Rose Gold for Valentine’s Day

/in /by

I’m not one for sparkly fabric but Yes Please by Jen Alyson for Riley Blake Designs has just a hint of rose gold like my iPhone and how can you go wrong with that. It also has an adorable black, white and rose gold plaid that sparked my design side so I had to come up with a project.

Here’s a look at the fabric…

…see what I mean? Adorable.

I decided it was time to trade out a Christmas table runner with something more timely so I went searching for a pattern. I found one in a quilt magazine and got busy on Friday.

It has a four patch base, which makes it go together pretty quickly.

I chain pieced, even though my Janome has scissors built in, to speed the block construction up.

I got all my blocks put together…finally. I think I spent more time un-sewing (better known as ripping) than I did sewing. Some days just seem to go that way no matter how much experience you have quilting/sewing. Maybe I should read the pattern just a touch closer and not got by the pictures.

Thanks to my better half I have a huge design wall in my sewing room that allows me to make sure I have projects right before I trim and finish.

This is what the table runner looked like prior to trimming. The pattern also gave a bonus placemat pattern utilizing the trimmed pieces so it was a win, win.

My finished Friday project is ready for quilting and I’m on to a jelly roll pattern by Moda’s Corey Yoder using Sugarcreek.

New Year…New Goals

/in /by

I can’t believe how fast 2019 came and went. I’ve started out 2020 with some specific goal setting, including more blogging on my website. So here goes…

Anyone else have trouble with prioritizing? It feels I can keep my house clean, or the store clean but when I put both together it just ends in chaos. Guess the house may not be as clean in 2020. Hahaha. Priorities. 2020 is going to be the year of completing projects and creating new items from our gorgeous fabric lines. I love the scrappy look but have yet to make a scrappy quilt. That’s one of the first things we will be changing. Get ready for some adorable scrappy quilt kits.

Over Christmas I made myself a flannel king size quilt for my bed from layer cakes. No cutting and just randomly selecting squares. My kind of quick and easy quilt. Have I got it on the longarm yet? Heaven’s no. My quilts are always the last on the schedule. 🙁

On my list of projects is a couple of adorable quilts from Poppie Cotton’s Wanderings and Farmhouse Gingham and a quilt for the bed in the apartment in the back of the store from our new Riley Blake Designs line Gingham Farm.

I’ll keep you posted on my progress. First I need to finish a quilt for a friend out of some grey and dark red flannel…

There’s always a project on my sewing table…and sometimes 2 or 6. When I first started quilting I was very determined to not have more than one quilt purchased or going at a time. Hahaha. That lasted one quilt. I always have more ideas than I do time these days. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Guess it’s time to get quilting…Until next time