Sew Sampler Review

Subscription boxes have been a huge hit lately, and my favorite quilting store Fat Quarter Shop has started a new subscription box called Sew Sampler. I received my first box on Friday.

Love the colors of the box.

All of the yummy contents in one spot

My daughter has already claimed this little charm pack for me to make a quilt with for her

Some really cool magnetic screwdrivers, they say there for the sewing machine but have not tried them out yet. Best part is they say although magnetic they are computer safe.

These little scissors came at a perfect time, I seem to have lost my little gold scissors that I use for cross stitching.

Not to sure what I will do with this patter but it is super cute and has three different sizes to it.

I always love a good ruler, this one is 2.5 x 6.5 perfect for making little squares.

This is my favorite thing in the doc for some reason, being in the Military we move a lot, I am going to save this for our next duty station. 

Overall I would rate this box excellent, I think I would use most if not all the things in this box, I might give the strawberry pattern to my quilt guild for someone else to make. 

100 Layouts Challenge

I belong to a scrapbooking group called Scrap Happy one of the members of the group said she challenged her self to do 100 Layouts before she could by any new supplies minus adhesive and white yardstick. I decided to join her and added pop dots to my list of things I was allowed to purchase because I love dimension and my supply is running a little low.

I am only counting layouts that help get rid of my stash, not project life cards that I print off of my computer.

Today I completed two layouts both from when we were pass holders and both when my mom came to visit us in May of 2014.

The first layout is about our dinner at Akershus Royal Banquet Hall. The stickers are from simple stories and the papers are a mix of old papers. The words on all of the photos are part of the project mouse line at The-Lilypad. I took some time looking through all of their word art and added them to the pictures before printing them out. The sketch idea for the layout is from Scrapbook Generation whom where most of my sketches come from. 

My second layout is a from my Husband and I's dinner with star wars characters. Once again the layout sketch is from Scrapbook generation. All but the yellow paper was pulled from my stash of odds and ends papers. I downloaded the Star Jedi font and cut it with my silhouette I did the yellow first and realized that it did not stand out enough on the red so I created a white outline and loved the result

Bonus Layout:

One quick bonus layout from my four year old. I give her my phone and let her take whatever pictures she would like. I print them at home and then let her take paper from my scrap stash and cut however she wants and then glue it down. It is also a homework project because she is working on her letter writing/letter sound recognition. 

Sewing Room Floor

Today I am sharing a project that I have had the top completed and quilted for a few years and had no desire to finish. Well I am participating in a Finish-along this quarter and I put this quilt as something to finish.

Story behind this quilt:

I spotted this quilt on the wall at janni lou creations during one of my shop hop visits to Oregon. The quilt on the wall was beautiful, and they did not have any more quilt kits left. So I bought the pattern and during the shop hop go all of the beautiful batiks to make the quilt. I started making the quilt in July of 2014 and when I finished it I took it to Grandma to quilt it (and fix my y seams). Eventually on another trip to Oregon I got it back and then promptly tucked it into a closet, because I had no desire to bury all the threads from Grandma quilting. After having the same quilt on my bed for close to two years I decided it was time to put a new quilt on the bed. I pulled out this quilt and used my christmas gift certificate to order the binding. Once the binding material arrived on friday I promptly made binding and stitched it down, then spent the rest of the weekend hand sewing the binding. I love this quilt even more now that it is done. 

Q2 2016 Quilt Along

So now that I am on terminal leave from the Army I have more time to do things like quilt :). It has only been three weeks since I started terminal leave and I am still trying to get into the grove of things like dropping my daughter off at school and getting my homework done.

Since I have so much more free time then I did before I am going to participate in the Q2 2016 finish-a-long. I have four projects that I am proposing to finish this quarter.

PROJECT 1

Clara's big girl bed quilt

My daughter is moving from a toddler bed to a twin bed this summer. I was looking through my stash and found these cute fairies that I got as part of a kit when I went to the Houston Quilt Show. Well the kit was not big enough to turn into a queen bed so Clara and I went through my stats and found a bunch of batiks that we thought were pretty. I added them to the fairy blocks and designed a quilt from there.

Project 2

A dress for Clara

Like most little girls mine love my little pony, so I bought her some fabric to make a my little pony dress. Having a little girl who is all legs and arms and super skinny I have found that making her dresses is the way to go.

Project 3

Trip home quilt

My grandma finished quilting me this almost a year ago, all I have left to do is bury threads and add a binding. All of the fabrics and pattern were picked when I went shop hopping with my grandma on a trip home.

Protect 4 

Letters home

Ever have a project you just want done because it drives you crazy? That is this one. I just want this quilt done and out of the way!