Ahhh.....the weekend

Great Friday Night PJ Party on HGTV board, Lynn taught us how to make a CC keyring case. Cute little case to carry your cc, driver's license, and a few $$s when you don't want/need to carry a full size purse. Fun and easy little project, even with the zipper. Great project to use scraps of fabric and batting.

 Starting fabrics

 

Finished CC Keyring Case

I have never made a whole quilt, until this January I had only made 4 or 5 quilt blocks.  I don't make New Year's Resolutions, but this year I made sort of a resolution. I decided to participate in the HGTV BOM Challenge and make a quilt out of the finished blocks. The group leaders choose a theme for the year then on the first of each month the challenge leaders post a block pattern. This year is "Closed Barn Door", with a different star block in the center of the "Barn Door".  I have made all four blocks so far, except I used practice fabrics for March so I need to make it again to match the rest of my blocks.

Here is March, I'll repost when I make this block again with the fabric I am using for the BOMs.

It is a "Hole in the Barn Door" with a "Folded Star" center block. Not as hard as it looked, just a lot of small pieces. 

April BOM - "Hole in the Barn Door" with "Cluster of Stars" block in the center. Much easier than March BOM. I do need to keep practicing, it isn't perfect, but I'm going to live with it.

Happy Rest of the Weekend.....

Agility Day

Unlike last weekend, not much sewing this weekend but a GREAT day of Agility with my cute furkid, Penne. Best agility day we've had, 6 runs: 2 gamblers, 2 standard agility, and 2 jumpers. We qualified in 5 of the 6!!! WAY TO GO PENNESTER!!!

This is the tired agility pup shortly after we got home. Look at all that GREEN!!! (green = qualifying)

Sewing Weekend

Lots of sewing this weekend, started Friday with the HGTV PJ party iPad bag project. Just followed along because I didn't have my homework finished to stitch along on Friday.

Saturday morning I made this cute gift bag for Jade, the little girl my daughter babysits for. Found this cute Happy Birthday fabric in the remnant bin at JoAnns. This bag is reversible so after the gift is removed it can be used as a little girl purse.

Happy Birthday gift bag

Reversed little girl purse

 Late Saturday afternoon and finished today, another "Twister". This twister was made with 2.5" blocks cut out of 4" blocks and 2" border. Need to finish the binding. A border probably would have made it look nicer, but I just wanted to see what the 2.5" blocks would look like. Made this out of "scraps". The binding is purple, looks black in this photo.

iPad bag, made this today using the instructions from Friday's HGTV PJ party. The original instructions have a strap, but I just wanted a sleeve for my iPad.

 

Now to finish my CQ one block swap block, need to mail no later than Tuesday!!!

Twister, Practice Quilting, and Binding Added

I made a small twister so I could practice quilting before attempting to quilt my twister table topper.

I quilted the outline of the twisters using orchid color thread.

 Front

Back

Binding Added

Thank you to "TheCraftyGemini" for posting this how to make and attach binding tutorial on YouTube. I have read a few binding tutorials, this one made sense to me.

Off to work on more projects with deadlines - happy creating!!

Borders added to Twister

Borders added to Twister Table Topper, now how to quilt finish it? Need to do some research on quilting.

Christmas tree skirt was a bigger piece than this one but we "tied" it, I want to machine quilt this one. Simple machine quilt of course.

Plan to use the green print for the back and the red border fabric for binding.

WOW 2 Posts in 1 Day!!!

Here is my "Twister" table topper, needs borders and finishing. Fun project!

Happy Weekend!!!!

Happy Friday - Happy Weekend....hoping for a very creative and productive weekend.

Beginning tonight with the HGTV board PJ party - Twister project. Here is my starting piece waiting for instruction tonight about cutting pieces using the "Lil Twister" template and sewing the blocks back together to make a "pinwheel" table topper.

Then working on AFF pages and One Block Swap.

Sneak Peek of the One Block Swap - Blue & White

Happy Stitching