Just a couple of quick updates. I have been quilting along and working on a variety of items. Above are a couple of quilt tops that are pressed and waiting to be longarm quilted. They’re quilted now and I just need to add the binding. Below is the neon quilt which is SO…
Last weekend I went to Fanime Con 2015 as April O’Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Check out the earlier post here for more fun pictures like those above with cosplayer David Volko as Shredder. In this post I’m going to talk about the construction of the costume since it was one of the more complicated —…
We will get back to the neon quilt — it’s almost done! But in the mean time, here’s another little item I made. This is the Coco dress from Tilly and the Buttons. I love this pattern. It’s super simple and just comes together nicely. The fabric I made it out of is a little…
A few weeks back, before making my macaron apron, I was trying out making some other aprons. I had this fun cleaning fabric and decided it would be perfect for making some tester aprons since I was designing my own. I was trying out two different styles to see which I liked better. Of course…
Now that the weather is getting nicer, I wanted some placemats for when we eat outside. I think I actually picked up these two fat quarters a while ago, but I liked the look of them because they reminded me of picnic table tablecloths. My intention even then though was to use them to practice…
Slight detour from our current quilting kick I’ve been on. As you may recall, March 17 is St. Patrick’s day. I bought this fun shamrock jersey last year and I was determined this year to have a top out of it to wear. So I pulled out the pattern for the Sewaholic Renfrew top that…
Before quilting up my neon quilt I decided to test out some different methods of quilting. One of the first methods I tried was free motion. I’ve done stippling before using the longarm quilter but not using my home machine. The sample above was done on my Husqvarna with the darning foot (because I don’t…
Last I posted, I showed some of my backing fabric. I couldn’t decide on which color to do for the backing so I just decided to do all of them. I put them in strips. Above is my quilt rolled and ready to be quilted on my home machine. I decided to try doing a…
I continued working on my neon quilt. Love that image above. I just love the way all these colors look together. I think all those strips sewn together would make a nice quilt just by themselves! Today I worked on the binding. I had bought some jelly rolls to make binding. I started by finding…
Remember how I needed more neon basics in order to do the edging on my neon quilt? Well, it was my lucky day and Craftsy was having a big ol’ sale and it turns out they just happened to have a ton of the neon basics on serious discount. Of course I could not resist. I…