Pat's Creative Loft

A fun little duo: Fabric Basket/Bowl Tutorial:  A Soup bowl cozy pattern

Vintage Cathedral Window Block Sampling Vintage pieces  Used to construct 4 units = one block Vintage square pieces  Adding to an unfinished row Row assembled with Cathedral Windows Enjoyed piecing this together and sure to do more in time! The link below is a really good tutorial with steps on how to form a  Cathedral Window Block A charming window pillow tutorial

The T-shirts The fabrics Fusing  Fused block prep  Border strips ready to go Row one and 2 forming Layout Sandwiching the quilt with my pin helpers Stitching borders Borders seamed & with binding done. Completed section Label pocket One last check prior to packing it off to new owner

Summer is fading fast and with pumpkins coming to mind!!  Recently, I had a fun day dreaming of pumpkins and came across this pattern. https://www.craftsy.com/blog/2015/10/pumpkin-quilt-block/ Luckily I had just visited my good friend Joann's fabric, and at that time, had picked up a FQ autumn pack. This is a quick and fun project to make. I can hardly wait for those pumpkins to start popping up in the stores. Till that time arrives I have these little companions as to keep near my sewing center as we begin to greet autumn that is soon to come.

More Crazy Quilting to start this week  and feed the addiction to these wonderful Embroidery beauties. These wonderful Crazy Quilting Embroidery designs have now trickled over into some Christmas designs this week. Today, I've been pulling scraps out from the Christmas fabric bin. And quite fun pulling those fabrics out along with reminders of something once stitched some time ago, and to enjoy the colors and blends. I adore each little motifs and how well it fits into its choice area. Most of the designs have stitched out smoothly today for me. Though I did run into a few troubled spots, and as to have to work around them, and soon back to smooth sailing running through the pattern designs. My problem likely raised due to my oversight in continuously using the same machine needle previously used with the last design. Once changed to a new needle all things returned to smooth stitching. Lesson One with a Hint: Change machine needle with each design, and this is even

Stitching CQ Hexagons I must be addicted to these little cuties.  I've been (rather my embroidery machine) cranking out more CQ Hexagons. This is day three with focuses on constructing another machine embroidery design. These hexagon designs can be found at Molly Mine I'm thrilled with them each time completed and eager to do another.  And even more, like the idea of using up some of those accumulating scraps,  resulting from the latest quilt made. It's really a wonderful use for those leftover scraps.  And I love to revisit the previously favored selected fabrics from my quilt making. I'm having such fun selecting the scraps for step one to form the hexagon by machine applique. Once the hexagon formed from the scraps, the fun really begins with how the thread color and stitches come together to make another beautiful design. There are so many potentials within these designs.  Many combos of choice fabrics, colors, and

Another CQ embroidery block today The process

Find me in the sewing room today.  I'm testing a technique with my embroidery machine today. The choice technique requires a muslin foundation block fused with stabilizer for embroidery stitching. I plan to stitch a new & recent design purchased. This technique is Crazy Quilting in a Hexagon block, with machine-stitched designs that I recently grabbed over at  Molly Mine.com  . I've been eyeballing these wonderful designs for a while and decided to purchase one of her wonderful machine embroidery files to try out. Both my eyes & desires mighty hungry to try the technique out. I adore CQ blocks & her Embroidery designs.Why what more could a gal ask for! Not only are the designs a Crazy Quilting block layout, also hr designs are combined of machine embroidery to stitch, and resulting in a hexagon! Wow !  Thank you...   Molly Mine.com   !!! If you wish to hop over and check out her designs, I encourage you to do so with the provided link. Molly Min

Each month I review projects underway.  And delegating time, early in the month,  always helps to better-organized sewing task and into utilizing charts for planning new projects Below I've begun a list of helpful tools used for most of my sewing  projects. and planning out my journal pages and thought they may prove also helpful to those that check out these post. Sewing Planners: Planners from Quilting @ Simple Simon & Company Free quilt project sheets Yardage Chart: Inches= to how many fractions/yards Block size = to how many cuts to pattern I 'll attempt to keep adding more links as I uncover more.  So do be sure to check back time to time,  And please, if you wish to share some of those sewing planning aids,  one can best add them to using the comment section,  and once done, I'll begin to add those working links too.

My sewing room these days seems to have an admiration for collecting UFO. You know, those Q blocks left laying aside!!! They sort of cry out waiting for the next inspiration to become something of use.    Amazes me each time what one can come across searching for an item, or with among phases of cleaning up my work spaces and in just going through my sewing bins among spaces. My quilting had been previously drawn to skill-building in between making a few quilt for gifts the past few years too. And though I have learned quite a number with those skill building skills with block layout, therefore those sewing spaces have also collected quite a stack of  UFO's aka U n F inished  O bjects. Truly a time to begin finding a use for them considering some successful and maybe not so much. Must admit had a few of them frazzling me into making them not always my favorite but gained so much from the processes. And then those that pop out in begging me to make something out

 T-Shirt Quilt for My Carolina Girl Christmas has come and gone for some time now. Yet memories plenty to be.  One made memory for our family this past year, was a T'shirt quilt made & presented to my daughter. Think she really liked the idea with all her 'ole & dear favorite T's filled with memories all placed together into a quilt, and to be able, to cozy up with them during the cold winter months. Her favorite T's were cut and fused  And then sized for fitting into blocks measuring 12.5"x 12.5" Eventually, 3 rows were formed.  The bottom area turned out with the widest row from pairing and sizing. 2.5 " strips framed each block. Mainly strips of the color black were used to frame along with a few other complimentary colors for bordering each large block. A widening purple border was used to finish off the quilt top, The measurement with that widening border escapes me at the moment. The backing pieced with a solid slat