End of Summer in my Studio Space

I am revelling in the last week of summer. I caught the sun in my space one afternoon this week - all that white space! With autumn right around the corner, my cutting table is piling up with design possibilities and projects that I want wrapped up this year.

Last week I contributed blog posts at QUILTsocial.com featuring the new PFAFF Performance 5.2. What a great machine! This one has a bit more oomph when it comes to sewing layered seams.

Here's my first look review post.

I created a crazy patch potholder to test all the built in crazy stitches on the machine here.

Then I made a modern log cabin pillow cover and played with a few more of the decorative stitches.

We're heading out for a few nights of camping - had to check this off the summer to-do list still. First things first; prepping a block to take so I have something to handstitch!





Enjoy the weekend,

Sarah V.

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Patchwork Olympics - a quilt top

I know the Olympics are over, but it took me a little bit longer to get my Patchwork Olympics quilt top done. 

And really, it's still not done. I asked my husband to hold it up to show the pattern size of the quilt as designed by Temecula Quilt Co.. I'm planning on adding one more row to make it a little longer and a more usable length in our house.

I love the small pieces! I really didn't think I had any light color scraps - let alone enough - to make this quilt. Was I surprised! It's amazing how little the pieces were that I kept over the years - or is it?

I made this bin several years ago. I keep baggies in it full of leftovers from projects. Little pieces that I cut, spare blocks, test blocks, random bits of fabric that I fussy cut and saved. . . 

Inside the bin I found this tiny baggie full of 1 1/2" squares - the right size for this project! 

I also found a lot of fused scraps kept from several projects. I threw out quite a few - the real skinny ones - and kept a few with a project in mind. In the end the bin's goodies probably shrunk in half from this exercise! 

That means I have room for more scraps, right ;)

I recently received the new PFAFF Performance 5.2 to review for QUILTsocial.com. You can read my posts over there this week. Thanks to this machine's features I was able to zip through and sew a lot of patches in less than an hour! It's helped me conquer that I'm too tired to quilt feeling - I can sit down and sew precise seams and feel good doing it. I find it tricky to describe the physical ease of using the PFAFF machines - you might just have to try one;)

I'm so glad I took on this Olympic challenge. Yet another quilt in my home with a story - a birth story. So many memories of other quilts I've made came up as I cut out and sewed together scraps from them, joining them together in this quilt. 

The abundance of gifts from scrap quilts is tangible with every cuddle. I've got two more blocks to make to finish the last row of this quilt and I'm looking forward to scrounging through what's left of my scraps to piece them. I know there will be enough. And probably more!


Do you like to make scrap quilts?




With Joy,

Sarah V.

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