Mountain Stained Glass

 Inspired by a sticker I saw at school one day, I designed and created this stained glass art of a mountain range. There's a little tiny mistake but I won't tell if you won't! I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet, hopefully someone in my family wants it! 

I started off making my design using Adobe Illustrator. I cut it out on my Cricut Venture. I didn't draw a second copy, which I regretted as I had to remake several pieces and struggled to remember their placement. 

Scrap Patchwork Quilt

 Here's a quilt I made to keep at school. One of our vocabulary books next week is patchwork, so I thought I would make a quilt using lots of my scraps of fabric leftover from other projects to show kids how little bits can be put together to make something new. I like it because I can remember other projects I made when I see those bits of fabric. 

Texas Wildflowers Quilt

 I saw this fabric and had absolutely no idea what I would use it for but had to have it! 

I ended up using it to make a lap quilt using a very simple pattern. I wanted to appreciate the ombre in the fabric and leave lots of design showing. I used my Sashiko on each row to give it the hand stitched look. 

I still have quite a bit of fabric left, so I'll probably make another project with the rest eventually. 

Star Gazer Quilt

 This quilt will always remind me how bad I am at math. I saw a similar design online and thought for sure it would be easy to create my own version. IF ONLY I KNEW WHAT A SQUARE WAS. 

This throw ended up being made up entirely of rectangles 2.5x3.5 inches, or thereabouts. How, I still have no idea. I'm also not even sure how I was able to make half-square triangles... that are actually half-rectangle triangles. I made about 20 of them until it finally worked (for most of them, at least. There are a couple yellows that aren't quite right and I have no idea why.) 

 I used my Sashiko to give it some interest but there was no rhyme or reason for how it went. You can also see I was about 15 inches short on navy fabric for finishing the binding. This is one of those projects I was grateful to finish. Sometimes it's important to remember that I don't have to focus on the finished product, instead I can focus on the progress I made and the process along the way. As always, this was a learning experience!