Modern Maple Quilt

One of an autumn quilt theme that I manage to make this year finally is here , it has been in my bucket list for so long .. just realize how fun block I can make everyday, until my head spin again... should I or should I not do hand quilting ? off course the last choice always win !!   Hand Quilting , off course ...  is like relaxing therapy to me .  There is so many empty (negative) space in this quilt which I happy to add 'maple leaf' hand stitches pattern to add durability to this quilt.

The Quilt finish is 57 x 67 inches which is a perfect size for cuddle - for hand quilting I used a pumpkin color Egyptian Cotton Thread 

Have a wonderful Autumn , friends..

The latest quilt

I'm not really start my sewing activity yet, what I mean is sewing big project like I used to do such a making quilt , I sew some little thing that I'm not considering as a big one but I love to put some of my latest quilt from 2015 just to encourage me to make more and filled up my online store soon .  Oh, well .. where's the time goes ?

 

 

 

the blue quilt above is the latest quilt I made for a lady who loves blue and math.

Blue is not my thing,  it take me too long to decide what pattern I should choose  but I think I did good by choosing Irish chain pattern and using so many different kind of blue fabric to make look like a patchwork :)  

 

the other quilt I proud to show you is my *a very long over due* Swedish bloom quilt - it's really take forever to finish this one (I think 1 year to be exact ) . I don't know what I was thinking to make this so big, queen size ... doh ... anyway, this quilt won't go anywhere . I keep it and will giveaway to my daughter for her memory sake :)))  

 

That's all for now , I promise will show you more ... 

Happy Sewing

Saturday gateaway ...

 

Saturday is always become our (mother + daughter) fun time . Starting with an early morning routine, daughter practice gymnastic , mom chat with a good friend while waiting for daughter to finish her tumbling . And the next we always do is visiting library , we love our headquarter library . The place is so big, book shell after book shell ; reading area ; kids area ; computer area ; special interest area and so and so ...   aaah, what they don't have just café to get a cup of coffee ... I think that should be a good idea ... eeew.. may be not .. because people will split the coffee and make a mess here and there.

 

One of my daughter favorite spot is a giant purple been bag ; she loves read and lay down there .. its a nice comfy place while mom try to digging some interesting book, what else if not a cooking book though..

 

 

We always end up with piles of books , sometime movie to bring it home . The headquarter always provide plastic bag with special print out that we can get for free or purchase another bag for just $1 - well, since I crazy in love with hexagon patchwork lately, I made library bag for her ...

 

 

 

I saw this bag about year ago from Amy-Nana Company blog, she made the bag so beautiful, since than I keep on my mind, someday I must to make one for my daughter too.  And I did it !! I finished made on Saturday morning, right before we start our activity . She loves it ...  but I still thinking that is not the good one, I still need to practice more to make it even better.

 

 

 

That is our weekend gateway, how about you ?

 

 

 

 

Zakka Project

 

Sometime I feel quilting process can be so painful, right now I am in the middle of working for my new quilt .. a queen size bed cover to be exact .

Fallen in love with the pattern from Ayumi Takashi book , I need 3 more swedish bloom block to go since I need a bigger size , though.. well, let see .. how much hours I need to put for this project.

Last Quilt

 

Phuiiih ... I feel relief , my quilt is done - and already on a lovely lady hand by now. This is my last quilt for 2013 - for now, at least a week my sewing room will be a quiet room . I need to dusting, cleaning, organizing around that room. I might start to sewing again soon.  I love the finish quilt, I can't believe my self , I did hand stich for this quilt.  I must be crazy.  For you who always say that you have no talent or can't sewing, please .. there is so many tutorial that you can follow , there is so many nice people out there will answer your question if you can't do it.  Trust me..
In fact you can find the tutorial for this quilt here: http://blueelephantstitches.blogspot.com/2012/01/granny-square-quilt-block-tutorial.html

I can't believe less than 10days before New Year 2014 !! where the times fly ?

See you again in 2014 - Thank you for all my reader who stop by here and read my stories .. I love you all .. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..

Modern I Spy Quilt

 

This is a short posting before I become busy tomorrow preparing for Thanksgiving Day. :)

Finally I finished this quilt - it's a very long process and time consuming also too many individual blocks ; all together there is 80 blocks. And a hundreds of nice fabrics, some are rare fabrics, Japanese Fabrics, some even no longer in market. The fabrics are my collection , that I collected for so long, Ebay Auctions even gift from my nice flickr's friends. 

 

The picture below is one of my favorite block, a vintage fabric 'ginger pancake recipe'

I use Aneela Fabric's collection for backing, isn't look adorable ?

Please contact me if you like to order similar quilt like this. So far I work base on order only and not doing mass production .

**Quilt is Reserved**

The new blocks for my new quilt

 

I'm busy and having fun in the same time - sewing new blocks for my new quilt . I didn't know that can be so addictive ; piles after piles of blocks . Time consuming but again I just can't stop doing it. It's fun ..

Still need 20's more blocks to go - can't wait until the final result.

Quilt Love - for the love of blue

 

What made me busy lately ? yes.. right, made baby boy quilt .. !! I don't have many 'boy' color fabrics choice ; every time going to fabric store I always pick a kind of 'girly' fabrics and when I must to make for baby boy - it's not always easy to chose the fabrics. So many choice, too cute to ignore ...

 

Finally I chose 'a sea world' type fabric - ooh, I tell you .. I love it so much ; even the backing fabric choice .. The quilt size is 30x34 inch ; perfect size for baby quilt even for small kid. Since I had an extra left over fabric, I made a fabric basket too .. (thank you for my beloved friend, Chase to provide the tutorial)

 

What do you think ? isn't that cute .. ?

{the quilt is reserved ; ready for delivery}

 

** please contact me for custom order **

For the love of handcraft ..

*Reserved*

I've been making many pillows lately ; is always fun to see the final result. Most the time I never plan on specific design - everything just cross my mind, see the piles of left over fabric from last quilt and voila.. fun pillow.

See this pillow above ? I think that is perfect block design for a bike-lover. What do you think?

And see another pillow bellow , I even add a simple message with hand stich on the bottom of yellow block pillow. This pillow is for a lady who loves yellow bee (the chevron pillow is backing view for yellow block bee pillow)

 

 

See, make something for someone and add their character into it. They will love it.

Contact me or email me if you like me make something for your love one too. Believe me, so much worth it to see 'star' on their eyes when they accept the package of love.

 

*Reserved*



 



 

Summer Quilt Blanket

 

It took a long weeks, to finished this blanket .. I didn't feel to do anything for several weeks, just being lazy :(  In fact, this is a first time I did a hand stitching for top quilt.. Did you notice the leaf petal on the plain block ?  I like the result.  I think I will make another one , but I promise this time I will do it fast, before the plant season is coming, I will be busy working out door rather than sit and sewing.. well, we will see.

 

I don't bother to measure the finish size of quilt, it's quite big, thou. Perfect for summer picnic blanket. In fact the quilt is already on the hand of  a lovely nice lady :D - She was so happy with the quilt .

 

 

 

And for the weekend, I made 2 scrappy bucket for me and my daughter too, it was fun to grab of left over fabrics and create something cute like this. The big version is for me, I put a lot of stuff in there, and the small version is for my daughter, she loved carry here and there... She put her daily journal and crayons , she love to write everything she see while she sit in the car :D

If you like to make your own, please check the tutorial from my beloved talented Chase HERE (click)

 

 

 

Last minute gift idea

H O L I D A Y - Season  mean is spend .. spend .. spend !! I'm not crazy about shopping during holiday season , its always get hard time to find parking space, car bump with other car, wuuuhuuu.. scary situation, stay too long in the line and so and so ..  but since we have many nice people around , I like to give something for them .  Well, we are not celebrate Christmas but since families and friends like to bring something for us, I would love to share something with them too.

 

I made several last minute gift to share with them ** why must be last minute idea ? well, are you like me ?? always confuse what should you get for someone ? always worry if the person you will give the gift will like or not ?  The easy way is giving them a gift card ! that's it .. problem solve ! But not always work for me .. I need something more personal to give, well ..off course I add this .. that .. and ending with reached deep pocket .. LOL

 

Ok, here we go .. I made several craft stuff for my little one teachers and some other relatives - easy peasy craft but made me happy. Just grabbed some fabrics , cut , add ribbon, and.. voila ...

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you

..back on track..

 

with so much distraction around me lately, from news about my beloved grandma who passed away a week ago , next was a computer crash , wipe out all the data on computer , and last was some family's issue . Oh gosh ..I was so tired, those made me delay some of my homework . But I know everything happen for a reason, there is no problem without solution.  Everything will be all right, with a good family members who always beside me no matter how hard the problem are - GOD gives us strength  , and thank you for my husband, we celebrate another year in a good times and bad times together again yesterday . Love you, Hun..

 

And today, finally I be able to back on track . Finished what had been delay before.. such back to my sewing machine ... Q..U..I..L..T..I..N..G - you know I do love quilting :)

4 sewing project already sent to customer !! She was so happy see a whole finish project, and I more happier too .. everything just perfect, and need to back sewing 'holliday theme project' pretty soon ..

 

 

 

*thank you for you, who loves to come back here to read 'inside my head' .. so much appreciate, even I don't always have an answer ..

Friday Project .. done !!

 

Phuuuih.. finally, my 3 quilts blanket are done ! I just need to put my sewing label on it. I put them on listing at my new Facebook Pages, and I'm still thinking to create a new Etsy shop as soon as possible.. (well, if the customer take a whole blankets, the story will be different than :)  I gave you a sneak peek last Friday , and voila .. you can check the result at my pages here :

 

RUMAH MANIS HANDMADE

Anyway, now I have time to bake again .. my "cookies monster" member are craving for my cake .. 

Ubee Cake is an easy cake, eem.. a little trick for my hubby actually, he doesn't like taste of sweet potatoes - so, I just mixed the sweet potatoes into the cake batter .. No complain, and he ate almost half of portion of 9inches of cake LOL.
 

 

UBEE CAKE / Sweet Potatoes Cake
100 grams yellow sweet potatoes, wash, steamed, smashed.
75 grams lite coconut milk
75 grams butter, melted
10 yellow eggs
2 white eggs
125 grams granulated sugar
½ tsp salt
125 gram all purpose flour
¼ tsp baking powder
25 grams rice chocolate (meises)

1. Prepared the oven for 350 F -  greased 9 inches round baking pan. Set a side

2.Blend sweet potatoes and salt together, set a side. Add melted butter, mixed very well.

3. With hand mixer whisk eggs, sugar, salt until well corporate. Add flour and baking powder, stir with spatula. Add sweet potatoes mixture, once at the time – make it 3 times, mix well. at last, add rice chocolate, stir it.

4. Bake for about 35-40 minute or until the skewer comes clean when you poke in the middle of cake.

 

Here is some of finished project , some are reserved - I suggest you to check direct to my facebook pages for better view. And just e-mail me if you interest to get one , a very cute custom made for yourself, friends or your kid teacher maybe . I can make base on your own colors choice and theme :))
 

 

needle..stitches..baking..special day..

 

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I'm doing hand quilting stitches, while baking a spekoek layer cake - the MUST cake I need to bake for a special day.

So, how do you like this handcraft so far ? .. this is my first time doing hand quilting, It's fun. I will come back to post the final result and the cake maybe .. :)

and still growing ..

I feel run like crazy .. too much too do, so little time .. here is one of the reason too, sneak peek from my last project. Piles of my quilting blocks, and still growing ..

I will be back soon..

Late Bloomer - I'm not perfect series

Have you ever in situation that when you see around everybody looks are so perfect , lucky in life but you ?. Everyone looks so divine. They have many things in life, they are become a great author, have their own careers, and looks so brights !! I feel that way sometime (ok, alot)  and those feeling made me 'sad '. Not until I sat with an old lady, friend of mine a couple days ago - we had a cup coffee , chit chat for almost 2 hours . We felt comfort with each other, and share our stories together. The story of her's life made me almost cry - I feel that is too much for her to 'carry' herself. But I tell you, she is the strong woman I ever met.  I'm not gonna tell you, what kind of situation she has. But the point is : you can't always look up , you need to look down too, to see people who doesn't have a perfect life and those will make you feel like  a lucky person in the world who doesn't need to go through that situation.  That is for sure, comforting me that I can't be perfect because I am  what I am - be myself and feel blessing with things on my hand right now, I don't need to see how beautiful people grass is, I just need to trim my own grass and make them as beautiful as people yards :D

Anyway, what on the earth this pictures has thing to do with story above ? I tell you this one, may be I'm a late bloomer  ; I just start sewing, quilting, baking when my age is more than 40yo!!  LOL  - and this is my first time quilting ever, well, I made several projects before but typical of me cut..sew and set aside, never intend to finished it up.  But this project really make me happy ; and if you see carefully, the sewing line is not straight ; kind of mess up little bit - but after the project finish, the picnic blanket is look 'perfect' to me   LOL  - oh well, mommy try to make an adjustment  ^__^

Now you will see the related between story above and my quilting project !! You don't have to see one by one and will find un-perfect thing, just need to see overall finish product ..  so comfortable picnic blanket and ... looks good, *eeerrr.. stop talking now !*

Do you see in the bottom of blanket ? I borrow the sketch from my daughter drawing paper and transfer to fabric and did a little handstich. :)  

oh , Ms.D , I hope you like this picnic blanket and every time you see the bottom of blanket you will know who you looking at ?

NO BAKING TODAY : Apron & Kitchen Towel

Some people try to get a perfect gift for friends and family during this month, I know must be giving you a little bit headache ^_^  . So why don't you try to make your own gift for someone you love ? An apron and matching kitchen towel, maybe is a good gift for them ? What you need is to buy a lovely fabric  like this . I called 'From Tokyo with Love Theme'.

Just a yard or less cotton fabric for an apron (I got from Jo-Ann Store ; about $8/yard) and half yard linen fabric for kitchen towel. I add a coffee pot hand stitches. Believe me, your friends or mom , will loves it. No pattern necessary , just using your imagination and 2 hours working with your sewing machine :)

And if you still lazy to make your own, send me message, I will love to do for you (and not expensive at all, just let me know your fav.colors or pattern) . A Custome made, is always makes me happy.

NOTE : both, an apron and kitchen towel are SOLD ! new collections will coming soon and I will put on my shop .. come back again, latter..  :)