Just Let Me Quilt: Valentine

was a perfect project for me. Using Therm O Web's Fabric Fuse and a store-bought pillow to put it
together made it so quick. Fabric Fuse really, really sticks and holds the fabric in place!

Check out the ThermOWeb blog to see how I used Fabric Fuse products
to make the pillow and this rosette flower.

I wish I'd had PeelnStick Fabric Fuse when my son was a Boy Scout. Sewing those patches on his

scout shirt was a dreaded project for me. I was proud of his achievements, but with four kids and

little time for hand sewing, adding them to his shirt was a project that I tended to put off until he

HAD to have them on his shirt. Fabric Fuse is made for this...it really holds those patches in place!

Thursday, February 4, 2016

I'm Nuts About The Dreaded Dresden

Marian at Seams To Be Sew created a blog hop called Nuts About ?

We had to replace the "?" with something we were nuts about and show it on our big day.

Since I'm nuts about a lot of things it was tough, but I narrowed it down to

THE DREADED DRESDEN!

The first time I made a Dresden was for a blog hop. I totally freaked out about making it.

Then I realized how easy they are to make and I fell in love with them!

Using Missouri Star Quilt Company's Sunburst Dresden idea, I made this quilt.

The Dresden Love Quilt

The fabrics are First Crush by Sweetwater for Moda.

It measures 39" x 39" and is perfect for a lap quilt, table top, or as a wall hanging.

Or, it could cover a big rock if you wanted it to!

The other thing I'm nuts about is creating a center block (which is the Dresden in this case) and

then adding different sized borders until it's a size I like. No pattern, just sew those borders on!

I used Spray N Bond Basting Adhesive to place the Dresden on the fabric so I could stitch it in place.

The spray also sandwiched my quilt to prepare it for some quilting. So easy and no pins!

I used my favorite iron-on adhesive, Heat N Bond Lite, to make those hearts stick to the
center so I could sew them down with a blanket stitch.

Oh, and did I mention I'm nuts about giveaways? Well, I am!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

There's two more sweet giveaways at AnyPattern.com...I love these flowers!

Click HERE to go to AnyPattern.com for their giveaway.

There's more of us "nuts" out there during this hop...check them out!

A big nutty THANKS to Marian for organizing this hop and getting some incredible sponsors!

February 4, 2016

Words & Stitches
Moose Stash
Vroomans Quilts
Quilt In Piece

February 5, 2016 - Today!

Just Let Me Quilt
DesertSky
Lulu & Celeste
Marjorie's Busy Corner
Tea Time Creations

February 8, 2016

Batts In The Attic
Life In The Scrapatch
Quilting Affection
Ravelly's
In The Boon Docks

February 9, 2016

Quilting Queen Online
Elizabeth Coughlin
Bumbleberry Cottage
All Things Sewn

February 10, 2016

MeadowBrook
Sew Many Yarns
From This To That
Seams To Be Sew

Friday, January 15, 2016

Some Valentine Quilt Sewing Happening Here

With the Nuts About ? Blog Hop coming soon, I've been busy creating ideas in my head

and finally sewing something together. I can tell you it will be a Valentine quilt, but I can't tell

you what I'm nuts about or show you what I'm sewing for the hop. Not until February 5th anyway.

Besides, I'm nuts about too many things to list them all here!

I can show you a little snippet, though.

I'm using First Crush by Sweetwater for Moda fabrics. Such fun fabrics!

I bought them at Quilted Works...one of my favorite local stores.

Appliqueing those hearts with Therm-O-Web's Heat N Bond Lite adhesive

was just the best ever. I love how the back peels off so easy!

I've also started gathering fabrics for In My Garden Blog Hop. I'll be using fabrics

from the Riley Blake basics. I'm going with some funky colors for this project. Fun!

As for the weather...

We had about 10 flakes of snow here (okay, maybe a few more) but nothing stuck to the ground.

Guess I won't be building a snowman today so I'll go sew. Sounds good to me!

Monday, August 18, 2014

Just A Little Late With The Valentine Quilt

Okay, so I'm A LOT late for Valentine's Day...like over two years late!

I started this ruffly Valentine's quilt in 2012.

A friend quilted it with lovely hearts. I loved it!

All it needed was binding, but for unknown reasons it disappeared into a box for over two years.

(There's several more in that box that ONLY need binding...I'm slowly making my way through them.)

The problem with waiting that long is that the matching fabric to make the binding had disappeared.

Luckily, I was able to use some Riley Blake black polka dot for the binding. Whew!

Let the binding begin...OR NOT.

I had to stop in the middle of sewing the binding on because we got hit with a huge thunderstorm.

It just poured buckets of rain and the thunder went on forever!

A little flash flooding went on, too, thanks to almost an inch of rain in a really short time.

A couple hours later the binding was on and I was off to take pics with the hubby.

Luckily, there was very little rain and the lightening was off in the distance.

The back was fun to make, too.

I love this fabric!

I'm all done with my See You In September projects (my day is September 9th)

and I can't wait to see what everyone else has been busy creating all summer.

Then there's the Rush Hour Blog Hop...I'm so excited to host this one!

Then...oh boy...Black Cat Crossing!