Trying to Finish

This quilt top has been finished for a couple of weeks and just hanging on my design board.  Since school has started back up I've had precious little time to sew.  I decided to take the day off from the ToDo list and just concentrate on finishing this quilt.

Of coarse other things get in the way like grocery shopping, making lunch, and the US Open (exciting matches today).  All I had left to do was piece the back (check), Iron quilt back (check), make quilt sandwich (working on it), and figuring out how to quilt the dang thing (scratching my head).  Hopefully I can at least start quilting it today.  Come tomorrow I turn back into a pumpkin and must get some school work down.  Sometimes I wish I could just make time stop for a few hours so I could squeeze in a little more sewing time.

 

My Helper

Once this quilt gets quilted and binded it will go up for sale in my Etsy shop.

SOLD!

Vintage Modern Baby Quilt

The Vintage Modern baby quilt is all finished and up in my shop.

The colors are so bright and really pop. This quilt only took one charm pack plus a few solids.

I still have another charm pack to do something different with.

It's the perfect size to fold up and stick in a diaper bag.

This quilt is available for purchase here!

New Project and a Winner!

First of all I started a new quilt today.  My Salt Air sold pretty quickly so I need to get to work and get a new quilt up in the shop.  I recently purchased some Vintage Modern charms.

So this....

turned into this

and then into this...

hopefully it will all be sewn together by the end of the night.

Now on to more important news...

The Sew, Mama, Sew! giveaway has come to a close and I can't wait to find out if I won something.

Fingers crossed!!!

I had over 370 entries for the Fat Quarter set of Miscellany by Cloud 9 Fabrics.

It's neat to read everyone's comments on what their favorite notion is and it seems to be a consensus,

the seam ripper is our most valuable player when it comes to sewing.

So without further ado...

Congratulations Sue!!

who said

"I'm like Alli. Could.not.do. without my rotary cutter. Oh, and my seam ripper...not that I ever need it...snerk."

And for those who did not win you can use Coupon Code

MEMORIAL20

for 20% off your purchase in my etsy fabric shop thru Monday!

I would love to sell thru this fabric so I could buy more!!!!

thank you so much for your comments and I hope that you will visit again soon.

~alician

Salt Air HST Quilt

Yesterday I finished the Salt Air HST quilt top.  It was still raining when I finished so I had to wait till this morning to take some pics.  I love how it looks with the light coming through it.  I originally was going to layout all the hst in the same direction but then sewed a row the wrong way.  Instead of taking the seams out I just changed my layout. {Is that lazy or what} Ultimately I'm happy with the mistake and think the quilting will turn out really nice for this design.







I hope to get started on the quilting today and plan to sell this one in my etsy shop.  I'll post when it gets listed!

Sewing with Sweet Sophie

{No animals were harmed in the making of this blog post}

My sweet cat Sophie has  been uncharacteristically awake and more characteristically

in the way!

Yesterday sweet Sophie decided the perfect place to look out the window was on my sewing table

{while I was attempting to sew}

even though she had an entire window ledge she could stretch out on.

She was quit content as her tail was swishing back and forth

Good thing I wasn't stippling!

despite the tail swishing distraction I managed to make some progress with my Salt Air charms

I was also able to cut them into fours and get them all pressed.

I'm still contemplating the layout but with any luck I'll have a quilt top done today.

Fingers crossed!