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Fabric Stash Report #2

What a week! I am most glad LAST week was over – had my wisdom tooth extracted (ouchie!), rushed Benji to see the doc for his worsening sinus infection (had to wait an hour because we didn’t have an appointment) and worst of all, we had to fire our live-in domestic helper because she was smuggling men into her room in our house, even while we were all at home (that incident was complete with the police arriving at our home in the middle of the night). I’m glad it is over now.

tapes are so fun! esp. when they retract at high speed.

{pull out & retract} x 100

Well, while the babe was recovering from the infection with the help of Indiana Jones movie-marathon, I managed to cut up some precious (read: in my stash for a while) baby panels, backings and also for a custom crib quilt for a friend’s brand new niece.

Fabric OUT
some for baby panel quilt and for custom Baby R Quilt (crib size)

Fabric IN
ZERO (though I ordered more to be delivered soon!)

Sneaky peek of Quilt Back

This came together very quickly (I love making crib-sized quilts! :D) and I’m loving the colours and look. Blue, pink, plum and brown… yummmm….

Fav. part of the quilting process: Binding

Week 2: 12 April – 18 April

In: 0 yds
Out: 4.5 yds

YTD total:
Purchased: 18.59 yds
Busted: 4.75 yds
net: -13.84 yds

Eye candies

I have been receiving emails asking if I sew stuffs for ‘adults’ for sale, other than the crayon wallets that I list on Etsy. Well, while I do make fabric covered button book marks, Quilted applique notebooks, bobby pins, etc. But sewing wise, I have yet to list anything for people above ‘crayon-age’.

BUT I have been sewing pouches and clutch purses for friends over the holidays and I do love how they turned out. A very nice lady helped de-mystify zippers by showing me how it actually works!

Zipper pouch + matching key fobs

Fabrics from Denyse Schmidt

Besides the Zipper, I finally took the plunge and ordered some clutch frames from Etsy. I loved how they all turned out! Ok, my Stash is 70% kiddy fabrics (and most of them scream ‘boys’), but what came to my rescue was this lovely local online store Needle and Thread – check out the website, prices have been revised down! YAAY!. Magdalene delivered the fabrics the very next day after I placed my order and I knew they were perfect for my friends.

Amy Butler and Art Gallery Fabrics.

Revive by Art Gallery Fabrics

So YES! I will be sewing more zipper pouches, clutch purses, card holders, etc… I can’t wait till the end of this tax season, get over a couple of day-job projects so that I can clear my brain and get started soon. Sewing for the Shoppe is such a wonderful excuse to buy more lovely fabrics! 🙂

Still here…

Happy Easter, everyone!

There are so many updates that I would like to share with you, which I promise I will do so over the next few posts ;> Hint: Shopping in Japan, Fabrics, Stamps and Bags!

Ok. Hubby just signaled that I have 10 mins before we leave for a party… so, lemme show you what’s keeping me up in the (late late) evenings.

Remember the Star QAL monster of a quilt? I finally outsourced the quilting as I was really NOT keen on fighting the Queen-sized quilt on my machine. I’ve decided to gift the quilt (not saying who’s the recipient now), so I’m really happy that the quilting was done professionally and that is also a motivation for me to get it bound and DONE before the end of April.

11 yards of binding

Hand sewing the binding down

And of course, I NEEDED to start on a new project. That would be the Cathedral Window quilt. Fortunately, I had the good sense to work on a wall hanging size. Man, it is really intense working on this quilt and I find it such a quirky little project! There is a crazy amount of handsewing but I have to look at the bright side of things: no backing, no batting, no quilting and no binding required. PLUS it really does look beautiful 😀

Cathedral Window in Mod fabrics

At the other end of the quilt

Alrighty! 10 mins up, gotta run now. Check back soon coz I will be sharing with you some fabric-licious buys I hauled back from Japan! 😀

Princess Snowball quilt

The princess snowball quilt was delivered to G earlier this week. It is such a girly sweet quilt.

I gotta make me more baby quilts! The size is more manageable and quicker to piece compared to larger bed quilt.

More straight line quilting, using the variegated thread. I pulled out more fabrics for a couple of baby-sized projects. But those will have to wait a little more as I’m working on a couple of special hand sewing projects. More to show soon! 😀

Zoo-ed Out done done!

Zoo Quilt – Stack N’ Whack blocks. Started around Jul’08 and I finally put in the final stitches over the New Year holiday.

one of my fav. blocks

This quilt was meant for Benji’s big-boy bed, which we have yet to set it up. It turned out bigger than I originally planned for, because I could resist including the cute prints in the borders!

I’m glad this quilt is done-done. This quilt was ‘basted’ and put away waiting to be quilted for many months. And I had to drag it out of cold storage because I needed to use the curved safety pins to baste the snowball quilt! I thought I could quilt a couple of lines to release some pins, deliver the snowball quilt and return to finish quilting it later. But once I got started, I just could not stop!

I really love this quilt and I think this quilt will be with my baby for a long long time ;>