a piece for me

Just a few days ago I came across this fun tutorial.

Then today I notice this on my desk.

So of course I just had to pull out some scraps and go to town on my very own Halloween (quilt as you go) mug rug.

Some pictures along the way.......

Sassy Zig Zag

Just finished up my first Zig Zag Quilt-

I've been looking and searching and oohing and aawhing over all the ones lots of great quilters have done and I finally just went for it.

I used a charm pack of Sassy by Sandy Gervais for Moda

At first I was not going to have a solid in-between the prints.

 Once it was laid out it was a bit small.

I had enough yellow on hand so I added it in, 

I got to play on my new design wall with this one :)

(so easy, I picked up a white flannel backed table cloth and pinned it to the only blank wall left in the sewing room)

I played with a printed backing this time, while using the back as the binding again,

 so I keep to 'stitch in the ditch' as the quilting.

All done! 

Perfect for a baby girl gift.

Nina

The newest member of our family. My forever "baby" you can say, she's a mini dachshund, her mom was short hair and dad a long haired so it's neat to see her growing. Her ears have a curl to them as does her tail. I actually call her precious but figured I should give her a name that the kids could say too, so precious Nina she is. Pictured below, I caught her loving on my scraps.