getting back my sewjo

Well, I lost my sewjo for a little while but it's coming back strong!

Today I will be quilting a top that I finished awhile back. Then I will be working on more quilts that are in that magical land of WIP's. 

But, as promised, here are some pictures of my Swoon mini quilt I finished a couple weeks back. 

Here is a close up of the fabric I used. It is from the line "Do It Yourself" from Dear Stella. 

(That blue mark on the white is from the marking tool I used, I hadn't gotten it all off yet.)

Here is the finished block. I quilted it with diagonal lines, it took a while to do but it turned out so well. It is now hanging in my hall, I see it when I walk through the door and I can see it from the couch, it is just such a happy block, it puts a smile on my face. 

Until next time, 

--Rachel

Finished Quilts

I thought the weather in Kansas was crazy, but the weather in Tennessee is just as strange to me. Maybe it's just this time of year but it goes from sunny to cloudy in 10 minutes. 

I have finally finished binding my last quilt and the other night it was sunny long enough for me to snap a few pictures inside right before dinner was ready. 

Enough talking though, it's time for some eye candy!

All four finishes! 

This quilt is finally finished! I quilted this quilt with natural straight lines right before I moved. It is made with the Moda Bake Shop tutorial called "Jungle Path" and the fabric is Oink-A-Doodle-Moo by Jenn Ski for Moda Fabrics. I love how it turned out.

This quilt is a simple checkerboard layout using the fabric line A is For.. by Myiesha & Katie for Windham Fabrics. This is one of the quilts I sent to Sarah at Crinklelove to quilt for me. 

I just love this fabric on the back. 

This is the other quilt I sent to Sarah for quilting. She did such an amazing job! This one was wayyy too big for me to quilt myself, it is large enough to fit a Double bed! I love the way it turned out. I especially love the way the binding looks with the grey backing fabric. 

This quilt is made from the line Spring House by Stephanie Ryan for Moda Fabrics.

This last quilt was made using the fabric line Zoofari by Doodlebug Designs for Riley Blake. I have had this fabric for over a year and a half so I'm glad this quilt is also finally finished. I quilted this quilt with an overall grid patter with the lines spaced about an inch apart. 

I'll be back later this week with more about my Swoon wall hanging I made and hopefully next week I will have eve more finishes to show you!

--Rachel

Swooning Along

Well, I know I say this often, but this past week really has been a whirlwind. Last Sunday I moved from my home that I have lived in since first grade to an apartment 9 hours away. Lets just say there were a few tears on the drive to Tennessee. 

Since I have gotten all moved in I have finished a few projects. I put the binding on 4 quilts and have finished sewing down 3 of them. I will share those with you soon. 

After I finished those I thought I would treat myself with some sewing just for me. I have wanted to make a Swoon quilt since I started quilting. Someday I will make a full size quilt but I decided to make just one block to hang on my wall for right now. I finished piecing it this afternoon and I'm in love with it! 

Sorry they are just Instagram pictures, I will get a better picture of it next week when its finished!

Until next time, 

--Rachel

Another One Bites the Dust!

I have finished 2 quilts in the past week, I'm feeling pretty accomplished getting these WIP's done!

 The first one I finished is for my friend Megan. She contacted me a couple months ago asking if I could make a baby quilt for her friend who is having a baby soon. I just used scraps from my stash but I think it turned out pretty cute. 

I took it outside to take pictures, it was the perfect day to do so, so bright and sunny, the first day like this in a long time!

The other quilt I finished has been in the works since I started quilting. the top has been hanging around for almost 2 years! It feels so good to finish it. All I had to do this past week was put binding on. I did it by machine and it worked out great. 

This quilt is now listed in my Etsy shop. 

This past week I also finished quilting a quilt, it just needs binding, I have started making the binding for one of the tops I sent out to be quilted and I basted another today. The end of the school year has given me so much time to sew, its great! I feel like a lean, mean, quilting machine. 

Until next time,

--Rachel

Making Progress

*Notice* This blog post is completely random and tells what I have been up to the past month.

I have done so much since last time I posted. I got back home from spring break and spent lots of quality time with my sewing machine. 

Today I finished getting 2 quits ready to go to the quilter. This is the first time I will be shipping a quilt to get quilted, I kind of cant wait to get them back. One of them is HUGE so there is no way I could quilt it on my own. 

I also made this mini quilt to practice on. It took me a mental break down, cutting off the first binding and doing it all over again to finally get the hang of machine binding. 

The fabric is Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille. 

Now that I have finally gotten the hang of machine binding I finished another quilt today and started quilting on another. 

I also made a pretty big order form Fat Quarter Shop a couple weeks back. Most of the fabric I bought was yardage for backing and binding to finish quilts that have been hanging around for awhile. 

I can't wait to dig into more of this and keep checking those UFO's off the list. 

(This photo does not include the 8 yards of white I got!)

Until Next Time, which I hope will be sooner rather than later, 

--Rachel

Oups, I did it again!

So this really has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that I went back to JoAnn's today and bought 21 more fat quarters. That makes 30 total. Oups..they just jumped in my hands.

Now I cant wait to get home so I can really dig into them. 

--Rachel

Spring Break

Well this is spring break for me, but sadly there has been no sewing for me. Which is so sad because all I want to do is pet my fabric and then cut it up and sew it back together again. Of course some got delivered to the house but I am 9 hours away in Tennessee. 

The good thing about this week is that I get to spend it with my little brother and especially my fiance. He lives here for work and I will be moving after school in May.

While he has been at work part of this week I have been watching Playful Piecing Techniques, a Craftsy class taught by Camille Roskelley. She and her mom Bonnie are my favorite fabric designers, everything they do is amazing to me. I want to make all the quilts from that class. I also got her newest book from JoAnn's this week and want to make many of the projects. 

I especially want to make the quilts Swell, Vintage, Playground, Adorn, and Fresh. They all look like classic, retro and modern. 

While I was at JoAnn's I also stumbled across this magazine. I have seen it on Instagram a lot and I fell in love with it. It is so modern and the colors and springy feel from this issue inspire me to make so many more quilts, again, add to the growing list of quilts to make. 

And BONUS, it came with these adorable pins!

And while I was there I had to pick up some fat quarters to add to my stash. I am really trying to build a stash of fabrics that I can pull from if I want to try out a new block or if I want to whip something up quickly. I love them all. 

It looks like I got a lot of pink, which is rare for me but with all these springy quilts popping up I realized that I need to have some pink in my stash. 

Thanks for stopping by, hopefully next week I will have some quilts to show!

--Rachel