Are you a planner?

Is this you? 

Do you plan your quilt or just get started and improvise on your way?

I am not a planner. The image above is as far as I got with my sketch and the quilt top half done.

I'll let you know how it goes. ;)

Foundation piecing adventure...

So I thought I'd give foundation piecing a go and see if I was any good at it. I wanted to make a personalised cushion to go with this quilt. I made up my own letters and got started with some scraps.

Usually I go with appliqué letters or embroidery to personalise a quilt or set but today I was feeling adventurous... the rebel that I am! :P

Now I'm pretty sure a moderately experienced person would have had these 3 letters done in maybe MAX an hour. For my first attempt it took me... well I'm kinda a little embarrassed to share... almost all morning. Yup I kept finding holes where the fabric slipped and I had continued sewing. But with my trusty unpicker I kept at it until I had this to show for it.

Not bad I think. Just really glad it was a simple name. Boy I would have been stumped if I had to do any name much longer. But I'm hoping I might stick at it and one day make a couple of these... 

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or these.

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   Lets see how that goes... roll eyes!

I've also been googly eyed over these fabrics. This is California Girls by Fig Tree & Co. These are just the blues and beige (the green is from my stash) but my oh my this is a pretty collection!! 

Another cushion in the making! ;)

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Binding the afternoon away!

Finishing up my Giddy quilt with some fun love heart backing fabric from Ikea and pink binding...

Also made a few more covered buttons for my Etsy shop.

Will be listing soon. ;)

Today I love...

looking at the flowers M and I picked from the garden. 

(when the weather was actually nice)

In Progress...

A while a go I pinned this image of a quilt by Faith from Fresh Lemon Quilts. She had a quick "how to" on how she put these blocks together to make this quilt. It is a gorgeous quilt so I wanted to have a go. The only difference was that I had half a Giddy jelly roll staring at me, begging to be made into a quilt.

So I used it up. Sewed together the strips I had left, cut them into triangles and made up my blocks that way.

Not bad ay? The pink centre strip doesn't meet up exactly but you cant tell unless you stick your face right in there. I'm really happy how it turned out especially since there was no foundation piecing in site.

(I'll probably give that a go another time)

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