Boxy bag!

Click here to find the Boxy Bag  pattern:    Boxy Bag

I made this bag for a birthday gift.

Finally finding time........

I am finally finding time to post these pictures of my lastest project. Which is almost done now, but I have put it on hold to spend time with our out of town guest.

                                  

This is a table topper/wall hanging. I designed the pattern myself. I'm  not sure how well you can see the pattern lying there in the photo, but  this is a glimps into how I work. 

                                            

My new skill for this project is mitered corners! I and pretty happy with them. Not a difficult as one might think. Don't be afraid to try them. 

                 

                Pining the last row of material and lining up my end points.

             

Oh second new thing for me which was a bit more of a challenge that I thought this wonderful idea of getting some golden thread paper and free motion quilting.  This would be better if I understand my machine better. I have asked around with no luck of help.  So I am not sure if my machine is not working right or if it is supposed to try and take over when sewing. Either way I need more practice. Not to bad for my first try.

This is pretty much as far as I got before our company came so I will update everyone as soon as they go home and I can work on it.

My free motion setting isn't working correctly? HMMM not sure. Help!

Does anyone else out there have a huskquvanra Shaphire 850? I am trying to figure out what Im doing wrong with the free motion setting. I have put the check mark in the free motion box, but the dogs dont drop and if you try to put them down they dont stay. It will let you free motion fine and then all of a sudden  the machine will try to take over and then shifts back. I'm bummed out.
  
If  you can help please do?

Grrr!

I miss measured!!!!!!! GRRRRRR!
 Now I have to piece a piece of the table cloth that I didn't want too. I can't stand big mistakes.

Sew Seeds for Haiti

Check this out! This is something that all can help with!  Sew them yourself or buy the fabric for a friend. Do whats right for you but this is the neatest way to help I've seen.

sewing seeds for haiti

Table Runner!

I love this Table runner! I was introduced to the pattern at my mother sewing group, nice ladies.  If you have been following my blog you know that I started it quite at while ago. Life just got in the way. I finally decided to stop the merry go round I call my life and make time to finish this project.  I love how it turned out, I  decided to pick up fabric for making cloth napkins to match. They are still in the works though.

Lesson learned!

  
        Ok, I am not the best at computers and I am the first to admit that.  However surfing I can handle, so I thought until earlier this week, when I realized that my credit card had two different charges on it from the company I ordered my latest must have book.  Read and click very carefully! I got charged for my book and a membership fee that I discovered is a monthly 9.95 charge whether you use the site or not.  (on careful research of there web site) Thank goodness it took only a short phone call to cancel it.  However this made my book not a good price! OH bummer!

       The upside to all this is I now have my quilt book that I spent time looking for on all over the County. None of the quilt stores had it and I just had too. There is a quilt in there that for some reason really floats my boat even thought it is super simple.