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hand quilted with love

I've been a fan of Sarah Fielke's since I cracked open her book "Material Obsession" a few years ago.  Sarah's projects are so right up my alley.  Full of fun, bright scrap happy fabrics. 

Needless to say, I was so very super excited to get my hands on her "hand quilted with love".

 

 

This book is packed full of great information, useful techniques, awesome patterns, and incredible inspiration.

 

 

As with every quilting book I've looked through, there were a few quilts that jumped off the pages and into my heart as soon as I saw them. 

 

The Bangles quilt

 

 

and the Made to Measure quilt:

 

I hope to make both of these quilts at some point.  And if you're interested, the lovely and talented Amanda is having a Bangle-along! 

 

So if you're looking to be inspired by some scrappy goodness, this is a book for you!

xo,

Penny

p.s.  Sarah, I proudly found the perfect place to put the card you gave me at dinner last year. 

 

 

 

tulips and dishmats

 

 

I think these sweet gifts from my sweet friends Joelle and Amy make such a pretty spring photo!

 

Happy Friday to you!

xo,

Penny

 

I want to eat Ringo Pie

 

Excitement has taken over my body since finishing my Ringo Pie quilt top this morning (thanks for the nudge Anna!).  I couldn't wait to share it with you, so here it is in all it's glory.

"Kitchenalia"

The blocks were made by:

Marit-stack of pots block

Erica- recipe box block

Anna- spatula, measuring cup, spoon block

Amber- red dot pot block and teacups on a shelf block

Corey- hand held blender

Amy- cake and cookie container block

Lucinda- spoon block and broom/rug block

Ayumi- toaster block

Lynne- espresso maker block

Kerry- baking scene block

and the rest were made by me.

 

Happy Monday to you!!

xo,

Penny

 

 

QuiltCon diaries Part 1

 

Hello everyone!  I've missed you!  And I have so much to tell you since I was here last.  Fair warning, this will probably be a long one!

 

 

I'm going to break my QuiltCon posts into a two because there was just so much to take in.  Honestly.

What to say, what to say.  It was inspiring.  Joyful.  Exciting.  Fun.  Heartfilling.  Nervewracking.  And I had several proud momma moments with my students. 

I taught threee classes.  Foundation piecing.  Freezer paper piecing by template.  And Designing foundation blocks.

I was so impressed by each and every student in all three classes!

 

Vicky and her cupcake from the foundation piecing class

 

Claudia and her microwave design/block from the design class

 

Elaine and her flappy finned fish design/block from the design class

 

Monica says hi from the foundation piecing class!

 

Gillian's elephant (applique, applique that ear!! lol) and Anne's St. Bernard patterns from design class

 

Joanne's key pattern/block from design class

 

Audrey's headless "Marigold"

 

Eileen's ladybug pattern/block from design class

 

Whaaaaat?  They're all so fabulous!  And there are so many I missed. 

 

So yeah.  I had some serioulsy goofy students too. 

Or maybe it was me (no, not me!) and I forgot to tell them it was OK to take their blocks home with them after the photoshoot?  Ooopsie! 

 

If you were in the class and you see one or more of your blocks here, shoot me an email to sewtakeahike at gmail with your addy and I'll pop them in the mail to you! 

 

 

And you should probably hurry before Fozzy tears across them.  He's a total spaz. 

Also, I have your original bridge design one of you left in the design class that I'd love to get back to you!!

 

And lastly for today, a photo of some of the concentrating design class students

 

 

And a couple of gratuitous class sample seam block photos

 

 

See you in a few days for QuiltCon diaries part 2.

 

xo,

Penny

 

pink red and white

 

Good morning!  It's a fine winter's day here at about 1 degree.  I'm so thankful our furnace is in working order!

 

Are any of you cross stitchers?  I had always thought I didn't like cross stitch.  Maybe because of the overabundance of really icky designs out there?  But then I started seeing the sweetest designs on IG by the frosted pumpkin stitchery and then came along this book:

 

 

The cover got me.  Sweet and simple designs.  (I ordered it here from the sweet Nobuko)

 

 

The very day I received the book, I did the wellie.  And this morning I did the strawberry (from a different book).

I'm seriously hooked.  But, it's really made me realize how bad my eyes are.  I have to pull my glasses down to the end of my nose so I can see what I'm doing.  Maybe a magnifier is in order?  But it would have to be one that clipped to my glasses because I need both hands free.  Anyone have any tips on where to find such a thing?

 

 

 

 

 

This is Leila's Ringo Pie block.  She asked for something that speaks of ourself and this block nails me to a board.  The pink linen was thrifted from a vintage tablecloth, the pitcher fabric was given to me by a dear friend, and the retro "kitchenalia" design is so me. 

It really feels good to get a tardy bee block done.

Happy Monday to you all!

xo,

Penny