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{Tutorial Thursday: Quilt block a month #5 : a 2012 goal:}

by on May 17, 2012
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Hello May! How is it May already!?!

With a new month, comes a new quilt block :)

If you have been fol­low­ing my blog, you know about my my Quilt a block a month 2012 goal (or if you are new you can read more about it HERE).

So for this months block,  the fifth block of the year, I have a scrappy block– some­thing to use up all and any of those fab­ric scraps in your stash, and you can find my step by step tuto­r­ial for it HERE from the Fiskars blog

Hope you enjoy it! This is an easy block fo any­body to start with, and yet it is a bit inter­est­ing because of the lit­tle bit of design involved. Hope you give it a try!

Its going to be a lit­tle quiet on my blog front for a while– We are com­pletely declut­ter­ing and rear­rang­ing our entire house. Doing some gar­den­ing. We have had two babies since we bought this house, and it it time to seri­ously rearrange how we live (This is what I am good at doing, and all my life, I have rearranged my room atleast 4 or 5 times a year. Just go and ask my brother. ) - and get rid of  a lot of stuff that we dont need. That means garage sale :) And hope­fully paint­ing the house too. I am also purg­ing out a ton of scrap­book­ing stuff– and will mostly be sell­ing them at the garage sale, but if are look­ing for some­thing to buy, send me an email and I will let you know if I have it :)

I still have lots of projects to share, and have sched­uled blog posts for you all. I just wont be doing any chal­lenges, or face­book and twit­ter. I really havent sat at a com­puter for over two days now, and it feels good.

Be good while I am gone!

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{Tutorial: Quilt block a month #1:
a 2012 goal:}

by on January 23, 2012
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I love quilt­ing. Its one of my big new loves in craft­ing. I love that we can play with color so eas­ily with prints in a color.

But really, I have made only two quilts in the recent years– one for each daugh­ter– and I made those dur­ing the last few weeks of my preg­nan­cies. Because I was in big time nest­ing mode then :)

I really would love to sew more, and have more quilts around the house. I love to hand quilt, as that gives me some­thing to do while watch­ing tv/movies at night with the hubby. I have tons of fabric/sewing/quilting ideas that I love on pin­ter­est. I have seen some amaz­ing color com­bos, tech­niques and pat­terns; and every time I tell myself “Some­day I would love to make a quilt like that!” (don’t we all do that ?)

Well, for 2012 I have a new goal. To sew more. Use that sewing machine on fab­ric rather than on paper (for my scrap­book­ing lay­outs). Learn new tech­niques, design new pat­terns, and in gen­eral explore the quilt­ing world a lit­tle bit more…

Now I don’t promise that I will be perfect.

But for each month this year, I will be sewing an unique quilt block. My take on some tra­di­tional and some not so tra­di­tional block patterns.

To begin with, here is this month’ block: a Chevron pat­terned block (or a her­ring­bone pat­tern) : and you can find my step by step tuto­r­ial for it HERE from the Fiskars blog.

Hope you enjoy it, and sew along with me!

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Posted by Smitha on January 23, 2012

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{waiting for baby…}

by on July 30, 2011
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Every night I go to bed think­ing, maybe tomor­row the baby will be here… The last cou­ple of days of the preg­nancy have to be the worst, I am not a patient per­son and it seems all we are doing is wait wait wait…

Here is how we have been keep­ing our­selves busy — set­ting up and pho­tograph­ing the baby room. This was Baby N’s favorite mobile… I love how col­or­ful it is!

My pho­tog­ra­phy isn’t bad, but I have SO much to learn. I know  how I want my pho­tos to look, but I need to learn how to change my camera’s set­tings to achieve the effect I want… I will prob­a­bly get back into pho­tog­ra­phy once the new baby is here– new­born pho­tog­ra­phy is so much fun, tod­dler pho­tog­ra­phy is just the oppo­site coz its impos­si­ble to get them to sit still!

While wait­ing for the baby to arrive, I got my quilt all fin­ished and it is so very pretty. I can’t share it here with you yet, you will have to wait for that, but I will give you a hint of what it looks like,

I worked at a fran­tic speed to get this quilt done. I was up in the mid­dle of the night at my sewing machine quite a few nights, and one night I actu­ally thought I would sew myself into labor. My mom was very sweet and kept me com­pany while I was up late. Since I had bought way too much fab­ric for the quilt, we used the left­overs to make a cute new­born baby dress. I used this pat­tern from Made by RAE (love her blog!) and cut the fab­ric, my mom hand stitched most of it, and I added the flouncy lace in the bot­tom. We both love how pretty the dress turned out to be! We are now think­ing of mak­ing the tod­dler ver­sion of the dress for the big sis­ter :)

Now we go back to wait­ing for the baby to arrive… Will keep you guys updated!

 

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Posted by Smitha on July 30, 2011

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  • Hi there! Wel­come to my blog! I am Smitha Katti, and here I share every­thing that is color, cre­ative and crafty in my life. A happy mix­ture of scrap­book­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy, pho­to­shop­ping, sewing, paint­ing and two lit­tle girls! I hope you have fun fol­low­ing me in my crafty endeavors…
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