Bountiful blog tour 2 new bags!

Welcome! Today is my stop on the Bountiful Fabric blog tour. The designer is Sharon Holland, and I LOVE this new line for Art Gallery Fabrics. I love her description of this line "Bountiful celebrates the beauty and natural resources of the Midwest America countryside through the use of soft brush strokes and fresh tones such as celery, sienna, teal, and slate gray."

I am was so excited to participate in this tour. I chose to work with this beautiful canvas fabric, and created 2 new bags.  My daughters have already claimed both of them!

 This first one is actually a bag upcycle. I purchased this black bag (it was all black at the time) it was on clearance for $10. I figured half the work was done for me, and I would pay that much for the zipper and straps anyway. I think it looks pretty great!

 Plus it looks like it took a lot of work/skill, but it didn't. I just unpicked that main panel and pinned everything back. I am going to keep an eye out for clearance bags in the future.

 The second is a quick tote I created. I combined a couple pinterest tutorials, and came up with this pattern and design.

 This was simple too, because the straps were just cotton webbing. (I think that is what it is called) and then I added this charcoal panel.  A pretty lace embellishment and it was done. It looks the same on both sides. The pockets are nice for phones, or little notepads or books.

A little close up on the detail.

Make sure you visit all the other stops, there are some cute projects going on in blog land. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you like my bags. I hope you love this new fabric line, Bountiful, as much as I do! 

Monday, April 3 

Heidi Staples 

Blog: fabricmutt

Instagram: @fabricmutt

Tuesday, April 4 

Emily Dennis 

Blog: quiltylove

Instagram: emily_dennis_

Wednesday, April 5 

Minki Kim 

Blog: Minikim

Instagram:@zeriano

Thursday, April 6 

Heather Andrus 

Blog: quiltstory

Instagram: quiltstory 

Friday, April 7 

Sharon McConnell 

Blog: colorgirlquilts

Instagram: @colorgirlquilts 

Monday, April 10 

Silvia Sutters 

Blog: astrangerview

Instagram: @astrangerview 

Tuesday, April 11 

Elina Temmes 

Blog : elinatemmes

Instagram: @elinatemmes 

Wednesday, April 12 

Kim Niedzwiecki 

Blog: gogokim

Instagram:gogokim

Thursday, April 13 

Katie Skoog 

Blog: TheSimpleLifeCompany

Instagram: @SimpleLifePatterns 

Friday, April 14 

Cindy Wiens 

Blog: liveacolorfullife

Instagram: @liveacolorfullife 

Monday, April 17 

Maureen Cracknell 

Blog: maureencracknellhandmade

Instagram: @maureencracknell 

Tuesday, April 18 

Name: Lynn Harris 

Blog : LynnCarsonHarris

Instagram: @LynnCarsonHarris 

Wednesday, April 19 

Anjeanette Klinder 

Blog : anjeanettek

Instagram: @anjeanetteklinder

Thursday, April 20 

Mathew Boudreaux 

Blog: misterdomestic

Instagram: @MisterDomestic 

Friday, April 21 

Alexis Wright 

Blog: mysweetsunshinestudio

Instagram: @myysweetsunshine 

Sue Stone 

Blog: needleinafabricstash

Instagram: @needleinafabricstash

Mischief Quilt from DIY addict. English Paper Piecing

Heather here. I have started my Mischief quilt. Its an English paper piecing kit, I got from The DIY Addict . I love the kit, templates, paper pieces, and pattern. I am pretty sure I will never cut my own paper pieces. Here are the six I have finished. 

So, fussy cutting takes significantly longer, but I think my blocks are significantly cuter, so I will keep at it. It also wastes A LOT of fabric, but as long as I am resourceful with my scraps, I don't think this will be a big issue...

Seeing all the cute bears and fish and animals makes me happy everytime I look at these!

So now I am deciding on a background, I think it needs to be black or navy, thoughts?

Alright, hopefully in a few weeks I have several more to share!

Bella Skill Builder Pt 2

Bella Skills Builder Part 2, Orange Peels! I tried really hard to place these perfectly on each square, even so they are definitely not perfect.

(Fat Quarter Shop is hosting a monthly skill building pattern. You'll finish a few blocks per month of a certain skill, see the bottom for the full quilt)

I used Fat Quarter Shop's template and they are raw edge, using a temporary iron-on adhesive and stitched down.

It's really hard to get a good pic of the colors. The pink is so soft and the darker color is a fuchsia/wine and not as bright as it appears. It was really hard to choose a solids color palette with no print to base it on. I went with a winter berry theme.

Bella Skill Builder, Part 1:

And a wrinkly one of them all together.

Here's the full quilt, I'm excited! I think pineapple blocks are next, which is new for me!

Sweet Strawberries

 It's been a long time since we blogged to blog! We've talked, as sisters, and we're ready to remedy that! So don't give up on us! We're excited to elaborate more on our Instagram projects.

First up, my Strawberry quilt!!! How can these sweet quilt not take center stage?!

I used the pattern Strawberry Social from Pattern Basket. If you google that it will come right up.

I used a larger variety of prints than the pattern suggests and didn't add a border since I wanted mine a little smaller. I used the dot from the line "Hello Bear" by Bonnie Christine for Art Gallery Fabrics, I think it's the perfect background for a strawberry quilt!

This quilt was made for my sweet Lucy girl! (Do you just love her strawberry sheets?! I HAD to buy them right?!)

I've got myself into a tradition of making my babies 4 year old quilts. Nothing specific, just a reason to make them a quilt! I add an embroidered message to the back too.

I added the SOFTEST minky to the back, I've been hanging onto it for a while and it is seriously incredibly cozy.

I asked my very talented friend, Rhonda who owns Olie and Evie, if she would quilt this for me. Maybe it's cheesy but I found a design with bees, flowers and leaves and thought it was too cute to pass up on.  She also wrote "Lucia" on one of the strawberries and I just love that.

Thanks friends for stopping by!! Hope to see and hear more from you! :)