Bee Garden Quilt

Over the summer I found the most gorgeous bee inspired fabric from Moda, by Gingiber. I have been following a tikoker who challenged herself to make a quilt every week in 2025, and saw she kept using the same pattern over and over, so I decided to try that! I don't think it was the best design to show off the fabric, but I still love it! The pattern is called Nightingale by Brittany Lloyd at Lo and Behold Stitchery. It's almost a king size, with the additional rows I added around the basic pattern. I used a cute meandering bee pattern to quilt on my new longarmer, an Amara 20 with Pro-stitcher. 

Chapstick Keychain

I've been struggling with what to do with my leftover scraps from longarm projects, and saw this idea on TikTok and had to try it! It was very simple and I was able to make 5 with the bit of fabric I had left over from a project, and then 5 more from another. So cute! 

The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt

I found the cutest book called, "The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt" by Riel Nason and wanted to make a mini quilt for my 2nd grade classroom kids to snuggle up with while reading the book. I went ahead and made 2 more for the other teachers I work with. 

 

I knew I wanted blues and whites patchwork fabric, and finally splurged and got a new fat quarter bundle from Moda called Nantucket Summer by Camille Roskelley. I pulled out all of the fabrics I wanted and made 2 quilts with 6" squares and 1 with 4.5" squares. I also bought a few yards of their beautiful blue floral, called Lake Blue Somerset, and white, Nantucket Summer Cream Sail, for the backings. 

It was fun laying out the fabrics in a way that showcases the special fabrics inspired by the book.

Each quilt measures right at a yard, so they're not big, just enough to sit on, or for a kid to wrap around their shoulders. 

Unlike the book and several patterns I saw online, I didn't want a black appliqué ghost face in the center of mine, so instead I quilted it on my longarm with ghosts. You can see in the photo below they're subtle enough to not scream "Halloween" but still so, so cute! 

Elsie Mae as a Quilt!

 My Elise Mae Wall Hanging (16x20)

I went to a class hosted by the Stone House Quilters Guild in Manassas and learned how to do these cute animal wall hangings! We started by bringing a 16x20 photo of our animal, and lots of fabric! We traced the parts for each chunk of fur several times, eventually putting it on a teflon mat with stick-and-stitch paper. Once I got home, I was able to quilt the fur using my sewing machine. I love it so much! I longarm quilted the background on Nantucket Lake Blue Somerset fabric leftover from another project I'm working on. 

Hello Fall Sign

Here is a simple door sign I made for Autumn. The circle is 18" from Michaels, and I used my glowforge to cut the letters onto black painted wood, and engrave/cut the wood for the bottom. Then, I wired some Eucalyptus at the top. So simple and gorgeous! 

Candle Making for Autumn

 My friend group wanted to make wooden dough bowl candles for fall, so I got together some ingredients and we made a fun night of making candles and simmer-pot potpourri sachets. 

First, I laid out all of the ingredients: nutmeg (whole nuts, not the powder), mini orange putka pods, green cardamom pods, cinnamon sticks, dried apple slices, whole allspice berries, lemon peel, star anise (whole pods), dried oranges, dried rosemary sprigs, whole bay leaves, whole cloves, as well as the muslin bags, wooden bowls, and fragrance oils. 

We heated up the wax and set up our candles. Our bowls held about 12 oz. of wax, and we put three wicks in each. While the candles were cooling, after about 15 minutes, we added the top decorations. 

I didn't get a picture of mine, but here is one of my friend's candles and bag of potpourri. We slipped everything in a small plastic bag so it would look cute until it was ready to use. So precious! 

This is a simple and fun activity with not a lot of prep, aside from purchasing the items, and cleanup takes hardly no time at all!