Populating Suburbia

Does anybody remember my Log Cabin Suburbia quilt along way back last summer?

Well that's what I pulled out of my unfinished because it's so scary pile :)

I've been wanting to finish this for awhile but I wanted to do something fun with the quilting,

so, I decided to do it.

I knew I could and I'm not finished yet, but,

I am in the process of populating suburbia!

Hehe! It makes me giggle a little to think about it like that :D

I've got 5 kids I've populated quite enough thank you!

For my quilt I wanted it to look a little like a town so I'm quilting sketchy little cars all around the sashings like they are driving around town!

Old trucks at the corner,

and a convertible speeding down the road, unfortunately that's not what I'm driving.

But that's ok because I have a house.

Yes my cute little sedan is pulling up in front of my adorable little house with the flower box windows.

Just a little starter house for me and my hubby, but it has a fireplace! Apparently.

And a circle window, that I think is way cool :D

I'm still working on finishing out all the streets. When I'm through the cars will probably be somewhat hidden and probably only the one quilted house some things are still to decided.

Hopefully I'll be showing you bigger pictures of my little town in a day or two!

I better watch out though, my daunting project is in danger of becoming seriously fun!

Winner!

Sorry that took so long. We were gone for New Years, then we've had many snow days with lots of kids at home! On top of that I was very sick last week.

But, I know who the winner of our lovely little fabric bundle is!

Want to know?

Let's have a big round of computer key clicking applause for,

Jenny of Cut. Sew. Iron Repeat...!

she said:Your cake is certainly the best holiday treat I have seen this year! well done. Thanks for the fantastic giveaway, Merry christmas and happy New Year!!

How nice is she! Thanks Jenny and enjoy your new fabric!

Actually you were all very kind and said wonderful things about my projects and the cake and me in general... I liked to come on here every day just to see what you guys had said!

Way to keep a girls spirits up!

In fact they are so far up that today I'm digging into my daunting projects pile to work on one of those unfinished projects I just haven't had the guts to finish regardless of the deadlines and challenges I give my self :) Hehe. I'll show you soon!

Day 12 Giveaway! What did you think you missed something?

Hello!

My 12 days hit a train wreck this week!

Here's pics of what I did Mon & Tues! (hint: for some reason it's not sewing... hmmm.)

Pretty huh!

Yup, we had a surprise wedding this weekend! That I was lucky enough to be able to help plan and execute!

I have to say I'm pretty proud of this cake! It can definitely be improved upon but I think it came out pretty well. It was my first time using gum paste to make flowers. It was so fun!

Well that's what was happening early this week, instead of sewing,

but I have to show you the ball pattern that I still want to make for my little boy.

Yeah, definitely still want to make it :)

And don't you love the fabric combo used on Tadaa Studio's grab ball?!

It's adorable! I may be digging out a little more midwest modern!

It was going to be day 10 but seeing how that didn't work out, do you think there's still time?

It's not Christmas day yet. :D And only a few parties between here and there.

This girl made her grab balls mini sized, and turned them into ornaments!

Next year when there isn't a wedding the week of christmas I'm definitely making those!

Anyway, Since you've made it this far in my wordy blog, I'll reward you!

(Do you feel like your reading one of those infomercial websites yet :) )

I said giveaway and I meant it!

How do 3 half yard cuts of Heather Ross sound... Merry Christmas to you, huh! hehe :)

I love many things Heather Ross and Far far away was no different.

I picked these up at market and now I'm sharing a few with you!

Included is the frog prince,

A wildflower piece,

And what far far away grouping would be complete without something as magical as a unicorn?

I also decided to throw in a couple of my leftover pieces of Anna Griffin's gorgeous Riley prints!

Hurray! Can you say bonus!

What do you do?

As expected comment to be entered & blog about this to get 3 extra entries!

Don't forget to come back and tell me so I can give you credit!

This will be open until the 31st I'll announce the winner sometime in the first week of January! Ooo, it's happy New year presents too! Yay!

One last thing, please make sure I have a way to contact you! Either leave your email or make sure you're not a no-reply (sometimes it happens and you don't even know it).

So, tell me, is it worth it to you for some way cute

free Heather Ross and Anna Griffin?

you tell me :D

Merry Christmas everyone! And a Happy New Year!

9 fabric gift tags!

9 fabric gift tags... or will I need more?

Sheesh I think Christmas is the only time of year I come even close to disliking shopping! But with all those gifts we can't forget the wrapping and that means tags! Atleast for the pretty gifts :)

For your custom fabric gift tags take 1 light and 1 dark square of fabric adhere them together with a steam a seam type material to make double sided fabric.

Cut a 3"x6" piece of foil. Put steam a seam on the dull side of it.

from your double sided fabric cut a 2.5" circle.

Trim your foil to slightly thinner than your circle.

Give it decorative ends and fold it so the ends just grab the top of the circle. Iron in place.

Trim the foil top like an ornament hanger and voila, one down!

Can you see Santa's special tag?

Write on the light side to that special someone!

Crazy 8!

Happy eighth day of Christmas!

Today's project is really quick and based off a little doll quilt. I don't know about you but my family likes to go caroling & take treats to friends during the holidays. These are what you take to the friends and family you really like! Great for In-laws or good friends the gift is a little tray but can be opened and hung as a wall hanging or mini table runner! Double gifts, woohoo! Who wouldn't love that?

Start with any festive little doll quilt

...or something just plain cute! Honestly the smaller the better I think, mine is big enough that the sides don't hold up as well as the small ones.

and 4 - 1/2" pieces of velcro

I wanted my sides to stand 2" tall so I stuck a pin at 2" from the corner on all sides.

Then sew a piece of velcro just outside the pin, and under the binding. Feels like a given but make sure you have one of each kind of velcro at each corner.

If the base is bigger than 5"-6" across you'll probably want to stabilize it with something. I know walmart sells cake boards (white cardboard essentially) that you can hold underneath it just so it's stays were it's supposed to.

Tada you're done!

On the 7th day of Christmas!

Ok, so I used both my 2 free days already... dang it!

And just so you know, I'm not going to tutorial on Christmas Eve either! and neither should you! go enjoy your families! Soooo.... Guess what that means?!?!?

A Christmas Eve Giveaway! Yay! Presents for Christmas is so appropriate anyway!

Yes, when you come back for the 12th day of Christmas there will be presents!

But, for today, we are all still making them :)

In fact, the next couple days will be in-law appropriate gifts! Hehe, we're leaving tomorrow for my husbands family christmas :) What a coincidence, huh!

Today we are making photo ornaments that are so much cuter than the plaster cheapo's you can pick up in any random photo center.
These ones could even be hung up with nothing in them and still be admired!

Materials -
Choose 3 charm squares for each ornament, a front, a middle, and a back.
1 gold colored charm square
2 - 5" square scraps of batting
1 - 2.5"x5" scrap of batting

Step 1 - Cut a 5" circle template with a 2.5" circle cut from the center.

Step 2 - Stack your fabric and batting in 2 stacks in the first place your back fabric (face down), 1 square of batting, and your middle fabric (face up). In the 2nd stack have your 2nd batting and your front fabric (face up).

Step 3 - Cut the stacks into 5" circles using your template.
Step 4 - take your gold colored square and fold it around the 2.5" piece of batting. Leaving the side opposite the fold pinked, cut from the fold strips 1 5/8" wide,
you can get up to 3 out of each charm square.
Step 5 - Trace the inside circle on the front ornament.

Step 6 - Sew around the circle you just drew twice. Sew around the outer edge of both circle stacks. Cut out the center of the small circle.

Step 7 - Attach a gold rectangle to the ornaments front circle, pinked side toward the ornament.
Step 8 - Stitch a rectangle approximately 1/2" thick and freehand a circle at the top.
Trim around the shape.
Step 9 - Your almost done place 2 pins about 2.5" apart at the top of your ornament and sew once around the bulk of the ornament. Leaving the 2.5" gap open.
Step - attach a 8-10" length of ribbon to the top of your ornament for hanging and put in a picture!More In-law happiness tomorrow!
I hope you're almost ready!! Maybe these will help :D