Blocks

So my cute little niece needed some blocks too. 

Some of Kate Spain's Central Park would make even a crying baby happy, right? :)

A gift and another advent calendar

My very wonderful awesome friend had a baby boy about a month ago and it took me (sadly) this long to get her a present... 

and of course I had to make it. :) 

I was thinking of the Thimble blossoms "Swoon" block but my internet was down and I couldn't get it... 

Never to be slowed in the groove, this is what I came up with in the heat of the moment. 

I found it surprisingly similar from memory. 

But this minkee fabric for the backing!! 

I about died when I spotted this at quilt market and HAD to have it just for this purpose. 

Quilting it was dreamy too. 

Love. 

It very much made me want to keep it.

I hope she liked it just as much!

I also had a request for a custom advent calendar with loops and buttons. 

I really liked how it turned out so I thought I'd share. 

I love it when others give me more ideas!! 

And I HAD to post this photo of my darling husband who was ever so willing to help me take a picture of it tonight.

You'd never know from the picture that he really didn't act how his expression implies he should have!

You definitely can't think of having a merry Christmas with that Scrooge face looking at you. 

Minkee Heaven with an almost Tutorial

The materials for this blanket are just absolutely edible. Trying to keep my two year old from playing with it WHILE I was making it was definitely a challenge - and she has two minkee blankets of her own already! So if you have a bunch of different colored minkee scraps this would be the perfect project to use them effectively. Dimensions for the quilt blocks using a 1/2 inch seam allowance:

48 - 4" x 4" blocks in various colors (sewn into 12 block strips and added like sashing)

3 - 3" strips x width of fabric for sashing (trim them to size after sewing)

1 - 27" x 33" front minkee

1 - 37" x 43" backing minkee

3 - 2 1/2" x width of fabric for binding strips (sewn together)

If you have any questions... ask!

-F.N.

My First Post

A crafty blog all my own! Yay! I love reading everyone else's so I figure that just maybe there's someone out there who will enjoy something that I post. You just... never know. So I'm off to the races with my current project: Double-sided minkee patchwork blanket! My little girl has a love affair with this material. It's deliciously fabulous! She can hardly contain herself with me pinning and sewing minkee! She LOVES it. Possibly more than she loves me... let's hope not! But here's some pics along the way:

First there's the cutting... I love how deliciously the fabric looks when its just piled up and ready to go!

Then the insane pinning of the minkee. If it moves even an eigth of an inch my OCD can't handle it!

And then the sewn blanket top. Now for the quilting and binding. It's a good thing it's nap time for the little one so I can have fun too! And I'm sure I'll get the final product posted very soon...

-F.N.