Getting my Craft ON!

Today I worked with the sketch from Let's Scrap.  It is a great site, go check it out!  I have run low on family pictures, but I always have FLOWER pictures laying around.  So I decided to use them for this layout.

If you have ever read my photography blog you know that I am addicted to taking pictures of flowers.  I drag my husband to gardens when ever we travel.  Sometime I even creep onto private property to get a picture of their gardens.  So if you see a strange lady with a camera in your front yard, please don't shoot it's just me. 

I used the Summer Fresh papers by Simple Stories. 

As I was making this page, I realized that I need some more edging scissors.  They would make some really cute strips.  I didn't have an 8x10 picture so I just made a collage with my photos.  I added some pop dots under the title.  I love pop dots!

Then I just used the stickers that were in the kit to add to the other page.  A little doodling and I am done.  This layout went together quickly. 

Here is sneek peek of what else I am doing in my craft. room.  I am making another jean rag quilt for someone special. If you missed the first one, you can find the tutorial HERE.

 

I am making a wall quilt using the page from my art journal as inspiration.  My friend Jule is making a baby blanket with these little birdies too.  So cute.  Stay tuned for a tutorial on this quilt.

Rag Quilt

For the past few years I have been collecting old jeans in hopes of making a rag quilt.  This is how I made it.

Cut jean material in 7 in squares.

I had enough to make 150 squares.

I only use 70 to make this quilt. 

I made it

 7 squares x 10 squares. 

Cut flannel material in 7 inch squares.

Next I ironed the jean and flannel and put

them wrong sides together.

Lay out your rows so it is pleasing to the eye.



Sew corner to corner on each square.

Sew your squares into rows, flannel sides together.

 I ironed the seems down to make it easier

to sew the rowes together.

Sew your rows together, mathcing seams.

 After it is sewed them together I sewed a 1/2 inche stitch around the endge of the quilt.



With sharp scissors cut slits into ALL seams.



Make sure not to cut into the stitching. 

Cut around the edge of the quilt. 

The edge will look like this.

 Now take your quilt to a laudrymat and wash and dry it.  You could do this at home if you watch the washer and grab all the strings that WILL come out/off in the wash.  Then when it is in the dryer check your lint trap every five minutes or so and clear it out.  Then it will be FINISHED! 



It is super cozy!




Close-up of the edges after you dry it!

I enough material left over to make one more.  Maybe a Christmas present???.........

Thanks for stopping by.



It is DONE!

Well a few years ago I went to Landcaster, PA.  My friend Jule helped

me pick out a wall quilt to make.  You can read about my progress HERE and HERE.  In the beginning I was really excited and had it pieced together in a few weeks.  Then the hand quilting began and I got a bit bored with it and put it aside.  I would work on it on and off for the next two years. 

 

This week I finally finished it. It is not perfect like I would have liked it to be, but it is finished. It 6 inches smaller than it was suppose to be. How did that happen???? My stitches are uneven and I had left it alone for so long I used two different thread colors to quilt it, dumb…. I don’t think it is suppose to have all those bubbles. Maybe I will try to iron it.

I love the colors. They are bright and remind me of all the autumn colors. Maybe I will make a winter one next.

I met a lady from a local quilters guild at Border’s the other day. They meet once a month just down the road from my house. So I may go check it out next month. I will keep you posted.

Quilting Day

It took me three days to make all these little squares.

They didn't come out square but I trimmed them up.

Now I can be creative in my rows.

Today I worked all day putting all the pieces together.

Ok 12 squares into 4 strips. Here is the quilt top done, except the binding.

I added all the strips and then noticed

I was off by a bit in one corner, grrrrrrrrrr.

But I was so tired I didn't want to rip it all out.

So I just tried to straighten it up. But I LOVE the colors!!

Quilting Progress

Here are the middle leaf blocks.

They were pretty easy to sew together. Here are the leaf squares with the sashing.

I need to work on squaring my blocks.

My blocks turned out 1 inch smaller than the instructions.

One of my blocks is a bit taller on one side.

Grrrrrr, but hopefully I will get better as I go along.

Next I am working on 50 little squares and 96 tiny triangles

I have to attach to make bigger squares.

Making a Quilt

While in Lancaster, I picked up wall hanging kit.

It was from a local quilt shop.

All the fabric was picked out in the shop.

I love the bright fall colors.

My goal last week was to cut the pieces!

Goal accomplished.

287 PIECES

I then cut out all my little traingle and squares!