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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A Really Good Weekend
Read moreI just had an amazing weekend and had to share it. First, I’ve started working on a super-complex quilt pattern. The final product is a secret because it is going to be a gift – but this is the list of pattern cuts for ¼ of the final product: I finished that quilt block yesterday and it is almost perfect! There were a few spots where it got a little wonky – but I can work with those parts. I…
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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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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…