2015 FAL - Q2 list

It is even longer than Q1 list. The challenge is ON.

I was hoping to finish my Super tote (#4) in Q1 but never mind moving onto Q2. You can see 2 more bags (#5 and 6) in progress right there. This time I'll finish them! Cheer me on! :D

Let's add some real quilting to the game #1. Poor frog needs her eyes and my girl wants her quilt!

And my LOVE quilt was folded for too long. Let's fall back in love with it! Yeah #2!

#3 DM quilt is a bit secret project. What is it going to be? Depeche Mode? Doesn't Matter? Direct Message? Oh, you just have to wait and see :)

Plus I'm totally out of my mind to be adding one more bag (#7) and Pantone Challenge mini (#8).

Let's recap my poor achievement in Q1. Ehmm, sorry I have work to do so no details on that ...

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Blocks for Yvonne

I'm sure many of you know Yvonne aka Quilting Jetgirl. She is such a nice and prolific blogger. When she put out call for blocks I knew I want to contribute as well. She even made tutorial.

It took me a while since having options is harder than making 10" square block.
Today I stopped procrastinating and started with this improve piece inspired by piano block.

I used ballerina print for the second one. Honestly it wasn't easy even though these are simple blocks. This is not my usual color pallet. It is funny how challenging is to make something out of our comfort zone.

Both blocks are totally out of proportion but I leave to Yvonne to size them down. I hope the kids will like it and I'm quite curious what the final quilt will look like.

If you don't know Yvonne, check her out as she just published new pattern and it is fab!

For fun I took the Kona Color Personality test. As I like the result I decided to share :)

*update: Here is the link for the test.

Happy Easter everyone!

April goal - deja vu

♫ Hello, my friends. (Hello, my friends.)

I'm so happy to see you.

My girls love English rhymes and some of them are really catchy :)

Oh well, I did not meet my ALYoF March goal but I finally made some progress. Do you see the dark brown at the bottom of second pic? I decided to use the wrong side of it as the light color fits better. I'm not really keen on making fabric straps so I'm using belts instead. Since the pink one is too short a have to use piece of green as well. We'll see how that work out.

So my March goal turned into April goal that's why I call it deja vu.
Have you made up your mind about your goal? I'm ready for jump start :)

Oh and I have a question for those who already made the Super Tote. Have you used some type of closure for the front pocket? Is magnetic snap essential?

Birds and flowers

Where do I start? I wasn't in the mood for sewing lately. My top priority is sleep. I'm so awfully tired and not in the mood for anything at all. I just want to hibernate but there is spring outside already.

Anyway. My girl asked about her quilt and I was going like:
Aaaww what quilt? 
Mom, the one we'll hang next to my bed! 
Ooooh, that quilt!

So I was forced to make some progress on Elephant parade quilt.

She wanted the birds facing each other. These might be my favorite so far.

Next up were the flowers. Unfortunately the tulip instructions are no longer available due to some copyright issues but we wanted to have some. Luckily I found tutorial for this type of tulip. I just used the leaves from Lorna's blocks. They turned out pretty well if you ask me :)

I thought I only do one line of these blocks and add some HSTs or triangles to the bottom but my girl wants two lines so expect few more blocks to come.

You can find all the instructions here. Thank you very much Lorna for sharing!

These blocks just created some more scraps to play with. Oh NO! :)

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Le Challenge - Passion

This month's theme for Le Challenge is Passion.
There are many ways how you can interpret the theme.

What are my passions when it comes to quilting/sewing ? Hmmmm, I'm going with:

- color order
- scraps (yes, those are the tiny triangles from Elephant parade blocks)
- matchstick quilting
- hand quilting
- pouches
- matchy zippers

But my BIGGEST passion is probably to combine them all.

I made this pouch out of one exterior piece and one lining piece. There is no seam at the bottom which is my fav type of pouch. You can find the tut here.

The back is pretty simple but it still has pretty texture.

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