Just Doin' Stuff

What have I been doing here lately? 


Just stuff......stuff for Valentine's Day, stuff for selling in my ETSY shop, stuff for fun, and very busy with taking care of one of my cats.....Braveheart!   He's been to the vet 3 times the last couple weeks...jeez!   I made 5 lbs. of See's Fudge too....for Valentine's Day.

Well.....let's just talk with pictures.  I love to see pictures on blogs, don't you?

Mini patchwork Table Topper

Valentine Table Runner sold.

Valentine Mug Rug - Table Mat  (actually I made 2 of these; sent one to my sister in Wyoming)

Another Valentine Table Runner for my shop, which sold within 1 day of listing it.  YAY!

Raggedy Ann & Andy Rag Quilt using GO cutter rag die.  (Sure is fun to use

that GO die, so I've got another one almost finished.)  You can't see it very well in the pictures, but I did stitch an X in  each square and put a smaller square of flannel in the middle of each block...for extra warmth and padding.

And........I'm always cutting, cutting, cutting quilt squares and jelly rolls......have to keep them in stock all the time.

Black and white  5 inch  quilt squares cut with my GO cutter.

Different purple fabrics 5 inch squares cut with the GO!

Bright Lime Green Jelly Rolls

Now you know what I've been doing .......nothing too exciting, just cutting & sewing!   What have you been doing!

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Pictures Talk!

Cutting, cutting, cutting for my ETSY Shop has kept me so busy here lately I'm relishing my little bit of sewing time I squeeze in here and there.




My recent sewing time results...... thought I'd just share with pictures!

 W.I.P.  Mini Quilt

Mini Quilt Finished

Embroidering dishtowels at the same time as sewing.

Did some cutting for more jelly rolls too!

W.I.P. Valentine Table Runner

 

Finished Valentine Table Runner

I'm sure a lot more projects would get finished faster if my quilting helper would not be doing this.......

ALL THE TIME!

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YES...I've Been Sewing!

Most of you know I'm in Love with my AccuQuilt GO cutter and I love cutting 2 1/2" strips with it. It's so easy and fun to sew the strips together. You never know what you might create.

YES...I've been sewing and here's what I've been doing.

How about a new table runner?

Well.....why not a few coasters or drink mug rugs to GO along with the table runner?

Enough strips left for 4 placemats...not quite finished,

but getting there. These should be sandwiched, quilted and finished up by the end of the day.

Have you been sewing?

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Easy Peasy Layering Quilt Sandwich Tutorial

For those of you who are following along with my recent posts, I finished my Batik table runner.  Not all of us have large quilting frames with professional quilting machines, so we still have to do it this way.    Here's a little picture tutorial of layering and preparing a quilt sandwich for quilting.  

I'm so glad that I have this big table in my dining room for doing such things, and the lighting is great in there too.  It does get super HOT in there late afternoons, and I need to get some pull down roll blinds to install behind the mini-blinds.  (put that on my 'to do' list)


1.  Press backing fabric and tape it down to table with masking tape

2.  Press batting (if necessary) and smooth over backing fabric.  (Notice that I pieced the backing by butting the edges together and used a large zig zag stitch.)

3.  Press quilt top first on back, then front side...spraying lightly with MaryEllen's Best Press Spray.  Smooth quilt top on top of batting.  (Notice the extra batting, backing extends beyond the size of the quilt top.)

4. After all 3 layers are smooth, fold back  1/2 of batting & top and spray backing fabric lightly.  I like to use Sulky's KK 2000 or Sullivan's basting spray.   Lift up and smooth 1/2 of the batting only... from center to outside edges with your hands.  If you get a wrinkle, lift and smooth again.  I do this first with just the batting.

5.  Then I spray the batting and lift 1/2 of the top and smooth out the top over that 1/2 of the sandwich.  Repeat the process for the other 1/2 of the quilt sandwich.

6.  I still like to use a few quilt safety pins with the Kwik clip tops also.

7.  Fold back edges of quilt sandwich to expose taped backing edges and remove tape.

8.  Roll quilt sandwich ...ready for quilting.

9.   Quilted, finished and ready to sell in my Etsy Shop.

Is this how you do your quilts?




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Yesterday's results......and Today's too.

What DID I end up doing yesterday?   Yesterday?   What about today?

Woke up today feeling great until my eyes opened......then.......Wham! 

The dirty floors, cat hair and the dust bunnies came into focus and I just knew it had to be done.   I told all three cats......"This house is dirty and we need to spend some time cleaning it today".     They looked the other way....then told me in no uncertain words...... they wanted their breakfast.  NOW!    Ok..ok.  Let me fix my tea first.   We had quite a morning with me trying to get them to pick up their toys.

It's mid afternoon, already and I just finished cleaning!  Whew!  I think I must have vacuumed up a whole cat there was so much cat hair.  It's almost summer and it's my own fault for not brushing these furbabies more.    They love to "help" me when I'm working on my blog too.

Well.......what about yesterday?    Oh yeah,   YESTERDAY.......




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Every once in a while I just got to  do it!

  

Yes!  Just had to clean off the top of my cutting table before I could even think about doing something else.  It helps me see more clearly........(remember about my eyes focusing up above?)

I Still had a lot of  fun, though........cutting with my GO cutter.

I still want to cut some more fun appliques, as I'm going to be offering more of them for sale in my Etsy Shop..........but not today.

This afternoon, I'm going to...........

layer and quilt this batik table runner.  Remember?  It was one of my choices from yesterday.

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Excuses! Excuses! Excuses!

I have  good excuses for not posting the last 2 weeks.  First off, my camera broke.....(no pictures to post)...and just my words get very boring!   So, I decided to just do some work and more work...cutting and sewing, and quilting for my Etsy Shop.  

Bought a new camera (Nikon S4100) and just love it!  So, today I'll just flood ya'll with pictures of new things for my shop.   To find out more about the items, just click on the title above the pictures.

New Color: Aqua - Teal - Turquoise Fabric Jelly Rolls 

New fabrics for my Bubble Gum Hot Pink Jelly rolls

New: Batik Fabric Charm Squares

New:  6 Moda Java by Deb Strain Mug Rugs

There's six different ones!

Another mug rug, but way smaller - Love that Aqua again.

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Sold Batik Table Runner - (making another one)

Another Time Saver Kit - Watercolor Quilts

I have more excuses than good sense....so stayed tuned next time for some more;   new floor in my kitchen, before and after pictures.  Help!   No more....I want to get back to sewing!



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