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christmas in july
Before mailing off Christmas gifts last December, I snapped a few photos, which I'm finally getting around to posting, if you'd like to see...
For my twin nephews, I made two sets of bibs from this excellent pattern, using a crab print I picked up on a trip to Nashville last fall and prints from Denyse Schmidt's Chicopee line.
I also made some simple quilted placemats, using fabric from Cloud9 Fabrics' Monsterz collection and a kitchen print gifted from a friend.
I used my favorite tutorial and a Leah Duncan print from Grey's Fabric to make some pillowcases for my parents.
And finally, I made a pair of quilt-as-you-go potholders with rounded corners, using green scraps.
Have you started planning any handmade projects for next Christmas? Any favorite tutorials you'd recommend?
P.S. I'm posting more over on Instagram these days. Come follow along!
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For my twin nephews, I made two sets of bibs from this excellent pattern, using a crab print I picked up on a trip to Nashville last fall and prints from Denyse Schmidt's Chicopee line.
I also made some simple quilted placemats, using fabric from Cloud9 Fabrics' Monsterz collection and a kitchen print gifted from a friend.
I used my favorite tutorial and a Leah Duncan print from Grey's Fabric to make some pillowcases for my parents.
And finally, I made a pair of quilt-as-you-go potholders with rounded corners, using green scraps.
Have you started planning any handmade projects for next Christmas? Any favorite tutorials you'd recommend?
P.S. I'm posting more over on Instagram these days. Come follow along!
rounded corners + a giveaway!
This weekend I fell in love with rounded corners and bias binding. I typically avoid bias binding in my quilts---straight-grain binding is so easy to cut and creates little waste---but while taking Tara Rebman's Quilt-As-You-Go Patchwork Bags class on Craftsy, I was inspired to branch out.
The kind folks over at Craftsy (an online video classroom specializing in a variety of crafts including quil...
hexagon potholder
So my dear blogging friend Adaiha and I recently decided it was time for another swap. (We've done a few successful crafty swaps in the past.) This time, we decided to swap potholders. I figured this would be the perfect opportunity for me to use up some of my scraps (I love scrap-busting projects!) and practice the English paper-piecing skills I picked up in a hand-quilting class I took at Spool in Philadelphia a few months ago. So using little one-inch hexagons, I made Adaiha a blue and green potholder, lined with thermal fleece.
I then used this tutorial to assemble the back of the potholder. Everything was completely hand sewn---a first for me in a very long time!---and I was really pleased with the results.
embroidery project: potholder
Last summer, I made my grandmother an embroidered potholder for her July birthday using this tutorial by Maggie Makes. (These pictures were taken last summer in Vermont, hence the bright sunshine and green grass in the background. Sadly, Maryland looks nothing like this right now.)
The potholder is lined with ThinsulBrite and embroidered with variegated floss I found at a thrift store in Austin...
