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Hi!
Today I would like to share with you a tutorial on how to make monogrammed couple pillows using the Tranpunto Quilting technique.
You will need as follows :
and 2 pieces of 18″ x18″ of muslin fabric for the backing of the front piece of the pillows.

Turn the pillow around through the unzip part and you are done! take a photo and share it on littlemushroomcap f
lickr pool
.
This is such a great way to practice that free motion skill! For ideas on which type of dense quilting you can do, try these tutorial links:
Squiggle Square Free Motion quilting
or you can always practice simple meandering too !
XOXO 

Hi!
 
I am finally done with my second version of “I Heart Quilt”.
 
I Heart Quilt. pattern to be released soon
 
I fell in love with the first quilt so much that I was not willing to part with it. I remembered making the quilt with intention to sell the finished quilt but I didn’t sell it in the end. For the record, I haven’t even listed any of my finished quilts for sale. However, I am going to make a new record this year by kicking off with my first listing on Etsy.
 

cover pic

Since I am not following a pattern, I guess it should be legal to sell it right? That was my concern when I started thinking about selling quilts. I can’t simply sell a quilt I made out of patterns published in magazines and books right? Correct me if I am wrong. Some patterns have written copyrights on them and it’s made clear that we can’t sell quilts made with the pattern. However, how about those in magazines? I guess making quilts to sell is far harder than making it to give.
 
The plan was to sell it and I didn’t want to break any copyright laws,so I designed “I heart Quilt” and made it up as I go. You can read more about the journey here.
 
loop quilting allover
 
With all the hard work done, might as well, I put an extra effort to make a pattern out of it. It will be great to see more of this quilt in different colors and fabrics. So, I made another version for the pattern writing process and the quilt is Layer Cake friendly!
 
Choosing colours
 
on the chair
NOTE : I no longer promote Craftsy/Bluprint as I used to due to the way the subscription is currently being carried out. I had the issue of cancelling my subscription when the company changed hand and I find that cancelling through calls is inconvenient. However, I do still stand behind these classes I promote and if you are subscribed, you can surely check these classes I recommend on the platform. If you are looking for another online platform to learn craft such as quilting, do check out CreativeBug. It is much cheaper in subscription (subscribe now 3 months for only $5). Thank you.
 
Here is the link to the quilt pattern on Craftsy.
If you do make one, feel free to link in my flickr group or on craftsy. If you find mistakes or would like to comment on the pattern, I am open to hear it out. This is my first quilt pattern, so I would really love to hear feedbacks!
 
Update :  Ever since 2015, I only sell this pattern via payhip
You can click the following link :Buy eBook
 
backing
This quilt is for sale here and the pattern is for sale on Craftsy or my etsy shop.
Thank you for supporting me and my crafty adventures.
 
Lots of love,
 
 
 
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Hi!
 
I made a special wedding gift recently using a technique called “trapunto quilting”. I decided to make something that they can put on their bed, and thought a monogrammed pillow with their initials would be a great gift.
 
wedding gift_customized pillow_whole quilt 
 
Y monogrammed
 
At first I was thinking to applique the initials but I feel like applique would speak too loud for these pillows. So, to make things more subtle, I decided to just hide the initials among the quilting. Besides, there is always a time when you need to practice that free motion skill. So making this pillow was definitely a great practice!
 
To make the lettering stand out even more, trapunto technique was used for the lettering in these pillows.
 
together...
 
..till jannah 
 
At the bottom of their initials, I put ” Together.. till Jannah”. Jannah means Heaven in arabic.
 
What do you think? I sure hope the couple love them.
 
I will publish a tutorial soon for making these pillows. It is certainly a great chance to practice that free motion skill if you have been wanting to do so.
 
Till then,
Have a lovely week dear friends,
 
XOXO

 

2013 has been all, full of exciting things, yet too has down moments
Non quilty stories first:
Down moments : My lab was closed almost the whole year slowing down my study progress, my father in law got into a coma after an accident in June and still is in coma (your prayers are so much appreciated) and when we moved to a new rented house in february, our house was flooded and the carpets ruined.
Exciting things : My hubby got a day job, my son everyday has some fun things to make us laugh, forget heavy stuff and remind us how greatful things are. My lab reopen in October – and I hit the two year mark of PhD journey. I am already on my third year! (*don’t know whether this is good news or not * haha*)
Well, enough of life stories, lets get on to reviewing crafting things I did in 2013
What I finish in 2013:
Exciting crafting in 2013:
I joined simply solid bee, I joined Patchwork Please Sew Along (halfway) and I joined Make it Right Challenge

What began in 2013 and yet to finish :
1. Clover Lover_ A quilt in progress, 2. marcelle growing, 3. Briar Rose Quilt_littlemushroomcap, 4. Lucky Star BOM August Addition I have few goals for 2014, that include finishing up what I started in 2013 above and releasing several patterns. I also wanted to sell some quilts and things I make on etsy this year.
To wrap up 2013, I also bought a new sewing machine with special price during the cristmas season. *wink*
Have a lovely new year to all of you. Thank you for stopping by, commenting and supporting me. You mean a lot to me. A LOT.
Thank you……….
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Lily's Quilts

Hi! I am a fabriholic anonymous. We probably have different views when it comes to how much fabrics a quilter should have, but I feel like I have reached the maximum of mine and its overflowing. The feel of guiltiness for not cutting those fabrics and working with them has creepily got into me. At some stage I don’t really feel like happy mail are really as much as happy as it used to be. It became a sign of my fabric shopping issue instead. No fun!

I also feel like I could be more productive if I just stop shopping and sew instead.
So, with this declaration, 

I the fabriholic will join Jess over at The Elven Garden to start fabric fast from now till the end of June 2014.

Thereafter, the stash will be revised to see whether the fast shall continue or not.
Nonetheless, I have made exceptions :

a) solid white or coordinating solid with the current w.i.p that shall be finished can be bought during the period

b) backing / binding fabrics can be purchased so that all quilts can be completed
and

c) quilt for publication which should be bought only at the time of making

Here is a current photo of 75% of my stash. I am organizing them again and will be taking more photos once it is organized. It will be my “BEFORE” photo. Wait till June 2014 and see the “AFTER”. Hope I succeed! Wish me luck!

FabAnon
So, what I did today was unsubscribe to all online shop newsletter. It was HARD! but I DID it. 
I am going to have to close my ears and eyes for sale so that this fasting would go much easier. 
I am looking forward to a more productive year, making out of stash and stop wasting time filling up fabric in shopping carts!
Thanks for being here as my witness. I shall update from time to time how the diet is going.
XOXO

Here is my last post for the About A Quilt Sampler! This quilt uses the ‘Quilt-As-You-Go’ technique.Thank you for keeping up with me, it was a lovely journey of documenting this QAL.

If you happen to land here first, I have archived all of the posts HERE so you can go through all the tutorials for each block and quilting tutorials included in this quilt-along.

We are now at a stage where we can piece all the blocks together and finally bind the quilt!

Hi!
I am pretty sure most of you are aware of the wonderful Blogger’s Quilt Festival running right now till November 8th!
If you are new and came from the festival, I first must say a very warm welcome to my blog!
Blogger's Quilt Festival - AmysCreativeSide.com
For those of you who have been here, this quilt has already been shown before. So basically this is just a repeat post especially made for the festival.
HST quilt feather quilting
The quilt was made for my mother as a feature in one of the room in our lovely family home. The colours and choice of fabrics were to match her current theme of the room. Soft and feminine.
The quilt pattern is the HST Block of the month by Jeni Baker of In Color Order. I have enjoyed piecing with half square triangles while making this quilt and believe me… half square triangles do have endless possibilities!
close up  feather quilting in blocks 
As for the quilting, I free motioned custom design in each block and decided to go for a lovely feathers as border to frame it all together.
Feather Quilting Border 
All the free motion quilting was done on my Janome DC2050 and I even made a humble video of me quilting the feathered border here.
Up on a no leave maple tree 
Anyway, I am enjoying myself hopping from one blog to another with many inspiration at the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. I hope you are too. Hope your visit here has also inspired you in any means. Until next time, I wish you a fun time at the blogger’s quilt festival!
XOXO

Hi!

This week I have been terribly busy and didn’t have time to post on my blog, so here are all in one!

Since I am linking this post to finish it up Friday, here are some finishes first :

I finished a quilt top made from my own pattern (to be released on etsy soon)

Clover Lover_ A quilt in progress

Clover Lover_ A quilt in progress - quilt pattern_ littlemushroomcap

Last weekend I also manage to get another crochet dishcloth done. I love the textures on this one!

crochet dish cloth _ crochet kitchen

textures _ crochet _handmade photograph

flowers on crocheted dishcloth_handmade_ kitchen

textures _ crochet

By the way, I love spring! I can pick flowers and put some as props.. what fun!
XOXO

Hi!
Working on several projects at a time has caught me with a lot of work in progress. All slow and some is not even moving anywhere. So, I decided to get focused. This week I am getting the quilt with pattern writing done. Definite. No more stalling.
Here is a peak of the quilt making.
w.I.P_The clover Lover quilt + pattern
Then, I am going to focus on getting my Marcelle Medallion done. Last week I did add another border though. Getting this one done will be on the list end of this week as soon as I get the above quilt done. I am promising to myself. Oh dear me, please don’t be a promise breaker. Huhu.
marcelle growing
My socks knitting projects are going slow taking free time only during waiting or travel in the car or in between breaks where I need movies. I have got to the heel turning already. I am pretty happy though there are some uneven stitches. They are my first pair of socks, so I think I did good enough. Hopefully I will be able to get few pair of socks done before next autumn/winter!
sock knitting progress
 Well, thats all to update on my work in progress.. Linking up to :

 WIP Wednesday at Freshly PiecedRight Click to Save Image

If you are new here, take a visit around, I love your visit and would love to have you here often for sure! Thank you!
XOXO
Hi!
I have been working on few stuff as you can see from my last Weekend Do post. I would most probably be having this weekend do linky party every week, so please do stop by and link!
Anyway, here are my current w.i.p:
Marcelle Medallion center
Marcelle Medallion center zoomed
I have picked up some of my favorite prints to continue working on this Marcelle Medallion. Since Penny Poppleton is hosting a QAL (though i may not catch up) I feel more motivated to sew this quilt.
Marcelle Medallion Stash
Marcelle Medallion Stash 2
Here is another W.I.P :
my About A Quilt Sampler QAL is already on the second last block! 
Well, that’s all for w.i.p wednesday! linky up to freshly pieced. Today Hosting is Kristy of Quiet Play!
XOXO