Gracie's Guitars!!!...

All of my Gracie Girl quilts are back from quilt market...

and now I can show you another quilt

that I made for Kassidy's room. 

It's a nice twin size or ...

 a perfect snuggle quilt size:)

I've had this quilt drawn up for quite awhile…

and have just been waiting for Gracie Girl

to make it with:)

It was so fun to make ...

not to mention fast!

I wish I had a real guitar 

like each and every one in the quilt!

I used a Riley Blake solid for each guitar neck...

and then matched them up

 with a print from Gracie Girl:)

I used my quick and easy machine appliqué method for the entire guitar…

making it a quick process.

I did a scrappy binding with the 

leftover fabric from the guitar bodies…

easy peasy!!!

There are 15 guitars total…and I used 15 Gracie Girl  fat quarters:)

Gracie's Guitars

66" x 84"

Pattern is now available in 

my little etsy shop…

Busy Bee Inc.

What do you think?

Doe's your very own Gracie Girl need one too?

Have a quilty kind of day!!!

xx

Lori

The Quilty Fun Sew Along - Week Two - Twinkly Stars!!!...

Good Morning cute people!

Today is Week 2 of the 

Quilty Fun Sew Along

YaY!

My friend Amy from Nana Company 

is hosting this week.

Thanks Amy!

Her stars are so pretty:)

(as well as everything else that she makes)

Click here

 to go visit Amy and to get this weeks download

 for this weeks sashing measurements:)

These are the twinkly winter stars that

 I made way back for the original row along quilt...

And these are stars that I made for the sampler quilt.

The directions to make the twinkly stars 

 are on page 36 of

Quilty Fun

I didn't get a picture of them after I sewed them together…

but you can click

  here and here and here

to see cute little stars all sewn together for the sampler quilt:)

Don't forget to add a picture of your twinkly stars to the

Quilty Fun Flickr Group

It makes you eligible to win this weeks prize… 

The Angler 2!

So now we should have apples and stars all ready before next Monday...

When we will be doing the Courthouse Steps.

I hope you're all having some 

Quilty Fun!

Sew it like you mean it!...

xx

Lori

Quilty Coasters Tutorial...

I've been sewing some really fun and easy little coasters for gifts.

I used 5" squares and I thought  that

today I would show you how I made them.

Windham Fabrics sent me this darling charm pack

 "Wallflowers" to play with

and I thought it would be cute for these coasters.

My quilty coasters would also be the perfect project

 for leftover 5" squares from your quilty stash:)

I used the Omnigrid Marking Rulers Trio

to make my coasters.

You can get yourself a set by clicking 

HERE

(*they happen to be having a special this month…YaY!)

I laid the longest ruler across the center of one square from corner to corner. 

I marked on both sides of the line with a mechanical pencil.

Because the edges are pinked…

you might not be able to get it marked exactly centered…

but no worries!

Just do the best you can.

I square them up afterwards

 and there is plenty of room to play with:)

Place two 5" squares right sides together

and sew directly onto your marked lines…

then cut them apart.

Press the seams open for less bulk.

Now mark again like this…

using the medium length ruler in the set.

Place two of them together like this...

and place a pin right into the seams 

at the marked lines on BOTH squares

 so that the seams will line up after sewing.

Sew directly across your marked lines again…

and cut apart.

You guessed it!…

press the seams open.

Now you will need your

 3 1/2" square ruler 

to square it up.

I like to use the 

Busyfingers 

turning mat to trim up my blocks.

Now cut a 4 1/2" piece of batting from 

your batting scraps for each coaster.

Place your square directly onto the batting

 and do a quick machine quilt on it!

It's not necessary to have a piece of backing fabric for this step.

(but don't forget to use a walking foot)

I quilted across the coaster both ways diagonally

 and then 1/8" in from the edge.

I trimmed off the excess batting and laid it

 right side up onto the center

 of the wrong side of a 5" square.

I folded the sides of the backing squares twice…

with the last fold overlapping the edges of the coaster.

Work with one side at a time...

and top stitch the edges of the backing…

enclosing the edges of the coaster within.

You can see on this one that I have one more side left to do.

(use your walking foot for this too)

YaY!

One cute little quilty coaster complete!

Just keep going until you

 make as many as your

 cute little heart desires:)

I think a set of four quilty coasters…

would be an adorable little

 gift for the holidays!!

makes me smile:) 

Have a quilty kind of day…

xx

Lori