Keeping Busy!

I made a fun sewing machine cover for my dear friend Suzanne as a birthday present!

She asked for bright fabrics, so bright fabrics she got!!

Both outside and inside!!  Really fun to make!!

Next, I pulled out a quilt kit I bought over a year ago from Connecting Threads.

I love this simple little quilt made of super easy half-square triangle blocks. 

I think you could use just about any fabric and it would be such a dynamic quilt!!

A great scrap buster, right?!!

I found a fun multicolored fabric in my stash for the backing!  YAY!!

Then I used the super cool Waterloque app to turn this photo…

into this cool watercolor!!

Today I started on this month’s Schnibble,  Hook!

I’m just waiting for the background fabric I ordered from Etsy today to get here!!

What are you working on?  Has spring arrived in your town yet??? (image below from Google) 

We are soooo yearning for  it here in northern Virginia!!

Schnibble Done!!

I chose Carrie’s “Mon Ami” Schnibble to make for free-choice February!!

I used an older Moda collection called “Freebird” by MoMo, and a more subdued fabric for the background to tone it down a bit!!

Very bright colors and a fun modern print.

I used a two stash fabrics for the outer border and the backing!!  LOVE those colorful letters!

But, I want to share an AWESOME app I read about on “I’m a Ginger Monkey” blog.

I downloaded it yesterday and cannot stop playing with it!!

It’s called “Waterloque” and is $2.99 on ITunes App store and will quickly turn your photos into lovely watercolor paintings!!

Aren’t these pix of Yogiboy just AMAZING!!??

So, what are you doing this weekend for fun??

Schnibbling Along…

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

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

What have you been working on this week?

P.S.  Just in case you haven’t heard about this cool sweepstake from Keepsake Quilting , you could win FABRIC FOR LIFE!!!  Woo hoo!!

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