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A Quilt for Fabric Crush

February 9, 2011

I’m excited to say that I will be teaching a beginner quilting class at Fabric Crush, a local fabric boutique in Wallingford, Seattle. It’s a beautiful store filled with bright and fresh fabrics so check out the link, even if it’s just for some eye candy. Anyway, the quilt above is what I will be teaching. It will be hung at Fabric Crush as a display quilt to hopefully lure people into registering for the class. 🙂

Above is when I prepped the quilt on my Imperial Quilting frame for some quilting action. Do you notice the sparkly fabric? It’s by Michael Miller, and it’s the first print that caught my eye (I chose all the other other prints around the pretty sparkly one).

I decided to quilt squiggles because I thought it helped soften all the rigid square and rectangle patchwork.

I finished binding the quilt around half time during Super Bowl Sunday. 🙂 Time well spent!

Thanks for stopping by. 🙂 Wish me luck at my very first quilting class (tentatively planned for March!).

Happy Quilting!

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February Giveaway Winners!

February 7, 2011

First of all, I wanted to say a big thank you to all who participated in my little giveaway. I was blown away with how many responses I got! Second of all, I wanted to apologize for the random dancing banana. It’s distracting even as I type this post, but I thought it was a fun way to express my excitement for free fabrics… (drum roll)….

Dancing Banana

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February Fabric Giveaway!

February 3, 2011

Today my latest Moda Bakeshop Tutorial posted (yippee!)! My tutorial is called “Jelly Roll Rug“, so please check it out if you get a chance! As the tutorial requires only 1 Jelly Roll and a few other misc. items, I thought it’d be fun to do a Jelly Roll giveaway so you can make a rug yourself, or make whatever you want!

Feel free to participate in this fun giveaway – there’s a 1st place and 2nd place winner!

The 1st place winner will get the above Jelly Roll (“Giddy” by Sandy Gervais, perfect for Valentine’s day!). To participate in this giveaway, all you have to do is answer the two questions below:

  1. What is your favorite fabric pre-cut? (please use the voting buttons below)

  2. What types of fabrics do you like best? (e.g. floral, earth tones, contemporary prints, country-themed, bright and fresh, etc.). Please post your answer as a comment to this post.

The second place winner will get a Fairy Frost charm pack (see below) – don’t you just love sparkly fabric? It catches my eye just like diamonds. 😉


This giveaway will end on Sunday, February 6th. The first and second place winner will be drawn at random. I’ll post the winners on Monday, February 7th and will ship the prizes out that week (yes, I’ll ship international too).

Thank you for participating! And don’t forget to check out my MBS post here. If anything, you’ll get to see a bonus picture of my ‘lil fluff ball Paige, modeling the Jelly Roll Rug. 😉

Happy Sewing!
-Jera

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Sneak Peak…

February 1, 2011

I wanted to give you all a sneak peak of what’s to come in the next couple of days. 🙂 First of all, I will be having a February Fabric Giveaway (woo-hoo for free fabric!). There will be a 1st place and 2nd place winner.

Second, the same day I post my fabric giveaway my latest Moda Bakeshop tutorial will post as well. Below, and above (she’s everywhere!) is a sneak peak of the finished project. Paige has already grown attached. 🙂

Stay tuned for fabric fun!

Happy Quilting!

-jera

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A Quilt in Four Nights

January 30, 2011

This quilt was so much fun. While my husband was away on a business trip last week, I made a goal to finish a quilt by the time he returned. The only time I had to quilt was after getting home from work, so for a couple nights I was up in the wee hours quilting away. My faithful fluff ball, Paige, kept me company each night until I was ready to go to bed. 🙂

The first night I made all of the blocks. The second night I pieced together the blocks to form the quilt top. The third night I made the backing, shown below.

After I made the backing I thought, might as well quilt it! So I set it up on my frame and quilted away.

I decided to quilt squiggles (aka stippling). It shows up really well against the white fabric.

And by the fourth day I binded the edges and finished it! Mission accomplished!

I got the pattern for this quilt from the book Simplify by Camille Roskelley; however, I improvised the border design. Roskelley has designed several fabric lines for Moda, including the beautiful line “Bliss” which I used to make this quilt.

It’s a great book that has simple quilt patterns, yet they look complicated. Each page has beautiful and fresh photos of quilts, fabrics, and you even get a glimpse of how her sewing room looks. If you want it you should buy it here from Amazon for $13 bucks, whereas it usually sells for $20-25 retail.

Happy Quilting!

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