Full Day Of Sewing!!

It's so nice when you get a full day of sewing in. It's a rarity with two boys at home :) so when the stars aligned haha I ran with it. 

This was my first time to paper piece letters. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. I was looking for a fun, funky block for a surprise quilt a group of us are making for someone ;).  I picked a block out of the Sew Out Loud QAL. I have always loved this quilt and thought this block would be perfect. You can check out her post and get the template here.

We are doing a mugrug swap between our guild and the Las Vegas MQG. I found a great one on Pinerest and got to work. I did some echo quilting and LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the way it turned out. Finishing it up with yellow binding yay!!!

And lastly it was my turn to pick a BOM for the guild. I found this one on Pinterest, again ;) It was such an easy paper piece and went together super fast. You can check out the post and get the template here. I thought it would look good on point so I added some boarders and voila. 

I was kind of surprised at how much I got done in just a few hours. It felt great to finish a project haha.

~January~

My very first QUILT!! It was tiny, but it was a Quilt!

This is a very picture happy post - You have been warned! :) 

I had the pleasure of going to my very first Fort Worth Modern Quilt Guild meeting on Thursday. It was a lot of fun and I'm so excited to be apart of it.  We had to bring a mug rug for a secret swap, so I set out to find some help. I have never made a mug rug, shoot I have never even made a quilt! Started them yes, but I had yet to make them into actual quilts. This one is full of firsts! I found an awesome tutorial from Sew Fantastic for a scrappy color block mug rug. I love the use of color and thought it was very cheery. 

I cut out all my little  pieces and put them in their places. 

Now it was time for some serious sewing!

I like me some chain piecing.

Here are all my strips ready to be sewn together.

Now they are all sewn together and squared up.

Here goes the batting and backing.

Now it's time to get quilting. I have to tell you I was a little apprehensive to start quilting. I don't have a walking foot yet, so I was using my patchwork foot.  It was a "Make it work" moment, but I will have to invest in one soon. My lines came out pretty straight, so I was stoked!

So now that all that was done, it was time for binding. I had no idea how or even where to start, but I had to do something since I had to leave in 3 hours to go to the meeting. I found a wonderful tutorial for binding on Oh Fransson. This helped me tremendously and I was able to crank it out. 

Time for some handy work.

All finished! YAY I actually did it! I made a quilt all by myself. It may be tiny, but I got a quilt under my belt.

 Here is the cute mug rug I picked um stole!!

I always feel bad even though that's the game. 

She ended up with a super cool mug rug in the end so I didn't feel so bad :) I hope you all are having a very Merry Christmas and can't wait to start the new year.