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In Completed Projects

It’s Finished! : I Heart Quilt Pattern

January 10, 2014 14 Comments

Hi!

I am finally done with my second version of “I Heart Quilt”.

I Heart Quilt. pattern to be released soon

I fell in love with the first quilt so much that I was not willing to part with it. I remembered making the quilt with intention to sell the finished quilt but I didn’t sell it in the end. For the record, I haven’t even listed any of my finished quilts for sale. However, I am going to make a new record this year by kicking off with my first listing on Etsy.

Since I am not following a pattern, I guess it should be legal to sell it right? That was my concern when I started thinking about selling quilts. I can’t simply sell a quilt I made out of patterns published in magazines and books right? Correct me if I am wrong. Some patterns have written copyrights on them and it’s made clear that we can’t sell quilts made with the pattern. However, how about those in magazines? I guess making quilts to sell is far harder than making it to give.

The plan was to sell it and I didn’t want to break any copyright laws,so I designed “I heart Quilt” and made it up as I go. You can read more about the journey here.

With all the hard work done, might as well, I put an extra effort to make a pattern out of it. It will be great to see more of this quilt in different colors and fabrics. So, I made another version for the pattern writing process and the quilt is Layer Cake friendly!

NOTE : I no longer promote Craftsy/Bluprint as I used to due to the way the subscription is currently being carried out. I had the issue of cancelling my subscription when the company changed hand and I find that cancelling through calls is inconvenient. However, I do still stand behind these classes I promote and if you are subscribed, you can surely check these classes I recommend on the platform. If you are looking for another online platform to learn craft such as quilting, do check out CreativeBug. It is much cheaper in subscription (subscribe now 3 months for only $5). Thank you.

Here is the link to the quilt pattern on Craftsy.

If you do make one, feel free to link in my flickr group or on craftsy. If you find mistakes or would like to comment on the pattern, I am open to hear it out. This is my first quilt pattern, so I would really love to hear feedbacks!

Update : Ever since 2015, I only sell this pattern via payhip
You can click the following link :Buy eBook

This quilt is for sale here and the pattern is for sale on Craftsy or my etsy shop.

Thank you for supporting me and my crafty adventures.

Lots of love,

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In Free Motion Quilting

Customized Couple Pillows : Trapunto quilting

January 5, 2014 18 Comments

Hi!

I made a special wedding gift recently using a technique called “trapunto quilting”. I decided to make something that they can put on their bed, and thought a monogrammed pillow with their initials would be a great gift.

wedding gift_customized pillow_whole quilt

At first I was thinking to applique the initials but I feel like applique would speak too loud for these pillows. So, to make things more subtle, I decided to just hide the initials among the quilting. Besides, there is always a time when you need to practice that free motion skill. So making this pillow was definitely a great practice!

To make the lettering stand out even more, trapunto technique was used for the lettering in these pillows.

At the bottom of their initials, I put ” Together.. till Jannah”. Jannah means Heaven in arabic.

What do you think? I sure hope the couple love them.

I will publish a tutorial soon for making these pillows. It is certainly a great chance to practice that free motion skill if you have been wanting to do so.

Till then,

Have a lovely week dear friends,

XOXO

In Completed Projects

About A Quilt Sampler Final post : How To Join Quilt As You Go Blocks

December 15, 2013 18 Comments

Here is my last post for the About A Quilt Sampler! This quilt uses the ‘Quilt-As-You-Go’ technique.Thank you for keeping up with me, it was a lovely journey of documenting this QAL.

If you happen to land here first, I have archived all of the posts HERE so you can go through all the tutorials for each block and quilting tutorials included in this quilt-along.

We are now at a stage where we can piece all the blocks together and finally bind the quilt!

In Free Motion Quilting

Anna Bella HST Quilt Done + Quilting Video

August 23, 2013 32 Comments

Hi!

Finally after hours of quilting this quilt and spamming photos of it in the instagram (I am amira_littlemushroomcap on IG), the quilt is finally done!

This quilt is a gift for my mother, hence the fabrics was bought to match her taste and home. The fabric line is called Anna Bella by Marcus Fabrics. I posted a blogpost when the fabric arrived here. Blogpost on the progress of the quilt here and here.

I know my mother would certainly love a sampler quilt, so I decided to make the HST sampler quilt from In Color Order’s Tutorial.

The quilting was mostly feathers because I wanted to practice feather quilting. I started quilting the blocks, so even though I did have some ugly feathers there, it is not so obvious. Pretty clever ha?

Once I have done all the blocks, I did the sashing. which was ….. totally wrong!

Should have consider quilting from the center towards the outside/border because the quilt backing keeps bulging around in between quilted blocks. It’s okay. Lesson learnt.

I was finally confident with my feathers and decide to go for the feather border. I am pretty please with the end results having it was quilted on a regular domestic machine with no stitch regulator.

Here is a video of me quilting it. If you are interested in quilting feathers yourself on a domestic machine, probably you can get a few things from the video. Please pardon my grammar and english – it is not my first language and spontaneously talking is one thing I am not very good at. Huhu.

Sorry – it is my first time doing a video! And NO editing!!! and it is dark – of course, its winter here down under.. AND sorry you have to go through me with the seam ripper part too! Hehe. I am hoping to improve soon so I can share better.

Quilty Hugs,

Amira

In Custom FMQ Sampler Quilt Along

About A Quilt Sampler Post #2 : QAYG Inroduction + Other Requirements + Lets Link Up Fabric Choices

January 15, 2013 14 Comments

Hi!

So, today I want to just give a brief

Quilt As You Go (QAYG) Introduction.

There are many ways of QAYG, you can see some tutorial here,here and here.

But the one we are going to use in this QAL is basically,

Quilting block by block.

Trim the batting and the backing off.

Attach the sashing fabrics for the top and the back.

Slit in strip of batting in the sashing.

And finish it off by hand or machine.

The detail of all of this steps, will be in a complete tutorial when the time comes (October).

Today, I just want you to have a general idea of how we are going about to do this quilt.

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Other Requirements

So, since we will be quilting as we go, we will also need to prepare the backing fabrics as we start.

You can use various fabric for backing, and one colour sashing like this:

(you’ll need 9 pieces of 13.5″ square, 1 yard of sashing fabric)

Or all the same for all blocks and another colour sashing.

(you’ll need 1.5 yards for the blocks and 1 yard for sashing)

Other things you will need:

Quilting threads – either one colour or various – matching to your fabrics

9 piece of 13″ square batting and 2.5 Strips of batting (start collecting scrap batting about that size from now or you can always cut the strips from the large batting piece anyway)

Free-Motion foot

Walking Foot

Standard Quilting Tools

An advantage if you have Supreme Slider and Machinger Gloves but not necessary

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Now lets link up our fabric choices for this Quilt along!

You can also add your photo to flickr group here.

In Baby Quilt

Vintage Modern I Heart Quilt DONE!

January 14, 2013 41 Comments

Finally I have time to post this..

It was done the first week of this year, making it my first quilt of the year 2013! Oh..its so good to say that..LOL

You can see the progress of this quilt here. Pattern available here

And I can’t tell you how happy I am with this quilt, but I really am happy with the final look of it.

Polka Dot Binding. Polka dots are always great as bindings. The pop of white dots here and there makes it more whimsical!

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I just can’t stop loving the scalloped edge! I think this is the icing on the cake for this quilt. I just love it frames the whole quilt.

I did a simple loop all over free motion quilting.

Quilt Stat:

Size : 60″x 60″

Quilt top Fabrics : Vintage Modern by Bonnie and Camille, scraps of white on white

Backing Fabrics: Infinity Designed for Spotlight

Binding Fabric : Dumb Dots by Michael Miller in Red

Batting : Bamboo Batting

Pattern available here

Finished on 5th January 2013

XOXO

In Completed Projects

Tutorial | Ruby Table Runner using leftover Jelly Rolls

June 30, 2012 10 Comments

In between cutting the Vintage Modern for a lap quilt, I decided to use some of the Ruby Jelly Rolls (Just so tempted to use it) This line is also by the same designer; Bonnie and Camille. I made a table runner with a few jelly rolls to start with. A quick little project to get my sewjo going, in between what seems like endless piecing with the other quilt project.

The table runner uses only 6 Jelly Rolls Strips for the blocks, making it a perfect project for those leftover Jelly Rolls strips!

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The table runner pattern is simply a quarter log cabin. I made mine to look scrappy so I have no particular positioning of the pieces. I just made sure that I have the colours distributed evenly across the runner. While I am at it, might as well I put a tutorial here for my future reference and for you too!

There are affiliate links within this post, in which I may earn a small commission if you take action. Please find my full disclosure here.

Quilted Table Runner Tutorial

Finished size : 19″ x 45″

Materials requirement:

Leftover Jelly Rolls or 2.5″ strips (6 Jelly rolls strip is sufficient for the runner)

A quarter yard of the final border fabric (mine is the red dots)

2 Jelly rolls strip for binding

I yard for backing (or 22″ x 48″)

20″ x 46″ wadding

I am using Bonnie And Camille Ruby (Out of Print but you can check out all of her fabric HERE)

Cutting instructions:

From each Jelly Roll strips (2.5 x 44″),

From border fabric :

cut 2 pieces of WOF ” x 3″ (WOF: width of fabric ~ 40″)

cut 2 pieces of 20″ x 3″

Piecing instructions:

Chain piece the first two 2.5″ squares for all blocks, followed by the sequence as per diagram shown.

Sewing the border on:

Once all the blocks are pieced together in rows, it’s time to put the border on.

Sew the border along the lengthwise first. Both top and bottom border. Trim excess.

Then, piece the side border. Trim excess.

Baste and Quilt:

For small projects, I love spray basting! I use 505 Spray baste and it never fails to work like a charm. Spray on the wadding, and place your backing fabric flat and smooth it out. Then turn it all around and again spray onto the wadding and place the top quilt and smooth it out.

I quilted mine with simple stippling motion all over the block and I left the border unquilted. You can quilt yours as desired.

Check out some of the free motion quilting tutorials I have on the blog.

Binding:

using 2 Jelly Roll strips or 2 of 2.5″x44″ strips, sew them together to form long binding tape. Fold them in half lengthwise and iron them. Use this as the binding tape for the quilt.

So here it is, all done and bound.

Those pieces in the bowl are the pieces of blocks from the Vintage Modern.

Update: The blocks in the bowl are already pieced into a quilt and the quilt pattern is available here.

If you are in for a quick little quilty project – placemats and runners are my favourites! So why not go make it yourself now!

make sure you pin it for reference!