Floor Turtle

 I saw a Tiktok about keeping a floor turtle in the kitchen for quick spills, so I had some time this afternoon to make my own. I used a washcloth for the back and some leftover fabric for the turtle itself. Super easy, if a little messy, but not bad for a first try with no pattern! I made his tail into a loop so I could hang it up, but I'll probably just leave it in the floor by the fridge. 

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. 

Key Ring

 I found a simple pattern for a sewn key ring so I thought I would try it to use up some of my scraps. I already had the metal pieces necessary, so it was just a matter of stitching the fabric together. Easy Peasy. 

Random Summer Projects

 I've been playing with my new sublimation printer and made these keyrings with canvas ribbon and a picture I took of some flowers from our trip to Ireland a few years ago. I'm still learning and experimenting with technique, and although the printer has been a dream, my Cricut heat press gave out on me the same day I got my printer, and I purchased a bigger heat press from Amazon and it didn't work. It took me nearly a month to get a replacement and by then I've been busy with other things. Having tools not work takes all the fun out of projects for sure! 

I saw these bookmarks on TikTok and wanted to try them out. 

More sublimation. Here are some luggage tags, including a picture of my cute little Elsie Mae. 

Here are some zipper pouches I made with leftover fabric. I just can't get the hang of them for some reason. I don't know if it's because I'm not great at the math, or if I'm just a perfectionist who can't let things go, but I feel like every couple of months I come back to these and I just can't do them right. 

A few more things I made. This bag ended up being way bigger than I thought it would be. First, and probably last, of its kind. 

King Quilt

I am so, so excited to finish this King Quilt. I made up the pattern after making lots of quilt blocks using a fat quarter bundle from Cottoneer Fabrics, and found the background fabric and backing at my local quilt shop. I wanted a new quilt for my bed, and thought this was so homemade, old-fashioned, and 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.