Stitching in the Barn

 I got the Westalee Design Sew Steady Starter Kit for my birthday with an Amazon gift card. It comes with a simple straight/curve ruler and a ruler foot. It was a little difficult to find the right set because I wanted it for my Singer Rocketeer that needs a Singer slant shank. There was one listing so I ordered it. I was happy to see pictures of my Rocketeer's cousin in the leaflet that came with the set.  You have to get the right foot for your machine.  Fortunately, Angela Walters has videos on ruler quilting, you can find them here . I got the foot adjusted correctly and went for it reusing a piece of previously quilted fabric.  I drew on a 6.5 inch square. I went straight for the awesome looking one and skipped the straight lines except for the border outline. I hope you can tell from the free motion quilting in the light green that I already have some skill at that, that's why I jumped to the fun stuff. This is another 6.5 inch drawn square. I skipped the borde...

 Piecing the Rock Candy Table Topper video is here . I loved this. It went together super fast. This one glows! I have to put aside Journey2Nebula to finish a Christmas quilt. I also just tried out ruler quilting on my home machine. I got the kit for my birthday. More on that later. Happy Quilting!

I cut these as I cut extra pieces for Jawbreaker from the previous post. I love the pattern Rock Candy so I couldn't wait to get started. The video for cutting Rock Candy is here .  The pieces are cut but I still need to trim the points. I have these templates so I used them to trim. I can't wait to sew these together!

School and life got intense so I had to put sewing aside 😢 I'm back in the saddle and I cut more Jawbreaker pieces and laid them out. You Tube video for Jawbreaker is here . This is not the direction in the pattern or video. This is my piece after sewing the rows.   The top sewn together.   It looked so weird with the jagged edges that I wasn't afraid to trim it. The trimmed top.  I might trim it some more because this was just making it square. I've got a couple of weird bits where I was planning on trimming it more. It might also stay unique. This came out way better than I expected! The next one is already cut out and I'm trimming the tips.

 Pieced Lucky Charm. Video here: Jaybird quilts All pieced together and I even started the next one!     My intersections are amazingly good! I'm so happy with it!

 Had fun with cutting and starting the sewing on the Lucky Charm pillow. I spent about 3.5 hours on it so far. There were a lot more pieces to cut and trim. These photos were taken in early morning light so the colors aren't great. Just need to sew the rows together and take a photo in better light.

 #Journey2Nebula Seaside place mat top complete! Piecing video here. Please excuse the old pressing mat :) Took about 3 hrs total. Front:   My points came out great! Back:   Fabric inspiration from my stash that will become my backing.

I've had these rulers for ages and now I get to use them. I'm doing the #Journey2Nebula quilt along. Click this link for the first video . And more info on the blog here . Bought a half jelly roll. Compared it against some stash fabric. Very bright for me but I like it! I chose 5 colors and the darker green. Cut for a Seaside place mat.  

 From the Fabric Patch on their YouTube channel. Watch Here.   A cute stack of pink batik fat quarters.

  Finished August 2020. Inspired by Waves by Jenny Doan here . Appliques available as free clip art here . Fabric from my stash.

 Tech pouch for a TI-Nspire CX II calculator. Project from this episode of Missouri Star Live by MSQC. Fabric from Connecting Threads. It's a little too snug but it'll do for now. Great project!    

 Made from the information from The Fabric Patch found on their You Tube channel here . I love this pattern it makes the perfect fitted mask. It is supposed to contain 30 sizes.        Applique added to the black one above for my son. Just a font from MSWord enlarged, fused then later stitched.

Last Night my husband helped me make some block boards like in this video by Fat Quarter Shop .  This one was actually 2 scraps of batting. After reading the comments I decided to leave off the bindings and use some tape I bought that was sticky back fabric. It was too thin so we just mitered the corners and wrapped the excess batting around to the back and they work well. We also hot glued all sides down taut first. I just used them today to move my Dresden wreath after my daughter arranged the hearts. She arranged three and they stacked easily as advertised. I just picked up two hearts at a time to piece them and then placed them back and they always stayed in order. Now I just need to make bigger ones. I got 4 from a foam core board that I cut evenly down the center each way. They finished at 11 x 14 inches.

It was February 2016, wow!  I wrote several posts and left them in the draft folder at the end of 2017 but never published them. Life has totally crippled my quilting game for a long time but quilting makes me happy. I'm getting back into quilting and realizing how much joy it brings to my life that I am totally convinced I have to quilt more. I'm going to start with a picture of some fabrics I pulled from my stash for a toddler quilt. I'm going to use these in a quilt inspired by Waves by Missouri Star Quilt Company, info on this page https://quiltingtutorials.com/tutorial/make-a-waves-quilt-with-jenny It's going to have a black background and the multicolored batik as a border. Finished size will be about 50 inches square. If you want a bit of life story you can read it below. I mostly wrote it for self documentation. I've got one baby quilt finished at the end of last year and I'm working on another baby quilt with a QAYG method that I think...

When I played a You Tube video for my MIL, showing what I wanted to achieve on our next project, the tutorial for this ornament showed up in the sidebar. She was immediately enthralled with it so we went out to JoAnn's and grabbed a few 1/2 yards of fabric. When we brought it back, I realized we bought the exact same fabrics used in the video. I guess they really do help advertise subconsciously.

This is my first post in over a year. Hello, again! I'm back to it and this week I made new potholders for my kitchen, from old scraps. I need like a ton of these! I haven't made any in years and my old ones were starting to look very bad last year! I found this quick tutorial on You Tube last week. The original instructions started with 10 inch squares. It made the too big one on the left. I made the one on the right with 8 inch squares and it's the perfect size. Of course, it called for Insul-Bright batting but I just used two layers of Warm and Natural batting scraps I had and it was plenty, in addition to all the layers of fabric, to protect my hands. The last one, at top, I made from a hexagon template but it's just basically a very large coaster. The design is made by weaving together folded squares. On the hexagon, I used 3 hexagons like the wine coasters I've seen on Moda Bake shop . My daughter said they'd be tempted to put their hands in th...