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Liberty Courthouse Quilt

November 15, 2014 1 Comment

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.

I am working on several work-in-progress projects at the moment, and I am sharing one of them today with you: the courthouse quilt. It is so hard to concentrate on one as I really do get bored easily. Currently I am still quilting my swoon quilt (seems like it never ends!) and sewing few small items in between to get that feeling of satisfaction and a finish!

In between those, the only patchwork/quilt piecing I am into these days is the Liberty Courthouse Quilt. Partly because these were easy enough to chain piece and I had cut and organize them well to just pick up from where I left whenever I want.

I am loving it so far. I love the soft feel of of the Liberty fabrics and the Organic Voile Cotton from Robert Kaufman. My liberty stash is from Polka Dot Tea Fabrics Liberty Club and Alice Caroline supply shop. The voile I bought matches perfectly well with the soft Liberty.

The texture of the voile makes the whole quilt soft and flowy. This quilt is surely going to be loved!

The scrappy look and the busy prints of Liberty aginst those soft white voile is just perfect. Just the way I had it in mind.

I am not sure how big this quilt shall be, I am just going with the flow.

So far, I am loving it. I may play around with the layout as my blocks continue to grow.

Courthouse Quilt Block Measurements

Here are the measurements I used for a 7.5″ square block, so you can make one too!

1 (printed centre)	1.5 x 1.5”
2 (printed)	3.5 x 1.5”
2 (printed)	5.5 x 1.5”
2 (printed)	7.5 x 1.5”
2 (solid)	1.5 x 1.5”
2 (solid)	3.5 x 1.5”
2 (solid)	5.5 x 1.5”

In my mind, I may finish this early next year, and maybe… MAYBE …. I want to hand quilt it. But am sure the quilt won’t be done anytime soon if I were to handquilt it.. what do you reckon? Handquilt it or not?

Here is the Craftsy class where I learned to do applique and hand quilt. I have fallen in love with the hand quilting Sarah does that I really want to try it!

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.

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My current Sewing Room, Quilting Swoon Quilt

November 1, 2014 5 Comments

Hi!

So here is my first post officially here on the new site! Thank you for bearing with me while I get my new header up, and sort the pages and tabs above. I am planning to do so in the next few weeks.

Anyways, after rereading my About page while transferring it here, I realized I haven’t shared the latest view of my sewing space which is ever changing from time to time. We have limited space and things have to move around to fit. This few months, my sister is here visiting me, and I made sure my sewing space has room for a sofa bed. It was a lot of work trying to minimize the things around my sewing room!

It feels good though, removing things I don’t really need and things that I know I can never have time for. I also found some old W.I.Ps which I am eager to come back to.

After all the cleaning and sorting, I have to say I am so much happier with the current organization. Small space, but I am happy to work in it. I even quilted my gigantic swoon quilt with this kind of space and it made me think that, really I don’t need a big space to quilt such a big quilt! Though it would probably be much easier..

So my current W.I.P s that really consume most of sewing time these few days have been this large swoon quilt. I really love and enjoy quilting it though there a times, when I feel like a little regret having to quilt this so densely because it is taking AGES! ..not to mention the many, many bobbins that I have to wind.

Today I finished quilting all the nine blocks and the sashings which felt really great and a great achievement. I have a crazy idea about quilting the border with trellis fence as the background, but I am having a feeling that it will not get finished anytime soon if I do so. So I am weighing that idea over getting it done as soon as possible! What do you think? Any idea how to quilt it? I’d love to hear it out…

Thanks for visiting me here and wishing you a wonderful weekend!!

Links you may be interested to look into : Swoon quilt pattern by Thimbleblossoms , my About page

XOXO

Amira

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Very Cherry Swap : Very Cherry Indeed

October 1, 2014 11 Comments

Hi!

Today I am going to share with you a wonderful swap package I receive from Lynda , my swap partner assigned for this Very Cherry Swap. Tina (emilyannkloset) started the swap over on instagram with hashtag #verycherryswap.

I am amira_littlemushroomcap in Instagram by the way.

On a lovely Monday holiday, I receive this bundle of package full of cherry goodness! I love all of them, especially the lip balm (I am a sucker for lip balm) and the pouch! oh and the cute socks! Truely, I love all of them, can’t really pick a favourite. Look at that cute pom pom ric rac on the pillow case. Just perfect.

I am very thankful to have such a lovely partner, Lynda and the efforts she puts in all the things she made here. It was all very lovely indeed.

So much of happy cherries!

The coasters are perfectly cherry too!

In return, this is the package I sent her. I love this swap as this swap embraces that we have each other as swap partners.

All packed in a cherry bag I had saved from my last trip cherry picking last year. Another fun thing about this swap is that I squeal everytime I see anything cherry, knowing that I could include it in the swap package. So this bag was definitely one squeal!

Here are the things in the package:

The main one was the mini quilt made from simple granny squares in Lori Holts’ fabric.

A pin cushion made with fussy cut 1/2 inch hexies and super cute cherry tag I found when I was back in Malaysia :

A sweet charm with a cherry on top! (printables available for free here). So easy to customize your gift with a certain theme with free printables!

Another customized with the same printable.

She loves lady bug, so I bought lady bug button and stuck them onto the printable too. Made a diary so cherry with the same printable.

I print and cut out cupcake wrappers with the free printable available here.

Made simple stickers from them too.

Made the mini quilt label with a bit of embroidery. Can you spot some cherries in the free motion quilting I did on this quilt?

The very cherry pouch, embelished with a cute lady bug zipper I found at the recent quilt & craft show.

The open wide pouch has a cherry tag to cover the end of the zipper. Fussy cut.

Overall, I really enjoyed making all of them and have enjoyed the surprise I got from the lovely package Lynda sent me.

Have you been in a swap lately? I am joining another very soon or maybe even start one. Are you interested?

Here are some of my previous ones that I’ve swapped:

Well, till next time, Have a gorgeous time sewing, quilting or enjoying life!

pin the image for an inspiration of a quilt swap next time.

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Sewing Tutorial : Simple Tote from fabric selvedges (selvage edges)

September 21, 2014 12 Comments

In this post, I am sharing with you, a sewing tutorial on how to make a simple tote. A tote with an exterior made of selvedges. Throwing out bits of fabrics has always been hard for me. Even the littlest or the tiniest let alone the selvedges, long strips of fun text with a bit of the fabric itself. Some have really cute colour codes which make it even harder to throw out. So I decided to keep them, hoping some day I will get to use them in a string quilt like this,this or this.

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But in the meantime, I just like to see them used in a simple quick project. So I made a tote out of some of them.

I have them in different sizes, mainly because they are left overs and sometime I need to use the fabric as much as near the edge but I still keep the selvedge because of the texts.

Here is the sewing tutorial for the selvedge tote, so you can go make one too!

Sewing Tutorial for Tote Bag using Selvedges

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You can make any size you want, but here I will give out the size I use for mine.

Material Requirements:

A pile of selvedges. It will be easier to have long ones, longer than the width of the tote. Otherwise, you may patch them beforehand to make them long enough.
or use this , slightly larger than the size of your tote (I use 2 pieces of 15 x 18″)
half yard of lining fabric
a fat quarter for the interior pocket
a pair of straps, (I use an old overall straps for mine)
- you can also make one using 4 strips of 2 x 40″ fabric – place two strip right sides together, sew all around leaving a 3″ gap for turning right side, Turn right side out, press and top sticth all around the sides. Make a pair.
- or you can simply use this
- or you can also use premade leather

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Piecing Instructions

1.First, you will need to piece and quilt as you go the exterior pieces. Sew the selvedges onto the batting covering the raw edges with the neighboring non-fraying edge.

2. If the selvedge finish edge is one of those fray finish, you may put the selvedge right side together and sew rough edges together and flip open.

3. Continue until the batting is filled. Do the same for the other piece.

4. Trim the piece to size, 14″ x17″ with a curvy bottom corners

5. Cut the same 2 piece for the lining from the lining fabrics

6. Remove about a 1/4″ of batting from the top side of the piece. I like to do this to avoid bulk later on when sewing the top side.

7. Cut out 15 x 10″ out of the pocket fabric. Fold in half with right sides facing, so that it now measures 7.5 x 10″. Sew all the way around and leave a small opening for turning right side out. Press and top stitch the edges.

8. Place onto one of the lining piece. Center it out. I put mine about 7″ away the top edge. Sew onto the lining piece on the 3 sides leaving the top side open so that this will become the pocket. You can also stitch the middle down, so that you can have two smaller pocket instead.

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9. Place the strap 3″ away from the sides, and the end of the strap should be 7″ from the top. Mark a line 1 1/2″ and 2 1/2″ away from the top.(I use to do this as in the photo). This is where I make the square with an X.

10. Pin and sew the strap onto the exterior piece.

11. Place the two lining piece right side together and sew the sides and the bottom leaving the top side open. Turn right side out. Clip the corners carefully not to snip the stitches

12. Place the exterior piece right sides together and sew the sides and the base leaving the top side open.

13. Now place the lining piece inside the exterior piece right sides together. make sure the straps is put inside too.

14. Pin and sew the top edge, leaving a gap for turning right side out.

15. Turn right side out. Press well and top stitch the top seam, closing the gap as you go. Press well.

It’s done. Enjoy!

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Hope you enjoy the tutorial! Make sure you pin it to your pinterest board!

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Jelly Roll Jam Quilt : Jelly Roll Jam II Free Pattern

September 10, 2014 9 Comments

The quilt was made using just one single jelly roll following the wonderful tutorial by Fat Quarter Shop for this quilt. The pattern is called the Jelly Roll Jam Quilt II which you can download from HERE.

A baby quilt made for a special baby just born last two week. She is still in the hospital in the incubator, but she is strong and healthy. Hopefully, she’ll gain enough weight and would be ready for the outside world very soon.

The process was very quick and it is definitely the perfect way to use up some of the jelly rolls I have. This one is by Riley blake, Seaside by October Afternoon. I love a lot of the fabrics in this line. So many basics and love the colours in this line.

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Patchwork Crochet Edged Potholder

August 16, 2014 9 Comments

Hi!

Been quiet around here lately. Off on holiday the last couple of weeks and now I am back in Canberra.

Been sewing a tiny bit here and there whenever I have some times in between chores, studies and other responsibilities. I love it how sewing can just bring me somewhere where I feel so myself.

Anyway, I joined over the #verycherryswap over on Instagram and got myself busy with some cherry fabrics. However, I haven’t started any sewing for my swap partner just yet but I already have few ideas. She wanted something for the sewing room, and I think I have just the thing for that.

In the meantime, I am making patchwork potholders for a special someone whose birthday is coming very soon. Can’t resist the combination of theses fabrics altogether. I love scrappy stamp look.

I crochet the edges for a bit of vintage inspired look. Love them so much that I wanna keep them! So, I guess that is a good sign that it will be a great gift don’t you think?

Well, till next time! I have few quilts that needed quilting but I ran out of threads….. still waiting for the mail for them.. hopefully I will have bigger finishes soon to share.

Thank you for reading!

Hugs,

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True Tones :: The Modern Patchwork Table Runner

July 6, 2014 24 Comments

Hi!

A couple of days ago, I made these table runners. Both the table runners were patched up in an evening. They were quick and simple. I finished the blue one that very day, but had stalled a while before quilting the red one. Now the red one is quilted, it is yet stalled to be binded. I will do it very soon, but let’s share them with all of you first.

I love the simplicity of cutting without measurements, simple strips and fun quilting. The inspiration came from the cover of the book ” Quilts made Modern by Weeks Ringle”

These both were gifts and really need to make me one myself. It is funny sometimes how fast you can sew for someone else, but yet find it so hard to find time to sew for yourself. I bet you if they were meant to be mine, they wouldn’t be done yet. There is a bigger reason to stall when they’re your own project. How about you. Do you feel the same? If not, how do you keep yourslef motivated to get that thing for yourself done and done?

Well, till next time – have a lovely Week ahead!

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Modern Medallion Quilt Along : Cross My Heart and Stuck in the Middle Border

June 27, 2014 23 Comments

Hi!

Welcome to my stop for the blog hop of the Modern Medallion quilt along. I see a lot of different versions coming along so well over at instagram #modernmedallion and over at facebook! It has been so much fun experimenting with a lot of improv, wonky style patchwork.

I have not have imagined that it is actually quite hard to get wonky look, but it was surely lots of fun.

So how far have got to? This week, we can share our progress on the 4th and 5th border, which is the Cross My Heart and Stuck in The Middle. I continue with the rainbow wash theme with the crosses and decided to just go plain and white volume for the stuck in the middle border.

I did find one little trouble when putting these two borders, the crosses seams easily becomes undone and I had to sew back some of the stitches so that I don’t get holes in my quilt. I guess it is because we trim them and the stitches can become quite loose.

Be extra careful not too stretch when putting on the 5th border on!

Have a joyful journey finishing up the quilt! Lets link up your progress here:

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Modern Medallion Update : waving not drowning

June 22, 2014 10 Comments

Hi!

Been slacking a bit on blogging, have been making lots of things in my sewing room, but haven’t been sharing here much as I wanted to. Sometimes I came back home from lab and whole day in front of computer at school that I just simply don’t want to stare at the computer screen any longer when I reach home.

Today I am sharing along my progress of the modern medallion quilt along (quilt pattern by twolittleaussiebirds). This week, our quilt along host is Kate Quilts, sharing her post on this week task : the Waving not Drowning border.

waving but not drowning border modern medallion

Since I didn’t get the chance to share last week : the drunk geese and the plain jane, I update here those progress too. Last week, our host was Ms Midge : who already had finished her quilt and it’s looking amazing! Go check it out!

So, keeping the rainbow wash theme, I pursued my medallion quilt with more rainbow scraps, though I had to piece scraps together to get the effect, I love that I don’t need any large pieces to begin with. I love the scrappy look so much!

Come by again next week for my stop with the Cross My heart border and the framed border!

Till then, Have a great week!

XOXO

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W.I.P : half square triangles

June 12, 2014 9 Comments

Hi!

It’s been a while since I post W.I.Ps.

I love that Instagram was able to keep myself updated, since I have very limited amount on the computer lately. Mainly it’s because the computer room is so cold this winter!

I am currently working on many things, I find myself jumping from one project to another. I am loving it though, because lately my mood seems to change every second! So, depending on my mood, I pick up any w.i.p that I would like to work on and progress it even a slight bit.

One of the w.i.p I have to show you today is the Kaffe Fasset Shot Cotton Rainbow HST quilt.

When it all began with lots of teeny HST. Chain pieced and trimmed to 1.5″.

Rainbow Shot Cotton Kaffe Fasset _ half square triangles chain pieced

The finished HST measures 1″, and it was of course, for me to get those points matched was impossible, so I am not bothered to be all perfectionist. This quilt will grow, I am making bigger HSTs for the future border.

For now, it sits nicely on my design board.