Last year, I discovered the world of quilt blogs. I was and still am amazed at the things you guys create. When I found the Blogger's Quilt Festival, I knew I had to start a blog.
I knew I might have a problem when I saw Moda's Figgy Pudding fabric. I couldn't stop thinking about it. I wanted this fabric. After calling all my LQS, I resorted to ordering this fabric online (a first for me). When I saw this
pattern, I knew immediately that I wanted to make it. I thought it would be challenge because of the trees and the size, but once I got started, it came together pretty quickly. I worked on it for about 3 months and finished just before Christmas.
After a suggestion from a reader, I decided to hand quilt snowflakes in the blocks. That was taking FOREVER, so I machine quilted around the trees which was a challenge, but I think it motivated me to try machine quilting for my next project. It's so much faster!
For the back, I used ideas from the blogs I read and found an inexpensive brown sheet that was almost the perfect size. The scrappy stripes turned out great too.
Happy Quilt Festival-ing!
I first saw this circle quilt on one of the blogs I read. It was adorable and looked pretty easy to make, so I decided to give it a try. I bought a Tula Pink Nest charm pack and cut all of the squares into circles using a sundae dish. The brown fabric is a bed sheet left over from my Figgy Pudding Quilt, and I bought a couple yards of my favorite Nest patterns for the borders and backing. This quilt came together very quickly, but still presented challenges. For the first time in a while, I wanted to machine quilt the entire quilt. I stopped machine quilting because I was never happy with the results; puckers, shifting etc. I had to rip out a few seams and redo parts of this quilt, but I think I know what I need to do next time to improve.
Sew and learn, right? This project started as an attempt to make two placemats out of my Figgy Pudding scraps. I found a pattern that I wanted to try, so I thought it would be fun to try it on placemats before attempting a full quilt. I cut out all the pieces and layed them out in the floor. I measured and felt confident that I had enough for the perfect sized placement. After I sewed everything together, I started to square them off, when suddenly I realized that I was wrong... WAY wrong. Instead of trying to figure out how to fix it, I just decided to make a table runner. I think it turned out well! I like the pattern, but I don't think I have the patience to make an entire quilt this way. 
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I bought my first Charm Pack this week and just got it in the mail today! I'm very excited about this fabric even thought I do not know what I'm going to make with it yet. I've seen some cute designs using circles or hexagons.... idk.. I hope one charm pack was enough! I'm definitely making a smaller quilt to be interchangable as a wall hanging or lap quilt.. 48x48 ish.
