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Another, Messenger Bag

Posted in Bags, quilt squares, tagged , , on July 18, 2012 | 6 Comments »

You can’t help but love them; messenger bags that is. And how about adding some linen iheart cute bots in pink to sweeten the pot? Yes, please! Not to mention the bag is in dark jean, oh my! Personally, I just love putting together things I can’t stop looking at. And just once in a while, I get to sneak all my sewing goodness to my office. And sew ALL DAY LONG! Today was one of those days, until I forgot to pack my cutting mat and seam ripper. My heart dropped when I discovered my mind had failed me, once again. Oh well. I work with quartz counter tops, so I thought I’d just cut right on it. Not only did that not work, I’m pretty sure my brand new blade is now dull. I guess I shouldn’t mess with 93% quartz, ever. Counter top, fine. Rotary cutter, not so much! I did manage to cut with some scissors and a basting pin to rip my accidents. That gave me about 2 hours of sewing time before I was completely over it. I’m spoiled, what can I say.

Here’s what I managed to do:

Exterior Bag {View of the Back}

Ruffle {Front Flap}

Last week, I also stitched 4 new granny squares. In gray, LOVE!

Also met Malia’s children and gifted the butterfly wall hanging and drawstring bags to her kids. My hubby also made Lanea a hand crafted necklace out of purple heart wood. I didn’t even know he could do such a thing. I hear everything is loved. Happy, us!

Lanea {With Necklace & Drawstring Bag}

And, Malia was able to find some time to sew with me, hooray. She made her first ruffled napkin. Happy, Malia!

It was a full week of sewing. Happy, me!

♥ Robin

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Lanea’s Corner. Finished.

Posted in Bags, quilt squares, Random Projects, Scrap Projects, tagged , , on July 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I’ve been sewing a bunch, it feels. And I can tell by the look on my husbands face, I’m right. Thank goodness this weekend is all about getting out of the house. A mini vacation for our family is what’s in store and we’re going to a resort. Oh baby! I’m so ready…

Last week, I finished Lanea’s wall hanging {original post, here}. She has a younger sister and two younger brothers and I couldn’t leave them out of the gift giving. I hope they can find some use out of a fun drawstring bag. They each picked their own fabric for a more personalized touch. And let’s see, yes, I’m still looking at my unfinished granny squares quilt. I must, I tell you, finish those darn squares! I think I only have 8 more to go. Must finish {banging my head against the wall}.

Lanea’s Corner {Wall Hanging}

Personalized, Drawstring Bags

My official work in progress, Granny Squares

I think I’ll do a tutorial for the drawstring bags, they were really cute.

♥ Robin

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Scrappy Granny Squares

Posted in quilt squares, Quilting, Scrap Projects, Tutorials, tagged , , on April 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I’ve jumped on the bandwagon with this quilt, thanks to a tutorial by blue elephant stitches.  It’s granny squares and I”m going scrappy!  I intended to have this particular quilt {in another design} entered into Rachel of Stitched in Color’s Scrap Attack and admittingly, I didn’t finish in time.  Honestly, I didn’t even start it prior to the due date.  Originally, I wanted to do a mod mosaic design, but it wasn’t settling with me.  At first, I kept telling myself, get going!  Sew darn it!  But, I didn’t.  That was a clear sign that the design didn’t motivate me.  I resolved to gazing at all the fun and amazing quilts being uploaded on her flickr group.  Once the celebration started and official quilts were being showcased, the granny squares were calling my name.  Now I can celebrate my procrastination, because really…this quilt is so ME!  It reminds me of my grandma, allows me to use a modern element with all the white negative space, and showcases my super sumptuous fabrics.  You could opt to simplify the color scheme, but I wanted color.  Lots of it.  At this point, my imagination tells me that if a box full of color crayons got the flu and puked, this would be the result.  However, I do have a plan.  The colors are pulled from my favorite piece of artwork that is hanging in our living room.  This quilt will share the same room and hopefully fill the space with some modern and colorful country.  And the squares are really fun to make!  But I’m, quite possibly, the most excited about my quilting plans.  I’ve decided to follow direction from Elizabeth of Oh, Frannson’s Orange Peel Quilting.  ACK!  I can barely handle it.  It’s going to be FABULOUS!  Here’s the progress, minus a few squares I’ve made since.

Scrappy Squares

Initial Progress

Scrappy Granny Squares

Oh and if you’re curious, here’s my color inspiration…

{please excuse the terrible photo}

So there you have it, my Scrappy Granny Squares Quilt in progress.  I’ll be stitching up a few more squares tonight.  This top will be finished very very soon and end up at about a full/queen size.  Plenty of room for some TV snuggling!

♥ Robin

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