Twenty-Five Quilts, Day 8

In yesterday's Twenty-Five Quilts in 25 Days post, I showed you a coins quilt made from Freebird scraps. Today's quilt also features Freebird and an ivory Bella solid, but in a fun polka dot pattern!

I used a Tupperware lid to trace the circles onto lightweight fusible webbing. Then, I sewed the webbing to the fabrics with a quarter inch seam, placing the bumpy glue side of the webbing against the right side of the fabrics. After I trimmed the seam, I cut a small slit in the webbing so I could turn the circles right side out, finger press, and then iron them to the background fabric.

Before sewing the blocks together, I used a machine blanket stitch to secure the circles to the background blocks.

This was such a fun quilt to work on, and I'm hoping to make one in another fabric collection soon!

 

Twenty-Five Quilts, Day 7

I'm continuing along on my Twenty-Five Quilts in 25 Days blog challenge! To follow the journey from the beginning, start here.

I love coins quilts because they are a great way to use up scraps. I have several versions I'll be sharing this month! This one is made of an older line called Freebird by Momo for Moda Fabrics.

I still have quite a bit of Freebird in my stash, but the smaller scraps really needed to be tamed, so I decided it was time for a coins quilt.

The color palette in this collection is so fun!

I chose a chocolate brown floral for the bag, and the fun oval polka dot for the binding.

Thanks for visiting!

 

Stash Hoarding, Day 5: It's A Hoot

Today is the final day of my Stash Hoarding Top Five list, although I think I should include some "honorable mentions" later this week (let's face it -- I hoard a LOT of fabric!).

There are certain fabric designers whose work I would buy sight unseen, just because I've loved everything they've done. Momo (for Moda Fabrics) is one of them. The first quilt I ever sold on Etsy was made from Momo Wonderland fabric:

I've made and sold at least 5 or 6 of these quilts, and stocked up on quite a bit of Wonderland along the way. I think I'm over the hoarding of it, however -- I had the opportunity to add some to my stash this week and chose not to! The next collection was Freebird, and I thought this one was a lot of fun, too. The first quilt I made in it sold very quickly:

I made a couple of other Freebird quilts, but decided to try separating the bright colors with a neutral fabric. I do really like the way the solid sets off the wild fabrics.

This spring, I made a Freebird circles top for one of my customers who likes to handquilt:

I loved this one so much that I'm working on one for my store!

The next collection that Momo produced was It's a Hoot, which is the subject of today's hoarding post:

I've actually only made one It's a Hoot quilt. It sold so quickly that I never even got a picture with the binding finished. Since then, I've purchased a lot of It's a Hoot fabric with the intention of making follow up quilts, but the fabric just seems to collect in a drawer. I have charm packs, layer cakes, and yardage -- definitely enough for several quilts! I'm not sure why this one keeps getting pushed aside, but I still keep buying those precuts whenever I find them!

It's definitely time to revisit this collection and make some quilts, and then maybe I'll have a chance to make some out of the other Momo collections (I have an unopened fat quarter bundle of Just Wing It, a brand-new layer cake of the brand-new collction "Oh Deer", as well as several charm packs of Half Moon Modern). I've got a few more custom orders and many unquilted tops to make a dent in before I make good on this pledge, but I WILL use up some It's a Hoot this year!