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February and March BOM update

March 28, 2013 10 Comments

Hi!

I am catching up with my February and March BOM and QAL. My previous block for January is in this blogpost. I missed posting one for February, so this blogpost is for February and March.

I am still with Aurifil BOM

Here is my February block. I love how this block turns out.

However, I found out that it turns out to be half inch smaller than other blocks…. sigh…..this block was probably one of the most difficult block that I have made. So, I am not really into making another one of this.

Then comes March Block by Jeni Baker. One of my favourite blogger in this quilty blogland.

I love the simplicity of the block.

I am also still with my 6″ Lucky Star BOM

Here is my February Block with my January’s next to Aurifil BOM’s

Then here are all three of the lucky stars…

I joined Simply Solid Bee For Fallow Group of Australasian. Here is blocks for Kirsten:

Currently trying to keep up with Baby Jane blocks and finishing my scrappy-tripalong quilt.

XOXO

In Quilt

Nancy Drew Is A Clue Blog Hop

March 15, 2013 116 Comments

Hi!

Friday, March 15, 2013

Little Mushroom Cap

Why-Knot-Kwilt

Daisy Days

Julia P. at That Other Blog

The Day Before This Day

Sew Far

Rainbows. Bunnies. Cupcakes.

Les passions de Cliodana

That’s Sew Julie (moved from 3/8)

Sew We Quilt

I can’t believe time flies so fast that it is already time for me to post on my Nancy Drew Blog Hop!

It was first delayed..and in my head I thought I have plenty of time to sew up something before my day.

I guess I have been sewing up in my head more rather than actually doing it! LOL. These days I get sooo tired after school days and the new sewing room in my new home isn’t yet fully utilized. (have to learn and practice Madame Samm’s advice on making time!)

But here it goes…

Ummm, firstly to tell you the truth, my cutting mat was like this for a couple of week.

…because I couldn’t get myself to cut it as I don’t really have a clear idea of what to make. I am not familiar with Nancy Drew’s but I decided to join in because I like how different the fabrics line are from the common fabric lines out there. ( I thought I would have time to read at least one of her book before today comes… but shhhh don’t tell anyone..but I didn’t ! I guess I am missing out huh..)

Finally three days before today, I decided to make something simple. Bright primary colours. I love how different this is to my common colours.

I ended up making a zippered pouch for my scissors to carry around especially when I am working around my little one. Plus its bright! I am sure not to lose it!

My favourite out of the lines are the magnifying glass, the books and Nancy Drews in circles. Which is your favourite?

I still have plenty left out of my charm packs.. I am thinking of more small things to make..

Thank you to Madame Samm and Carol for hosting this bloghop! They are superb cheerleaders!

Till then, have fun blog hopping!

XOXO

In Quilt

A little Update In between

March 4, 2013 20 Comments

Hi!

This week I was not yet getting my sewing mojo. After moving house break, I seem to be lost with where to start back again.

This week I spent a lot of my free time after school doing preparation for my little one’s birthday party that I barely have time for my sewing machine.

But, I hope that will not be long. In the mean time, I hope you’ll enjoy a bit of party photos..

We share the birthday party with our friend who has a daughter turning one close to my little boy’s birthday too. The theme was Pink and Blue, Butterflies and Plane.

My last W.I.P before I pack my sewing machine for moving in the new house is the scrappy trip along. It has a progress.. a slow one under the iron for pressing. I hope to get a queen size top soon!

XOXO,

In Quilt

Dare To Dresden

January 29, 2013 176 Comments

Hi!

Thanks for stopping by.

Firstly I am sorry I have been really slow with sewing lately.

I have a reason for that.

We are moving house. It wasn’t really planned, so I have a lot of work to do packing up things in a week!

And then, I realised, it was too late too to cancel my turn or to delay my turn of bloghop for Dare to Dresden. So I might as well turn up…

So I just have very little show for you..please don’t be mad.. 🙁

We have Madame Samm and Christine as a great cheerleader this round!

I made this a while back..but still …I haven’t decide how to applique the dresden plate to the background fabric yet. Maybe I’ll try machine applique with fancy stitches or blanket stitch.

I only had enough left over jelly roll strips for two blocks.

So, I think I’ll turn them into pillows to match with my “I Heart Quilt” recently made…

What would you do if you only had two blocks?

I am too muddled up that I didn’t have time to plan them well.

Anyway, today I am sharing this fabulous bloghop with these lovely people! Come and visit them!

A Peach in Stitches

Nancy W @ “that Other Blog”

Charlotte’s Creations

Quilt-n-Queen
Domesticity and Other Ponderous Things

Thank you again to Madame Samm for another wonderful bloghop.. I am regretting to miss a bit on this bloghop as I have very tiny time spend browsing around. I do hope I’ll get time to do that as soon as we set up the internet at our new home though…

XOXO,

In Quilt

January BOM Update

January 19, 2013 20 Comments

Hi!

I am joining a few BOM this year. Here goes to January so far.

Aurifil Designer BOM ( This month designer is Erin from One Piece at A Time : I love her blog and her appliques!)

Here is my version of Miss January with the fabrics and Aurifil quilting threads I’ll be using for this BOM quilt

Next is, the Lucky Stars BOM by Elizabeth from Don’t Call Me Betsy
So, here is my version of January’s Star:

Then there is the And Sew On BOM by Kristy from Quiet Play,

Here is my January Block : Measure Twice. My measuring tape shall be embroidered with markings on them soon.

xoxo,

In Custom FMQ Sampler Quilt Along

About A Quilt Sampler Post #2 : QAYG Inroduction + Other Requirements + Lets Link Up Fabric Choices

January 15, 2013 14 Comments

Hi!

So, today I want to just give a brief

Quilt As You Go (QAYG) Introduction.

There are many ways of QAYG, you can see some tutorial here,here and here.

But the one we are going to use in this QAL is basically,

Quilting block by block.

Trim the batting and the backing off.

Attach the sashing fabrics for the top and the back.

Slit in strip of batting in the sashing.

And finish it off by hand or machine.

The detail of all of this steps, will be in a complete tutorial when the time comes (October).

Today, I just want you to have a general idea of how we are going about to do this quilt.

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Other Requirements

So, since we will be quilting as we go, we will also need to prepare the backing fabrics as we start.

You can use various fabric for backing, and one colour sashing like this:

(you’ll need 9 pieces of 13.5″ square, 1 yard of sashing fabric)

Or all the same for all blocks and another colour sashing.

(you’ll need 1.5 yards for the blocks and 1 yard for sashing)

Other things you will need:

Quilting threads – either one colour or various – matching to your fabrics

9 piece of 13″ square batting and 2.5 Strips of batting (start collecting scrap batting about that size from now or you can always cut the strips from the large batting piece anyway)

Free-Motion foot

Walking Foot

Standard Quilting Tools

An advantage if you have Supreme Slider and Machinger Gloves but not necessary

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Now lets link up our fabric choices for this Quilt along!

You can also add your photo to flickr group here.

In Baby Quilt

Vintage Modern I Heart Quilt DONE!

January 14, 2013 41 Comments

Finally I have time to post this..

It was done the first week of this year, making it my first quilt of the year 2013! Oh..its so good to say that..LOL

You can see the progress of this quilt here. Pattern available here

And I can’t tell you how happy I am with this quilt, but I really am happy with the final look of it.

Polka Dot Binding. Polka dots are always great as bindings. The pop of white dots here and there makes it more whimsical!

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I just can’t stop loving the scalloped edge! I think this is the icing on the cake for this quilt. I just love it frames the whole quilt.

I did a simple loop all over free motion quilting.

Quilt Stat:

Size : 60″x 60″

Quilt top Fabrics : Vintage Modern by Bonnie and Camille, scraps of white on white

Backing Fabrics: Infinity Designed for Spotlight

Binding Fabric : Dumb Dots by Michael Miller in Red

Batting : Bamboo Batting

Pattern available here

Finished on 5th January 2013

XOXO

In Quilt

Emerald : Pantone's Colour of The Year 2013

January 10, 2013 4 Comments

***If you are here for In your words bloghop, scroll down to another post below***

Hi!

I am playing with mosaic again…

This time for Pantone’s colour of the year.

Its EMERALD. Don’t you just love this side of green.. so Elegant and Exclusive.

I added the Empire Yellow for extra elegance of the bundle:

I have carefully chose these fabrics for my bundle IF I win.. O would love to.

So lets go through it, Starting from the left to right. They link to Fat Quarter Shop Listing..

Row1:

Bella Solid in Green Yardage SKU# 9900-65

Pure Elements Empire Yellow Solid YardageSKU# PE-407

Kaffe Fassett Collective Green St. Clements Yardage SKU# PWBM032-GREEN

Row2:

Plume Jade Mini Circle Geo Yardage SKU# CM8670-JADE

Me and My Sister Favorites Green Dots Yardage SKU# 22005-28

Friendship Tea Green Dots Yardage SKU# 23068-GRE1

Row3:

Lark Jade Sunglow Yardage SKU# PWAB78-JADEX

Kona Cotton Jade Green Yardage SKU# K001-1183

Oval Elements Emerald Coast Yardage SKU# OE-914

I tell you, there’s too many to choose from. Fat Quarter Shop really have a real big selection..

Fat Quarter Shop is sponsoring half yards bundle a winner of the mosaic hosted by Rachel @ Sticthed in Colour.

You can even join in The Pantone Quilt Challenge here.

XOXO

In Quilt

In My Words…

January 10, 2013 174 Comments

Hi!

Welcome to my blog. Today is my day for this hop “In Your Words”.

So, greatest thanks to Madame Samm and Linda for making it happening!!

At first when I join this hop, I have other words to make.. words that mostly describe me. However, I didn’t get to do what I planned in the first place as I have better plan ; a quick project to send out soon.

This past few week has been quite hard for my very bestfriend back in Malaysia, so we have been chatting a lot over the phone and I really wish I could just be there with her and lend a shoulder and just give a big hug..

I miss her so much, so I decided to make something for her.

A zippered pouch with this embroidery on:

The planning of this stitchery took a very short time, I drew once on paper and went straight to the fabric.. I am glad it turned out fine. I love handwriting ever since I am little.. and I even still do so ever so neatly in my recipe book. LOL. Just for the fun of cursive wrting.

And a quilted postcard inside it.

Hoping she’ll be strong and letting her know I really care.

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Other wordy things to share with you today:

I made two more drawstring bag last weekend, one with the words, RECYCLE and REUSE.

And..this is on my bed now; the pillows were my first attempt at raw edge applique which I made way back last year but I never showed them. They have really rough workmanship, so I am planning to make new ones with different words soon. Probably POSITIVE, HOPE and GRATEFUL

Thanks for stopping by. I love to hear from you, so please do comments away..

Then visit other lovely bloggers who are on their day of hop today!

Life in the Scrapatch

Just Sew Sue

Nati’s Little Things

Amy’s Crafty Shenanigans

For a giveaway, I am running one here till 15th Jan, Hop on and join in the giveaway.

XOXO

In Quilt

A welcome to my New Sponsor + Giveaway : Fabric Fanatics

January 8, 2013 258 Comments

Hi!

A while back, I went back to Malaysia and found this little shop own by Kelly where I found lots of cute fabrics and scraps which I turned them into cute little pouches like these:

I even made my drawstring bag with them:

Drawstring Bag With Single Handle - scrappy

I am more than happy to have a sponsor for my little blog, and was super excited when Kelly offered so.

Kelly own a little shop, Fabric Fanatics where she sells adorable prints which are mostly imported from Japan. If you are in Malaysia, you can visit her shop at

Summit USJ.
We are at Level 1, F1.31, Summit USJ Shopping Mall

or go online on her website http://fabricfanatics.com.my.

For International buyers , you can visit her little shop on Etsy here.

She has linen scrap pack and cotton scrap packs and such pretty ribbons and tapes (these are my favourites)

…there are also more, like fat quarters, half yards and pretty little tools for making bags and pouches.
Lets go and have a visit! Fabric Fanatics (Kiiss)

And today, there’s a giveaway!!! GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED

This bundle include 5 Fat Quarters, 8 Pieces of Scraps measuring about 5.5″ x 9″. A plenty for improv piecing or quilt as you go pouches!

To win this, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post and get an extra chance by visiting Fabric Fanatics on etsy or facebook and click like! Come back and leave another comment saying you did so.

I am happy to post anywhere I can! So come on.. take a chance! and give some little support!

XOXO