I found this cute pattern at my local quilt fabric shop and thought it would be a great project to practice a little free-motion quilting. (https://www.sewnwyoming.com/shop/zipit) For the fabric, I chose Wonder by Carrie Bloomston from Windham fabrics, which has pretty collage butterflies and little colored triangles. Then I found some coordinating bright solid fabrics and zipper to add some pop. The pattern is fairly easy to cut and assemble, so I spent most of my time concentrating on the free-motion quilting. I quilted in my favorite loopy squiggle, and included some flowers…
Here’s another version of the Super Simple Towel Topper Tutorial – adding gathering to the towel and creating your own quilted fabric. I tried a gathering option for towels that have images and words that go across the entire towel. And making your own quilted fabric makes it possible to use any coordinating fabric you like! To create this towel, use the same supply list from my Super Simple Towel Topper Tutorial, replacing the pre-quilted fabric with regular fabric and batting pieces. Supplies: Kitchen towels (I’m using fall towels from the Christmas Tree Shops in this example.) Fabric…
I’ve been sewing towel toppers over the years for gifts and for our church bazaar. They are fairly easy to make and fun to match up fabric stash scraps to towel colors and themes. But sometimes it gets a little hard to push the towel with the fabric topper through the sewing machine. So I was inspired to try a design that avoids sewing over the doubled bulk of the towel altogether. This is a version of a towel topper crafted by a lovely lady named Florence from our church. She’s been sewing and donating beautiful fabric creations…
Need a fun way to dress up your Independence Day table? How about July 4th Banner Coasters? These playful coasters can be used individually, or can be arranged together to make a festive banner garland centerpiece. Supplies: 1/3 yard blue fabric 1/3 yard red fabric Batting scraps (enough for eight 4 x 5 inch rectangles) 1 pkg medium rick rack in iridescent white 1/2 yard flag ribbon (or any red, white and blue ribbon) Begin by cutting eight rectangles out of each color, 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Create a simple triangle template, 4…