Welcome to another “Three of 3 on A Tuesday”.
I will have THREE things or links of 3 topics for you to visit/read every 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:
Picking fabrics, playing mix and match with the fabrics from my stash, auditioning them for a quilt or any patchwork project is my favourite part of the quilting process.
While I do love using the pre-made original bundle of fabrics by the designers as in the quilts I made HERE, HERE
, and HERE….
there are joy and more of my own touch in quilts that I make by mix-matching fabrics from various designers and fabric line. Examples of such quilts are HERE and HERE.
In this post, I am going to share my process of picking fabrics for a quilt. Maybe you have a similar process as I do and would like to add more, or maybe you’ll be picking up something new from this post.
Whatever it is, let’s share it. Leave a comment. Pin the image by clicking the Pinterest button on the top left-hand corner 🙂
Progress matters than perfection.
Little by little you’ll get there.
I love that the process of making a quilt is really about making small progress each day/each session you have.
It reminds you that in life if you want anything – make progress towards it every day. Even just a tiny step.
Even if it just means what you do that day is simply a two minute pray.
I believe in miracles, I believe in the impossible.
I believe that all big things come with little steps.
And I hope all of you are making that tiny steps towards whatever you are aiming for, be it a calming life, a farmhouse life (my dream), a creative dream or even just to live life the fullest.
Best read for the little progress, big dreams: Cultivate + Make it Happen.
Anyway, today I have a little update on what’s cooking in my sewing room:
Welcome to “Three of 3 on A Tuesday”.
This is the very first edition of this, hopefully, that it’ll be something fun to have on this blog.
I will have THREE things or links of 3 topics for you to visit/read every 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:
I love scrappy.
Especially tiny pieces of scrappy fabrics pieced together.
And my favourite way of using small tiny pieces is using a foundation paper piecing technique.
Now, if you have not heard or tried this method. Or even fear of it. Please don’t. You will be missing out the fun.
It may seems intimidating at first to do paper piecing. I knew I was too, when I first started with paper piecing, but the final look of it really just surpasses my fear. Perfect point, no worries about the seam allowance. So, it was totally worth it.
Now, if you don’t want to start with all the complicated paper piecing, start with a simple log cabin.
And if you want to add in a bit more fun AND a little bit of challenge, try this pattern!
I have a few W.I.P projects that made some progress over these two weeks:
Here is a little progress photo
I am just popping in quickly to let you know a great deal of quilting books on sale!
I love collecting and browsing through quilting books, and magazines…
They are just eye candy. And I love it that whenever I don’t have a project in mind, I can always refer to any of them and pick up some new inspiration and be ready to go.
While I am working on my double wedding ring quilt, and quilting away, I got an idea to quilt hearts.
And since I ran out of 
Besides, it gets boring just working on one project at a time. Says me – who can never really focus on getting one thing done at one time. 😛
I hope you are not sick yet of seeing this double wedding ring quilt.
It will be a marathon with this one, I am in the attempt to try and finish this soon. So, I made it as my January UFO finish, just to keep me accountable to finish it.
I am doing a UFO challenge with APQchallenge this year so, let’s hope this is a great start.
If you are a quilter, you may already know this common two abbreviation.
But just in case someone new pop on to this blog, just let me make it clear:
Unfinished Object, half sewn, half-way done but has long forgotten. Sometimes unknowingly appear in the mess of looking for something in the sewing room. Sometimes, it has been so long that the owner forgets what was it meant to be. Erk. 🙂
Work In Progress. Things that are still being worked on whether slowly progressing or being in the front view. Or waiting in the list to be done. it got on the list so it is in progress.
However, WIP can easily be turned into UFO once they got neglected and being shoved way under that pile. or that drawer. or that basket. wherever you keep it. 🙂
Anyway,
Today, I am going to be taking you through my current UFOs and WIPs.
So just a warning: this is going to be a lengthy post. Just so you know I am going into details with these WIPs and UFOs.
January seems like a great time to post about these, so I am doing it.
Besides, I have just moved house and got a new sewing space, and finishing off old projects seems like a good idea to start with.