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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!

Oh! That’s really pretty…

That’s what my kind hubby said when he saw this:

Flower power!

Ok… you might not think much of it, or love the print (a Spotlight sale fabric that I didn’t love very much after I paid for it – yes, I’m a fickle one). BUT wait till you see the ‘BEFORE’ photo:

Burnt, horrid and thinny old cover

I was tempted to get one of the covers from Etsy, but I’m feeling a bit poor after my fabric spree recently. So, I bit the bullet and tried out this tutorial and it worked like a charm! I was debating whether to use one of my precious Amy Butler prints, but decided against it just in case I screw it all up. And as usual, when the proto-type turns out better than you expected, you regret not using a better print. However, next time I will just cut out a bigger piece of fabric and make a quick casing, instead of going through the process of pinning the old casing to the new fabrics…

So, with a new cover (and additional batting!), my ironing board takes on a new lease of life.

Mish Mash Moo-ed

The quilt & cot bumper are done, delivered and received by Mama G.

I managed to take some pictures of the QUILT, but not the bumper because I was in a rush to take up a promotion with SpeedPost that saved us SGD$50 for the express door-to-door service.

Front of quilt

Back of Quilt

Quilting details

Waiting for pictures of the how the nursery is dressed with the quilted goodies. Can’t wait for the little one’s arrival too! 😀

Eco-friendly Gift Wrapping

One of the items that we have given up buying (or taking from the stores) is gift-wrap paper. I’m not great at gift wrapping anyway, and so this is a perfect solution for me:

Drawstring Gift Bag - Front

Drawstring Gift Bag - Back

As for the gift tag, I interfaced a piece of fabric and attached it to the bag with safety pins, so that this bag can be re-used over and over again by the recipient.

Fabric Gift Tag

In the past, I have also used fabrics to wrap up some X’mas/Birthday love.

Oh… I love Olfa

Yes, I do love my Olfa rulers, cutters, blades and mats. Quilting can be an expensive hobby, and Rotary cutting is ONE BIG CULPRIT – the cutting tools burnt a huge hole right through my pocket when I first started sewing and when I purchased them from the local quilt shops.

Nowadays, I help my friends get their cutters, rulers, mats and blades direct from a local distributor, rather than the quilt shops that put a high mark-up on the prices, or suffer the price fluctuations (depending on luck!) on eBay.

Pinking Cutter - SGD$21.50

Wave Cutter - SGD$21.50

45mm Deluxe Rotary Cutter - SGD$26.80

I have since put up the supplies at my Etsy store, selling at more down-to-earth prices (if not lower) so that we can help each other stretch our dollars a little bit more. The items in my store are the ‘extras’ that I have to put through to make minimum order amount to the distributor.

For rulers and mats, I can only take on local orders (and I ship free locally!) because of the high cost and fragile nature of the mats/rulers shipping overseas.

Any questions on rotary cutting and the tools, please send them my way! 😀