Saturday, February 22, 2014

Schnibble Done!!

I chose Carrie’s “Mon Ami” Schnibble to make for free-choice February!!
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I used an older Moda collection called “Freebird” by MoMo, and a more subdued fabric for the background to tone it down a bit!!
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Very bright colors and a fun modern print.
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I used a two stash fabrics for the outer border and the backing!!  LOVE those colorful letters!
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But, I want to share an AWESOME app I read about on “I’m a Ginger Monkey” blog.
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I downloaded it yesterday and cannot stop playing with it!!
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It’s called “Waterloque” and is $2.99 on ITunes App store and will quickly turn your photos into lovely watercolor paintings!!
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Aren’t these pix of Yogiboy just AMAZING!!??
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So, what are you doing this weekend for fun??
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Schnibbling Along…

I’ve been sewing on my Schnibble of choice for February! Someone was being very anti-social that day, huh?

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This month we got to choose the Schnibble we make!  YAY!!

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So, I went through my Schnibble pattern collection, and decided on one I’d never made called “Mon Ami”.

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I used 2 charm packs from an older collection from Moda called “Freebird” by MoMo.  Very fun and bright!

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I quilted it with a simple stipple all over. We’ve got bee on Friday, so I’ll sew down the binding by hand at bee, and post photos after that!!

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I had a little pile of tiny leftover half-square triangle blocks after I finished the Schnibble pieced border.

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I always feel so tortured about throwing out even tiny blocks like these…  so I didn’t!!

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I made a little zippy bag from them!  Sooo much better than throwing them out, right??  Do you save orphan blocks?

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What have you been working on this week?

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Friday, February 14, 2014

Make a Wish and Blow!

I was at our wonderful LQS, Suzzie’s Quilt Shop, a few weeks ago and fell in love with this Martha Negley floral fabric… she is one of my favorite designers!!

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I found several fabrics in the shop that coordinated well with it, too!! My sister, Sally, bought me this one!

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Even though the colors in the fabrics are not used in my house anywhere, I still found a few in my stash to go with them, too!!

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And I had this cool pattern in my collection that I’d never made before, called “Easy Does It” by Darlene Zimmerman,  so I just HAD to get right on that!!

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I am soooo happy with the final result!!!

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This quilt is so pretty!!  I quilted it all over with a leaf motif!!

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And I pieced the backing using up the leftover fabrics!  And I like that, too!!

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Now I’m working on my Schnibble for February!!

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What are you up to this weekend??? Yogi’s not working on much… LOL!!

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

“SNOW”-chi in Virginia!!

We got about 18” of snow last night.

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That might be the norm for some places,

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but not here in northern Virginia!!

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And they tell us we will get more late afternoon!!  YIKES!! 

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As long as the power stays on, we can do this!!

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Guess who couldn’t care less??

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Landscape Quilt Class

I took a "Picture Piecing" Workshop on Saturday through our local quilt guild!

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These are some of their quilts they brought to share with us!!

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The two teachers, Maggie Ward and Rosanne Williamson, were wonderful!

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Their method uses freezer paper… the same method taught by Ruth McDowell.

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These are the samples of the quilt they taught us to make.

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This is mine! 

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Next time I’ll make better fabric choices!!

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I really enjoyed the class!

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The other ladies there were so nice and fun to chat with as we sewed!!

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The Dog TV channel has a  free preview weekend going on now.  I put it on for Yogi this morning when I left to go to the grocery store… he’s tired of the Olympics!!  LOL!!

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Friday, February 7, 2014

Clothes for Betsy!

My dear friend Linda, just got a new Bernina 750 sewing machine and she is so happy and excited!!!

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So, I had to make her new machine, Betsy, a pretty cover to keep the dust off!!

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I had some awesome scraps leftover from the “She Who Sews” quilt, so I used them!!

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She doesn’t have Betsy sunk down into a new sewing leaf in the big studio table yet, so I had to sort of guess the size according to the machine dimensions.

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But it seems to fit fairly well!!!  YAY!!

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Happy Birthday, dear Linda!!

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Yogi was really closely supervising me while I made it!!  LOL!!

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What are you up to this weekend???

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