I finished Red Chevy Crush a couple of weeks ago.
I didn’t blog about it because I really only have time to blog 1x/week. And the last two week’s posts were about my blog’s birthday giveaway and the giveaway winner .
This post is a little longer because I have some catching up to do.
Ok, so…I’ve been free motion quilting, herein referred to as FMQ. In an effort to get good at it…and I DO want to be good, I started the #dailyfmq challenge on Instagram (it goes through 9/22/14). It challenges me to practice for at least 10 mins/day. I had previously enrolled in two Craftsy quilting classes (one of which I wrote about here) but I haven’t really done what qualifies as practice until about 2 weeks ago.
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Also practicing w/Paint |
I’ve been doing my FMQ practice on this Autumn quilt top I finished a few weeks ago. I’m quilting something different on each piece w/in a block.
I don’t mean to toot my own horn…but toot toot! I already feel and see a difference in my FMQ.
The other challenge I’m participating in is the #ablockadaychallenge on Instagram. I’ve been making Bento Box blocks for a charity quilt for QA .
I’m not sure if this qualifies as a notion or gadget, but a friend told me about Clearly Perfect Angles and how it works beautifully for sewing HST and mitered binding, so I ordered it. It’s perfect! And speaking of mitered binding, I found and used this sanity-saving tutorial for a mitered join.
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Scrappy Fail |
I attempted to make my first pattern tutorial for something scrappy but I don’t like how it turned out at all. A solid fabric would’ve improved the look, but I’m still not liking the center either.
Maybe pattern tutorials aren’t my thing just yet. In the mean time, I will continue to use other peeps’ patterns and tutorials, like the tons of free lovelies I came across on Quilter’s Cache.

My grandson was bugging me about sewing so last week I gave him a crash course and helped him make a Tube Pillowcase using this YouTube video tutorial…but I also just found this pdf using a slightly different method.
We went camping over the Labor Day weekend and aside from fear of being mauled by a bear while sleeping, it was fun.
A Thread for Life
This life is a journey we walk by faith
Say Amen – Finding Favour
I’m linking up on TGIFF , Whoop Whoop, Free Motion Mavericks, Free Motion by the River AND Let’s Bee Social!
Have I gone overboard w/the Linkys? Is there such a thing? I hope not.