One seam at a time

I haven't had much time to sew the last few weeks. 

A little traveling

And it seems like there are just so many other things to do in a day.

Like being held down by my ferocious cat.  Oh the tragedy!

I finally dragged my tired butt into the sewing room and picked out some fabric for a few granny squares.

Oh these were so fast and fun to make.

These are the last bee blocks for me for an unknown time.  Lovely Granny Squares from this tutorial. This {sadly} finishes off my participation in the Bee a {modern} Swapper group.

This poor little girl is tilted so she could keep her pincushion nearby.  We all need one of those. . right!

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And I grabbed out of my Heather Ross goodies for this beauty!  

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I'll be sending these to jmcbroom sometime soon. 

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What are did you accomplish this weekend or were you able to wonk on this lovely Monday?

Wall hanging for a wedding gift

Part of the deal of my mini fabric obsession is that I get to make gifts for people.  

I find this to be a smashing deal, especially after a finish.

Earlier this month my fella went flying off to one of his best friends weddings.  

I sent him with this wall-hanging

This is from Lily's Quilts her stunning ET Phone Home tutorial.

I enlarged this pattern by who knows how much.
I want to work with bigger patterns at the moment.

Can you see the Pat Bravo, Amy Butler, Kaffe Fassett, Joel Dewberry, Denyse Schmidt, AND Tula Pink love all throughout this beauty!

I added hangers on each corner,
you know as it looks SO different any which way you hang it.

 

I added some hand-stitching details.   

Oh and I even finished the binding by hand - ohhh ahhhhh!

So much love in this for the happy couple. ♥

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Who runs out of fabric?

I can not believe that I can actually run out of fabric!  

Seriously who runs out of Kona Ash?  That's right . . . this girl does.  Pfft.  Whatever!  I'll be needing to pinch my pennies so I can restock the basics apparently.  It's so hard as when I'm shopping I want so much more!

I am rocking and rolling on some super late bee blocks and about to finish them up.  .no light grey.  Here's one of the blocks that I can't finish.  

This is a pattern from this lovely lady!  This is super fun with all different kind of fabrics.

My paper piecing mode has started up again.  I'm pretty sure I'll be doing this for the rest of the month.  Maybe a New York Beauty for a wedding my fella is going to later this year.

Here is a block for a local gal in the New Bee on the Block group.

Some of these are fabrics I contributed to a local swap.  I might have to break out these swap fabrics to make something myself! It's fun to have a block that I can bust out in 10 minutes!

I have to applaud these ladies in the "New Bee on the Block" on-line bee group, they have made it though an entire year. . they are AMAZING! Even with some MIA members.

 Well off I go to pout about running out of fabric.  I will see if the budget will allow me to re-up my missing stock.  Of course it's helpful to remember my small couch in my sewing room with all of my potential up for sale fabrics. I just need to take some time to take lovely photos of the fabrics and yarns!  I'll get these up soon.

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A few months back and a little this past weekend

I have a quilting day with a friend, Jovanna, this past weekend.  Yeah you wouldn't know I did anything by the meager 3 packages that went in the mail today.  Oh it is so disappointing to see I haven't made a big dent in my late  and almost late bee blocks.

But no more moping around!  What have I been doing?  It has been a lot. . .

I've finally completed all my September Bee Blocks (yes. . roll your eyes SEPTEMBER)

Sew Modern Quilt Bee

I finished these two blocks for Rachel I adore Sherbet Pips!  I also loved how quickly this came together.  Her directions were so clear.  She assigned us specific blocks for her to complete a The Lemon Squares Quilt is seen at Fresh Lemons

Aren't these FUN! 

Orange You Glad

Well this month's blocks were a joy to work with!  Yummy Heirloom prints from Joel Dewberry.  I made a  bow tie block (plus two more bows) for Nydia Kehnle Photography.

Twice as Nice

FUN!  auntem1 choose these rocking blocks.  Go check out the tutorial we used found here

I really like how I learned how to break up grey's.  I la-la-love greys but find it's so dark.  Well the light sashing helps! 

{Sew Bee It}

Yeah I was late even in the bee that I'm hosting.  Bad Bee Mama! 

But life hits! 

I made these lovely beauties for Jenna who blogs over at Sew Happy Geek. 

She even posted a tutorial for these beauties! 

This is the first time I've sewn with black.  OMG it's awesome. 

I just learn so much from everyone!

Aqua & Orange

This bee we made a Modern Mosaic block for domestiCass.  I seriously tried to channel any wonky I have in my body.  It's difficult!

But this is what I came up with. Oh the learning!  Look at some of these fabrics! I hang my head in shame as this is one of the blocks I mailed off today.  And I was the last person.

Red and Aqua

This is my two gals a month bee.  I was lucky one of the Queen Bee's for the month of September.

The other bee-mate that we all got to sew for is Karen and she wanted a block o' pinwheels.

This block is 12.5" square.  16 - 3" finished pinwheels. 

I used SO much starch in these beauties they are like paper!  And I have to show off the back view of my block.  Look at how grand.  These puppies are FLAT!  I followed the most awesome Tutorial found over at Why Not Sew?'s blog.



I'll dream of pinwheels for weeks to come.  All these little babies came from 2-3/8" HST's.  I needed TWO of these for each pinwheel creation.  It was Voila times 16.  :)  This was a lot of work but really fun. 

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So I mailed the last of these off today.  And I completed a few October blocks but nothing that can wait for another post. 

Here's to getting more things done! 

I did a few of these things last weekend so I'm adding this to

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Halfway done before it even starts

So apparently being late with a few bee blocks in June flowing over into July and even hyper boosting me into August.  It's helped that 4 amazing gals get me their fabrics even before August started.  And I got to it. . yeah!

I finished a few blocks and a few cute things on the side.

Aqua and Red

Both this bee's gals sent their packages!

First Jacque requested a mixture of smaller wonky stars.  The packages came all prepared with no guesses.  There are the two blocks I made for her.  

I really enjoyed making smaller than I'm used to blocks. 

Second guiltyquilter wanted some grand flying geese.  I so keenly started cutting into the fabric without thinking.  Le'sigh.  Thankfully I had some matching white fabric. 


I whipped this up and I always use scraps to keep the chain piecing going on my machine.  

So why not just make another matching block.. . :)

Orange you Glad

This bee has the most talkative gals I've seen.  They are super sweet.   This month, Grendelskin, requested for our hive to work on a Happy Zombie block from the Quiltmakers 100 quilt blocks Volume 2 #115.  

Thankfully my girlfriend came over for a quilt day when I broke out this block.  She was completing her Geese in the Park quilt top from Freckled Whimsy. She talked me through the no waste flying geese blocks that I didn't see the included instructions for until the block was done.  

A lovely quick and easy block.

Sew Modern Bee

I also got to make My Fabric Obsession her blocks for the month. She has a great tute for this as well.  These were super fun! 


Here again I made a mini block from the scraps.

These are some seriously adorable blocks!  I so can't wait to see this finished.

I even dove into one of my own projects before the weekend was over.  But alas Monday is here again.We'll see what I can get done this week.

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Ice Cream anyone?

Aren't weekends grand.  I love when they happen and I not only get to sew but I get a to visit with people who feel like family. 

My Lou came to visit with her family.  Since she was coming I quickly whipped up an Oliver & S - Ice Cream Dress.  And I really did whip it up!  I spent around 3 hours tracing, cutting, and sewing this beauty up.  I was completely shocked how lovely this went together.

I highly recommend this pattern line now that I've made something up from it. I'm still kinda in shock I remember how to sew clothing.

I used some of the precious to me DS Quilts fabric and a button from my Grandmama that passed away almost two years ago. 

I adore being able to use my talents for my loved ones.

I love you my dearest Lou and family.




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