Urban Nine Patch

One night while surfing blogs I ran across Sew Kind Of Wonderful  by Jenny Pedigo.    I was immediately drawn to her curvy quilt patterns that you can see on the right hand side.  LOVE them.  I told my boss about them (these quilts are so Pink Chalk!)...and funny thing was Kathy had just found them too!  Long story short...Kathy ordered the rulers and now carries the patterns.  I bought a ruler but can't decide which quilt pattern to get so haven't yet.

Jenny recently created a new block called "Urban Nine Patch" that uses the ruler.  She posted a free tutorial on her blog for making it and I figured that was the perfect way to learn the ruler and get more practice sewing curves.  So today I made one.  

Here it is:

So gorgeous!  I totally love this.   And it turned out perfect.  

Totally perfect points see:

And it's perfectly 12.5 inches.  I followed the tutorial to the "t" and everything was great.  Jenny sews her curves differently than I learned years ago (and different from Rachel's teaching in the Curves class)...by sewing with the convex piece on top instead of the other way around.  I did it Jenny's way and it worked fine for this block.  

I think I will be making this block for my [3x6] Mini Bee members.   :)

Improv Curves

This week in my Curves class with Rachel we worked with improv curves.  I  ended up having a busier week than expected so didn't get to accomplish much...we had 3 projects to choose from and I only finished one mini top, still have to quilt it.

It's called O Christmas Tree Mini.  Isn't it cute?

Free-form...unplanned work is hard for me....curved or otherwise!   I struggled a bit with this.  Kept thinking I wished someone would just give me a pattern to follow.  Curves aren't scary but no planned pattern is.  :)

Here's a close up of the tree.  I think it turned out nicely.

Not sure if I'll try the improv table runner that was also this week or wait till I have more time to concentrate. 

Can't wait for next weeks projects.   :)

Clamshell Pillow

I'm taking an online class on curved sewing from Rachel of Stitched in Color.  Last week was our first week (out of  five) of class and I loved it.  I'm not new to curved sewing or curved piecing but I am new to improv curved sewing (which we are doing this week!) which is why I took the class.  Plus I love classes and always seem to learn something new.  Rachel is doing a fabulous job!

This is the clamshell pillow project from last week that I finished yesterday:

Matches my red chair so nicely, don't ya think?  :)   The printed fabric is Salt Air by Cosmo Cricket and the solid is Essex Linen.

I thought I had done pretty good sewing in the invisible zipper but it actually has a little bump on it.  Not sure what I did that caused that.  Will have to surf some other tutes and see if something jumps out at me so I can do better next time.  

Baby blanket

Finished this crocheted baby blanket on Friday.  Isn't it lovely?   I love making these soft and cuddly blankets.  This one is for one of best friends first grand child.....due in less than two weeks!   It'll be in the mail tomorrow.  :)      

Come Rain or Shine

Isn't that the cutest little wall hanging?  I just LOVE it.   During one of my blog reading days I came across Mia's darling wool felted items.  I pinned one on Pinterest and then thought....I want one I can hang on an actual wall and not a cyber one.  So I splurged and bought one.  This design was one of my favorites.  Birds and rain....so appropriate for here, don't ya think?   

This is the back.  

Check out more of Mia's items at her Etsy shop and maybe splurge for yourself!