Pumpkin Kinusaiga

 A few co-workers and I got together to try out kinusaiga, shoving bits of fabric in styrofoam to make a picture. Haha It's a little more elegant than that, but not much. 

First, I purchased a sheet of 4x8 insulation from Lowes (3/4" thick) and cut them into 8x8 blocks. I found this pattern set on Etsy so each person could choose from 4 designs. 

I made the pumpkin to show the crafters what it will look like finished, and then made the 4 pumpkins during craft night. Start to finish, including gluing the outside edges in lieu of a frame, took about 3 hours. 

Polar Bear Tula Pink Quilt

 I used tula pink fabric and a bear pattern bought from the quilt store by my mom's house to make this cutie. The backing is minky so it's super, super soft. I'd like to make the pattern again and play around with some brighter colors. 

There are SO MANY MORE pieces than I expected. How many can you count just in the face? There are more than 50! 

Cardinal Wall Hanging

 I have been wanting to try another fabric collage project and made this cardinal from a kit by Collage Quilter. I need more time in my days to explore the techniques I want to try and actually get really good at something. 

Mushroom Collage

 I got this great mushroom patter from Collage Quilter to try out thread painting and making another fabric collage. During this process my Brother sewing machine broke so I went ahead and got my Christmas present early so I wouldn't have to wait for it to be fixed before I could continue. I have no idea what I'll do with it but it's super cute! 

Also, by the way, I got a Brother Quilt Club BQ3100, which is 10/10 no notes. 

Christmas Tree Skirt

 I used the accuquilt die my mom gifted me for Christmas to make the tops of two 45"Christmas tree skirts months ago, and finally had some backing fabric (the other half of the watercolor dragon) to quilt one of them on the longarm. The other one is already quilted but needs binding (yuck) so I decided to finish this one today and learn from it so the nicer one will hopefully turn out better. The lesson I learned was that these are harder to make than quilts. And more time consuming! But somehow take just as much fabric. I don't understand! But, it did turn out nice! I don't remember the fabric line I used, but hopefully it'll come to me soon. 

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! 

Fabric Bookmarks

 I wanted to practice using my fabric printer so I had all of my students design a bookmark I could print and sew for them. Some of them are so cute! I used fusible interfacing on the inside, and cut the edges with pinking shears. 

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.