I have to admit, since the SUMMER SALE, I have been doing few trips of quilting fabric haul. I just have very little resistance when it comes to fabric.

But it’s all worth it.

Why do I buy fabric?

Fabric makes me HAPPY in a lot of different phases of their lifetime with me. 

I am HAPPY WHEN:

• …I buy and shop for them – browsing for fabrics online or in store, is such a pleasure. Seeing all the colours, the possibilities. Such a fun thing to do for sure.
• …I get them in the mail. Who doesn’t love happy mail?
• …I have to keep them in place. I love organising fabrics, petting the fabric, and bundle of fabrics in a collection is so beautiful to look at.
• …I look at them on display in my sewing space. They keep me inspired and gets me giddy to get things going in my sewing room so I can start making with them and just so I can buy more. Haha. The cycle goes on. 
• …I start working with them!
• …they’re in my quilts or items I used. And I keep loving them until they are all worn out and used out full of love.

So isn’t that worth it?

LOL

I know I don’t have to justify my purchases, and we totally can buy fabrics or anything we love for as long as we are in our budget and means. And for as long as we are HAPPY. I like to say that I am also supporting small businesses and designers. 

Fabric SALE and quilting fabric haul

Recently, I grabbed a few things from the SALE section HERE and some from the monthly BASICS sale for background fabrics. 

I always buy BASIC backgrounds only when they’re on sale. This is one way to keep the cost down aside many more ways to budget and save when making a quilt. –> you can read about how to quilt on a budget HERE for more ideas. 

So here’s my recent quilting fabric Haul and my plans for them. 

 

It’s week 2 of the with BOO CREW, the Halloween Quilt free quilt-a-long with one of my favorite Online Fabric stores as the host, the Fat Quarter Shop! They always have super cute patterns and their sew-a-long are a lot of fun to join in. 

Boo Crew Halloween Quilt-A-Long LINKS:

• Boo Crew Quilt Kit
• Boo Crew Information Page and Free Patterns

 

Mystery Halloween Quilt-A-Long

Thist is a mystery quilt-a-long meaning that the pattern will be released week by week. There’s  FREE patterns and video tutorial that comes along with it, so it is just a lot of fun to learn new things, and quilt-a-long.

The pattern is not exactly for true beginners but it is not hard either, I promise. Just lots of pieces. So, I highly recommend it if you’re looking into learning to make pictorial blocks and have your Halloween ready before time!

 

My Choice of Halloween Fabrics:

I am using Stacy Iest Hsu Halloween Collection HERE sent by Fat Quarter Shop.

It has super cute pumpkins and black cats! Too cute to pass. 

As for the background, I’m using a MODA grunge background named Olivenite HERE. The pattern calls for a purple background, but I thought I’ll do something a little different with a yucky mushy green.

but there’s also a Boo Crew Quilt Kit that you can start with too.  

or you can even raid your stash to join along. Make sure you read the fabric requirements to get your fabrics ready. 

There are affiliate links within this post that may earn me commission and it helps me a lot in providing lots of free content on my blog, thank you so much for your support. 

 

 

Week 2: Boo Crew Halloween Quilt A Long

This week we’re making the ghost and the candle!

You can check out what we made last week here in last week’s post HERE!

These two blocks were fun to make too. The ghost with the cute little tail! ADORABLE.

I am loving the grunge background even more with the white ghost..

My finish blocks this week:

 

 

And here is a little fun video I made for the entrance of the ghost!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How fun are these blocks?

Are you joining along?

• Boo Crew Quilt Kit

• Boo Crew Information Page and Free Patterns

It’s coming! Amazon Prime Day is coming soon on the 12th and 13th July 2022. So I thought, I’ll list out some of favourite finds that I usually order regardless of the special day and some of the fun deals that’s going on for Prime Day.

Overwhelming fabric scraps. I thought this was such a fun topic to discuss. so here I am.

Do you love or hate working with fabric scraps? Do you sometimes get overwhelmed with your piles of fabric scraps?

Well, maybe the way you organized it in the first place was causing this issue. In this post, I’ll show how I sort fabrics scraps so that I get to use them easily.  

I changed the way I work with scraps a while ago and it has been a game-changer in making sure I don’t get overwhelmed or hate using my scraps despite my very good intention to make use of them when I threw them into the scrap bins. 

Throwing fabric scraps into the scrap basket

Honestly, I hate having to rummage through the messy pile of scraps and working with thin strips of fabrics that have frayed right after you try to pull them out from the scrap basket isn’t very fun to me. 

Hence, I have stopped throwing them into the scrap bin and letting them sit there for way too long. I now work on sorting them right after the quilt tops are done. That way, I can work with the scraps right into the backing of my quilt or start sewing something small to match the quilt. 

If you want to know more about how I do this, here’s a short video of me trying to explain the process. 

How to sort fabric scraps from a quilt project

Watch it on YouTube HERE>

And make sure you subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking HERE to watch more upcoming videos all about scrappy projects. 

So, what do you think of the method I used to sort and use these scraps? Anyhow, I hope you did enjoy that little video. Let me know if you are going to try it out too. I say do what works BEST FOR YOU. cause we’re all different. It’s great that we can try lots of different methods before we find one that matches the way we work. 

What to make from these scraps? How about some scrappy pouch?

Here’s a video for the full tutorial on the quilt-as-you-go pouches. Check out the Youtube Channel and I would love to have you subscribed there too.

 

Make sure you pin this to refer again later:

 

It is that time of the year again with the Halloween Quilt free quilt-a-long with one of my favorite Online Fabric stores as the host, the Fat Quarter Shop! They always have super cute patterns and their sew-a-long are a lot of fun to join in. 

Boo Crew Halloween Quilt-A-Long LINKS:

• Boo Crew Quilt Kit
• Boo Crew Information Page and Free Patterns

There are affiliate links within this post that may earn me commission and it helps me a lot in providing lots of free content on my blog, thank you so much for your support. 

 

Mystery Halloween Quilt-A-Long

This time it is a mystery quilt-a-long meaning that the pattern will be released week by week. There’s  FREE patterns and video tutorial that comes along with it, so it is just a lot of fun to learn new things, and quilt-a-long.

The pattern is not exactly for true beginners but it is not hard either, I promise. Just lots of pieces. So, I highly recommend it if you’re looking into learning to make pictorial blocks and have your Halloween ready before time!

 

My Choice of Halloween Fabrics:

I am using Stacy Iest Hsu Halloween Collection HERE sent by Fat Quarter Shop.

It has super cute pumpkins and black cats! Too cute to pass. 

As for the background, I’m using a MODA grunge background named Olivenite HERE. The pattern calls for a purple background, but I thought I’ll do something a little different with a yucky mushy green.

but there’s also a Boo Crew Quilt Kit that you can start with too.  

or you can even raid your stash to join along. Make sure you read the fabric requirements to get your fabrics ready. 

 

Week 1: Boo Crew Halloween Quilt A Long

This week we’re making the witch hat and broom block. 

The two blocks were fun to make and mismatching fabrics was too much fun, I love that we get to fondle with beautiful fabrics as we make things. So grateful for designers as we can just enjoy making matchy things with their fabric line. 

Here’s my finish blocks. 

The broom is probably the longest block I have ever made!

And here is a little fun video I made as I piece this block together. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Are you joining along?

• Boo Crew Quilt Kit
• Boo Crew Information Page and Free Patterns

I have caught the Cross Stitch Bug. After watching many flosstubes, I am drawn to start this craft again. 

As most crafters, I am drawn to many different crafts. I have cross-stitched before in my teenage years but now with the community of flosstube online, I feel like I’m connected again with the craft.

There is just so much joy in sharing the craft we love. It’s like crafting together yet being so far apart. 

Another update on the Riley Blake Design Block Challenge Quilt with a plan for this sampler quilt layout. I made this in patriotic colors for my first patriotic quilt.

We are at the end of the Quilt A Long and I hope to get this done before Malaysia’s Independence Day on 31st August. If you’re wondering why. the colors are the same as the American flag (Americana colours) except for the yellows, you can read about the beginning of this quilt HERE>

Patriotic Sampler Quilt

As with all the sampler quilts, this one was definitely an enjoyable one to make. 

I get bored when piecing or cutting 100’s of the same size units, hence sampler quilt is my go-to quilts. 

But this time, I decided that it was going to be in patriotic colours. 

Related post:

• Sewcial Bee Sampler Quilt
• Sewcialites Quilt
• Community Sampler Quilt
• Blue Barn Sampler Quilt

Here is a little update on my Moda Block Heads 4 Quilt. 

This is a free quilt along hosted by Moda Fabrics and the blocks are designed by different Moda designers. You can access the Free Patterns for each of the quilt blocks HERE>

The pattern for the blocks comes in two sizes, and I am making both since I am planning to do the finishing setting layout 3.

There are a couple of different settings provided on the archive page as well as the requirements for the quilt. 

I am working with Kate Spain’s older line layer cake plus some extra fabrics from my stash.

 

I am a little behind with this quilt along, but I just want to keep at my own pace and catch up whenever I can. 

Is quilting with the ruler for beginners?

Another quilt is completed, and this time I quilted clamshells! This is my first time doing so, and oh boy, I love it. 

There are affiliate links within this post in which I may make a commission from. Find my disclosure here. 

This is a quilt I made last year, following the quilt along, All The Trimmings.

You can find the free patterns for this quilt here>

The fabric line I used for this quilt is Dear Stella’s “Baby, it’s cold outside” 

It was a very fun quilt along and I love the row-by-row sampler. I find it fun to make repeats of the same block in a few different prints and yet keep me excited as it is not just a single block on repeat for the whole quilt.

I get bored quickly and love to make samplers like this.

 

Since it was a row-by-row quilt, I thought the horizontal repeat of quilted clamshells would look perfect for this quilt. 

Quilted Clamshells using Quilting Ruler Template

There’s a tutorial on how to do clamshell quilting with a domestic machine using ruler HERE>

Here’s what I used for quilting the clamshell on my home machine:

• Clamshell Ruler. I love this one. Really sturdy and makes beautiful clamshells in various sizes. It is really easy to use too.
• I popped on a Pop Socket on the ruler to make it easier for me to handle the ruler while moving the quilt. 

Here’s a quick time-lapse video of me quilting this. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I have done ruler quilting before, but I have never done an allover repeat of something like this. It was a pretty quick finish. 

It was a pretty small quilt, but I was surprised that the whole quilting process only took me two sittings. Which is about 20 minutes per sitting.

I was chasing time when it was close to the end, I wanted to get it done at least before my little one woke up that morning.

Surprisingly, I got all the binding done and was taking photos already when she woke up. 

So, she had to be in the photo, it’ll be a great memory for me to come back to these someday. Please excuse the sleepy face.

Overall, I love the finished look. I am definitely going to be trying this motif again in future quilts, maybe next time I’ll layer more for an echoed look. 

As for the backing, the quilted clamshell look great too.

Quilt Labels

I have used one of the labels I have in my stash ready to go. 

The backing was pieced with the leftover fabrics and and the label is pieced in the center. It got quilted together when I quilted the quilt. 

 

You can make your own custom label easily too, I have had many who told me that they loved that they can now make their own labels after they took Quilt Label Wizard Course. It is a pretty quick course and you can easily get them done in a day. 

Check out Quilt Label Wizard HERE>

Tips for quilting with a ruler?

Well. that’ll be for another post. I have yet to edit the video for that.

So, I’ll be posting another post with tips and things I’ve learned from this quilting with clamshell ruler process, so be on the lookout for that.

Update: There’s a tutorial on how to do clamshell quilting with a domestic machine using ruler HERE>

Till next time, have a lovely quilty week!