Monday, September 28, 2009

OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

OK everyone.. october is breast care awareness month and i have come up with a swap for our group. Here is the picture of the block...



Here are the directions

This is a 9 inch block finished.

Cut (2) 4" long x 1 1/2" wide strips in your bra color

(1) 5" wide x 6 1/2" long strip of flesh colored fabric- remember there are all shades of flesh

(1) 4" wide x 9 1/2" long strip of flesh colored fabric- the width of this may vary due to how much you have to cut off the top of the flying geese block to match straps so i suggest waiting to cut this block until you are finished sewing the others together and measure what you will need plus the 1/4" seam allowance.

(1) 10"x 10" block in flesh colored fabric

(3) 5" x 5" blocks in bra color

directions for flying geese block can be found here http://www.patchpieces.com/Flyinggeese.html using the 10" block and and (3) 5" Blocks

next you will sew your 4 " strips to your 6 1/2" flesh colored strip

now heres the tricky part ... you will have to trim down the top of your flying geese block to meet the "straps" of your bra. i cut about 1 1/2" off the top but this will depend on your flying geese block.

sew your strap block to the flying geese block.

next sew that section to the 4 x 9 1/2 inch strip of flesh colored fabric-remember depending on how much you had to cut off the top of your flying geese you may have to have a wider strip.

straighten up your block to be 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 and your done now you can embelish with lace, beads, bows anything you can imagine!

I will post a picture of one i have made soon

hope this makes sense!

if you have questions please email me mistyschmidt@grandecom.net



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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

My Babys first day of her last year of Elementary~!

I can't believe its here .. the 6th grade ..wow.. where did summer go??
She has grown up alot this year .. my lil helper .. i sure miss her at the office lol

Trick or Treat Street - Sunbonnet Sue





I have after a year of being stashed in the closet finally quilted my Trick or Treat street wallhanging.


Now to get the binding and embelishments done!

Qfk Rocketship challenge

We were sent these Rocketship panels as a challenge for Quilts for kids.


Have to finish quilting yet but here is my first rocket quilt challenge for Quilts for kids .. have one more to do .

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

More organized fabric closet! Yeah

I found a blog with a great tip on folding fabric. I love it .. i spent the whole weekend redoing my fabric closet .. here are before and after pictures!





Before .....


And....

After!

Amazing isnt it ... you take your fabric the way you get it from the bolt .. wrap it around your cutting ruler ; slip it off the ruler and fold over .. waaaahlahhh small compact neatly folded fabric!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Funky summer finger nails




Today i went to the nail salon and endulged in a new set of nails and a pedicure before our Las Vegas trip. This is what i came out with .. think they are tooo cool~Water Melons

Sisters birthday wallhanging









Here is a wallhanging i made for my sister. Pat had a death by quilting challenge and i thought it would be fun to use that same pattern, change it up a bit and find something for the corner so i went over to fatcatpatterns and found some funky chickens and heres what i came up with ....



Lame sister is always late... her bday was June 3rd and here it is the 7th ... ugggh .. oh well the thought that counts!