Disney Mystery Quilt, Block 12 and a giveaway winner

If you are looking for my entries in the Blogger's Quilt Festival, check
1. Blogger's Quilt Festival: The Sword in the Stone
2. Blogger's Quilt Festival: Peanuts Snoopy Wall Hanging

Thanks to all the people that already stop by and left me nice comments!! You are all great!! ;)

If you are looking for the Quilt&Stitch-TestAlong giveaway drawing, keep reading, it's at the end of this post :)

But before that, let's get down to my project of this last week:

1. the designs for the TFIOS challenge are available on Fandom In Stitches... Follow the link and vote for your favorite!! even if it is not mine!!! ;)

2. another craft from Jennifer's series "Crafts of Halloweens Past", my pumpkin related to the post "Pumpkin earings".

Ok, again, they are not earings... but it's their paper piecing version ;) I hope it counts anyway...

3. I finished testing the block for Esther @ ipatchandquilt... and here it is

I made few changes from the original pattern... just because I want this piece to be the center piece for a Halloween wall hanging... and it looked better for me with the small changes ;)
The small changes are only in the finishing of the hexagons on the sides (they are "finished" and not with the lines that connect them to other hexagons). And the other change is that I printed the pattern smaller than the original. My piece is 60% of the original size (final size: around 18'' square). It is easy to build the single units even if they are smaller. The only thing to keep in mind is that when you scale a pattern, you also scale the seam allowance... so you need to remember that when you cut the pattern or the fabric (you have to remember to cut them bigger than the piece of paper)... it's not a big problem but it's something to keep in mind.
Not all the seams match... but I really don't mind... too many projects to do now to unpick all the seams that are not perfect ;) And I like it anyway!!

4. finally I was able to put together another block from my Disney Mystery Quilt.
Sorry for the delay but this month has been crazy :)
And it is not the block I was planning to share today, but the "single" squares are quicker to prepare than the big rectangular (double) blocks :) so here is

Here we are with Block number 12 of the Mystery Quilt.

The Twelfth Block of the Quilt is Merlin back from the Barbados.

You can find the pattern in the Free Patterns section.

Have fun, and post a comment below for any question/advice/comment!

And if you tried any of the blocks, please leave me a comment below, or send me a picture of the block or publish the block on the FiS Flickr Group (or all of them :) ). I would love to see your work!!

5. and finally, the winner of the first drawing of the Quilt&Stitch-TestAlong event is...
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Jennifer @ Fandom in Stitches!!! I am very happy that Random.org picked your entry... you are always so supportive!! :)  I will be emailing you soon to ask you for your mailing address :)

IMPORTANT NOTE: to have an entry in the drawing I considered comments on the Quilt&Stitch-TestAlong plus some of the "sharing" post/buttons that I found in some of your blogs... but I didn't receive any direct email for those, so if I found them, good for you, but if not, I am sorry :). If you want to make sure that I add your entry in the drawing, please, send me an email... otherwise I cannot guarantee that I will find your post/button/comment about it on your blog :)

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Peanuts Snoopy Wall Hanging

Ok, I don't care if it's less than a year since the first day I put my hands on a sewing machine for the first time...

I have a Bed Quilt and a Wall Hanging so I am going to link them in the fabulous Blogger's Quilt Festival.

This is the second post (the one for the Wall Hanging).
You can find the first post here.

Patterns for single blocks are available on the Free pattern page

Also all these blocks were designed by me... and since it was a present for a friend of mine (and she is Italian), the quotes from the different characters are in Italian :)
I had so much fun putting together these blocks... and they are pretty simple too...
And please ignore my wonky/irregular/weird quilting :) I am still very new to the quilting process and I do my best... but I stopped trying to reach perfection before sharing things :) I think that's a nice project even with all the imperfect lines ;)

If you are new to my blog, look around and feel free to leave me comments ;)

And if you want to participate to an interesting Quilt&Stitch-Test-A-Long, follow the link and have a look at my two new fandom quilts... there are giveaways there at the end of the page ;)

And drop by Amy's blog to vote for your favorite projects!!! Mine do not stand a chance against the wonderful ones that I already spotted there... but still, it's fun to share my (recent) love for quilting with so many talented people!!!

Blogger's Quilt Festival: The Sword in the Stone

Ok, I don't care if it's less than a year since the first day I put my hands on a sewing machine for the first time...

I have a Bed Quilt and a Wall Hanging so I am going to link them in the fabulous Blogger's Quilt Festival.

This is the first post (the one for the Bed Quilt).
You can find the second post here.

This is the first quilt I have ever done... completely designed, pieced and quilted by myself.

(this is me :) sneak peek from under my quilt ;))

Before starting this project I just did few paper piecing patterns from Fandom In Stitches, and I fell in love with the idea of a fandom related quilts, of the idea of designing my own quilt and I fell in love with paper piecing :) :)

Since then I designed and pieced many more fandom-related things.
If you are new to my blog, look around and feel free to leave me comments ;)

And if you want to participate to an interesting Quilt&Stitch-Test-A-Long, follow the link and have a look at my two new fandom quilts... there are giveaways there at the end of the page ;)

And drop by Amy's blog to vote for your favorite projects!!! Mine do not stand a chance against the wonderful ones that I already spotted there... but still, it's fun to share my (recent) love for quilting with so many talented people!!!

From Jennifer and for Jennifer :)

UPDATE: the designs for the TFIOS challenge are available on Fandom In Stitches... Follow the link and vote for your favorite!! even if it is not mine!!!


The projects I worked on last couple of days are all connected to Fandom In Stitches and Sewhooked... thanks Jennifer for sharing amazing patterns with us and for organizing such fun events and challenges!!

So now let me share my Crafts of Halloween Past:

Easy Felt Bats:

Well... Jennifer's original pattern for the bat was much bigger and thought as a door decoration... but I wanted to make it into a small quilt block because I want to put together many Halloween blocks and make a wall-hanging for next year :) So I simply scaled down the pattern and then applique them on a small square of background fabric.

Cauldron:

The paper piecing version of the pincushion :)

Finger Puppet:

Well, for me is a Rotary Cutter Puppet ;) but it is lovely I think!! I just added a couple of rounds in the original pattern to make it bigger...

#TFIOS Design Challenge:

Thanks to Jennifer I read "The Fault in Our Stars" and I really liked it... this is the block I designed...

It is one of my first applique blocks... I am not a big fan of satin stitches... they come out weird sometimes on my machine... but that's the only stitch I could use (my machine has very few stitches)... but still I like the overall look of the block... and you can find the pattern in my Free Pattern page... you can embroidery your favorite quote in the cloud... the one I choose is my favorite.

I am not sure if I will be able to publish my Disney pattern (that I was planning to publish tomorrow)... too many other projects with close deadlines... but I will do it as soon as I have time!

P.S. To each wonderful blogger I am following: please stop sharing so many amazing things!!! because of you right now I am involved in 2 swaps, 1 QAL, 2 contests, 1 secret quilt, 1 blog hop and I am also testing some patterns... on top of that I should finish a baby quilt, piecing my Alice/Duck Tales quilt, plus starting the Christmas presents... I am overwhelmed :) but when I see your fun things I cannot resist (note that one year ago I didn't even HAD a sewing machine... what a huge change ;))... so please stop tempting me!!! ;) I am joking... but no, seriously, you are all amazing!!!

Less than 10 days to Giveaway and new tutorial

Less than 10 days are left before the first drawing of the TestALong giveway!! 
The link party is still empty and no comments on the page :( :( :(
Submit some blocks for a chance to win some goodies... see the Quilt&Stitch TestALong page for more details!!

I am back from my California trip! It was amazing... just few pictures from the trip:

And I didn't forget my quilting addiction during the trip. I brought some projects with me (see later for details) but I didn't have a proper project bag... then I went to Carmel... and by chance I walked by a wonderful shop (actually a wonderland shop) called "The White Rabbit" :) :) Can you believe it? and it was obviously full of Alice in Wonderland things... so I found the perfect project bag!! :) :)
(the yellow tea-cup fabric is also from there. The other pieces of fabric come from another shop in San Francisco... too Halloween cute to resist :) )

During the trip I embroider the block with Alice and the Cheshire cat, then I crochet a super-cute "giant" amigurumi doll (it is 10'' tall) and I pieced the tree of the Modern Tree QAL (from Christa's blog).

(Block 8 from the Alice in Wonderland quilt from my TestALong)

(Amigurumi doll, pattern bySayjai)

With the trees, I decided to create a different layout than the one Christa propose, and I decided to make a tutorial for that. If you are interested you can check it in the Tutorials page.
It guides you to go from

to

(the pictures have terrible light but I couldn't take them during the day :))

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And now I have more projects waiting for me on my to-do list... the first of which is a block for the #TFIOS Design Challenge on Fandom in Stitches. Thanks Jennifer for suggesting this book!! I read it during my trip (and during my 5 hours spend in Chicago because of a 3 hours delay of my plane!! :( ). I really really liked the book... very touchy story and very well written. I sketched my block during the trip... now I need some time to put it in the software and on fabric :)

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And as a last update, I joined the Secret Santa Swap... I am so excited :)