Monthly Archives: October 2013

Don’t Forget About Me

I’ve been a little busy lately. Between work, my new sewing machine, catching up on last season of 2 Broke Girls, which is amazing by the way, I’ve been just crazy busy. Right now I’m lying in bed debating whether to get back up and work on more pot holders, or just to go to sleep. I am under a comforter, as I have never finished a quilt for myself yet, which should motivate me to quilt down a quilt top real quick so I can sleep under it, but I think I’ll just go to sleep and do something crafty tomorrow. Goodnight world!

Look At What I Got….

Recently I went to an estate auction and bought a box full of sewing items. Lots of it was mostly used spools of thread and pins hat were bent, however, I did manage to get a few item that are completely awesome! I only spent 2 dollars on the box, so I think I did okay with it. What do you guys and gals think?

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Pot Holder Tutorial

Thanks for waiting everyone! I had to go to work yesterday and did not get home until around 11:30pm. I was way too tired to post online, so here is the long awaited pot holder tutorial! What you’ll need are two 8.5 inch squares of all cotton fabric, one 8.5 inch square of Insul-Bright, and one 8.5 inch square of all cotton batting. The reason I use the two inside layers is because I read in product reviews that one layer of Insul-Bright is not the best, and all you need to add is one layer of all cotton batting to make it work perfect. I even used mine last night when I made some spaghetti when I got off work late at night!

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On The Docket For Tomorrow….

Today has just flown by and left me coughing from all the dust it kicked up! I’ve been running errands and I made quite a few calls and wrote an equal amount of emails. Today I wanted to post a tutorial of how to make pot holders, as people have been asking me about it, but unfortunately, I just don;t have the time to do it today. I hopefully will post that early in the AM. I’m still working on the quilt pattern I wanted to post tomorrow, so that should be finished, and I probably won’t have that up until tomorrow night. If everyone could just bare with me for a couple of days that would be awesome, so in the meantime I want people to look at and love the quilt I am going to resume working on for my cousin and his wife.

Hope everyone has a good evening!

Ramblings of A Quilter: Should I Learn to Upholster?

As I sit here at my desk with my laptop working on this post, I feel like such a professional blogger. I’ve got my diet Dr. Pepper, a Beatles’ song playing in the background, and a very rough 1940’s film noir demeanor, but I mainly consider myself a quilter, it’s kind of my thing for some of you who may not know it. I’ve been doing it since July of 2012 and it’s the love of my life… besides my best friends, obviously. I don’t know if it is because I’m getting board with quilting, which I don’t think I am, or because I just want to branch out, but I kind of want to learn how to upholster furniture. I mean, I know that just because I can make some sick looking quilts and coasters doesn’t mean all kinds of sewing is for me, but I kind of want to know if I can do it or not. I did find the lovely example from a blog I read called Just The Right Size. Continue reading →

Confessions of a Quilt-aholic: Buying Fabric…

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Let me start off by saying, the original title of this post was “Buying Fabric and Smuggling It Into Your Home”. Yes… I buy a lot of fabric, and yes I do it with my money, and yes, I still feel the need to hide it. Once, I was sitting in the parental unit’s living room with my Cousin-In-Law and I had her picking out fabric for her quilt. MY Cousin proceeded to ask me how much the fabric costs. He was curious because I had a bin full of about 300 fat quarters. I started to tell him, and my Cousin-In-Law told me to ‘Shhhh’. She said he didn’t need to know how much it costs. All I could do was laugh. She just didn’t want to tell him how much she had been spending on fabric. She also sews and someday I think I would like to make a quilt with her. I think we would have terrible amounts of fun! But, back to the main purpose of this post… Why doi we hide how much we spend?

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I Need To Learn Paper Piecing

Last week when I asked you guys and gals to tell me what you want me to post about, I got quite a few people telling me they want me to show some paper piecing techniques. The only problem with that is, I have no idea how to paper piece. I’ve never done it, and I’ve never seen it done before. So, does anyone have any suggestions on how to paper piece? I’m a beginner at it, so books that start at the beginning of paper piecing would be nice. I’m kind of nervous, but if you guys have faith that I can do, I’m sure I’ll do fine. I might just not post the first few I do! Haha. Just kidding, I’ll always keep my readers updated on flops and successes!

So, what book do you recommend?

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