Superstitch

Fresh cut quilt - an update

I've completed one row... out of 8! This quilt is definitely going to take me awhile, but i'm ok with that. Its looking so cool! Its a little hard to keep it looking so random with only 14 different fabrics but i think once its all put together everything will be fine.  As i mentioned in my first post about this quilt, i'm using heather bailey's free quilt pattern from free spirits website and it rocks! The only down side is that i cant strip piece it, every strip has to be cut and sewed individually, the reason its taking so long. I'll probably work on it slowly all summer.

In knitting news i've decided to put glee on hold because i'm pretty sure its too small.... i swatched and chose the right size for my gague but something just isn't working out right. I'm also not sure that i have enough yarn for it so i decided to switch gears and on monday i started to work on the bonsai tunic from spring interweave.

I'm up to the arm holes on the back and hopefully i'll have the back completed by the weekend. I was hoping to get this done fairly quickly but the tunic length and the lace pattern slowed me down a bit. I know the front will go a tiny bit faster so hopefully within a week or two i'll have a fun summer tank! Oh and the yarn is debbie bliss cotton dk in tangerine, i bought a bag of it for 26 bucks from little knits, such an awesome deal!

Ya'll, this quilt is going to ROCK!

Okay, so in a fit of sleeplessness i decided that i would start my freshcut/fleamarket quilt! I decided to use Heather Bailey's free quilt pattern made especially for her fabrics. Is that dorky, too matchy matchy? I cant help it, i really love the pattern! I'm also loving the way the fabrics look together. It might be a little bit too bright and pink for some people's taste, but not me, deep down i'm a four year old girl! This quilt is going to be this seasons "pretty" quilt. Of course this quilt is going to take a lot longer. I'm a fan of strip piecing to keep things moving but this quilt uses a ton of different strip widths and lengths that doesn't lend itself to quick cutting and piecing. But its ok, it can be slow as long as its pretty!

So i've stalled on the organization front. I had really good intentions but.... i just cant make myself finish right now, maybe next week! For now all i want to do is knit and work on this quilt!

   Another fun spring project, new pony tail holders. I cant leave the house without a pony tail holder. These are just made with the fabric covered button kits from hancocks. All you need is the kit, a 2 inch square a fabric and a plain elastic. And now my boring pony tail isn't quite as boring. I really love these fabric covered buttons and i'm trying to dream up a hundred other ways to use them, they're just so easy and satisfying to make!

One last shot of the quilt block, just because, well i'm obsessed!

Fall!

Continuing my mission to bring small quilts into fun and useful projects, i have made this quilted pillow. The fabrics are from the moda line, cornucopia. This was also the first quilt that i have hand sewed the binding. I always take the easy way out because i dont like the idea of hours of hand sewing, but since this was a small project i decided to do the binding "right" and i loved it! Hand finished binding looks so much nicer than machined binding, why oh why did i not figure this out sooner!

I haven't decided yet if this will be listed in my etsy shop. I dont know if anyone else is into the same "granny chic" (tm sarafina) style and ideas. I really like comfyness of the quilted pillow and I think that the next project i do for me, will be some quilted pillow shams, probably using some of these fabrics. I am just in love with these fabrics!!

And some more gratutious photos of the pillow, these were taken without the pillow form, to show off the little mini quilt on its own.

Houston Quilt Show

So i went to the Houston quilt show this weekend...... and the quilts were gorgeous. I wish i had pictures to show, but i forgot my camera!! I cant believe i did that. While i loved the quilts that were displayed and tons of fun, i was pretty disappointed in the retail section. I went with 150 bucks burning a hole in my pocket and i only spent 10 dollars, 10!! I still dont believe it. The first thing i bought were two fat quarters from Moda's Building Blocks collection . I would have bought the whole fatquarter collection had i known those were the only fabrics i was going to fall in love with. The second and last thing i bought was three yards of measuring tape trim from a great vintage notions booth. That booth was the best one out of the thousands, but everything was way too expensive. I wanted tons of all the trims but they were between 2 and 10 dollars a yard, i just cant spend that much money on trim, fabric sure, but not trim.

Another thing i noticed at the quilt show, nobody knows who Denyse Schmidt is. I mean everyone who is reading this, do you know Denyse Schmidt? I mean, i'm not crazy, she is well known, but i was searching for her fabrics at the show and NOONE knows who she is. This is what happens,

me: hi do you have any of denyse schmidt's fabrics? 

quilt lady: who? 

me: denyse schmidt, its a free spirit line, its called flea market fancy

quilt lady: oh  um well we have some free spirit fabric i think....

I just wanted to find the fabrics at the show because i hate paying shipping online, but since i didn't spend any money at the show, i can now go shopping online, hooray! Reprodepot, watch out!

And a little something i've made. This is a little quilted photo album. Its a wedding present for Pam, she had a dia de los muertos themed wedding this weekend. I've been trying to figure out more ways to incorporate quilting into different things. This little album is made like a normal sized quilt but on the back there are two pockets for the album to slide into, and then everything is bound together.

Welcome!

Welcome everyone to the new home of superstitchious and all my crafty projects. I'm going to leave my blogspot as is, but i will be reposting some of my project posts here. First up is my moda charm quilt!

July 8th, 2006

So here's what i've been doing the past few days....

I made the quilt top a few months ago and never got around to quilting it. Its 6 feet by 6 feet and the biggest quilt i've made so far. Heres the backing...

For my next quilt i'm thinking of doing Plain Spoken from the Modern Quilt Workshop by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle.