Uppity-Mama

A Few Things I'd Like For Christmas...

Yes, yes, world peace always comes first...but after that...I'd like

one of these from Cotton Monster...

 
and one of these from Amazon or wherever...

and also one of these...

 

with some of this to make it with.

Doesn't that seem incredibly reasonable of me?

Handmade Holiday Banner

Most fabric from the Riley Blake Be Merry collection .  Coordinating quilt to follow!

Merry Christmas To Me...FABRIC!!!

Yes, I bought it for myself, but I feel the same excitement opening up a box of ordered fabric as I do on Christmas morning. 

The anticipation of finally seeing the colors in person, feeling the weight of it in my hand, the way it just sits there...plump with possibilites. 

Just as good as a wrapped gift with something completely surprising inside. Sometimes...better.

Look at these four beauties, a splurge from Spoonflower.  Just a little bit of each.

The paper boats absolutely kill me. And birds on the birch trees are from the same fabulous designer, Isabelle.  Check out all her designs.  I love them all.

The yellow flower fabric is by Caitlin Youngquist.  Again...no brainer...had to have it.

The groovy waves are by Kari Kail.

Now these are from another package from Pink Chalk Fabrics. I don't know if you can tell from my photo but those are hands on a baseball bat and red balls.  The bicycles are even more unbearably cute in person.

And these were on sale:

I'm even excited by these Kaufman Kona solids in Snow, Eggplant, and Coal.  What a geek I've become.  Are you with me?

LAMQG Meeting and Potholder Swap!

I am so excited.  I finally got to go to a meeting of the Los Angeles Modern Quilt Guild held at Home Ec in Silverlake.  What a great group of women and how amazing to meet others who are all equally fabric, quilting, sewing crazy.  We did a show and tell of quilts we'd made and then we had a potholder swap.  Here is the one I made:

And here is the adorable one I got!  Jolene made it and it includes some of my favorite fabrics! 

 

I absolutely cannot wait until the next meeting!

Gray Can Be Happy

I am starting to love gray.  Not gray skies, really, but gray stuff.  Especially mixed with yellow like in this fabric I just ordered from Scarlet Fig:

Or with snowmen like these jammies I made for Beckett:  (fabric available here)

and how it looks in this beautiful quilt in Parallax Quilts shop on Etsy:

 

What's gray and happy in your world?

Sample Scarf

I am teaching a holiday gift sewing class for kids on Thursday afternoons until Christmas.  This is our first project.  It' is essentially the Scrap Wrap scarf from Denyse Schmidt Quilts.

Here is my sample:

 

 And here are 3 of the kids' scarves.  Pretty cool, huh?   I precut all the strips for them, mainly from Moda Arcadia with some Amy Butler and Riley Blake thrown in for good measure.  There was a definite curvy thing happening as they sewed the strips together but I kind of like it.

A Bit Late...

I forgot to show you our Halloweenishness. We were all pirates, except for Zander.  Mira and Violet made some candy bags to go with their pirate outfits.  We didn't make anything else.  We bought.  Violet decided to be a Zombie Pirate and put white face all over herself, as you can see.  I like the red ric rac she chose to use as a handle on her bag.

You can kind of see Mira's bag below.  We were pretty stoked to find the pink pirate skull fabric at F&S.

And Zander?  Well, he won best costume in the middle school contest and again that night at a party.

And here s/he is!

"About A Boy" Quilt

Hope Squared is a project created by the amazing women of Margaret's Hope Chest.  These women have turned tragedy into triumph.  Please read their story.  It will amaze and inspire.  Hope Squared is collecting handmade quilts for the homeless children of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  This one is for them. 

I love these fabrics from Riley Blake.  There are so few "boy" fabrics out there that aren't babyish.  

How lucky am I to have this star stitch on my awesome Designer SE?

 

Tula Pink Stacked Coin Quilt

I completely ripped off my friend, Lisa, on this one.  I took her free motion quilting class at Tanner's and I saw she had made a quilt like this.  Well, who can resist these fabrics from the Tula Pink Hushabye collection, I ask you?    AND it was my first time stippling!  I gathered my courage and wine (Lisa told me to)... and, well, not so bad!  Thanks, Lisa!

 

The sashing and backing fabric is Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton in Pale Flesh.  I got one of those fabulous color cards from Pink Chalk fabric to help me order solids in the proper colors.  I highly recommend it.  

A Pillow to Go With It

After Violet made her patchwork pillow, Mira naturally wanted to make one too.  She used some of the leftover fabric from her quilt, and this time she drew AND embroidered the design.  I was so proud of her that I bought her this book, hoping for more.  I'll keep you posted on that front.