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Put your foot down
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A Quiltery is live
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Put your foot down
You will now find Put your foot down every Thursday on quiltery.com
Put your foot down 216
Put your foot down 216, a weekly linky party occurring every Thursday for you to share your WIP’s, UFO’s, new finishes, or any fiber arts projects. Thank you all for linking up each week!
Whats under my foot
host issues! In the next couple of week quiltery.com will go live and will be the new home of For the love of geese and Put your foot down. There will be a final post directing you to the new site.
Around the home. Unpacking is finished except for my bedroom and it is a disaster area. My sewing room is also unpacked and there is a lot of organizing going on. One of my sisters stopped by over the weekend and I happily accepted her help, 2 minds is better that one. She also helped move larger items around.
Now I have room to spread out and finish working on my quilt for the Covering the World One Quilt at a Time with AccuQuilt and Island Batik. My day to share is Dec 21st, I will beat that deadline.
Using the 2 1/2″ strip die from AccuQuilt I cut the red and white fabric. The stars are also AccuQuilt applique die and I am using their free embroidery design to secure them to the blue fabric.
Your shares from 215
Viridian’s blog share this warm log cabin block.
Gretchen’s Little Corner shared her dresden points.
What’s under your foot?
UPDATE
8am central, it appears linky tools website is down, therefor the linkup will not post. Check back later. He must use the same hosting company, lol.
https://www.linkytools.com/thumbnail_linky_include.aspx?id=312879Virtual Cookie Exchange
Welcome and Merry Christmas! Today is the first day of the Virtual Cookie Exchange hosted by Carol at Just Let Me Quilt. I love this hop and anxiously await it every year since 2017. Thank you Carol for all you do for us! In the hop you will find a lot of inspiration, freebies, discounts, and recipes for all kinds of goodies so make sure you visit all the links.
Some of the products featured on this site were provided to me free of charge by Island Batik, Hobbs Batting, Aurifil , AccuQuilt, Deb Tucker Studio 180 Designs and Schmetz Needles.
Today I am sharing a couple of goodies with you so keep reading.
My project
Having been an Island Batik Ambassador since 2019 I have many many scraps that I am trying to use up. The fabrics in my project are from multiple collections over the years and some are no longer available, most without stickers. This post is also my final IBA challenge post of the year.
First, I pulled out all of the green scraps as well as various fabrics for the background. The main blocks in my lap quilt were cut using the 10″ Qube from AccuQuilt and the 10″ Angles Companion Qube. The blocks finish at 30″ so you can imagine how quickly a quilt grows with them. These are just in time for Christmas.
Ignore the clutter in my photos, I’m still trying to unpack all of my sewing room and make repairs to the new home.
Don’t you just love a Christmas tree in a quilt?
Would you like to make your own Gift Box and Christmas Tree? It’s okay if you don’t have the dies since layout and cutting diagrams are included in the download. You can then add your own blocks and fabric strips as I did. What is not included in the cutting diagram is the vertical ribbon, it was an after thought. For the ribbon I used a fusible and cut a 2 1/2″ strip then stitched the raw edge down. I didn’t even measure the length, I started fusing it at the top seam and cut it off when it met the bottom seam.
As for the rest of quilt, remaining fabric dictated what I could add and I just cut and sewed until both blocks were the same size.
Giving time of year
AccuQuilt partnered with Island Batik and Baby Lock to host Covering the World: One Quilt at a Time. Stop back by Dec 21st for a QOV donation quilt and pattern.
My Giving Tree quilt (what I named it) finishes is 48″ x 65″ and will be donated to the QEM Fire Dept. Every year they host a family dinner for the volunteers and trustees. The quilt be gifted to someone who attends.
Quilting
For quilting I used Hobbs Heirloom® Premium Cotton batting and quilted a meander design. It was quick and easy, and I think a perfect addition to my scrappy finish, I love the texture it added.
The binding is pieced and includes a little of each green fabric used in the quilt.
I hope you’ll download the blocks and make your own funky Christmas quilt too.
Our new home came with a porch swing that I enjoy often.
A make it up as you go scrap quilt is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get. But in the end, I love the warm colors of the Island Batik fabric and funky design it created. Plus side of it all, my stash is a tiny bit smaller. Note to self: use a darker contrasting fabric for the gift box.
Another giveaway
The sugar cookies and peanut butter cookies are amazing. If you have a peanut butter cookie fan in your home use caution, you will be making them a lot.
List of products
Schmetz Needles-Microtex Sharp
Gammill
Put your foot down 215
Put your foot down 215, a weekly linky party occurring every Thursday for you to share your WIP’s, UFO’s, new finishes, or any fiber arts projects. Thank you all for linking up each week!
Whats under my foot…
is a scrap quilt for the upcoming Virtual Cookie Exchange hosted by Carol at Just Let Me Quilt, and my final Island Batik challenge of the year. You can view the hop schedule here. This year I will be sharing on Dec. 4.
There is a lot of Island Batik green fabric in my cabinet that I am trying to eliminate. For the main blocks I used the 10″ Qube from AccuQuilt and 10″ Angles Qube Companion Set.
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Stop by on Dec 4th for cutting and layout diagram, or join my private Facebook group now where you can download today. Just click on the FB link in the sidebar. Did I mention the blocks are 30″ finished?
Your shares from Put your foot down 214
A Messy House is the Sign of a Quilter shared progress on Fussy, Focus Cutting Sewalong.
My Quilts and Crafts shared A Blue House Quilt.
Your shares from 213
Grace and Peace shared her Villa Rose quilt.
Quilting Gail shared her tree skirt.
What’s under your foot?
It’s in the Bag blog hop and Put your foot down
It’s in the bag…
blog hop with Island Batik is in its 3rd week. Welcome to my stop in another fun hop featuring patterns from ByAnnie. ByAnnie has been an industry partner for 3 years and are so generous to the IB Ambassadors. Each year we are allowed to choose a bag pattern and ByAnnie sends everything we need to complete the challenge. The pattern I chose this year is Room With A View. Previously, it was a struggle choosing the pattern because they are all awesome.
This year I knew exactly what I wanted to make as soon as I learned I’d been accepted for another year as an Island Batik Ambassador.
Some of the products featured on this site were provided to me free of charge by Island Batik, Hobbs Batting, Aurifil , AccuQuilt, Deb Tucker Studio 180 Designs and Schmetz Needles.
Room with a view has a zippered lid, a zip pocket on the inside lid and a clear vinyl window on the front. I had wondered if this nifty bag would fit my Ikea Cubes to put scraps of fabric and add a splash of color in my otherwise dull sewing room. In the sewing room they will be great for organizing loose scraps or scraps you have cut in your favorite shapes. They could be used for project boxes, quilt kits…
Use them in the car to hold kids toys, carry buns or dishes to family gatherings, makeup bags, or de-clutter bags. They would also make a great gift, store diapers and wipes, or to organize kids cloths if you purchase larger sizes on clearance for your grandchild.
It’s in the bag fabric
Vintage Charm designed by Kathy Engle for Island Batik is such a fresh pretty collection. As with all their collections, Vintage Charm includes light, medium and dark fabrics to balance out any project. The two fabrics I chose for my bag…
You can view individual swatches of Vintage Charm on the Island Batik website here.
A few shops where you may find Vintage Charm
| Blue Bar Quilts | Middleton |
| Carpenter Quilts-ME | Damariscotta |
| Creekside Quilts-OR | Gales Creek |
| Hancocks of Paducah | Paducah |
Cutting and organizing
ByAnnie patterns include a sheet/s of labels to make organizing the many pieces that go into each bag a breeze.
Quilting and sewing
Room with a view includes cutting directions for 3 sizes, I chose to make the large bag which finishes at 12.5″. Best thing about this size, it fits perfectly inside one of the cubes. Yay!
Soft and Stable replaces batting in the bags and it not only adds stability, but a nice quilted finished. For the quilting and joining the many pieces of my bag I used Aurifil 50wt Ecru.
The directions are broken down for each step and includes a box for checking off the steps as you go. I really recommend using these boxes because it is easy to get lost. Some of the patterns include an Add-On Video which are very helpful, more so on Room with a view. There are seams that need to be hidden and the video shows a clever way of stitching and flipping the fabric to hide them. Yes, there are add on videos for many of the ByAnnie bag patterns.
Finished
Joining all of the parts and adding binding was a huge concern for me since destroying my Juki TL2010Q. I cried and spent many sleepless nights over losing the machine. My new Elna EF1 straight stitch machine, I wondered if it would stitch through these heavy seams like butter, as the Juki did? Let me say, it is outstanding and impressed even the skeptical me and, I can use the Juki feet on the Elna so a part of it lives on.
The fabric, the pattern, all accessories and my sewing machine played a huge part in making the bag. Let’s not forget the needle. I’m not a needle diva who changes her needle size and type like they were handbags. Mostly I use the Schmetz Microtex Chrome Needles for all my sewing. Except when I am paper piecing or using a fusible, then I use their non stick needles.
First photo (above) immediately after completion. This poor bag had been rolled, scrunched, turned inside out, folded and turned every which way. lol. The Soft and Stable handled all of that well.
Did you wonder what was in that surprise package I shared in July? Vintage Charm of course!
Isn’t it pretty? Vintage Charm 1/2 yard bundle in the window, the Flower Field Teal Sea shell of my bag is absolutely beautiful!
Under the lid you will find the zippered mesh pocket. I admit, I did use my seam reaper on the mesh and zipper but it was totally user error. This bag holds a lot of fabric and has room for a little bulge!
Previous ByAnnie challenges
Thank you Island Batik and all industry partners for another month of great products.
Your chance to win a bundle of fabric from Island Batik
a Rafflecopter giveaway https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.jsAmbassadors and schedule
You can view the entire hop schedule on the Island Batik Blog here. For a list of IB Ambassadors, click below.
What’s under your foot?
https://www.linkytools.com/thumbnail_linky_include.aspx?id=312467Put your foot down 213
Put your foot down 213, a weekly linky party occurring every Thursday for you to share your WIP’s, UFO’s, new finishes, or any fiber arts projects. Thank you all for linking up each week!
Whats under my foot…
is the November Island Batik Challenge. For this challenge I chose Room With A View from byannie, the large bag which is a 12.5″ cube. I wondered if it would fit in my cubes from Ikea when I chose it, in the Add On video for the bag Annie does say they fit. Yay!
Zippers are not my forte but with each bag I make there is an improvement, which kinda makes me happy. My husband is hard on zippers and replaces his own, but I’m willing to bet he will start asking me soon.
I also received some new fabric. For the Quilt the World 2023 hosted by AccuQuilt, Island Batik sent me red and blue fabric from their foundations collection. I really like the foundations because they are available throughout the year, and if you see something you like in my posts they are more easily found than the seasonal fabrics. This project has to be completed by Dec 20th.
Mary Mack Made Mine sells Island Batik fabric in her Etsy shop. She is a fellow IBA, and if she doesn’t have it in her shop she will order it. I’m not sure if she has a minimum purchase for special orders because I usually purchase a bolt or two. These are from the Farm Country collection.
Your shares from last week
Quilting Gail, fellow IBA shared her byannie bag finish for the blog hop.
Anne-Marie from Stories From the Sewing Room shared her finally finished Under the Sea Quilt.
This weeks Island Batik rafflecopter
Be sure to enter today before it expires.
a Rafflecopter giveaway https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.jsWhat’s under your foot?
See all the fab shares in last weeks linky party!
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Put your foot down 212, a weekly linky party occurring every Thursday for you to share your WIP’s, UFO’s, new finishes, or any fiber arts projects. Thank you all for linking up each week!
Whats under my foot…
more moving in my sewing space. Hopefully before Thanksgiving my sewing cabinet will be here and I can finalize the layout. I’ve also had to rearrange the living room to get Loki out of the window. When we moved in the guys put the furniture down and that is where it was left. The sofa was under the window and Loki loves to site on the back, behind my head.
Since my desk is in storage with the sewing cabinet, the sofa and a tray are my office. Loki sits in the window during the day and barks at squirrels and groundhogs. He also does not like anything diesel, mostly he does not like school buses. He misses the morning bus route. but about noon the buses pick up again and the last one roll by between 5pm-515p. The barking drives me insane! Sometime around 7pm the deer begin to congregate in my front yard and it starts again. Loki lost the privilege of having a window seat.
No sewing, it will begin tomorrow.
Island Batik Blog Hop
The last Island Batik blog hop of the year has started. You can view the hop schedule and weekly give away on the Island Batik Blog. For your convenience, this weeks give away, good luck!
a Rafflecopter giveaway https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.jsYour shares from last week
This crazy log cabin finsish was shared by A Scrappy Quilter. Sorry Deb, for some reason I cannot login to leave you a comment.
Since I feel her pain and she needs some good vibes thrown her way, this is what Viridian has under her foot.
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