My First Jelly Roll Jam Quilt

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. 

I used the roll on the left. 

Then I started the pattern by piecing my strips. 

Only 15 more to go. 

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

This part was really fun. 

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.

Binding half done. 

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. 

Flannel Animals :) 

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

The Silhouette Mint is Giving Me Life! (Review)

I recently purchased s Silhouette Mint because I love stamping and I also make a lot of handmade cards. I have been wanting a custom stamp for a long time, but I hadn't gotten around to sending my design out to have it done. So before I ordered this, I read a ton of reviews because it's on the expensive end and it has a really specialized function, so I wanted to be certain. Also this would be my first Silhouette machine, I have a Cricut Explore that I love, so I was not sure what to expect. I can honestly say I'm very impressed! The machine is very compact and lightweight, it comes with 2 stamps/stamp kits, 4 ink colors, 1 month of Silhouette Studio, and a software CD.  I have a Mac and downloaded the software from the website.

The included stamps are 30mm x 30mm and 15mm x 60mm. I used the rectangle to make a stamp for my website. The directions are very easy to follow and I was creating my stamp in about 10 minutes. The design software is easy to navigate and reminds me of Cricut Design Space, so I was comfortable after a few minutes.  I printed my stamp and then removed it from the clear wrapping.

Each set comes with a wood block to mount your stamp to and labels you can stamp to identify your image.

I inked up my stamp and only had a little trouble because my letters are so small, I'm going to ink it again later to see if that helps even out the image. 

I'm very happy that I bought this and I would recommend getting a few more stamps when you have a chance as this only comes with two. Also there are additional ink colors available, I ordered magenta when I ordered my machine. Each stamp will imprint about 50 times before you have to re-ink it, so far I've stamped about 20 images and it still looks good.  If your craft budget allows, definitely get one, happy crafting.