LMP+QG january challenge: colored pencil roll

A few weeks ago, my friend Kait and I came up with a challenge for ourselves: each month, we would select a project from Last-Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts, make it, and blog about it. [I've already done one project from this book and loved it: Luna's Puzzle Ball.] This month, for the first project, we decided to make the colored pencil roll:

I was happy with how my roll turned out, and amazed that I had enough of a range of colors in my scrap bin to create a rainbow. I've been using color more and more in my quilt sketches these days, so I think this will be a very handy accessory to have.

See Kait's pretty roll (and sketchbook!) here.

Coming up next month: Stacked Coins quilt

quilt: innocent crush brick quilt

As a Christmas gift for my in-laws this past holiday, I made them a quilt:

{Made mostly from Anna Maria Horner's Innocent Crush fabrics, using Amy Smart's Easy Strawberry Fields Brick Quilt featured over on Moda Bake Shop. It was the very first quilt I've ever sent off to a long-arm quilter, and I was quite pleased with the results.}

log cabin napkin tutorial

Today, I'm so thrilled to have a project featured on the Fat Quarterly blog! Please stop on by to learn how to make your own log cabin napkins and see all of the other projects created by talented sewists using Melody Miller's amazing fabric.

quilts for charity

Though these quilts have been done for ages (like, since before I moved to North Carolina), I'm just now getting around to photographing them and sending them off to their new homes. Both quilts are currently on their way to Duke Children's Hospital, where I hope they give some comfort to two children and their families during the holiday season.

{Both quilts were made using this Made by Rae tutorial (a super fast and fun pattern!), from fabric entirely from my stash, including the fun Japanese print on the back of the pink and yellow quilt.}

embroidery project: labyrinths

For my dad's birthday last month, I stitched up a pair of labyrinths for him to hang in his meditation space:

{Stitched onto scraps of linen and chambray using iron-on embroidery patterns designed by Sublime Stitching.}

happy thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my lovely followers!

{Two fabric pinecones I made while hanging out with new friends (!) last weekend. Tutorial can be found here.}

quilting project: red and aqua quilt

Remember this stack of fabrics? Using this tutorial, it became this quilt top...

 ...which then made its way to Texas last week to join the Central Texas Wildfire Quilt Drive, organized by Modern Day Quilts.