Unicorn Satchel

I recently found this amazing, and out of print, fabric by Tina Givens. It is from her collection Pernilla's Journey and called Unicorn Land. I am totally in love with it and wanted to use it in a bag (don't worry, I have extra to make a quilt with at some point!).

Using that as my base fabric, I then matched fabrics from my stash to get a nice array of purple colors. From top to bottom, the other fabrics are:

• Tina Givens'  in the Feather Flock collection
• Tula Pink's in the Chipper collection
• Tina Givens' in the Feather Flock collection
• Artisian Spirit's Shimmer 
• Tina Givens' Unicorn Land in Pernilla's Journey collection
• Organic black canvas (used for base, top binding and as the main fabric on the handles)

I also used plum fabric with gold dots as an accent fabric on the handles.

For the inside I used:

• Artisian Spirit's Shimmer for the top gusset 
• Tula Pink's in the Chipper collection for the zipper sides
• Heather Ross's Unicorns in cream from Far Far Away 2 reprint for the main lining
• Heather Ross's Unicorns in purple from Far Far Away 2 reprint for the slip pocket
• A Tina Given's fabric to line the all the pockets

For this purse, there was no pattern. The finished size was dictated by my fabric choices, namely the Tina Givens' unicorns since I wanted them to line up perfectly. Thus their size determined the width and the number of fabrics used determined the height. I wanted it a little smaller, but since I could pick a fabric to remove, it ended up a little taller than originally envisioned. 

Crochet Hook Roll

I've started to knit and crochet recently. Naturally, I bought a collection of crochet needles, but had no way to really store them. They were in a pouch together, but this made it difficult to find the one I wanted.

Thus, I made myself a little crochet hook roll to store all my hooks in. My hooks now stay in order and are always super easy to find!

I now need to make one to fit my double point needles!

Designed and made March 2016

Hi(bear)nate Quilt Top

The Hi(bear)nate quilt top is a free pattern by Bonnie Christine for Art Gallery Fabrics. It is designed to go with Bonnie Christine's Hello, Bear collection.

In the Making has a made a kit for this quilt, using the colors shown. If you get the kit, I followed the pattern pretty closely, except that I changed some of the fabric choices. There will soon be a handout detailing the changes so you can make this exact quilt if you want. The kit is currently available in the store, and my quilt is there as a sample if you want to see it in person!

Also, be sure you print the pattern to scale! The PDF actually has writing all the way to the edges, so your printer will want to scale it down. This isn't a problem unless you use the triangle cut out pattern. To check, your triangle should be 10 inches tall.

I do strongly recommend getting an acrylic ruler for equilateral triangles though that is at least 10 inches tall. This will make cutting so much easier!

This quilt is much more manageable as a triangle introduction than my Tula Pink Triangle Quilt (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Since these triangles are bigger and there are not as many of them, piecing the top was a lot faster than I thought it would be!

All cut out and ready to go!

I laid out all my pieces by rows, since that made chain piecing easier for me

Coral, Queen of the Sea

Coral, Queen of the Sea, is a new panel by Stacy Iest Hsu for Moda. She an adorable little mermaid with a seahorse friend and quilt to lay on. Details of the panel and coordinating fabrics can be downloaded as a PDF here. More about Stacy Iest Hsu for Moda can be found here.

The cut out panel is shown above. Once Coral is cut out, there are assembly instructions. She is a great beginner project to get introduced to toy making!

Coral is currently living at In the Making and I will be leading a sew-a-long there so you can make your very own Coral on Saturday, July 23, 2016 (please click here to see the whole calendar of events)! You can register by calling or visiting In the Making.

Cluck Cluck Sew Mini Flag

Cluck Cluck Sew offers a great free tutorial on making a mini flag block. I saw this after making a couple of her Mini Quilts and knew I wanted to make this for the 4th of July! Since it is done already and today is Flag Day, I thought I would post it early!

Debating fabric choices at In the Making

The block goes together really quickly (compared to the Mini Quilts!) and was super easy to do! The quilting was even fun because the small quilt is very easy to manipulate.

For mine, I made it into a wall hanging and used some of my extra backing to make little tabs to help hang it up by. I could definitely see myself making this one again!

1600 Inch Quilt / Jelly Roll Race Quilt

This is the second post on the 1600 Inch Quilt. My post about the quilt top can be found here.

My 1600 Inch Quilt is now officially done! The binding was finished on May 24, 2016.

The backing of the quilt was made using Chipper by Tula Pink, just like the top. I used the chipmunk, Fox, and circle fabrics on the back. I love how back turned out and I feel like it is a second quilt!

The binding is also from Chipper and called Labyrinth.

Tula Pink Flower Market Quilt

My local quilt shop, In the Making, offers a kit to make Tula Pink's Flower Market Quilt from her Eden collection. The pattern is a free one and is in the lookbook for Eden (it can be downloaded here). I naturally went with the amethyst (purple) colorway, but the quilt can be done in tourmaline (pink/orange) or sapphire (blue/green) too.

While there is a fair amount of cutting for this quilt, I think the finished result was totally worth it! I also used a little more fabric than the pattern called for since I fussy cut many of pieces. Another lady didn't fussy cut and had plenty of fabric.

In the Making still had more kits available in the three colorways if you want to make your own! My quilt top is currently still at the store if you want to see it in person. There is also a quilt top in tourmaline colorway to look at.

I have Tula Pink's freefall wide backing in purple to finish with, but I know that won't be for a little while!