I love this bag. Yeah, Marie Kondo, it brings me joy. When I first saw the Small Things Magical & Mystical collection from Lewis and Irene I knew I had to own at least some of it. I found a fat quarter collection at Fat Quarter Shop so I got a little bit of all the fabrics. Win! For my first project using the collection, I wanted to make a bag. I desperately needed a new bag. While the…
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Baby Harry Potter
Read moreThere is a lot of Harry Potter fabric out there. (And I have serious plans for a lot of it.) But most of it isn’t exactly baby friendly. Enter Spoonflower. If you’ve never shopped at Spoonflower, you should. Independent designers upload their designs and you can shop them and then print onto a wide variety of fabrics: quilting cotton, jersey, linen canvas, and more. Or, if you are an artist, you can create and upload your own design onto fabric.…
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Drowning in Mistakes
Read moreSometimes you can plan and plan for months and everything still doesn’t work out. But when that happens, you need to have a support group, a glass of wine, and a seam ripper to correct your mistakes and move forward. I have these really good friends. Fun facts: they’re expecting their second baby, we spend a week at the beach together every year, and the male half of the couple is terrified of crabs and jellyfish. So, naturally, I started…
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The Not Quite a Tar Heel Quilt
Read moreOne of my favorite parts about quilting is being able to give gifts to people that are as unique as they are. I stealthily asked my friend what her nursery theme was. (Hint: ask months before the birth and in passing – new moms love to talk about this stuff and usually forget conversations 5 minutes later. Pregnancy brain is real.) She was having a baby boy and is a huge Tar Heels fan – but she didn’t want to…
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Murder Mystery Quilt Fabric
Read moreI chose my fabric for the Murder Mystery Quilt! I’m really excited about it – now I get to do my first block and read the first chapter! Also, for anyone who needs metric-driven success: I didn’t have anywhere to put the fabric so I decided to make a One-Hour basket. In the past these have taken me a half a day – but this one took one hour! Shopping for this fabric also was a personal journey. One reason…
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The Avengers Quilt: Traditional Quilting with Fandom Fabric
Read moreOne of my favorite things to do is to look at a quilt pattern made with floral fabric and imagine it in a different way. I loved my grandmother. But I don’t love floral designs the way that she did. There are so many fabrics out there that are designed for whatever fandom you belong to: Marvel, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Disney, and so many more. But there still seems to be a divide between most quilting patterns (still so…