Hawaiian Two-Colors Quilt

I'm not really into applique. I love looking at other's though.
When I saw this Hawaiian applique pattern several years back, I thought I can do this.
It's simple enough, small enough for me to handle.
I was wrong, it took a long time to finally finished this, because I still prefer my sewing machine... 😊

It's beautiful, I like it 💗

The Joy of Stitching up Kid's Quilts

Quilting books, patchwork mags are really good sources of great projects.
My earliest collection are, as I said, from my mom, second-hand books n mags.
I just love flipping thru' the pages, reading, making notes and planning of making one of those projects.

Those times my 2 kids were still small, so making baby and kid's quilts are on my top list.
Whenever I went to fabric stores, always looking for cute prints or bright colors or cartoon characters.

Choosing fabrics for these projects are always fun too. I tend to choose soft colors for baby quilts (typical), and bright for kids quilts. Sometimes, I just followed the pattern  instructions without altering it, sometimes I adjust the size, change the placement, or when ideas' struck me, I  made up new pattern all together.

These six photos are examples of what I have made, I made quite a few actually, sometimes I documented it, other times I didn't.
I love the one with dog and blue ball applique,cute addition to the Irish Chain background.
But my favorite is the one with Disney characters, it was my son's and now handed down to my daughter. She's almost 16 and refuse to give it up, battered, torn and all.
Funny watching her sleep under that quilt, curling up as she's too big now.
I have made another for her but she sleep 'on' it, not under it... *go figure :)

Kaleidoscope Stack-n-Whack

My mom is the first person that introduced me to patchwork years ago.
She gave me second hand patchwork tools and books that I cherish and still use today, a battered cutting mat that double as iron mat on the other side, a very used and chipped quilter's ruler, the 6"x24" of course, and an old rotary cutter.
Mat and cutter I still use but the ruler, sadly, been sat upon by my hubby, broke in two. Still keep it though.. :)

When she gave me a copy of Bethany Reynolds 'Stack-n-Whack' book, I was thrilled and excited.
This kaleidoscope quilt is one of many that I made out of Bethany's book.
Sometimes when I'm stuck and overwhelmed by so many project choices that today's quilting world has to offer, I just go back to this familiar technique that I love and made one.
I kept a 'sizeable' supplies of fabrics required for this, of course I do, big and bright motifs, a spectacular design or two :)
It's kinda reassuring to know that I can just open the book and make another beautiful quilt.

Hi, I am back..!

After 4 years inactive posting to this blog, really make me feel obsolete.
Forget my password, don't know how to login, confuse about the format and everything on this blog.
But my dear boy has become a young man (almost), and just like young generation (they were called the millennials, I think), pretty good with computers. In no time at all, here I am typing away...
Thank God.

A lot has happened, all good things ;)
I'm getting pretty productive making quilts. I just love and really enjoy it!
And there are quilters communities too. Many people got the quilting bugs.
The year 2017 onward will be good years, I'll tell along the way... ;)

I really into scraps projects these days, so here's what I want to show first.
My Cup Cake Pincushions make from used tuna cans, scraps, leftover batting, lace and ribbons.
I even have fun workshop for friends whose interested.

My blog's still pretty plain, I'll learn (again) along the way.
Enjoy and happy sewing.
It's good to be back