Ta. Da. Is it ironic or coincidental that one of the first projects I’ve actually finished in a long time is a device to help me get organized?

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.

Original price: $300
Sale Price: $85

It’s almost killing me to do this — I love this quilt so much, but I’m moving soon and need some of my items to go.  I love this quilt and it’s hard to get rid of it, but it’s just got to go!

I did another wonky log cabin block because those are just too easy and addictive.

Here’s the finished product. It doesn’t go with anything I own other than the chair in which I photographed it.

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.

]]> http://chimesdesign.com/blog/2010/02/17/metric-butt-ton-of-quilt-blocks/feed/ 1 http://chimesdesign.com/blog/2010/02/02/im-feeling-sassy-february-wallet-sale/ http://chimesdesign.com/blog/2010/02/02/im-feeling-sassy-february-wallet-sale/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:39:14 +0000 chimes http://chimesdesign.com/blog/?p=1517 Since I’m feeling sassy, I’m having a February $5 off sale on all my wallets on etsy!  Also — if you follow me on twitter or if you found this sale through my blog, convo me and I’ll give you free shipping on your wallet.

Check it out!

Oversized Clutch Wallet — $35

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $25

Wonderland Patchwork Wallet — $15

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $15

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $15

Large Park Slope Patchwork Wallet — $20

Large Park Slope Frog Closure Wallet — $20

Medium Echino Wallet — $15

Enjoy!!

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!

Fat Quarter Shop (which I frequent and my credit card bill hates me for it) gave P.S. I quilt a $50 gift certificate to give away.  To enter, comment on her post about the giveaway. Additional entries if you blog about the giveaway and if you follow her blog.

I hadn’t heard of P.S. I Quilt’s blog before, but man, I sure have now. She picks lovely fabrics and blogs about them and makes fabulous quilts and patchwork items.

Anywho… me and the sewing machine totally hung out last night. 

I’v e been wanting to make this bag ever since I discovered the moda bake shop last week (thanks to Adria, of course). For those of you who don’t know what Moda is…it’s a fabric manufacturer. The bake shop gives “recipes” for different things to do with their fabric. Kind of self-serving…but hey, they have incredible step-by-step tutorials, so I love it!

I got out the scraps from Adria’s mermaid quilt last night, a chunk of yellow fabric and some felt stuff that I figured would work just fine for “batting” since I’m not really making a quilt…and went to town.  It was pretty fun. All the while I was watching Sixteen Candles on Encore.

Here’s what I came up with so far. Nothing too exciting. I need to go get some zippers and some more batting material so I can finish these. I have enough fabric to make a ton of these…but I was planning to make one for my mom and all my girlfriends. Although, I don’t know if they all like pink as much as I do.  

Oh, um, did I mention this piece was my FIRST ATTEMPT AT QUILTING???? eeeee!  It went pretty well. I don’t have a walking foot, but I’m going to get one now. I totally think I could quilt my hardcore quilt top!

That is all.

I’m scared to death to quilt these myself! I don’t want to ruin them. I want them quilted with fuschia thread. I have the fuschia dotty fabric and pink dotty fabric for the binding and seafoam green and a dusty pink for the backing fabrics…just need somebody with the skillz to finish them for me!

I want to keep this one for myself. I love the butterfly squares with the butterfly on the side flying away.

this one is cute too, but I might have to part with it.