I'm Putting New Ideas on Fabric

Hi Friends,

I'm back and started sewing again.  Since August, we've had health crisis in our family that required my attention and care.  I decided to put everything on hold and take care of what was needed.  Now the situation has gotten better and it's time for me to get back to my usual activities.  Though, not completely 100%, I'm starting to make some blocks for my new ideas.  

In the past I have made quilts with marbles ideas.  You can see some of them here and here.  Both quilts were for my friends' grandbaby boys.  This new marble quilt is not for baby.  The idea of this quilt is something more meaningful to me.  Here are some of the marbles that I've made so far.

Can you tell I'm having fun?  I love making these marbles.  They are 12.5" in size and I will use the Inset circle technique to put them into the background later.  

It's good to be back to sewing and creating again.  Working with my hands makes me feel good and relax.  It's a wonderful life!!

Margo

In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

Slow Sunday Stitching by Kathy's Quilts

Sew & Tell by Melva Loves Scraps

Monday Musings at Songbird Design

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

A Quick Update on Baby Quilt 2

 Hi Every One....

I'm very happy to tell you all that the baby girl quilt is done as shown in the pictures below.

At the last minute, I decided to use flannel for borders, batting and backing.  In stead of the normal binding with 2.5" strips of fabric, I finished it with a Faux Rag binding.  I came up with this technique when I wrote my first book: Soft & Cozy Keepsakes - Faux Rag Quilting, published by The AQS in 2016.

For the boy's baby quilt, it turned out that the baby is now just turned three years old.  I decided to make him a bigger quilt so that he and his siblings can snuggle together when they watch TV or something.  The top that I made will be given to my dear friend whom I got the fabric from so that she can finish it the way she likes to and donate it to her favorite charity.   

I still haven't started the quilting on my denim quilt.  We are going on vacation to the Idaho Falls at the end of the month and when we come back, I will start working on it.  Right now I'm pulling some fabric for a new project.  I don't have any design in mind at this point.

  

About a month ago I found out that almost all of the comments on my blogs were from No-reply Bloggers.  Even the comments from those whom I knew and had interacted with before.  I did a little research to find out that, somehow, Blogger changed everyone to a No-Reply Blogger.  I came across Carol Swift from justletmequilt.com.  In her blogs she discussed, more than once, about No-reply Blogger and has a link to how to fix it.  

I also found a blog at xomisse.com where they discussed this issue and have a recommendation on how to fix this problem.

I encourage you, my dear readers, to check these sites.  I really appreciate your visit and your comments and would like to be able to communicate back.  

Have a great weekend.

Margo

In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

Slow Sunday Stitching by Kathy's Quilts

Sew & Tell by Melva Loves Scraps

Monday Musings at Songbird Design

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

A Quick Update on Baby Quilts

I'm almost done with the girl quilt.  Here's the latest picture.

Instead of connecting each small square blocks of blue and pink by rows and columns, I opted for the 4-patch blocks which measured 8.5".  Refer to the previous blog post for the pictures.  I arranged all small squares on the design wall.  When I'm happy with the arrangement, I then grouped them by 4 to make a 4-patch block.  It's very liberating to me to be able to sew without having to draw a diagonal line or using lot of pins.  The project moves along a lot quicker and less stress.  After trimming the 4-patch blocks to a uniform size of 8.5", connecting them together is a breeze.  Right now I'm auditioning the border and binding fabric.  After that I'll work on the boy quilt.

One secret tip: using a scant 1/4" seam allowance is a big help.  I used it to piece the blue and pink strips together and in piecing the 4-patch blocks.  None of the block had a variant bigger than 1/4" and I'm very happy to live with that.  At the end, the blocks came together beautifully!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great creating time.

In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

Slow Sunday Stitching by Kathy's Quilts

Sew & Tell by Melva Loves Scraps

Monday Musings at Songbird Design

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty