Pantone fever

I'm sure you all already heard about Pantone Quilt Challenge. As the link up opens this Friday I try to finish my projects.

That's right. I might have two. I showed you little woven something. That piece of meshwork is part of EPP cube. I love tumbling blocks so this one is mini to become. 

For a few days I thought that's all I do but my original idea kept bothering me. So I worked on it a bit to see if it's going somewhere or not. I showed it to few friends and they told me to finish that thing.

I just need to add the Pantone color. No, this is not the final layout. This is just a teasing post :-)

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Tutorial - Leather scraps zipper pulls

I originally written this tutorial for Leanne @ Sew Can She and now it's time to bring it back up. It was a great experience for me to try it out and Leanne's encouragement brought up my desire to put together some more tuts. I hope to share some soon.

What will you need to create leather zipper pulls?

Leather scraps, pliers with piecing and riveting tools, various key rings, rivets, scissors. Optional: pinking shears, rotary cutter, eyelets.

There are different types of zippers with various zipper pulls. Based on the zipper pull choose the right key ring that will fit properly. If needed use two key rings. Use small one as reduction for the larger one.

Measure the inner part of your key ring. In the example above it is 1.1cm. Multiple by 4 as you'll fold the edges of the leather towards centre. Please use this as example. It depends on the leather you are using. With softer leather I ended up using smaller key ring. The best way to determine the size is to try to fold the leather up and put the key ring on.

Once you have the key ring on fold the edges of the leather in to the middle. Put some kind of clip to hold the edges if desired. Punch the holes through all layers.

Do not worry if you don't manage to make holes in all the layers. Unfold and cut/clear the holes out with scissors.

Create a tassel by cutting straight lines toward the centre. Use pinking shears for fancy edges. Fold up again and line up those holes. Attach the rivet.

I use my pliers to attach the rivet. 

There are many possibilities. Create circles, hexagons and other shapes based on the style of your pouch. Here are just a few examples to get your creativity flow. You can also use eyelets if you don't have any rivets on hand.

Two hearts with strip in between. Attached by eyelet.

Two circles folded with strip in between.

Pinwheel style.

If you don't feel like using hardware simply cut out strip of leather and attach to zipper pull. The knot is called Lark's head (cow hitch) and it is the simplest zipper pull I have to share.

March goal

Here we go again. Should I put up another goal or not? I have number of things in progress. Mostly "let's start something new" stage and I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. I'm a bit restless not young any more though.

Last night I cut into this fabric to create some kaleidoscope wall hanging. So let's make it my goal - the top to be precise. This is not the layout and also the size is much smaller than what is needed. Lots more to be added and decided on. Wish me luck :-)

Original fabric.

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I was feeling up to some FMQ practice but I ended up with straight line quilting and a touch of hand stitching. I find the hand stitching much more relaxing than FMQ. That's my block from last year's Skill Builder BoM. Cushion cover to become.

I plan to use these fabrics for The Triangle Quilt Along (button on the side bar) and that's why I quilted triangle grid. Easy and doable that is what I was up to.

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And the winner is ....

No we are not talking about the Oscars. I wanted to add feature of numbering the comments but it doesn't seem to work so we had to do the draw in old fashioned way. I had couple of assistants or was it zombie parade passing by? Who knows.

One of them dig deep ....

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and the winner is Wendy! Congrats!

I included everyone who commented. Anyway ...

Linda - no idea what is open ID, there is no email address or your web site so I don't actually know if you have any blog and you do appear as no-reply.

Chirpy - you are also no-reply. If I click on your profile I don't see anything but two blogs you follow. If you have a blog you might want to include the web page link.

Often I click on profiles of those who comment. I want to check what they are working on. Some of you don't have link to your blog. Does that mean you don't have any? Some only have google+ profile and there are not any links to your sites either. Just saying but you might want to check your settings.

February round up

February went fast. There is no doubt about it. I started with Valentine's mat and tutorial for woven hearts followed up shortly.

February was also great example of my tendency to use fabrics which I have on top. The lining and mini log cabins were made out of scraps from January's color wheel quilt. Remaining pieces were used for Le Challenge project which theme sunrise just fitted well.

The highlight of the month was definitely Summertime Sadness finish.

As an addition to this quilt I made two matching cushions made out of scraps and leftovers.

I also managed to complete my February goal. Yay!

On top of that I'm celebrating the total views over 50K and reaching post #100. You can still enter my little giveaway as it ends tomorrow March 2nd.

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