Wow, I did not mean to go a whole month without posting. It’s not that I haven’t done anything. On the contrary, it’s that I’ve done so much! So much to tell you. So I’ve got several posts coming up. But for now I leave you with this picture of a root beer macaron that…
DetailsWe 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…
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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…
DetailsNow 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…
DetailsSlight 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…
DetailsBefore 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…
DetailsLast 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…
DetailsAlthough it may seem that I did, I didn’t miss Macaron Day — or Jour Du Macaron as the French call it — on March 20. I made vanilla (see above) and raspberry macarons, trying out some new flavor options with the filling. My husband was sorely disappointed that there was nothing chocolate, but the…
DetailsAs previously mentioned, I’m obsessed with macarons. Here’s the latest batch: chocolate peanut butter, raspberry chocolate, chocolate with chocolate caramel and plain with chocolate caramel. This was my first time making chocolate meringue (with cocoa powder in the meringue) and I may have to tweak some of the cooking times or temperatures as they came…
DetailsI 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…
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