Ramona came over to my house the other day and taught me how to make this adorable backpack! It's just the right size for kids, not too big and not too small, with padded straps and a little zipper pouch attached. She is going to be teaching a class at the store on September 14th and 21st, from 6-9pm. Get in on it!
August 25, 2011
August 13, 2011
Hurry, Scurry!
Alissa is having her 2nd annual fundraiser for Action Kivu, a non-profit group that helps congolese women and children. There are awesome prizes to be had for donating, including a fat quarter pack of the entire line of Happy Mochi Yum Yum donated by Sew Modern. There are also hard to find Heather Ross fabrics, as-yet-unreleased Denyse Schmidt fabrics, a quilt by Anna Maria Horner and more. Please give to this incredibly worthy cause and get yourself entered to win!
August 07, 2011
Happy Mochi Dress for Mira
Every August 4th we celebrate the day Mira came into our family. We go to dinner at Gyu Kaku and sometimes she gets a present. Past presents have been little things I picked up in Korea when I got her. Now that she's 8, I'm out of those little gifties so I made her a dress and promised her her own sewing machine when I get a new one for the shop. She was very excited about the machine and I could hardly get her to stop moving for these pictures!
The fabric is Happy Mochi Yum Yum in India Blue with Fiji in blue for the tie. I used McCalls pattern 5419.
July 17, 2011
My First Finished Long Arm Quilt!
Well, all I've had time for up until now was playing around with Harley (our long arm at Sew Modern) what with running the store and the 4 kids and all. But finally...
...tada! A finished quilt!
It was really fun doing this wavy stitching...my hips even got into it! I will definitely be doing this stitch again.
I used a layer cake (10" squares) of Just WIng It by Momo for Moda, added some Kona Caribbean for a border, and 2 fabrics from Riley Blake's Daydream collection for the backing and binding. I used salmon colored Isacord thread for the quilting.
Oh and my friend Alison won the Project Modern challenge with her awesome quilt using a similiar style of stitching which she did on Harley at Sew Modern!
Yay, Alison!
July 05, 2011
Pillow For A Friend
He's a guy. He has a new apartment. I made him a pillow.
He's also a musician. I put notes on the back.
P.S. He loves it.
June 30, 2011
Cape Ann Baby Quilt
My parents were in town and my mom wanted to choose some fabric and have "us" make a baby quilt (my mom doesn't sew). I showed her the Cape Ann fabrics by Liesl Gibson I had gotten at sample spree at Spring Quilt Market. She loved them and we got to work! She picked out a backround fabric (Kona cotton,Loden?), some binding fabric (from 1001 Peeps), and a backing fabric (from Summersault).
I threaded 2 machines and got my mom and my stepdad to piece the strips!
All done!
June 18, 2011
Piecing like the Seminoles
My friend Tanya is teaching a techniques class at Sew Modern and this is what we learned last week.
Apparently there are many ways to do Seminole piecing! It's really quite fun and you can mix it up any way you like.
I think this way would make an awesome guitar strap.
June 15, 2011
Little A-line
I made this with Dew Drips from Tula's new Frog Prince line, and some ruffle elastic trim by Riley Blake.
May 22, 2011
May 20, 2011
Scenes From Quilt Market, Part 3
If you can't see the photos today, go to sewmodernonline.com! Sorry, Rachel!
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