ANOTHER WAY TO USE YOUR SCRAPS

All this rain has gotten to me and I needed something to cheer me up, so I started playing in my sewing room.  I needed to create.  Make something different.  I had seen some improve paper piecing on Instagram and decided to try that and at the same time use some of my scraps.  I came up with the above.  I think I will bind it in that dotted fabric, place some Insul-Bright in the sandwich and use it as a hot pad.  Maybe I'll make some more for Christmas.  It's a great way to use your scraps to be creative.  Maybe you can try it at the next Happy Scrappers meeting at the Attic Window Quilt Shop this coming Wednesday, October 9. 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW:

• CRAFT DAYS: Saturday, Nov. 23; Saturday, Nov. 30; Friday, Dec. 6; Saturday, Dec. 7.
• Watch for Make It Take It classes coming in October and November. 
• February Bus Trip is scheduled for Feb. 8.  Four shops are participating. 
• January 1, BIG SALE DAY! 

AT THE ATTIC WINDOW QUILT SHOP 

• Monday, 10-7
• Charity Quilts
• Beginners Intermediate Quilting
• Tuesday, 10-8 
• Sampler
• Bee
• Wednesday, 10-9
• Happy Scrappers
• Knotty Girls
• Thursday, 10-10
• Doll Bee
• Intermediate Quilting
• Beginners Intermediate Quilting
• Friday, 10-11
• Make It Take It Crib Sheet & Bib
• Pizza and UFO Night!
• Saturday, 10-12
• Stitch-In

ON ANOTHER NOTE:

•  First Light Designs has a tutorial for a Rotary Cutter Coat.  This is so cute and would make a nice gift for a quilting friend.

Caroll, 

Caring, Sharing, Creating Smiles

HAVE YOU TRIED QUILTING IN A CIRCLE?

Okay, I know I should have been working on the quilt I showed you yesterday, but when I read my e-Mails this morning before going into my sewing room, I saw that Pile of Fabric had sent  a link to a video for making improve curves.   This video reminded me that in February I made an improve curve block and sent it to Pink Please.  I enjoyed making the block and made some more.  Above are the four I made, all stitched together.  However, I didn't know what to do with them.  It was really too large for me to do anything with (each block was 15” square) so I just left them on the design wall and went on to other things.  After seeing the video this morning I decided to reduce the size of my improve blocks and do the quilting in a circle that I have wanted to try. 

These are the blocks reduced in size to 9 ½” inches.  I sewed them together and got the sandwich ready to quilt.

Above they are all quilted.  I loved doing the quilting in a circle.  It goes so fast and there is no stopping and starting as in a more traditional method of quilting.

Here the quilt is finished and bound.  I’m not sure I liked the binding, but it snowed all day and this really is just a test piece, so I was determined to use whatever fabric I had on hand.

Now, what do I do with this piece?  Here it is on the library table in the east window.  Nope!  Not here.

Looks kind of dorky here on the chair near the west window.

Guess I’ll use it here as a table topper under my Begonia.  Looks, okay for a practice piece, don’t you think?  I hope you'll try making some improve curves and quilting in a circle.  It's not only fun, but freeing!

On Another Note:  Clover and Violet has a Charming Patchwork Lunch Bag Tutorial.

PS:  I'm Linking up to Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  Whoop! Whoop!

 Until next time,
♥
Stay Calm! Stay Kind! Stay Positive!
Caroll