A Speedy Macbook Air Case

This time, It's a race against time. Hubby just got a macbook air and would fly abroad in the next 48 hours. So i decided to make a case for the laptop ready to be used for his journey.

The scraps of Tula Pink 's Acacia is too precious to let go, so I sewed them and add a bit of Kain Lurik That I got from Indonesia. For the lining, I use a fat quarter of  Asbury's Broadwalk in Pink that I got from The Village Haberdashery. Browsing their website, i bumped into a tutorial to make a macbook air case. What a perfect coincidence! I could use it as a reference!

Tinker Tote ala Tara Rebmann

After watching a bag making class using the quilt as you go method with Tara Rebmann as the instructor at Craftsy, I finally convinced my self of making one. I really enjoyed Tara's class, and she made the project seems easy to do. She covers all the aspect of the quilt as you go to make a pot holder and a tinker tote.

The material she uses are scraps, or fabric leftovers with coordinating colour scheme.  I have scraps, but not in the colour scheme I want. So I made a visit to Annie's store The Village Haberdashery in Cricklewood and picked some fabrics from her SALE racks. Awesome stuff I found there, that I had to reign my self from shopping too much. It's always exciting when shopping fabrics.

This the first time I made a bag. And I had so much fun making the tinker tote. I just watched the class video over and over if I was not sure of the process. With a little patience and more attention on how Tara made the tinker tote, the bag was nearly finished. Just need the binding, and it's ready to use. Yaaayyyy!!!

PS: I just found Tara's blog. It's http://tinkerfrog.blogspot.co.uk/

Out To The Sea Quilt

As I mentioned in my previous post, that I like hopping from one project to another. One of the three project that interrupting the Shade of Purple Buzzsaw is Out To The Sea quilt I made for a birthday present. Using Sarah Jane's Out To The Sea collection and some Klona cotton solids, I FMQed the whole quilt. I always love Sarah Jane's fabrics, they are so cute and fun.

 I doodled the little girl's name on the quilt. I admit it was a rather late completion because I had to fly to Indonesia and stayed there for more than a month. I had give away the quilt as present to the daughter of a family friend, but sadly no news what soever upon her reception. Well now, what can I say....I just hope she enjoys it...:-(

The Shade of Purple Buzzsaw

I finally finished my Chainsaw or Buzzsaw quilt. It takes so long to quilt it, because I have beed tempted by other projectS. Well not one or two, but at least four other projects. There are 3 additional patchwork projects and 1 sewing projects. The patchworks are all done and they are queuing to be quilted. But the sewing projects is rather left out. I guess I don't have much time todo them all. So much ideas so little capacity to do it! Siigh!

So here it s my finish Chainsaw quilt, that I learnt the method from Kimberley Einmo. I am trying not to feel guilty by using the quilting mode of my Janome MC 12000. Normally I would FMQ the whole quilt. But I realise that I haven't made use the best out of my machine, so I decided to explore and play around with the machine. I still did FMQ but not on the whole quilt as my machine helps me with its built in design.

I am actually quite happy with how it turns out.. :-)

Purple Me Chainsaw

After a long thought, I finally decided to make a Chainsaw Quilt that I learnt from Kimberley Einmo in a Craftsy class. However I didn't enough supplies like she suggested. So I improvised the supplies by using some fat quarters and solids, instead of layer cake and jelly roll. It turned out rather well, actually, and I am so pleased with it. From a FQ n solids, it yielded 4 blocks of chainsaw. In total I use 4 FQs and nearly a meter of Moda Solids. I used Kate Spain's collection: Cuzco for the patterned sides.  And oh my, the line is just so delicious, that I couldn't cut the whole collection. I wanted to keep some of it. Alas, I used purple as the theme, so I called it Purple Me Chainsaw.

Now, it's time to play for the arrangement!...

Obsessed with Sarah Fileke

09.35, Friday. Knock, knock, knock!

Hurry up! Open the door before the man goes away!

Yaayyyy, he's here with a package! I am sure it's my third Sarah Fielke's book: Quilting from Little Things. Quickly openthe package, and voila!

Before ordering it, I consulted with Sarah Fielke as there are two books with same title but different cover. According to her, it should be the same content, but sometimes the publisher put different stamps. Same case with the other book of hers: Material Obsession, which comes out also with different cover. 

Just like her other books, this book is loaded with beautiful inspiring pictures, and also comes with patterns. But unfortunately her first book, Material Obsession 1: Contemporary Quilt Design doesn't come with pattern.

Sarah Fileke is a genius with her work. She approaches quilting in a fun way, but still leaving the traditional feeling on her work. I admire her works that I can't help to spend more quids taking her class, Big Technique from Small Scraps at Craftsy. And I don't regret, it's a real good class!

Gone To Earth

I had been waiting for Mr. Postman.  And I was so excited when he knocked at my door because he needed to hand me over a package. Normally he would just shuffle the letters through the mail slot. Hurraaahhh....it's here! My order at Gone To Earth has arrived.

Gone To Earth has been one of my favourite online shops to get beautiful fabrics.  It has a wide range selections of designer fabrics such as Amy Butler, Anna Maria Horner, Tula Pink, Joel Dewberry, etc.  It also has solids from Moda and Free Spirit, and some other sewing-quilting stuffs.  They are all reasonably priced, but comes with extra postage fee for the customer to pay. I wish GTE would apply free postage for order over certain value, like some other seller.

This is my third order at GTE, and this time I asked the owner, Julia, to send me two colour swatches from Moda and one from FreeSpirit, because I want to match the with my fabric. She fulfilled my wish so well. She sent me not only little swatches, but a good length of the solids. This way I can feel the solids better. Thank you Julia and Gone To Earth.  Hopefully I will come back to order from you soon!:-)