Hi to all of those following "It's All About Me".
Here is the schedule for today:
Friday, February 22
A Little Bit of Lorene
Life In The Scrapatch
Boston Bits
I Love Wool
Patchouli Moon Studio
As Sweet As Peaches
Just Quilt It
Grandmama's Stories
The Slow Quilter
Robin at That Other Blog
Scrapbook-ChickADoodle
Thanks to
Madame Samm and
Marlene for organizing this blog hop for us. I always learn something new when I participate and always get great ideas. So far, I have seen many great projects--quilters are so creative!
We were given a really cute pattern by Amy Bradley called "I'm a Little Biased." I haven't done much sewing on the bias, sew this was a real challenge for me. I needed to make our quilt lady look a little more like me, sew I changed her hair, added a few buttons and some scissors around her neck, and changed her glasses. She was lots of fun to work with. I love the little smile (smirk) that Amy gave to her.
I decided to make a large quilting bag to carry my projects back and forth to Quilt Club and to retreats. I wanted to choose fabrics from my stash, but I don't like to work with stripes and didn't have many. Fortunately, we were going through fabric at church for our women's fellowship group to make quilts for charity. I found some cute stripes among the fabric.
I used bias fabric for the block, but reverted back to cutting along the grain for the border, sides, and straps--otherwise I would still be working! I machine quilted the border on the diagonal to give more of a biased look. The picture above looks pink, but the picture below is the actual color.
I also thought this would be a good time to try out some of the stitches on the machine I recently bought, so I found a nice "scissors" pattern and used it on the binding and on the straps. I put a pocket on the inside and practiced my FMQ--no one will see it, so it was a good place to practice. (Although it turned out pretty well.)
Well, now it is off to finish up my Nancy Drew project! Thanks for coming by to see my project. Be sure to visit the other quilters sharing their lovely ladies today! And,
Remember to hop over to Sew We Quilt to visit Madame Samm and see her top picks of the day.
