Life Is Sew Sweet ...

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Fall Y'all!!!

Fall Y'all!!!!

It's warm during the day but the mornings are BRISK!

Not quite "sweater weather" during the day but it is chilly in the mornings!

I've already had to break out my heater at work.

I love Fall ...

I love this time of year!!

Monday, October 10, 2022

Good Friends, Good Food, Good Times

Weekends are for joy! The older I get the more I realize that this life is about joy and that there are so many things in and of this world that steal our joy when we let it.

One of the things that I enjoy most is eating out and enjoying good food with my family and friends. I have Mother/Daughter Sushi Date night and ...

Yesterday I had Brunch with a dear friend.

We went to The Melting Pot

A fondue venue.

The starter is a cheese fondue with bread, vegetables, and green apples.

Following was a beautiful salad.

We chose the cast iron grill top for preparing our main course of Surf n Turf

Shrimp, salmon, steak, and chicken.

5 sauces ...

Then the chocolate fondue

Yin & Yang

White chocolate, dark chocolate, with a variety of dippers.

Pound cake, rice crispy treats, bananas, strawberries, and marshmallows.

I also enjoyed a refreshing Mai Tai

It was a wonderful brunch.

The Melting Pot is an eating experience plan on at least 3 hours from start to finish.

Sunday, October 9, 2022

Inspiration for Red/White Quilts

Lately red / white quilts has been rolling around in my head. I'm considering making 2023 the year of Red/White Quilts.

I found this beautiful quilt on Instagram ... and I immediately thought, this quilt would be stunning in all red and white fabrics.

I have a love-hate relationship with instagram ... I love the inspiration that can be found there but I HATE how much time that I spend there.

Instagram is a horrible "time suck" for me ... it is my goal to spend more time sewing than strolling on Instagram ... or social media in general.

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I'm headed out to Brunch this morning with a dear friend.

We are going to a place called the Melting Pot.

Fondue ... I'm so excited!

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Binding - Stars & Stripes Quilt

Last weekend I made this binding. I sorted through my red fabrics for this cute little floral and knew it would be the perfect binding for my Stars & Stripes quilt.

I don't always make my own binding but some quilts just need handmade binding and this quilt is one of those. I love this pretty little floral ole' glory quilt.

Weekends in my sewing room! There is nothing better than that!

Safe at home in my sewing room making things!

Awww, life is sew sweet!

Friday, October 7, 2022

I'm always on the lookout for clearance fabric sales mostly for yardage for backings for my completed quilt tops. It is rare that I spend more than $5.00 a yard for backing fabric yardage. I'm not saying that I haven't spent more but as a rule of thumb I try to keep cost down when choosing yardage for backing fabrics.

The search for backing fabrics is made a bit more difficult by the added rule of keeping cost down and my need to stick with the theme of the quilt top, but I love the challenge!

This backing fabric is, by Rifle Paper Co. for Cotton + Steel, Alice in Wonderland in Navy. $11.74 a yard.

HEARTS

This quilt, HEARTS, is a special quilt so it was worth it to me to purchase a more expensive fabric for the backing. I have loved this fabric collection from the moment that I saw it. When I choosing the backing fabric for this quilt I knew it would be from this collection. This quilt was pieced during the COVID 19 Pandemic. I began this quilt projects just days before the world wide Pandemic shut down our world.

Thursday, October 6, 2022

Backings - Sewing My Stash Scrap Quilt #18 - Batiks

Backings

Sewing My Stash Scrap Quilt #18 - Batiks

The search for backing fabrics is made a bit more difficult by the added rule of keeping cost down and my need to stick with the theme of the quilt top, but I love the challenge!

This backing fabric is, by Lisa Whitebutton for 3 Wishes Fabrics, this printed cotton fabric is from the Painted Soul collection. $6.78 a yard

Sewing My Stash Scrap Quilt #18 - Batiks

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Tag Team Effort

My daughter helped me finish washing and drying all of my new finished quilts.

My daughter had remote training with her job last week and was able to finish washing and drying all of my recently finished quilts.

A very satisfying sack of crinkly clean quilts.

#quiltsinthewild

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Games

I grew up in a family who loves playing games. Over the weekend my daughter hosted a Margaritas and Mahjongg Game Night ...

I had a wonderful time and look forward to more such evenings in the future!!

#gamenight

Monday, October 3, 2022

Books and Patterns

Lately I have found inspiration in this book by Jessica Dayon

Jessica is on Instagram @jessicadayon

There are several quilt patterns in this book that I would like to make. Jessica is making reels tutorials on her instagram site.

I love this new pattern by Kristin Rauch of WoollyPetals she is on Instagram @woollypetals Kristin's PDF pattern Ghost Party! went on sale yesterday and I purchased mine ASAP!

This pattern is so cute.

#instagraminspiration

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Sewing Saturdays and Quilting Mistakes

Yes, I still make plenty of mistakes in my quilty life as well as in life in general. Mistakes are necessary ... so that we can grow and learn.

I have really been enjoying working on this quilt kit that I purchased from Amanda of Westwood Acres Fabric.

I love this look of this pattern and the use of low volume fabrics.

I got ahead of myself and pieced two blocks before I read the whole pattern and watched the quilt a long on Amanda's You Tube channel.

https://youtu.be/r5ADkDCLLsM

Thus my mistake ... so seam ripping was involved ...

Mistake aside ... I managed to get all of the units for the blocks made and up on my design wall. I still have a bit of tweaking to do but otherwise I'm well on my way to finishing this quilt project. I have a funny ... I showed my daughter this final progress photo and she looked at me with shock on her face and said, "It's blue! She was shocked that it wasn't a red/white quilt! hahahahaha!!!

#denim&lace

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Sewing Room Mugs

I'm a real creature of habit ... once I find something I love it, I use it daily ...

For years (many years) now this little Tinkerbell coffee mug has been my favorite.

My sister got me a new Tinkerbell coffee mug recently and this morning ...

there's a new mug in the sewing room.

#wearefamily