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Hi!
Welcome to my blog. Today is my day for this hop “In Your Words”.

So, greatest thanks to Madame Samm and Linda for making it happening!!
At first when I join this hop, I have other words to make.. words that mostly describe me. However, I didn’t get to do what I planned in the first place as I have better plan ; a quick project to send out soon.
This past few week has been quite hard for my very bestfriend back in Malaysia, so we have been chatting a lot over the phone and I really wish I could just be there with her and lend a shoulder and just give a big hug..
I miss her so much, so I decided to make something for her.
A zippered pouch with this embroidery on:
stitchery- in your words bloghop
The planning of this stitchery took a very short time, I drew once on paper and went straight to the fabric.. I am glad it turned out fine. I love handwriting ever since I am little.. and I even still do so ever so neatly in my recipe book. LOL. Just for the fun of cursive wrting.

stitchery- in your words bloghop2
And a quilted postcard inside it.
be strong - in your words bloghop
Hoping she’ll be strong and letting her know I really care.
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Other wordy things to share with you today:
I made two more drawstring bag last weekend, one with the words, RECYCLE and REUSE.
Recycle- made tro use over and over
Reuse...
And..this is on my bed now; the pillows were my first attempt at raw edge applique which I made way back last year but I never showed them. They have really rough workmanship, so I am planning to make new ones with different words soon. Probably POSITIVE, HOPE and GRATEFUL
Bed Union Jack and pillow UcompUs
Thanks for stopping by. I love to hear from you, so please do comments away..
Then visit other lovely bloggers who are on their day of hop today!
For a giveaway, I am running one here till 15th Jan, Hop on and join in the giveaway.
XOXO

Hi!
A while back,  I went back to Malaysia and found this little shop own by Kelly where I found lots of cute fabrics and scraps which I turned them into cute little pouches like these:
Scrappy linen Pouches QAYG
I even made my drawstring bag with them:
Drawstring Bag With Single Handle - scrappy

I am more than happy to have a sponsor for my little blog, and was super excited when Kelly offered so.

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Kelly own a little shop, Fabric Fanatics where she sells adorable prints which are mostly imported from Japan. If you are in Malaysia, you can visit her shop at

Summit USJ.
We are at Level 1, F1.31, Summit USJ Shopping Mall


or go online on her website http://fabricfanatics.com.my.


For International buyers , you can visit her little shop on Etsy here

She has linen scrap pack and cotton scrap packs and such pretty ribbons and tapes (these are my favourites)
Lovely Linen Only Pack  
Fabric Scrap Pack - 20 Different Design
Travel Paris Cotton Tape 5 yards

…there are also more, like fat quarters, half yards and pretty little tools for making bags and pouches.
Lets go and have a visit! Fabric Fanatics (Kiiss)

And today, there’s a giveaway!!! GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED

giveaway!

This bundle include 5 Fat Quarters, 8 Pieces of Scraps measuring about 5.5″ x 9″. A plenty for improv piecing or quilt as you go pouches!

To win this, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post and get an extra chance by visiting Fabric Fanatics on etsy or facebook and click like! Come back and leave another comment saying you did so.

I am happy to post anywhere I can! So come on.. take a chance! and give some little support!

XOXO

 

Welcome to the second post for the About A Quilt Sampler QAL! In this post, I will be sharing the QAL schedule and the fabric requirements.

If you happen to land here without having to know what it is all about, please visit the previous post here or you can go ahead to the archive page HERE.

ABOUT A QUILT SAMPLER QAL SCHEDULE:

Hi!
YourSiteTitleThis year I plan to join the fun of blog hops and quilt along including my own quilt along “About A Quilt Sampler” here.
(For those waiting for the post of the About A Quilt Sampler, there will be one this weekend on fabric requirements, hope you’ll join in!)


 

 
This January I will be a part of In Your Words Bloghop hosted by non other than the best cheerleader of them all, Madame Samm and for this hop, we have Lindawho have been working hard sorting all of the participants!
Isn’t it a great way to find new blogs and share our love of quilting and sewing. You can hop on the day of their blog hop or hop on now to see what they are already up to! Mine would be on the 10th!

 
Monday, January 7
Tuesday, January 8
Wednesday, January 9
Thursday, January 10
Friday, January 11
Monday, January 14
Tuesday, January 15
Wednesday, January 16

Other than that : 

These sounds fun though I doubt that I have time for them.

the Scrappy Trip Along group icon The informal QAL : Scrappy Trips around the world (tutorial here)

 
 


Herringbone block QAL @ Sew Can She
How about you? Joining in any bloghop or quilt along this year?

Till then,
XOXO
Amira

Hi!
My second last post before the final post of the year.
I love spending a Sunday afternoon getting something done. Because that feeling boost my Monday and the week onwards. I got the quilt top for the HST In Color Order BOM done.
By the window pane:
HST Incolor Order Quilt top
By the riverside on Sunday evening while letting my little one splashes himself in water.
HST Incolor Order Quilt top by the riverside
LO in the river
Too windy for a hang-over-the-tree photos though.
Too windy for a hangovertree photo
I also got my December quilting block swap Australia done. Yes I am late. Such a bad partner. I received two great blocks from Erin. A great addition to the blocks I have received. I hope by the end of 2013, I’ll be able to piece all of them up to a quilt top. Still working on my last year’s QBSA quilt top. LOL.
QBSA Dec2012 Received
I made Erin a star block as requested. I chose the Fading Star here and use Jinny Beyer‘s line together with some purple stash to blend the fading star.
QBSA Dec2012 - Fading Star
Before I got to the final block – as usual a little time spent with the seam ripper.I hate silly mistake but I make them every so often. HOHO.
QBSA Dec2012
I need to go through my 100 day hustle this final day of 2012 and will do a last post tonight summarizing a wonderful year! See you!
XOXO
Hi!
Today I want to share with you some of the great planning templates you could use to organize your life and sewing!
Organize Myself
I used the free templates here for cleaning routine, this one for daily tasks and goals, and this one for weekly menu.
As for the sewing one above, I made that myself. And YES, I am sharing it too. Click here to download the PDF file. Should you have any trouble downloading this one, please report to me. Thanks.
For more, Shayla from DesignFinch has listed a lot more with links here.
I have always love planning – and swear by it that it saves time and made me more productive..However, I sometimes fail to do so every now and then, SO, this year I want to really try to stick to them all year round and thereafter!
It might be a good idea to get yourself one of this too! This is a home laminator. for those in Australia, you can buy this one here. It’s only $16! A bargain for stationery freak like me. LOL.
Home laminator
Once the planning templates are printed, you can laminate them and use dry wipe off white board markers or Frixion markers. That way you can re-use it over and over again.
I hope you have fun making plans for next year! I am looking forward to share my plans soon and would love to see what others are planning too!
Till then, Have a great time celebrating New Year!
XOXO,
Hi!
How are you enjoying your holiday?I hope all of you had some fun times with friends and family! I miss my big family back in Malaysia. 🙁
Anyway, remember this fabric I bought with the voucher I won over at Kristy’s..
Been Shopping with my win of Voucher- FQ shop
I bought Blush Anna Bella Bundle in the intention of making my mum a quilt.
And as she love sampler quilts, I am making the HST BOM by Jeni over at her blog.
From this to HST BOM
HST piecing
Mine has a different twist, as I did not use any solid. I meant to use all the fat quarters in the bundle without adding any more fabrics. Beside, I think my mum’s house matches this kind of style rather than the modern one. Though it was tempting to make as Jeni’s as it was really nice and clean.
HST IncolorOrder BOM - done all 12!
For now, all 12 blocks are done and squared up. I will be piecing the border soon and start on quilting. (I have 3 quilt tops to quilt up to date – hope I’ll get to them soon!!)
A superb win!
On Christmas eve, I received the above! It was so nice of Lisa to come over to my house to send this over before going to her family dinner. I won this bundle of Aurifil from here. Thanks Laura! OOO I love the colours! I am totally over the rainbow for sure to have a grab at this!
Aurifil to try
Well, till then, 
Enjoy the end of the year! I am making big plans for next year and “planning” is a big part of next year, really!
Organize Myself
(I will be sharing where you can get these free planning templates soon!)

XOXO,

Hi!
Today, I will be sharing a little experience using one of the Superior Threads. I bought mine here on Sale for a very great value. 
Firstly, this threads is not cotton. It’s Polyester. I know some may have an issue about piecing and quilting cotton quilt with polyester, but I have very little experience and have never used a quilt longer than a year yet. LOL. So, I’ll give it a try anyway. Besides, this threads is meant for quilting. So I think it should be fine in the long run too.
The threads comes in two sizes : the 550 yds and 3280yds spools. I bought the latter one as I figure it is more cost effective and I hate it when threads finishes up so quickly. the only problem I had with this big one is that I don’t have the suitable thread holder. My machine is meant to be used with the smaller spool. 
(You can buy the thread holder pictured on the right here though)
Since my budget is a bit off already due to some splurge of fabrics on sale (ehem), I did a little detour for the threads before it goes to its normal threading route.
Reroute the threads
And it works great! Except that I do have to make sure that it is in the right position every now and then. I do think it is still worth buying the thread holder, but for the time being. I am happy.

Winding is important
Now, everytime we use a new threads, we also have to make sure that it winds on the bobbin with the right tension. The tension on the bobbin is as important as the threading tension. I broke one of my bobbin while adjusting the tension! yikes. After several try and error, i got it fine.
I love how fine the threads is and was quite impressed with how much threads you can wind in the bobbin. I find that I need to change bobbin less often. The threads also doesn’t break as much as Gutterman Cotton that I previously used – I guess that’s due to the material itself. But overall, I like to piece and quilt with it. I am not sure about lint : but I do find lots of lint around the machine (inside bobbin case etc) lately, it could be due to the threads. I’ll try Aurifil soon and compare them!
Till then, I hope you had a great holiday and welcoming the new year with lots of fun things!
XOXO

Hi!
 
Finally, I made it to the end.. Though Lynne has finished her QAL way back in September, I am glad I made it to the final. Trace back the W.I.P post of this quilt here.
 
jack attack quilt 2012
 
backing of jack attack quilt
 
I guess I should stock up more backing fabrics. That was the main reason for it taking a bit of a little more time. I finally decided that I would make the backing with whatever I have – patch it up. 

Related Post: Quilt Backing Ideas

 
scrappy-patchy backing for Jack Attack quilt
 
Well.. the only problem was, I don’t have a big design wall.. so I work my way through the carpet floor of my living room (which I can only do at night when my little one is already asleep) . The size of the quilt was the maximum that my apartment floor could manage. : p
 
jack attack - one flag
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Finish quilting it
 
I quilt it simple – echoing double line of the flags. The biggest struggle was turning the quilt around at each point. The wrestle with the quilt was a great exercise. LOL
 
Quilting the jack attack
 
Finally, after several evenings, I was done quilting it… (below is the image of my basting pins removed from the quilt) I use these curved basting pins – one of the game-changer in my quilting journey. It was definitely easy using these pins to baste than the normal pins.
 
whats left after quilting
 
It was time to bind it. I used DS fabrics for Spotlight / Joann. It is then I realized, I only have one ruler. And it’s short.. I think it’s time to get one long one…
 
the only ruler I own
 
I bind using the tutorial by Rita here. I love this method.
 
binding
 
Well, Lets record the quilt stats here;
 
Design : Jack Attack by Lynne @ Lily’s Quilt
Size: ~ 64″ x 90″
Top fabrics: Amy Butler’s, Joel Dewberry’s, White solid (no brand)
Backing fabrics : Some of the top scraps, Oval elements by AGF, Pure elements by AGF, polka dots and white sheets.
Binding Fabrics : Denyse Schmidt for Spotlight
 
Jack attack laid flat
 
Linking up this to : Thank Goodness Its Finished Friday @ Karen’s Sew Well Maide, Richard and Tanya’s Linky A Finish Friday, and Whoop, Whoop Friday @  Sarah’s Confession of fabric addict
 
 
Have a great Weekend and a great holiday!!!
 
XOXO