that I have 25 different quilting design to refer to as well. It was well worth the trouble and had a lot of practices too with this project,

Now I need to finish my other version of the quilt. That one I intend to do a larger sashing but I doubt that I have enough fabrics for it.. so again another procrastination. We shall see when that one gets done.

Here is one photo with my dear husband holding up the photo for me.

It is so relatable when someone posted their family members holding up their quilts for them, again and again, after each quilt finish.

Have you tried making a quilt with quilt-as-you-go technique before?

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Week 11 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads | Mom’s Sugar Cookie | Round Hot Pad

March 24, 2019 2 Comments

Welcome to the 11th 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.

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.

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In Progress : Grandmother’s Flower Garden English Paper Piecing

March 20, 2019 4 Comments

A slow but a moving one for sure.

I have made some progress on grandmother’s flower garden.

It just crossed my mind that this might be done when I am a grandmother myself. Haha.

I don’t mind the slow progress, I love the process itself already.

That’s the fun thing about crafting or quilting. The process itself is already worth the effort.

I shall be updating from time to time to make a record on the progress of this quilt.

So here are some progress photos for today: