Tag: sewing

Moda Bake Shop QAL | Fabric Selection

Moda Bake Shop QAL | Fabric Selection

Who’s ready for camp? This year, the Moda Bake Shop’s Summer Quilt Along is a mystery quilt. All we know for now is that it is a medallion-style quilt and there is a “choose-you-own-adventure” element to it.   What is it? A medallion-style quilts start […]

fun interview with christa and angela

In honor of our Machining Quilting Blog Hop, HollyAnne over at String & Story did a super fun, joint interview with Christa Watson and Angela Walters, authors of The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting. They reveal some tips, advice, and the motif that drives them […]

How to Quilt Pebbles and Wood Grain Motifs

How to Quilt Pebbles and Wood Grain Motifs

Here we are again for Week 2 of the Machine Quilting Blog Hop. To recap–a few blogging friends and I are quilting our way through The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting in an effort to improve our machine quilting skills. It’s been a lot of […]

How To Get Started With Machine Quilting

How To Get Started With Machine Quilting

I’m so excited to get this Machine Quilting Blog Hop started! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this. I’ll wait 🙂 The first thing I did was to assemble the basics: The book The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting, a Supreme Slider […]

fifteen minutes of creativity a day

What can you accomplish in fifteen minutes a day? In the spirit of “little things add up to big things”, a piece of wisdom imparted by my best friend in college, I’ve been participating in something called Marchalong this month. All this means is that […]

Interview on String & Story

 The delightful HollyAnne of String and Story sent me a few questions to answer for her FriYAY Friends post. Pop on over to learn a bit more about my creative journey and where I find inspiration. You can read it here. Share List

Your precious handmades. Do you use them?

It all started with this coaster. I was having coffee with my friend Minki the other day and as always, we talking about sewing and the things we love to make. Then she said the nicest thing to me. “I learned from you to actually […]

I’ve changed my name to Simple. Handmade. Everyday.

  I just wanted to pop in to say that I’ve changed this blog’s name from They Grow Up Too Fast to Simple. Handmade. Everyday. to reflect the types of things that I want to write about. I started this as a Mommy blog about six […]

My favorite hand piecing tools

My favorite hand piecing tools

Six blocks down for the Fat Quarter Shop’s Patchwork Quilt Along. I finished them in about a week and a half and I can only hope that I can maintain that pace for a whole year. I am actually a bit sad that they are […]

last stop on the sew illustrated blog tour & giveaway!

Well, that was fun! I hope that you have been following along with the Sew Illustrated blog tour. I am in complete awe and amazement at the beautiful projects that were created over the last couple of weeks. Though really I shouldn’t be surprised–this is such […]