Fabric Love Friday! Purple Batik Edition.

This is the fourth in a series of purple batiks that I have acquired over the years. I don't know the designer's or the collections since batiks have no description on the selvage edge. I would love comments if anyone knows the designer's and the names of these beautiful fabrics.

Fabric Love Friday! Purple Batik Edition.

This is the third in a series of purple batiks that I have acquired over the years. I don't know the designer's or the collections since batiks have no description on the selvage edge. I would love comments if anyone knows the designer's and the names of these beautiful fabrics.

Quilty around the house - dresser runner

My dresser runner is complete!

I am so in love with this project. This is a good get your feet wet sewing some triangles kind of project. 

I want to make a queen size quilt using these fabrics and triangles and this was the perfect practice project. It also gave me an idea of sizing and how many rows and triangles across I will need for a queen size quilt.

I kept my quilting simple with this one, I wanted the triangles to be the stars of the show.

Thanks for reading♥

Fabric Love Friday! Purple Batik Edition.

This is the second in a series of purple batiks that I have acquired over the years. I don't know the designer's or the collections since batiks have no description on the selvage edge. I would love comments if anyone knows the designer's and the names of these beautiful fabrics.

Tip Tuesday

 Tip Tuesday: Iron your binding.

 I was finishing up on some small projects when I discovered that  if I gave my binding a good ironing before I started my hand stitching it would lay just the way I wanted and I didn't have to fight it as I sat in front of the TV stitching away. 

I also found that my binding stayed even; sometimes when you're pulling over as you go, you pull too much and stretch your binding making it narrow in one spot. 

If I was to machine stitch my binding closed I think I would also iron my binding before hand because it just lays so nice and flat and wouldn't give you any trouble. 

Also this saved me from pinning or clipping my binding in place. I admit I can be a lazy quilter and not having to remove any extra pins or pin in the first place is fine by me.

Essentially I  iron it flat towards the edge of my quilt and then flip my quilt over and iron it down just as I would when stitching it down. Your binding will not stay in the shape as you ironed it but it will remember where you ironed it and fold and lay nice and flat as you stitch with no pulling.

Quilty around the house

I'm so excited to share with you another Quilty around the House project!

This time I am working with Triangles! I was so excited and nervous all at the same time about this project. I knew this would be a good way to refresh myself on the basics of triangle assembly and to date probably the biggest finished triangle project I have completed. Also I finally cut into all these beautiful purple and grey batiks I have been hoarding

Below you can see I have my rows sewn but I still have to sew them to each other. This small project is going to be a runner for the top of my dresser in my dressing room so I only have 4 rows of triangles to assemble. This should go quickly and then I'm ready to quilt.

I want to make a queen size of this for our guest bedroom and I think this small project will help me with estimating how many triangles I need for each row and how many rows I will need. Also how many triangles am I able to get from each width of fabric strip. So I have some math and figuring to do. I'm so excited with how this looks so far that I can't hardly wait. 

More pictures to come of my finished runner.

Thanks for reading♥

Fabric Love Friday! Purple Batik Edition.

This is the first in a series of purple batiks that I have acquired over the years. I don't know the designer's or the collections since batiks have no description on the selvage edge. I would love comments if anyone knows the designer's and the names of these beautiful fabrics.

Quilt-y Around the House

One end table finished!

This is my first attempt at the quilting stitch known as pebbles so please be kind. My end tables are not terribly huge however this stitch took along time to complete on just the first one. Plus it took over 4 bobbins of thread. Luckily I have lots of the color I chose for these projects. I had no idea going in and once you've started it's like I'm gonna finish this.

Now after a rest, on to table topper number 2.

Thanks for reading♥