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Mending favors?

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Have you ever gotten into an awkward situation when one of your close friend or family or even acquaintance asks you to mend something for you? Just because I sew, people think that mending other people's clothes is a fun job for me. I don't even mend my own families clothes then, why would I stay up late or wake up early in the morning to mend someone else clothes? Image Source:  http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/69800/69826/69826_lady-mend.htm Its like just because you can cook, people ask you to cook all the time or for that matter any other thing. How do you handle this in a polite manner? I am afraid of mentioning to my non-sewing or non-quilting friend that I sew or quilt.

FMQ Friday - Textured solids quilting

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This past Wednesday I started quilting my textured solids quilt, blogged here . I knew I wanted to quilt all straight lines inspired my original quilt from the book which was quilted by Angela Walters . But I am still a novice when it comes to long arm quilting. Sometimes I have hard time translating my ideas or the right approach for long arm quilting. I wanted to use different color threads for different area. So, I started with the outer white: Quilting on the outer borders - or white background Closeup of the quilting Before unloading the quilt from the long arm I decided to quilt a straight line through the center seam and now my quilt is all bunched up from the back. So, I have to unpick my stitches before loading it again for quilting :-(. Not my favorite thing to do. Any ideas of how you would have handled this on the long arm machine? Now linking up to Leah Day's FMQ Friday .

W.I.P. Wednesday - All blues and greens

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Last week I finished couple of projects. The textured solids quilt top and the warm & cozy car seat cover for the little one. Textured Solid Quilt - from Quilting Modern book by Jacquie Gering and Katie Pederson Honey do list - A car seat cover for my toddler using fleece fabrics My LQS Bits N Pieces had fabulous sale over the weekend and I got more of Simply Style FQs. Right now, cutting into these beautiful fabrics. Simply Style fabrics by V & Co Now linking up to Lee's freshly pieced blog .

BMQG - December party and Yankee swap

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Here is what I brought home from the swap. This lovely pillow was made by Laurie . Isn't this pillow so adorable. The colors are same as my daughter's Ariel themed bedroom. Here is one happy little girl: Happy quilting!

FMQ Friday - BMQG Dec Swap

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For our BMQG December meeting we all have to bring something quilty stuff for gift exchange. I decided to make this little mug rug, since I knew I will be short of time and wanted to pick something which I can finish before the meeting. This is probably between 6 to 7 inch finished hexagon. Also this was my first attempt at finishing the little quilt with hexagon binding. I did have to fiddle with closing the binding right, took me a while. Here are some pictures: Hexa Mug Rug - Simply Color Fabric line by V & Co Binding - I used ombre fabric in Aqua from same fabric line Back of the mug rug - I even attempted to label it this time ;) The binding was machine stitched to the front and hand stitched at the back. This little thing took me little over 4 hours to make. Either I am very slow or detailed oriented. Now linking up to Leah Day's  FMQ Friday. I will be back again with another post on the gift I got to grab. Yes, I used the word grab since it was a Yan...

W.I.P - Wednesday

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I am so excited to be part of Kona Blog Hop @ Sew We Quilt . Over the past couple of years I have been collecting lots of solids especially Kona cottons. Here is my stash, I have a few FQ bundles and the lots of half yard cuts. Are you wondering which colors I will choose? Come back in January to find out more about this project. Now linking up to Lee's@Freshly Pieced blog.