an echino airplane quilt.

I am loving the oddball colors in this quilt right now! Really, some of them just shouldn't be put together, but they work I tell ya. I cut up some Echino cheater cloth and added a variety of linen and linen blend solids to border and highlight each print.

I quilted it diagonally using cream and raspberry colored thread.

Backed in a super soft grey kona with charcoal binding...

Oh how I love this quilt. :)

Don'tcallmebecky is putting idea books to use.

Rebekah of Dontcallmebecky is making a point to utilize some of the projects in her craft books that don't get used as much they should! I thought this was a great opportunity for me to do the same~I had been wanting to make something from Patchwork Style for a loong time. Thank you Rebekah for giving me the kick in the pants I needed. I just finished it about an hour ago so photographing it was kind of a pain since the sun was going down.... You can bet that you will be seeing a lot of this grid style patchwork from me...I am totally in love with it!

I couldn't find any suspender clips {I don't know what they're really called} like Suzuko Koseki uses in her book. Instead I turned this into a cross-body bag with woodgrain fabric straps.




You all still have time to enter Rebekah's giveaway and leave your name and project in her Mr.Linky! She's giving away a bag from Heather Ross' Weekend Sewing book and it's super cute...

happy valentine's day!

Heather Ross for Spoonflower!

I haven't heard of any bloggers talking about this yet so I thought I'd fill you in. Heather Ross has announced that she reprinting some of her out of print and highly coveted fabrics at Spoonflower. She is using this opportunity to use some pretty cool new colorways. Heather's blog has some of the details as well as Spoonflower,the design and print your own fabric design mecca. Check it out! I've always wondered how Heather Ross and Denyse Schmidt feel about their fabric being sold for nearly 10 times it's original value. This is such a great way for Heather to do something creative with her earlier designs as well as offer us fabric hounds something new. Maybe Flea Market Fancy will be coming soon? One can always hope.

Have a great Saturday....

little pinwheel quilt.

If you visit my blog with any sort of regularity you will know that I have a bad habit of promising sew and tell that I don't deliver on. Well, my friends.... I plan to change all that. This is a stroller quilt/play mat finished months ago....tada!

I wasn't sure which color sashing to use but I finally settled on grey. I'm glad I did; It just makes the other colors seem so much brighter. This is a small quilt made with the intention of going in my shop although I don't know if I can part with it. All these candy colors make me want to gift it to the first little girl I see on the street!

I finally hung a picture hanging wire on my sun porch so I can take some proper photos for my quilts. I have been going back and forth on how to hang my quilts for a loooong time. I finally spent the $2 and bought the wire, I am really happy I did! Having hardwood floors throughout the entire house is great and I wouldn't change it, but the dust bunnies accumulate in a matter of hours in the winter time. Frankly,I was getting sick of vacuuming every time I want to take a photograph! This certainly remedies that situation. Do you hang your quilts? what do you use?

Double diagonal quilting lines....

There is that Olive Kona again. If I could only buy one color of Kona ever again, this would be it!

Thanks for looking....I PROMISE to share some more projects really soon.

~Go make something!

MacBook Pro Case.

I made this laptop case a couple of months ago and am just now getting aroung to sharing it. This bag was whipped up out of necessity. All those pinstripes were quilted and were rather time consuming but I am pleased with the effect. I have to tell you it's really, really nice when function and form come together and you're proud of a project. Often, I realize after I've made a project I could have made it better by doing something differently. But I wouldn't change a thing with this bag. I didn't use a pattern, I made this on the fly with only a simple sketch to guide me. Have a looksee...Love this cargo pocket that fits the power cord unit perfectly! The pocket is outfitted with a patch of Etsuko Furuya's roadster fabric to make it a little more intersting...

The flap is secured by two strong magnetic snaps. The body and lining are both made of heavyweight canvas with interfacing and batting adding necessary structure and cushion.

Super slim, just like the machine is was designed to carry.

Sunshiny-yellow quilted lining with a giant offset patch pocket.

Thanks for stopping by!

~make something!