Collin's quilt

My sewing club (no really, we'll have a cooler name soon!) is about to do a 3 week quilting "class" using the Charm Square Baby Quilt tutorial from Oh Fransson!. Well, I jumped the gun a bit and made this a week early! I had this Half Moon charm pack and had no clue what I was going to do with it- I just loved the black and white- and some Kona Peacock seemed the perfect compliment for the son of a surfer and a girly girl!

Seriously, how cute are these goons?

As it turns out, my BFF (yup, that's right. bee-eff-eff) since 10th grade, Stea, and her husband (who happened to be my other BFF in high school long before they even started dating!), Paul, had a baby shower this past Sunday for their first little guy, Collin! This is the perfect quilt pattern for something like this- pieced in about an hour (and hour!!) and basted, quilted and bound the next afternoon!

I feel like I barely quilted this one (just two straight lines on either side of the pieced strips and then 1/4" inside each black square and half-square)- unlike Brady's look-a-like quilt, which I quilted til I was blue in the face! However, I do love how fluffy it made it- especially with the big black and white flannel on the back. I didn't take a pic of the finished back, but it had a 4"x4" peacock square label on the back declaring my love for the little shnookums...

SQUEE! I can't wait for Collin to get here so I can snuggle him!!

Question....

Does this font/these colors make you feel like you're going cross-eyed?
I'm thinking "a little"...
UPDATE:
Ok, I'm going back a more legible font and hopefully soon I will figure out how to make the headers and sidebars a cute font, but leave this be!

Yay! I feel semi computer-smart!

Operation: Organize-Fabric-and-Get-It-Away-From-Sticky-Fingers

... is now COMPLETE!

We had a busy, busy weekend that involved getting new light fixtures throughout the house (I'll probably post pics soon!), picking out our new wood flooring, baby showers, a girls trip to Mary Jo's, cleaning and organizing... and organizing... and organizing.... and rearanging and organizing some more!

I have now moved all of my quilting weight cottons, seersucker, minky, linen and pre-cuts to the den in this random piece of furniture that used to act as a bar (you know, back in those wilder days of mine). I love that I can now see all my fabric, but sticky little fingers can't grab it! It's a bit of a pain that it's not in the same room as my sewing machine, but hey- it was all in tupperware drawers in my bedroom closet before, so I'm not complaining!

Now just to figure out what to do with the flannels, large scraps, broadcloth and upholstry-weight fabrics.... ok, so I may have a problem.

On that note, my birthday is tomorrow (WHEEE!) so I may be buying myself a little birthday present. How weird is it that as soon as I got all this fabric ogranized, I immediately thought "Ok, now I should buy some more fabric"? I'm seriously drooling over these circles and I did the math and with the free shipping I can order a yard of each without spending any real money (cause PayPal money isn't "real" money, right? .... right?!)

:)

wordless wednesday

comic book boards.

genius.

SCRAP SWAP!!!!!

As a part of No Fab Feb, Sarah is heading up a Scrap Swap!
What an awesome idea- I already signed up to send 3 envelopes!

If you're anything like me and are tired of looking at the same old fabrics over and over again (though they are oh-so-cute), head on over and sign up for the swap (hurry! You need to be signed up by March 4th)!

the one where she babbles on about fabric and zigzags.

I recently (well, technically in January, thankyouverymuch) bought a Marine fat quarter bundle. Have you seen Marine by Dan Stiles?

It's fantastic.

It's also organic which means almost $15/yard- EEKGADS! Luckily, a girl of modest means such as myself can snap up a fat quarter bundle for a reasonable price and still feel like I'm getting a good taste of the fabric.

I was the loser who signed up to receive an email notification the moment this line was made available... and completely geeked out upon recieving said email.... and bought the FQ bundle approximately 32 seconds after getting that email.

This fabric is going to be a quilt for Noah. I don't think I want to go twin sized and make this his "big boy bed" quilt (I just can't commit to that small of a color spectrum for his future room), so I'm trying to think of a way I can use this fabric for a lap quilt for him. I wanted to keep the fabric pieces large enough that he can see the birds, submarines, whales, etc.

I thought of this one (I did get the book with that pattern in it for Christmas, afterall!) However, I keep coming back to zigzag quilts.

sigh.

I love zigzag quilts. Did you realize there is an entire flickr group of zigzag quilts?

Yup. Goodbye, 1 hour of my life. I'll never miss you.

A Quilt is Nice's zig zag

Cluck Cluck Sew's zigzag

Are those not to die for? Maybe I'm just a freak, but something about the angles, and the crispness of the lines... I am in love.

So the question is: do I try to figure out how to make a zigzag quilt out of my beloved Marine fabric? Is it worth the headache to get the prints to flow directionally? Any advice from quilters out there? Am I insane? Help a sister out.

Noah's new duds

I can't get enough of the Kid Pants pattern on MADE!

First seersucker, then madras... oh man Noah is looking pretty Fratty these days.

Also I finally finished the Overmost with the fabrics that I bought from the actual Whipstitch store in Atlanta back in September! I think it turned out very cute and it's reversible (my model got a bit diva-ish so the last pic will have to do).

I'm having a lot of fun sewing with fabric that I already have since I am signed up with SewSara for No Fab Feb- yup, no buying fabric in the month of February! I have been good, not perfect (Joe had to buy me 2 yards of Kona Peacock at Hancock the other day- what?! I'm leading a quilt along with my sewing club and I knew about that loooong before I knew about No Fab Feb!), and I'm embarassed to say I have a lot of really cute fabric that I forgot all about!!