Le Challenge

Yesterday I noticed it's time for Le Challenge. The theme is WILDERNESS and I didn't really had an idea. When I looked at the projects submitted I wanted to make some foxes but I was running out of time. Today I came across this link and I knew I have to make something quick! So here they are.

I ran out of eyelets and I have no key rings but that's fine since I only have few minutes left to participate :) I love deadlines and last minutes makes.

Beside that. I haven't touched my machine for couple of day or is it week or two? I know, shocking!

I have received my fabrics for Dog gone cute but I haven't read the instructions yet. My feed is full and I'm a bit behind stuff. Life happens and I'm sure you are already used to that on my blog.

My girl celebrated 9th Birthday and we included little fun secret in her cake.

As usual I get a bit nostalgic on Sept 11. The time flies and the world is changing ...
Stay well my friends!

Throwback Thursday

My real quilting adventure began in 2012 when I got new sewing machine for my Bday. Since I didn't consider myself as an quilter I did not invest in fabrics much. There was a good deal for this gnome fabric and I got the whole roll :) + some Ikea fabric.

2012 was also the year of first Zakka Along. This pattern is from Zakka Style book which we all used. It was my first Sew Along and I made few friends back than. It is a baby size.

I continued with SAL called Hexagon Festival. I combined few tutorial which were featured as part of the SAL.

It looks like I always had a tendency to sort colors somehow :) This is my first regular quilt.

I quilted around hexagons and added some hand quilting to it as well.

What's on the back?

Gnomes again! Guess what, I still have some :)

Thank you for joining me in Throwback Thursday - 2012 edition :)
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September ALYoF deja vu

This year I'm not very good at meeting my goals. No August goal achieved. At least I made some progress. I have already started with quilting and for a moment I thought I'm going to make it on time :)

I'm having hard time to take pictures of my quilting. There are some straight lines going from the side and some squares are crossed. I'm not marking it. I just go with the flow. Let's make it my ALYoF goal one more time.

As a side product I pieced this pouch to be piece. I'll be adding some quilting to it as well.

Have you noticed there are tons of things happening in the blogland right now?

Who can resist those cute dogs? Not me, I have ordered my fabrics today!

Plus there are tons of inspiration in Fabri-Quilt New block blog hop. Don't you love those blocks by Yvonne and Jayne? I do.

And there is more! Are you into Row-A-Long? Plus if you are into PP keep an eye on Janeen, she will be hosting Lil Catz Quilt a Long starting Sept 7th.

That's not all but these are my top 3. There is no time to be wasting time this season!

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Finally a progress

If you are curious about the quilting stage of my two experiments, here are some pics just for you.

Since I had white thread in I started with the Christmas one. I added a bit of FMQ. I was going for little bubbles but truly I couldn't see where I was going. So there is some quilting in there :)

It is really hard to photograph. Just imagine my usual anyhow style.

There are only straight lines on the back.

The tiny size looks so cute.

And finally I have changed the thread to grey. I took deep breath a added the quilting to my first experiment as well.

Not so visible is it?

Here is the back side to show up the quilting a bit more.

How long does it take to bind those two? Who knows :)
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Q3 - Selvage bag + Selvage along

I have this project on my Q3 FAL list and it's been there for a while. You can see I was definitely undecided back then which spelling to use and I messed up both and called it Selvadge, lol.

When Renee asked me if I want to participate in their Selvage along I said YES! Welcome to my stop of Selvage along hosted by Renee and Jessica.

I'm not sharing any tutorials but I hope you'll find some inspiration. My bag is based on tutorial by Ayumi called Lunch bag. I just up sized it a bit.

I sewed all my selvages on piece of interfacing but it wasn't big enough so I cut it in half and added solid bottom.

 

If you are curious about the size. My exterior piece was 64x38cm. The bottom strip was 15cm wide. I cut the lining as one piece as well. I just place the exterior piece on lining fabric and cut all around. There is no seam at the bottom which is my preferred way of making bags.

The reason why it took me so long to finish this bag was that I couldn't decide on which fabric to use. I settled on darker orange linen and quilted with variegated thread.

The cover is simple Ikea B&W fabric. Once you fold it down it is like bucket or tote bag.

Maybe you have noticed I made the rim taller (10cm) as well. I just wanted the bag to be an adult size.

I wanted to make one for myself ever since I made that first one on left. That is the original size.

Since we are talking selvages here are few more projects I previously made. The first one is variation on pouch called Sleeping bag. It uses endless zipper.

This is one exterior piece open wide pouch. Read more here.

Selvages are perfect for the final touch on your pincushions as well. No matter if it is giant or skinny. Details here.

Here is the full schedule of the blog hop:

July 20 - Intro post
July 24 - Selvage storage/collection linkup 
July 27 - Selvage Strip Pillow Tutorial by Jess @ Quilty Habit 
August 3 - Anna Maria Horner Selvage Feathers Tutorial by Renee @ Quilts of a Feather
August 10 -  Selvage Zippy Pouch Tutorial by Chris @ Made by ChrissieD & mid-way check-in linky on both blogs  
August 17 - Selvage Binding Tutorial by Yvonne @ Quilting Jetgirl
August 24 - Project by Vera @ Negligent Style  <<<You are here!
August 31 - Project by Jess @ Elven Garden Quilts
Sept. 7 - Selvage Churn Dash Project Share by Helga @ Cluckin' Pineapple 
Sept. 14 - Tutorial round up on both blogs

July 24 - Linky - selvage projects on both blogs
Sept. 21 - Last linky party- link up all your selvage projects!

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