How to organize your fabric.

This is how I do it. It is not my preferred or recommended method, just the one I seem to do the most often. 

Step 1. First you need a cute little girl. Here is mine, little Miss Katelynn Kay. If you do not have a little cutie of your own you may need to borrow one. Cute little boys will work too!

You may recognize her from my other post about the chair stealer. Isn't she cute?

Step 2. Be completely distracted sewing. I was working on this quilt at the time.

Strippy Double Diamond

Step 3. Well step 3 goes without directions. This is what you need the little cutie for. 

Step 4. Fold the fabric and put it all back. She helped me organize 2 drawers that day.

I'm addicted to...................

BATIKS!!

I love them and can not get enough of them! I bought this kit last year at a local quilt show and just finished putting it together, however I am a little disappointed that it didn't come with borders. Oh well, live and learn I guess. It is still BEAUTIFUL!! The pattern is called Strippy Double Diamonds. 

I apologize for my horrible pictures. I need to find a better place than my floor to take pictures.

The pattern calls for a 2" cut inner border and a 4" cut outer border. Now to find fabric.

Quilting with my niece!

My niece, Kilee who is 10, has been wanting to make a little quilt for her American Girl Dolls. Finally she was able to come spend the night and we made a little one. The quilt finished at 24" square and I think that she might give it to her mom as a birthday gift tomorrow instead of using it for her dolls. I told her that we can always make another quilt.

She did an amazing job. She has used a machine before but more or less just played with it. I of course did all of the rotary cutting and binding by myself. She did all the piecing and helped me with the pinning. There were a few seams that we had to do a little repair on but I am very impressed with how she did. She was getting a little tired when we got to the free motion quilting but she still did about half of it.

She did really good with the loops especially since this was her first time free motion quilting. Did you see how she had her hands. Perfect!!

I did some flowers, hearts, loops, meander, leaves and some peace signs on it. She loves peace sign. Is always drawing them. So here she is with her finished quilt.

Row 7 of Sylvia's Bridal Sampler Complete!!

Last month I did 3 rows of the Sylvia's Bridal Sampler. Boy was I busy! Made great progress but going to take it a little easier this month. I am planning on doing just one row this month. I started piecing together another top because I needed a change and didn't want to get burnt out on the sampler. Don't get me wrong, I love the sampler, just need something different for a bit.

So here are rows 1-7. The blocks in the 7th row are:

Love in a Mist

Oklahoma Dogwood

Bear's Paw

Chimney's and Cornerstones

Mariner's Compass

Grace's Friendship

Sarah's Favorite

Crown of Thorns

Modern Tulips

Arizona

Here are links to the previous finished rows.

Row 1

Row 2

Row 3

Row 4

Row 5 

Row 6

I am officially half way done with the blocks. I have 70 of 140 blocks completed and sewn into the top. I am so glad that I decided to piece this together as I went. 

Same blog..........New name!!

Thanks to my friend Shirley, she came up with a new nickname for me in our online quilting group Scrappy Quilters Anonymous, Bobbin and I love it! She is Sewbee in her Sewing Cave and I am Bobbin. Get it! Kind of like Batman and Robin only the quilting ones!

Oh no!! There is a chair thief in my sewing room!!

I am busily sewing strips together for my double diamond batik quilt that I am working on. I get up to press my strips and I turn around to sit down and there in my chair is the chair thief!!

Oh wait! That is no chair thief that is my little future quilter Katelynn. She has discovered that she can climb on my chair and that when she pushes buttons on my sewing machine it makes a wonderful beeping noise! She is such a stinker. Next to the sewing machine you can see a strip set for the new top I am working on. There are 10 different groups of colors. Going to be beautiful when it is finished, especially since it is batiks! My favorite!

Here she is at the other end of my table. Andrew pushed a box up next to my table so that his sister can see what is going on and of course grab everything and anything that she can reach.