Happy Birthday sewing

My sister Kelly's birthday was this week.  So I was doing some sewing.

I sewed up these goodies.  The clutch is from Noodleheads tutorial.  It was fairly easy, though the gathered part was a bit of a challenge.

Here is what is in the embellished purple linen bag.  A necklace and earrings.  I thought HK would like to show off the earrings.  Notice they all match the pull on the clutch.  Now she is read to got out on the town with her boyfriend.

See the purple linen with the embellishment?  I bought this some where I cant remember.  I have made a few projects for Kelly with it as purple is her color.

Keep dreaming...Colleen



Mom's fingers in Kelly's cake where she caught it as it slid off the musical birthday cake turner.



Resolved to Sew 2012

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Some of the quilts to finish.

Resolved to Sew 2012

1. Create a quilt for red & white quilt challenge for FPQG show in March

2.  Finish Star Trek quilt

3.  Finish Bloggers Block of the Month blocks

4.  Finish Fat Quarter Stars Quilt Along

5.  Finish Relay for Life Cancer Stars quilt

6.  Quilt Wonky log cabin

7.  Quilt Elongated star baby quilt

8.  Quilt 9 patch diamond quilt

10.  Make a Swoon quilt

11.  Put together Let's Bee together blocks

12.  Put together Block Swap Adventure

13.  Make quilts with old swap blocks
14.  Habitat challenge

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Dad modified and put up some of my $3 shelves in the kitchen.
I can finally display some of my treasures.

Swoon #1

I decided to give in to the need to finally start my Swoon quilt last night.  I loved piecing the swoon block for my red and white quilt.  I had sorted and sorted my Kaffe and Denyse Schmidt fabric until I finally had the pairings that make sense.

I had printed out my pdf pattern of Swoon, but was not going to be making it the way the pattern shows.  I did use it as a guide but I find I am more precise when I use my Marti Mitchell templates from set A, my Companion ruler, and my 6.5 square ruler.  

It has a lot of pieces and cutting out is what takes the longest amount of time.

The sewing is fun and because of the unique corners of the Marti Mitchell templates it makes my point actually all line up nicely.  Cause I sure ain't very precise on my own.  I like chain piecing all of them together.

It is relaxing and I put the Psych series on Roku.  It plays one episode after the other automatically.  I don't like silence so it is background noise.  

I love the way my Swoon block #1 turned out!  I think the fabric pairing is wonderful!  Not sure when I will have time to make the other 8 but will blog when I do.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Mom and I had an afternoon of lunch, shopping and ice cream on her birthday Jan. 16th!

FNSI or FNPI

I didn't do so much sew in as prep in.  My sewing studio needed to be cleaned up a bit so I could work on my projects.  I needed to put away the rest of the Christmas fabric.  I needed to finish sorting(rereresorting) fabric for my Swoon quilt.  Inspired by GingerMonkey's Swoonalong.  Im using a Kaffe floral paired with a Denyse Schimdt Hope Valley.  

 And I started to plan the fabric to block pair ups for the wonky borders on my star trek quilt.  Dad an I had laid it out so I need to figure out the border colors.  I've blogged about this before.  The blocks are form a 1995 block swap.  

I also worked mentally and on paper about the quilting and embellishment I want to do for my  red and white quilt I finished the top and back for last weekend.

.Oh and I started work on a new blog banner for 2012.  I want to update it with my favorite projects from 2011.  I will unveil it later.

Sew So my Friday Night Sew In was more a Friday Night Prep In.  I hope to do some of the actually sewing today.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Kalli-cat cuddling with me as we wait for #talknt .
  A  Tuesday night tweet party for quilters.

Please vote for me!!!

Quokka Quilts has a challenge to design a Fat Quarter shop fabric bundle.  I blogged about my choice shown below

Because so many people entered she is asking everyone to vote for their top three favorites.  Please go here and vote for me # 30 Colleen!  Thanks so much!

Keep dreaming...Colleen

My Kaffe and DS fabric choices from my stash for a swoon quilt.