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I have been sewing along with Lori Holt and the Fat Quarter Shop using her Sewing Bee book (on sale!) AND the sew along part is almost done.  This is my 2nd time on the tour to share the Number 6...

If you have been CRAZY good and sewed the blocks assigned each week, today is 6 & 7. I'm using the 6" size blocks.

I've made one of each letter and number and some of the images to put into a quilt. Is the quilt ready to show you? mmmmm....

I had GREAT intentions of showing you a top today, but i will in the future! I'm making it for my nieces two little boys

And I made it scrappy 'I spy' kind of a quilt. Most of the fabrics have some sort of image they can hunt for. 

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The book has tons of darling images & projects, here is another block that will be in my Alphabet quilt. 

  

 

Besides making the cover quilt, the book is full of project ideas, these are just a few! I love the idea of a set of letters for learning the alphabet. I can remember teaching my younger brother with flash cards.

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Charming Mini Sew Along, it's a darling free pattern!

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My good friend Lindsay Mayland has a darling pattern to use those 2.5" squares and asked me to join her tour to show how I used her tutorial!

Lindsay writes at Happy hour Stitches, but by day, she is one of the incredible team at American Patchwork & Quilting magazine that I get to work with! You see her often doing the Facebook live and running their UFO challenge. 

Lindsay also was a designer in our Splendid Sampler book 

Lindsay wrote the pattern to use a whole mini charm, I decided to cut up red and white scraps from my Sunday Drive line to use.

By the way.. if you ask me to do any project right now.. it will be red and white.. just so you know.. wink! 

Here is how I approached this.

1. I made the adorable 4-patch units.. now I want a whole quilt of them!
2. They didn't lay very flat, so I pressed the center seam open
3. Since I'm putting these side by side, I had to determine placement of the side triangles. Plus I turned the 4-patch units... because why make it easy?
4. Deciding if I like it...mmm.. yep, I'm cleared to sew!
5. Stacked the 2 different blocks to make it easy to chain sew

TIP: If you place the 4-patch on top, I feel you have more control over the block.

Being a small block it's easy to get it out of whack.

I used the seams of the 4-patch for lining up the triangle tip to sew

And when done, trimmed off the extra part before trimming the block to size. This got rid of some bulk.

With 8 block set 2 by 4 it gives me a nice mug rug!

I use these ALL over the place. My border is cut 1 1/4" wide. 

I do believe chocolates go perfectly with this project!

Visit Lindsay to download the pattern

And make sure to share with Lindsay on Facebook or Instagram, so we can see your Charming Mini!

Visit the others on the tour, everyone did different colorc and type of project!

• Tracie Henkel of Riceford Streams
• Vanessa Lynch of Punkin Patterns
• HollyAnne Knight of String and Story
• Sheila Sinclair Snyder of License to Quilt

 

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what could be more fun than digging into your fabrics? Making something with them!

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My friend Kerry & Sue were the masterminds behind the ugly sweater sew along last year, and this year they has a new one!

This year they has loads of inspiration for these fun Christmas mugs. What I decided to do was dig DEEP into my box of Christmas Fabric. I knew this Michael Miller Holiday Hostess fabric was printed years ago, and I have a coveted FQ of it!  (I used the bottom right one in Sue's pattern HERE)

So i felt this was a worthy project to cut out a Holiday Hostess to use...

But now I might be hyperventilating a tiny bit..

Cutting a piece of fabric I can't get more of.. eep! Do you do that too... save and save? I've decided I better start using these fabrics and enjoying them. I don't enjoy them must sitting in a box!

I think she looks marvelous on my stand. 

I thought it would be fun to celebrate with a giveaway.. I still have a few layercakes of my Sunday Drive, so why not spread the love!

What piece of fabric has you kept for so long and never cut into?

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Karen is our winner, she said "I have a pice of salmony orange cotton sateen with sea horses on it. Kind of tone on tone. It was my Mom's. I think it was meant for a fun cocktail dress. Someday I will use it in a beach themed quilt."

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