Zakka along catch up and some blog housecleaning

Do things look a little different around here? I've been doing some blog housework and changing things up a little bit at a time. It took me a while to decide on the white background. It's just not fun at all so I may add a punch of color eventually. I'm still working on it so bare with the changes until everything is set the way I want it

If you've been following me, I'm sure you know I took a break for a while due to my first trimester pregnancy. Let's face it...pregnancy wipes you out. I didn't want to eat, didn't want to sew, I just wanted to sleep all day. Luckily, that only lasts a couple months (for me anyway) and my creative spark has returned.

While I was on sewing leave, I missed out on the last few projects from the Zakka Along for the Patchwork Please! Book by Ayumi Takahashi. Well, I decided I wasn't going to let this baby keep me from finishing the book! So I grabbed my book this past week and picked up from where I left off. 

Here's my Pencil Pouch. This little sucker has some crazy small paper piecing but I love they way it turned out. I'll admit I had to use the seam ripper a few times but it's done and I'm happy! 

Club Medallion BOM: November Border

I'm getting more and more excited to be doing this BOM. This quilt is going to turn out so awesome! In case you didn't know about it...check out Sew Lux Fabric to subscribe to the PDF patterns or pick up a quilt kit.

I can't even tell you how long it took me to choose the colors for the first border! I knew I wanted the mini border to be yellow and the flying geese to be aqua. But I had the hardest time choosing the fabric for the flying geese background. I thought purple would look cool but I just didn't have the right purple. I didn't want anything too dark since the center block had that black polkadot print.

I looked through all my purples and pulled a few fabrics but none of them were the right. Then I looked through my FQ bundles and came across this Architextures print and thought it was perfect! I wanted to bring some red into the quilt...so I thought red for the corners was a good choice and didn't overpower the quilt so far.

It's hard to capture the true colors of the quilt but the center block triangles are Lime green and the mini border is yellow.

Scrapbeelicious November Bee Blocks for Alyce

Here are my Scrapbeelicious bee blocks for November. Alyce had a beautiful inspirational print to work off of on her blog. She chose the X + block which I hadn't tried doing before. I was excited to try it and see if it's something I'm willing to do in the future. It is a fun block but I hate doing quilts with blocks that I have to draw diagonal lines or waste fabric from cutting because of piecing squares to make triangles. I think her color combo is beautiful and I'm sure her whole quilt will look amazing!

Modern Scrappy Bits Swap 5 - QAYG Zipper Pouch

Here is yet another swap project completed.....AND ahead of schedule! Whoo! This is for Round 5 of the Modern Scrappy Bits Swap. We're only supposed to use fabric from our scrap pile for our item and include a FQ's worth of scraps. For this particular round we're supposed to use the Quilt As You Go (QAYG) method. 

I made this cute zipper pouch using my partners color requests. I love the way it turned out and hope she can find a great use for it. I included a chubby stack of scraps in the same colors as well as some thread. Of course it's more than a FQ's worth of fabric...I couldn't resist!

Feels good to have something marked off the sewing checklist...Awwwww...

Zipper Pouch pattern & tutorial by Noodlehead

Club Medallion BOM: October Center Block

Boy does it feel good to finally sew! I've had this BOM for October just begging to be sewn up for weeks! I didn't want to get behind in this BOM so I sat down and dedicated some time to it. The new month instructions come out in a couple days!

In case you didn't know about the Club Medallion BOM, click HERE to be directed to Sew Lux Fabrics. You can purchase the PDF BOM instructions or one of the two available kits. I chose to subscribe to only the PDF BOM instruction because I have a funky style.

October is the first month starting with the center block. From this point, there will be borders added continuously until the quilt is completed. I can't wait to finish it in March! Sorry for the poor photo quality...I snapped this pic with my phone.

Here is what the whole quilt will eventually look like...

Scrapbeelicious October Bee Blocks for Cath

Happy November! I can't believe how fast the time is going! It'll be Christmas before we know it!

I didn't have a chance to show you the blocks I made for The Scrapbeelicious Bee I'm a part of. These blocks are for Cath of Wombat Quilts who requested Low Volume paper pieced blocks. I love the style she chose and can't wait to see her completed quilt!

The pattern for this block is by Julie of 627handworks and can be found here

The pattern for this block is by Amy of During Quiet Time and can be found here