On a roll...

This has been a busy week for me.  I had a few days of the house to myself so I have taken advantage of the quiet time and sewed as much as possible.  I also threw in a little marmalade making.  I am on a crafty roll here.

One big project that I put a huge dent in is Matthew's Christmas present.  I am making him a space quilt using all different space fabrics cut into triangles.

 I had just a bit done the other night, just grabbing them and randomly piecing until I decided I needed to lay it out to make sure there were going to be no pieces touching.

So now this is what I am up to, the bottom 6 rows are all together and I just need to attach the top 5.  Wohoo, I am on my way.

 Of course then comes the basting and quilting, which takes forever, but it will be worth it.  Oh, did I mention that I bought the 3-d space fabric by Hoffman California?  That is the only new fabric that I bought for this quilt (the rest was stash).  It looks cool with the 3-d glasses and some of the other fabrics have the same look.  I am wondering if it has to do with the shading.

I think I got a little carried away with the size on it, well miscalculated.  I meant for it to be about 66 to 68" wide (perfect for a twin), but right now it is measuring around 74".  I know I will be trimming it down and it will shrink a little, but oops.  Well, it will just hang a little longer and make a great quilt to build forts with.

Off to do some more sewing.

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day

So I am a little late to the party, but I decided to participate in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day (week).  I hope you stick around and take a look at my fun projects.

I have an obsession with little tiny squares and have used them in all different projects like my Tetris Quilt.

Or the baby quilt I made for an amazing friend's little girl...

So I have decided to give away 50 2.5" assorted charm squares to share in my love of those tiny squares with someone else.  

In order to enter my little giveaway I have a question for you to answer... 

Do you like to sew with batiks?  If you don't, why not?

I would love it if you became a follower, but it is not required to win.  

Thanks for entering!  I will ship internationally.  Just make sure I can contact you.  I will close comments and pick a winner on Friday, Dec 7 at 5pm.

Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Tree Skirt

I finished off my sisters Christmas gift yesterday.  So excited to cross another thing off my ever growing to-do list.

Seeing that I do not have my tree yet to model the skirt I pulled out my wooden tree. (I love this thing, my mom made it and it goes on my porch every year)

This tree skirt is huge!  It is 60" across.

I love all the colors in this skirt, they are not all traditional but are all really fun.  The back is a plain white lining.

I used the tutorial from Sew Crafty Jess.  Instead of measuring each wedge, though, I made myself a template out of mat board.  If I do it again, I think I would add the batting when I have the wedges in sections of 4 in the quilt as you go method to make it easier to assemble.  I put 2 ties on the skirt, too, out of the fabric I used as the binding.

I love it and I hope my sister will, too.  It is one of her Christmas presents.  Wohoo, another thing off my list!

I am entering it into the 2012 Christmas Quilt Show.  Go and check out all the quilty Christmas fun over there.

I won, Yay!

So I know I just wrote a post that I wont at Helping Little Hands, but I also won recently over at Victoria Findlay Wolfe Quilts.  She had a giveaway and I was lucky enough to win these two reproduction print bundles from Newcastle Fabric. (LOVE!)

Can't wait to play with these fabrics!

Working on my list...

I have been busily sewing along this week.  I have the quilt top done that is a Christmas gift for my sister to give to someone.  And I finished the top of the tree skirt for my other sister.

This thing is huge!  I saw this skirt over at Sew Crafty Jess and thought it was so fun.  The only thing I changed was instead of cutting strips of fabric to cut my wedges from I made a template out of mat board do I could cut directly from yardage.  No to baste and quilt it. (still trying to figure that out... maybe some stippling to make it fun).  I think I am just going to back it in some muslin and I have a fun stripe for the binding.

I won... :)

I was doing a happy dance last week when I got some fun mail... recently I won a giveaway at Helping Little Hands.  Polly was giving away and awesome necklace from Boutique Academia.  She has math and science related jewelry!  How perfect is that for the math and science geek that I am? (Seriously, I love math and physics and can't help that I took many classes for fun in college.)
It came packaged with a cute wire bow.

I chose the constellation Plieades (Seven Sisters) necklace.  I love it!  I am, though, actually thinking of giving it to my sister because I think she will love it, too.  I guess that means I will have to order myself something then.

Thanks Polly!  I love it!

T-shirt Quilt Complete!

It's done... doing a happy dance!

I have finished up the t-shirt quilt that I have been working on and tomorrow I will be bringing it to it's owner.  I have had these t-shirts for a while now and they sat and sat until I broke down and pulled them out and chopped them up. (I was really nervous to start!)  I added lightweight fusible interfacing to the back of each t-shirt and chopped them to about 15"x 14".  I framed out each t-shirt block with blue sashing that I cut at 1.75 inches.  Then, I backed the blocks with my cotton batting and did the quilt as you go method on the t-shirt part with a quick free motion squiggle.

All the t-shirts are from athletic events that he had been in.

Many based in good old NJ. :)

I stitched in the ditch to attach the backing in the main lines across the quilt and around the squares.

All set to head to it's home.

I hope that my friend likes it since I am happy with how it turned out.
Quilt Stats:
64" x 84"
24 t-shirts
Quilted by me, at home, quilt as you go

And yay... I can cross another thing off my 100 Day Hustle list.

Edited to say... He loved it!  Wohoo!  And asked if he could give my numbers to his friends who would want the same.

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