I’ve got a couple of goodies that are on sale until January 1.
Teensy Flowers Plate // $5 — normally $15
Baby Blue Zippy Pouch // $5 — normally $10
That’s Kinda Kitschy Zippy Pouch // $5 — normally $10
Big Beautiful Butterflies Wallet // $25 — normally $35 (there are 2 of these!)
Get ‘em while the gettin’s good … before January 1.
Adria lent me her Denyse Schmidt Quilts book a while back and I’ve been slowly working on a few projects in it.
A while back I made a quilted heating pad cover and I’ve been meaning to work on some of the scrappy projects to get through my stash and to build up some fun inventory for Market Day. I came across a project for some greeting cards with fabric sewn to the front. Denyse Schmidt calls them “Dis-Cards”. As a graphic designer, I’ve got a TON of paper samples stocked away. The particular paper I used for these cards was something I’d ordered when I was thinking of re-tooling my portfolio a couple years ago. Obviously (as you can tell by my main website) I haven’t gotten around to doing that. So, instead, I used this lovely Classic Columns duplex 120# cover weight sheet to make cards. Funny thing — it’s like the paper was waiting for this project. The sample sheets I have cut down to EXACTLY the size of 4 A6 greeting cards.
Anywho, here’s a sneak peek at the cards that I’ve made with some of my scraps. I’m planning to have about 100 of these by Market Day (which, by the way, is May 29th this month from 9 AM–2 PM). I’m putting them in coordinating packs of 5 with envelopes.
This one is my favorite one that I’ve made so far. I love the combination of fabrics.
These cards are a LOT of fun to make. It’s a great scrapbuster for those super small scraps that don’t have enough edge to sew together. Of course, most of these cards use Wonderland. I’ve got a few scraps left from the Puzzle Quilt I’ve been working on. I’m digging the frayed edges on these. As well as the faux quilting. I’m having fun playing with a few different stitches. I don’t have a super high-tech sewing machine, so I’m really stuck with zig-zags as my creative stitch, but mixing the different stitches gives a really cool look.
I’ve been obsessed with Wonderland by Momo ever since it came out. So, I’ve started working on two new projects with what I’ve got left.
I bought a jelly roll a while back and decided to make Thea’s Puzzle Quilt (a pattern by Amy Butler). I’ve got the middle section done, so I just need to create the border of solid color that goes around it — and for Mark’s sake, I’m going to do brown instead of pink (apparently he hates pink … and I’m hoping that both him and the quilt stick around for a while!). Then I’m going to add an oatmeal-colored fabric for the border and possibly the backing.
Above is a close-up of my favorite block. I love how the scissors pattern is echoed a bit smaller in the patchwork fabric.
I’ve also been wanting a DayRunner for a while, but I didn’t want to just buy a pre-made one. It’s not as fun if you do things the easy way! So I bought the “guts” for a DayRunner and figured out a pattern (which I will post eventually after I do a testrun with it on the road). Of course, I used Wonderland. Here’s how it turned out.
I need to sew a button on the front yet and I need to add some binder rings and sew those in, but otherwise, I’m loving it. 
… I was on vacation in Chicago last week … but I managed to sweatshop some lovely camera/iPod/electronic cozies. They’re not quite finished, but here they are in the making.
I decided that before I went to Chicago and to The Needle Shop (the highlight of my trip of course) that I had to work through the scraps I acquired last time I was there. So, enter, easy peasy camera/iPod cozies.
Of course, these will have button closures, but this is how far I’ve gotten for now, so I thought I’d share!
I’ve been reading the Denyse Schmidt Quilts book that Adria let me borrow and saw the heating pad project and just HAD to do it. I hardly make anything for myself, but it annoys me that I have my heating pad out in the middle of my living room and it’s so not cute. It had some weird 90s pattern on the cover. Not a fan.
Well, now, it’s stylin’! I used the original cover for insulation and quilted the patchwork piece to it. The original cover had a snap closure on it, so I didn’t have to mess with putting a closure on the new cover. Pretty smart, eh?
I took today off since I had to take my mancandy to the airport at an obscenely early time and wanted to sleep/clean/catch up on crafting the rest of the day.
Needless to say, I didn’t get a whole lot of cleaning done (I did put the dishes away!), but I got a little sleeping and a LOT of crafting done. I finished off both sets of wonky log cabin blocks I’ve been working in — one with my repro fabrics, and the other with Wonderland and Amy Butler fabrics that I’ve been hoarding. I have 17 of the repro block and 24 of the Amy Butler/Wonderland blocks. I’m going to make a queen-sized quilt with the AB/W blocks, but not sure what I’m going to do with the repro blocks.
Here are some of the more fun blocks from the repro log cabin set (8″x8″).
And here are some cool ones from the Amy Butler set …
Eventually I’ll make these into quilts, but until then, they’re just pretty patchwork pieces.
My friend Adria is de-stashing her fabric and she put together a bunch of bundles and is selling them for cheap. All of the bundles are designer-fabric only.
Her store is whoopdedoo5.etsy.com. If you convo her with the code “chimesdedoo” you will get 20% off your order! What a deal. She’s got a TON of fabric and she’s really nice, so you might be able to get a better deal if you play your cards right!
Tell her chimes sent you!
