Blue Heart Block

Here is an attempt at the block heart using some blue fabric......

Heart Blocks Using the Curved Piecing Technique

Here are two heart blocks made using the Pieced Cirves "circle" technique. Am using up some extra blue fabric before using the new red heart fabric for the Heart Walk Quilts. I'll have some more blue pillows for my bedroom.....

More Circle Blocks!!

Here are some more circle blocks sewn together for a nice start to a pillow.....

Blue Circles

Here is my first attempt at making circles using the Pieced Curves SO simple technique. The directions as simple as they appear where daunting to begin...so I just forged ahead and behold it worked!!!!! I am learning this technique in hopes of trying the heart technique so I can make another quilt for the Heart Walk. Will try a few more circles so I get that down pat. Once I feel comfy with that then I will try some hearts....in blue of course and make some pillows for my blue room.

Heart Walk Quilt

This quilt would be 41" x 54". It would take 1/2 yard each of 6 creams for the block backgrounds, and sashing strips and 3/8 yard each of 6 reds for the hearts. It would take and additional 1/4 for the posts. I did the layout quickly and bunched up the cream colors and the reds... obviously you would do your wonderful randomizing technique!

The block size is 11" x 11" finished (11.5" x 11.5" raw edge). The sashing strips are 2" x 11" finished. Posts are 2" x 2" finished.

It would take (4) strips of binding. If you make the binding strips 2.25" wide, you would need 1/4 yard of fabric. If you make the binding strips 2.5" wide, you would need 3/8 yard of fabric.

For the backing you will need about 1 and 5/8 yard fabric.

Yo, Love the Wine Tote!

What a great design. You are very clever! I'm sure your friend will love it. How did you get the idea to zigzag together on the machine?

A Special Gift for A Special Friend! A Yo-Yo Wine Carrier!!!!

A visit to my friend Pam in Wrightsville Beach prompted me to make a fun gift to take along.
Who'd have thunk! What a great way to use your scraps and those fabrics that just don't "fit" into a quilt!







Here are some of the tacky fabrics and the cool yo-yo's they make......never throw out an ugly fabric ...it's probably perfect for a yo-yo!!!

The colors these weird fabrics include make the yo-yo's very colorful accents to add to any project but perfect for this one.


During the past year when I had idle hand syndrome...especially at night when watching TV I would make yo-yo's hoping to find a fun project to use them in someday!

By zig-zagging the yo-yos together on the machine it creates a cool grid.

Here you can see the grid created by zig-zagging in both directions.....

I made a black canvas bag just the right size for carrying one bottle of wine. The yo-yo grid ended up 8 rows of 9 each to connect around the black canvas bag....

After slipping the grid over the bag I stitched the top and bottom to the edges of the bag....

To make the holder/carrier more sturdier...I cut two circles of cardboard and sandwiched them between clear contact paper so the disks would be firm and liquid proof...in case of a sweating wine bottle!!!!!

Here's the cardboard sandwich....

Trim off the extra contact paper......

Insert the covered disk in the bottom of the holder.....













Here is a close up of the yo-yo grid cover over the black canvas bag.....

VOI- LA-LA!!!!!! A fun gift to give a special friend!!!! Colorful and useful!!!!!

You'd never know it was tacky looking fabric!!!!!!!!

A great gift!!!!!