December, the final installment of the year’s TAKE TEN BLOCK CHALLENGE! I can’t believe we’ve reached the end! When I was designing December, I wanted to pay a little homage to winter. These on-point blocks are like ice crystals but also a little like snowflakes too, so this month’s block is titled “First Snow.” My […]
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Take Ten: November
November is here! Happy Take Ten Friday 🙂 This block is an easy one, and super cute to boot! Like June’s block, I wanted to go with a seasonal theme for November and Falling Leaves is a great way to represent the changing of the seasons. It might be late for most of the Northern […]
Take Ten – October
I am SO excited about this month’s quilt, and I’m already on a roll and on track to finish the top (at least) before Halloween. I chose this design specifically to compliment the Ruby Star Spooky Darlings fabric I had. This month’s block is… Ninja Star! The Japanese term is Shuriken for the type of […]
Scrap Strips Drawstring Bag Tutorial
I promised to share the project I made with the leftover scraps from the September Take Ten quilt block, and here it is! A very fun, very functional drawstring bag! The 3″ strips were perfect for sewing into a strip and then finishing into a drawstring bag. The boxed corners perfectly surround a strip all […]
Take Ten – September
Oh, what a month it has been! We finally got into our rental home just a few weeks ago, and I finally have my sewing machine back – we shipped it from France before we left, and it took about 5 weeks to join back up with us here in Arizona. I also managed to […]