Quilts

When Sewing Takes Over

April 28, 2016Graphic design, Scrapbooking, Blankets, Diy, Graphic, How to, Crafts, Drawing, Sewing, Color, QuiltingGabriela SimsComment

I have been busy making things like there is no tomorrow! I just realized I haven't posted anything in over a week, so today, here is a crafty, sewing showcase.

Let's start with the baby quilt that is a companion to the "Amelia" quilt I made.

Just like the other one, but different colors.

I also decided to try working on my own fabric by putting my drawings on mug rugs and I started with one of the Jelly Friends, Tamber Melon and my resident Meowfox Mr. Snugglekins.

Then I coordinated background fabric and attached them to the centers.

Finally I applied backing and binding.

I cannot stress enough how happy it makes me to create things and I am so happy to have a new way to create by being able sew things and quilt. I wish I'd been doing it forever, but I'm happy I started at all. I encourage you to start doing whatever it is you would like to do, today!!! I have learned to knit, crochet, paper craft, and sew...in the last 5 years! I keep telling anyone who will listen that I am so happy I started seeing because there's this whole world of fabric and patterns that I have access to now! I am really enjoying sewing and I look forward to improving as I keep working! Tomorrow I will be posting a video about making inked backgrounds for your layouts, happy crafting!

Quilt Fabric Storage Idea with the Big Shot

April 17, 2016Sewing, Diy, How to, Quilting, Crafts, Storage, TutorialGabriela SimsComment

Hi everyone! I just started using my Sizzix Big Shot to cut fabric and I had an epiphany. I'm a modern quilter and I love jelly roll quilts. I was cutting some fabric last night and decided to "kit" my jelly rolls.

Then I put them into groups I would probably use together.

I tied the rolls with scrap strips from cutting.

Then I can just stack them up and save space! This would make an awesome gift for a fellow quilter as well. Hope this helps organize your stash, happy crafting!

Easy Baby Quilt With Appliqué

April 16, 2016How to, Diy, Sewing, Quilting, ColorGabriela SimsComment

Hey there! Gabriela here with another quilt project. This time I decided to do a modern quilt with a little appliqué. I am making two of these quilts so I cut all of my fabric at once.

The white is my background and the fairies will be my center.

Next I laid out my blocks to get a feel for how much space I would have for the appliqué.

Then I pressed and sewed the blocks together.

I did the appliqué by drawing my letters on my Cricut Explore.

Then I fussy cut the letters and heart.

I applied Heat n' Bond to the backs and pressed them.

Next I fused them to the quilt top and stitched around the edges.

Then I attached the back and the batting!

Now the quilting!

Then the binding and it's done.

I'll be making another quilt like this and then making a Queen size quilt after that. I hope the directions were clear, happy crafting!

My First Jelly Roll Jam Quilt

April 10, 2016Crafts, Supplies, Sewing, Color, How toGabriela SimsComment

I wanted to start another baby quilt and ended up finding this awesome pattern for jelly roll quilts! I love the idea of jelly rolls, coordinated bundles of fabric that are pre-cut into strips! It's wonderful. So I started with a really fun roll with some vibrant colors and patterns.

Then I started the pattern by piecing my strips.

Then I cut my blocks using an acrylic 6" x 12" ruler.

Next I arranged my blocks according to the pattern and started making them into bigger blocks.

I assembled my top.

Only batting, backing, and binding now (The 3 B's)

Now the backing had to be picked out after this was assembled so I could get an idea of how the colors looked together, I decided to go with blue flannel again, but this time with orange binding.

Here is the finished Jelly Roll Jam Quilt.

I need to press this, but it's finished!

I thoroughly enjoyed making this quilt and it came together over the course of 3 days. I even had time to start a new project.

That's all for today, I hope you shop for a nice jelly roll and make one of these awesome quilts, happy crafting!

Meta-crafting? Scrapbooking about Quilting

April 6, 2016Gabriela SimsComment

Hello everyone, Gabriela here with a scrapbook layout using the Anchors Aweigh Collection. I wanted to make a page today that was personal, but I didn't want to use a photo of myself, instead I used my latest project, a baby quilt. This is my first quilt and I wanted to make a page that expressed believing you can do something and that showcased the project. I started with my background sheet and sewed my borders onto it with a zigzag stitch.

Next I added some fabric to a 5" x 7" rectangle and I did some sewing on that using the same stitch as the background border.

I mounted my photo on a 4.25" x 6.25" rectangle that I chalked with Navy Ink. The next step was adding some embellishments and journaling. I also decided to do a different type of photo for this since I wanted to show the progress. Here's a look at the collage style photo I used to show some of the quilt progress to date.

Today's page allowed me to use a variety of my tools including my Minc, my Big Shot, and my sewing machine, it was nice to blend so many crafts to make one thing. To make the "Dream" and "Believe", I die cut the shapes from toner paper and then from fun foam. I ran the toner paper cuts through my Minc using two colors and then glued them to the fun foam for some dimension. This was a very fun page to make and the colors worked perfectly with the fabric I was using for my quilt. I hope this inspires you to scrap a hobby or interest as well. Thank you for stopping over.