She Who Sews!!

I absolutely LOVE the artwork of fabric designer Janet Wecker Frisch.

In case you aren’t familiar with her name, she is the designer of “The Hungry Animal Alphabet”, “Woody Wonders”, “Tiny Tailors”, “Camp Santa”…just to mention a few!

Well, she’s done it again with her new Handmaids collection named-

“She Who Sews”.

I just love it!!  Her artwork is fun and fresh!!

This collection is very steampunky!!

I especially love the fabric I used for the backing!!

When I finished the quilt, I only had small scraps leftover, so I ordered more fabric!!

It will make great gifts for your sewing friends and bee mates!!

And this quilt is now hanging on the wall in the entrance to my sewing room!!

Soooo, what are you working on this week?

Yogi is enjoying his sewing room naps!!  In a few months, he’ll be 13 years old!!

January Schnibble Done!!

I really love this month’s Schnibble!!

I named it "Soft Spoken". The fabric
collection is "Whimsy"by Fig Tree Co.

I did  not have enough darks to make mine the same way Carrie made hers on the pattern cover. 

But I really love how it turned out!!

And using the polka dotted background really makes the blocks blend in more…

really blurs the blocks, which I really like!!

I love and monetarily appreciate that many designers tend to use the same colors in their different collections so that they all blend well, so that you can use scraps up in other quilts!!

My backing was from another collection from Fig Tree Co…  yummy!!

Soooo, what fun thing are you doing this weekend besides watching the Superbowl commercials?

P.S. How can you NOT just LOVE his cute pink tongue???

Mondo, Mondo…

Do you need a big tote bag?

A REAAAAALLLLYYYYY big one?

Well the Mondo bag is the one for you!!

It’s easy and really fun to make as you use a purchased gridded sheet of fusible.

You lay out your selected 2 1/2” squares  on the grid and fuse them down with your iron.

Then you fold each row on the line and stitch a quarter inch seam. 

 

Then you clip that seam at each line,

then fold the seams going the other way and stitch them all with a quarter inch seam!!

Such a fun easy way to do grid piecing!!

There is also a pattern for a tiny bag called a Mini and a medium sized bag called a Midi!!

I used a batik jelly roll for the bag and have lots of it left to try out on the Midi bag!!  YAY!!

Can you guess what Yoginess was doing while I sewed???  LOL!!

What are you working on this week?