If you don’t know the world of improv piecing quilt blocks, it is a gloriously freeing experience that gets me all zen-like and makes me feel like a painter with fabric. In a nutshell, I have a general idea of what I want the final image to be (in this instance a poinsettia) and I…
Category: Holidays
Embroidered Ornament Tutorial
So I have a confession to make. Prior to this project, I had never done machine embroidery, nor did I think I would be interested. And like it took me like 80 years (not really like a month or so) to finally open the embroidery box to my DreamWeaver™ XE because I thought it would…
Mightbite Bite Painted Bat
First. Happy Halloween!!! Yayayay!!! ???? Second, omg omg omg this bat totally turned out bananas foster. I’m obsessed with all of Lillyella’s patterns and this Midnight Bite foundation paper pieced pattern takes the cake. Legit fun y’all. Legit fun. So with anything animal, I immediately look to nature to find inspiration. Like seriously I think…
Pumpkins! Pumpkins! Pumpkins!
So this whole “sewing for the holidays” thang is new to me and I now know that for next year I need to work on projects in the previous month. But whatever, these are more fall anyway so I’m gonna keep them out for a bit. So I wanted to make denim pumpkins and after…