Making

This post will be a bit picture heavy, as I have been sewing quite a bit, but not blogging. I'll just show you what I've been working on with a little caption under each photo. Deal?

This is a mini quilt I made for Lizze for Christmas. I used Parisville fabric in a Dresden plate pattern.

A Kindle cover I made for the shop, but I fell in love with it, so it's now mine.

Here's a few more Kindle covers. These ones actually will end up in the shop eventually.

And two custom Kindle covers I made for my friend Christine's mom. She chose these fabrics from what I had on hand.

This is the pincushion (plus a few extra goodies) I sent to my partner for a swap. I got mine in the mail a few days ago, along with another pincushion for a swap I did with Lizze. I'm saving those for their own post though. I'll show you soon!

I loved the cathedral window pinnie I made for my partner so I decided to make one for me.

I have wanted to knit socks for a long time. I found this gorgeous sock yarn at a local yarn shop here and couldn't resist.

Since I had never made socks before, I decided to try with a cheapy yarn for practice.

This is my sock progress so far. It's slow going because I have so much to do lately, but hopefully I'll have a pair to wear very soon.

Mini Quilt Challenge

This weekend there is something exciting going on. A mini quilt challenge on amylouwho's blog! I REALLY love mini quilts! Something about the instant gratification (well, more instant than a bed quilt that is). I have been getting ready for a craft fair so I didn't have a lot of time to put together a new quilt for this challenge. I have several mini quilts that I have made recently though so I chose one of those.

I used the churn dash pattern for this mini quilt. The blocks are each 6 inches with a small border. The finished size is 15" x 15".

Funny thing is that I have no idea what fabrics were used for the pink, and the floral borders. I used scraps that I got from a friend and I loved how they all look togther. They grey print is Sunkissed by Sweetwater as is the binding.

For the backing I used a print from Tula Pink's Parisville line, another of my absolute favorites.

I chose to do very simple in-the-ditch quilting as to not distract from the blocks themselves.

I really love this mini quilt so much. It shows that a traditional block can be made to look modern and you can mix lines! Some people are afraid of mixing lines, I think, but you should have no fear!

Please hop over to the Mini Quilt Challenge and enter your own mini quilt. It's open all weekend and she has some really great prizes too. Thanks so much for visiting!