I have posted the previous progress HERE> and HERE>
From the last post, I have made 12 more blocks and I am happy to say that I only have 9 more blocks to go to complete 72 blocks required for the quilt.
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Yes, I have started another project. Just could not resist the sew along. I love sew along for the community and seeing other people’s version of the same quilt. I love that we can share thoughts about the quilt as we go along working on it together.
Besides, I love a sampler quilt. Can’t you tell yet?
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If you want to join in, you can find the info and suggested fabrics HERE>
For the fabric requirement & coloring page : click HERE>
The quilt along begins 25th September 2020 and ends 25th June 2021! I love a good quilt along.
I have posted the previous progress HERE>
I am falling in love more and more with this quilt as it progresses.
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It can be quite a hustle to send out a quilt top for quilting every time you make one. Even the baby quilt.
One downside is that you don’t have the freedom to control the timing of the finished quilt.
And secondly, the cost.
Couldn’t you just finish quilting it on your own machine? That is probably the thing that runs in your mind.
Believe me, I know just how you feel!
I started quilting when I was a student in Australia and I was on student allowances. I fell in love with quilting and started making a patchwork quilt top the day I bought my sewing machine.
The fabrics together with the battings and all the other notions I needed to make a quilt was already taking quite a big chunk of my budget.
But I really wanted to start this quilting hobby, so I went ahead regardless.
However, the thing that made me cringe the most is that I found out that the cost of quilting the final quilt top is almost as much as the fabrics have costed me.
Which means, if I finished a quilt top, I’d have to find more money to get it done.
That was when I decided to learn how to finish a quilt on my own. Using my own sewing machine.
Not just a simple regular straight line quilting, but any design I want it to be.
So that was the very beginning of my free motion quilting adventure. And I have never turned back.
And I’m glad today I never have to think about the cost of sending out a quilt to get it quilted. Cause I can easily have it done at home, on my regular sewing machine. (of course, I upgraded my machine which is still a regular domestic machine after I found out I’ll be doing more quilting)
Now, now, you must be wondering, why am I telling you all this?
Well, if you have been wanting to finish your own quilt and learn how to free motion quilt – I want to let you know that I have all the resources for you. Free on the blog, free email courses, and even a paid step-by-step course: The Free Motion Quilting Bootcamp. Just simply pick how you want to start and just get to it.
This July, to spark off the motivation to get you started or restarting your journey to conquer free motion quilting, I am hosting a SUMMER FREE MOTION QUILTING CHALLENGE beginning 13th July to 27th July.
Free Motion Quilting BOOTCAMP will be sponsoring the challenge with some prizes – 2 Gift Cards from Fat Quarter Shop (Valued at $50 and $25) and Amazon Gift Card worth $25. If there are many more joining in, I’ll be sure to throw in some fabric packs from my stash too!. These prizes are just for fun. The more you share whatever progress you have during this Summer Free Motion Quilting Challenge, the higher the chances for you to win these prizes!
Now, if you are in Free Motion Quilting Bootcamp, you’ll have another chance on the closed Facebook group there too. So, are you in??
Join me over on the Facebook group HERE> and share any free motion quilting practice (videos or photos) that you are working on over the challenge period of time (13th July – 27th July)
If you don’t have a Facebook account, not to worry, you can also email me and I’ll be sure to post them up to share with the others in the group and over here on the blog. Each of the entries qualifies you for a chance to win the prizes!!!!!
If you don’t know what to practice on at all… check out the guides in these courses:
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Welcome to my sewing & quilting room!!!!
I am really happy with the current setup so and recently when I was cleaning the area, I thought I would just record a video and bring you along for a quick tour around my quilting room.
I haven’t been active here on the blog or on my other platform due to my low energy (I am pregnant with my 3rd Baby) and other focuses that seem to be taking over these days.
Things are a little better with my health, but my quilting mojo is still yet to be recovered. I am in nesting mode and have been spending my spare time decluttering everywhere around my home. Well, that is where I have been spending my time these last few days.
In this post, I am sharing with you a quick finish of my son’s truck quilt. He is already four years old and I haven’t made him any quilt before. So, I think it is about time (LOL, it could have been earlier)
I bought the set of fat quarters set of the retro Tonka Truck from HERE.
I love the primary colors and my son seems to like the trucks too. He is in that phase of loving trucks.
A simple pattern was perfect for this quilt as I wanted to keep the fabric shine and be the star rather than the pattern.
Thankfully, this free quilt pattern came to the rescue.
The initial fabric cutting was of large pieces making it so much faster to get prepped.
The quilt top was made by piecing large pieces together and cutting them, which lessens the time and hassle.
Overall the quilt was a fun way to give me that little boost and sense of satisfaction. I am going to be basting the quilt soon together with my other quilt top.
Then comes the fun part – free motion quilting them! For now, I think that one of the simple free motion quilting design would be perfect for this quilt.
Well, till then – I’ll update here again.
Welcome to the 23rd week post of the 52 weeks of hot pads / quilted pot holders. This week we’re making sailboat quilt block.
Here is the list of past week’s posts in this 52 Weeks of Hot Pads Challenge:
I thought it would be a great challenge for me to do a pot holder a.k.a hot pads every single week of 2019. (but I am currently falling way behind, maybe I’ll catch up but if not, it will just be 52 weeks but not in a single year)
I am planning on having it displayed in my kitchen. They make great decor, don’t they?
While I am at it, I am going to be sharing with you a simple tutorial on the process.
This project will not only allow you to make use of your practice sandwich but also allows you to have the option of hiding those stitches, should you feel like they’re not that pretty yet. Everyone was there before they get better. It is a practice piece after all.
If you are interested to learn more about free motion quilting, make sure you check these related posts too:
Also check out to learn how to free motion quilt confidently
I remembered in the early times of my free motion quilting days, I used to get so frustrated with my stitches and was certainly not happy with how they turned out. But I also know that practice is necessary, so I keep making these ‘ugly’ practice sandwiches.
Practice will make it better.
That is what I keep chanting as I move along practice piece after practice piece.
I don’t feel like wasting those practice pieces, so I usually turn them into hotpads and placemats. And that makes me feel a lot better. At least even if the stitches were not as great at that time, I actually get to use the piece.
And in this post I am sharing an even better idea!
A pouch. One can never have enough pouches, And this one is a really useful roomy one, suitable for many of your necessities and perfect for gifting too!
You can also make one following the tutorial in the video below.
Start out by free motion quilting a fat quarter size quilt sandwich.
Divide them into two to make two pouches with 2 pieces of fat quarter fabrics.
The size of the rectangle to start with for each pouch is 16.5″ x 10″ and the boxy pouch will end up to be 3″x5″x9″.
Watch the tutorial below on how to make the boxy pouch.
If you haven’t checked out Free Motion Quilting Bootcamp, I would love to invite you to join in. I teach you how to master various designs and the exact steps on how you can free-motion quilt any design with your regular sewing machine.
We have gotten great reviews of the program and I am sure you will be on your way to great success with free motion quilting if you joined in too!