When I was planning for the opening of my shop I knew I wanted to carry Sue Spargo products and projects. One, because I love them personally. Two, because there is no where else in this area to purchase supplies.
My Sue Spargo classes are doing well and Sue has started a program for shops called the Classroom Series. Shops get the already kitted supplies for these projects and use them for their classes. Shops are not permitted to sell the kits separate from the class. So the only way to get the pattern or kits for these projects is through a participating shop. You know I couldn't resist that!
The first project we are doing is the Circle Play Bag. I got the applique done a few weeks ago.
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I've begun the embellishing.
This is a great project for practicing stitches.
I recently got some new patterns from Sue Spargo in my shop.
I've had my eye on the Zinnia Zip Bag since I saw it at Market. I couldn't resist starting one.
Those are 1/2" hexies. I am using the Sue Daley papers rather than cut my own and my small glue stick for basting. Works great for me! I haven't picked my zipper or lining fabric yet.
Love how it is coming together!
I have begun a small version Fancy Forest quilt. I just love Elizabeth Hartman's patterns! I made the Kittens a little bit ago.
I've only gotten the foxes done thus far but have all the blocks cut out.
I'm using purples and greens with a medium gray background. Loving it so far!
Most of my sewing these days seems to be shop related. We received some fun Halloween prints recently. One of them is for an apron. It's one of those printed on the fabric type projects. Very easy and fast. I made one in an afternoon in between customers recently. Here is one of my employees modeling it.
We also received some Quiet Bunny fabrics. One of them makes a book.
Another printed on the fabric fast and easy project! The satisfaction of starting and finishing something adorable in one afternoon is addicting. I have started a longer term project though which I will show you soon.
Are you participating in Row by Row Experience this summer? If you don't know what it is, click here to go to their website and find out.
My shop, Alamosa Quilt Company, is a participating shop. Here is our row:
We also have license plates and last weekend I used them to make a small bag.
Above are the two sides of the outside. Below is the inside.
There are two smaller pockets inside as well.
The pattern is called License Plate Traveling Wristlet.
It's a fairly easy bag to make. The hardest part for me was making sure I had the license plates oriented properly when sewing them together. The pattern clearly shows how they are to go together but you know how easy it is to carefully line up something then mess it up when you go to sew the seam!
The pattern calls for three license plates but I only have two for my shop. I'm tempted to contact the other two shops in the area and ask if they will trade license plates with me so I can make one of these using plate from all three shops.
I can finally reveal my Telephone Quilt that I completed in April 2015 along with the rest of quilts in this series.
Mine is the left most one in the middle row.
I described the details of this challenge in this post. They are lengthy so if you are interested in how this challenge works, click over to read the details.
Unfortunately we were not able to display all 10 of the quilts. The seventh one in the series is missing. I never got to see it but as I understand it the piece is all black with white dashed lines across the center. We think it is suppose to be a close-up of a road.
The challenge was fun and was a true "challenge" for me.
My guild's annual show was last weekend. My art group entered our recent circles project. The link will take you to my last post on this project which contains links to all previous posts about it.
To recap, one day we made a bunch of abstract paintings. We decided to turn one of them into a project and just happened to pick one of the paintings I did. Each of us chose a small section of the original painting, enlarged it to 18" by 18" and then turned that section into a quilt.
Below is the result:
Mine is the one at the top left. Below is a more straight on shot taken at our last meeting, before all the mini quilts were attached to the quilted black background:
Also hanging at the show was my Oh My Stars! quilt.
Click here for the post where I shared the details about this one. I'll share a little more from the show in my next post.
