sewtakeahike

Pins (no needles) and QuiltCon

 

For Amber's month in Ringo Pie, she asked for sewing themed blocks.  I have some pins with button shaped heads, so my first thought was to do buttons.  After drafting the first pattern and getting feedback that they looked like Ninja faces (thanks Tara for your always honest, and humorous opinions!), I went back to photoshop and did some redrawing and decided to make them into button headed pins instead.  Don't know why I didn't of that in the first place??

 

 

And lets see a show of hands of those of you that are going to QuiltCon in Feb 2013? 

Yay!!, my hand is raised too!!

I'll not only be there checking out it's offerings, but will also be teaching a few paper piecing classes.  I'm completely humbled and totally out of my mind excited to be associated with the high caliber of stellar quilters/designers that will be lecturing and doing workshops there also. 

Happy Saturday to you all!

~Penny

Kitchen Classics pattern set

 

Kerry and I are so excited to announce that the 'Kitchen Classics' pattern set is now live on Sew-Ichigo!

 

To get things going, Kerry and I each made a project using the patterns.  A KitchenAid cover for me:

 

and the #decisions tote bag for Kerry:

Both tutorials are posted here.

Also, we'll be having a little celebration with some giveaways soon, so make sure and check back!!

~Penny

Yurting weekend

 

This last weekend was full of surprises here in sewtakeahike-land. 

 

We had been planning a yurt weekend trip to enjoy some backcountry skiing with friends, but when we got to the yurt, this was the scene. 

Beautiful, but without much snow.

So instead of skiing, we ate, played uno, made sauce, dyed eggs, and napped. 

 

 

 

I guess we did get a few short hikes in there as well, with some impromptu snow angels.

 

 

The lack of snow was difficult to swallow at first, but once we settled into lounging, it was all good.

How was your Easter weekend?  Hopefully as blessed as ours was, spending time with good friends!

 

Cover up your KitchenAid

Things are humming right along here this Friday!

I've finished and posted the 'Cover up your KitchenAid' tutorial

on Sew-Ichigo in preparation for our first pattern set release 'Kitchen Classics' which will most likely be available next week!

 

And here's my version of Kerry's coffee pot, which will be made into a pillow for one of the prizes at my paper piecing workshop in a few weeks.

 

 

Happy weekend to you all!

linen tea towel tut

 

Or as I call them, hand towels. 

In my kitchen, I keep a dishtowel handy which is always white and a hand towel which is always brightly colored.  L-man knows, don't use the white towel for your hands!

If you'd like to make one of these linen hand towels for yourself, it's pretty simple.

• Cut a piece of linen 18.5"X24"
• Using a hot, hot iron and starch, press all edges in 1/4" .
• Press all edges in 1/4" again.
• Zig-zag stitch all edges.
• Arrange and zig zag edge stitch some bright scraps along one end.  I used leftover quarter circles from piecing this quilt top.

 

Happy Sunday to you all!  It's a tax prep day for me and L-man!