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I have a LOOOOONG list of to-sew items: from baggies for Benji lug his toys around to stock for the shoppe. With that list in hand, I went on an online fabric spree! 😀

Yards and yards of BEAUTIFUL fabrics were delivered to our door step throughout September. Some fabrics are still in their packing boxes because I ran out of space to store them! Feeling ‘inspired’, I sewed up more crayon wallets for the shoppe. Now, I have done my share of wallet-sewing, and its on to the quilt-y projects! yaay!

Value-added on the wall

This mish-mash-moo quilt is specially commissioned by Mama G, for her own WIP little one 😉 She wanted a scrappy quilt and she liked what she saw at Willy-Nilly’s. Although many crafty bloggers only offer sneak peeks to their works before giving to the recipients, I believe I do need some WIP approvals as I go along for this commissioned quilt!

So, I’m done sewing up the Half-Square-Triangle blocks, cutting, ironing and squaring the blocks. It is layout time and I had so much fun! Initially, there was some trouble putting up some blocks because the contrast in values are not that great. But after putting it up on the layout wall, and taking a couple of pictures of it, I think the magic is working!

Made up of 100 unique charm squares cut from my stash.

So, is this a pass or a ‘try again’? I’m rather tempted to toss out a couple of ‘non-contrasty’ blocks. But I’m trying hard to switch some around to blend things in a bit better.

Nihon-no fabrics! Su-pa Kawaii!

That means “Japanese fabrics! Super Cute!”

*Warning: shots taken under poor lighting conditions… sorry for the rushed photo-shoot but the goodies moved very quickly from the front door, to my table, to the washer… I needed the fabrics washed pronto to work on the

mish-mash-moo quilt! :>

Fabric love from superbuzzy.com

Bought mainly on-sale items, and this was already the edited shopping cart... Had almost $500+ worth in my cart before I withered it down to this bunch

Mainly sale items. But I LOVE them all

Sigh… Japan, land of nice people, nice country, nice food, nice shopping and crazily cute fabrics… Oh, Nippon, how I YEN for thee… haha…

mish mash moo…

I had a good time yesterday pulling out fabrics out of the tubs for a special project. I love looking at them, touching them and recalling where/when I bought them, etc. The stash has grown quite a bit in these 2 years. Thanks to international shipping and thanks to quilt/sewing books that inspire me to start on ‘future projects’ :p

A small stack that was pulled from tubs

Iron, cut, toss... repeat 100x

I absolutely HEART this print.

Sneak peak!

Half way done (cutting only). I’m loving this project – cutting into every piece of fabric I have for a scrappy look, no colours in mind, same dimension for every single piece (5″ charm), and taking my time with it 🙂 Seems like I’m getting out of my quilting funk! 😉

Gunning for it

License to glue! This is me loose with my hot glue gun. After a thumb-bruising and nail breaking button-making session, I bagged a really cool fabric-covered button collection. They will be turned into push-pins, magnets and bookmarkers… Here’s a sneak peak ;>

Love love love these 30's prints. The tiny flower and leave motifs are perfect for the 1/2" button-push-pins.

Love love love these 30's prints. The tiny flower and leaf motifs are perfect for the 1/2" button-push-pins.

The tone-on-tone swirly print reminds me of POPSICLES which I'm absolutely craving for me right now...

Another tone on tone favourite of mine. Because the buttons are small, they brought out the tiny flower motifs in the print.

Going mushroom mad again, this time with these Jumbo bookmarkers! The 1 1/8" sized mushroomy buttons are soooo cute!