My mom is making 2 one block wonder quilts for my niece and nephew.

Original Fabric #1


Finished quilt top


Original Fabric #2


Hexagons Layed out


We have a turquoise background fabric for the second one and are sewing all the pieces together right now, I'll post the finised quilt top when we are done.

I just had to come brag on my mom a little.  This is the first qiult she has ever made.  She finished it a couple months ago.  She enjoyed it so much she now has 2 more quilts in the works!




I helped pick out the fabrics and arange the blocks, but the rest she did.

I searched for an answer to this, and couldn't find it, which surprised me.

I'm wanting to cover a wooden object with polymer clay and then bake it.  Has anyone done this?  Will the wood survive?  Will the clay be messed up from it? 

I'm wanting to make a closure like this on a bracelet I am making, where it is adjustable, but I don't know how.  Can anyone help?

I made this necklace for the fabric jewelry swap awhile back.  The beads turned out really nice, and I meant to do a tutorial right away, but didn't get around to it until now.

Necklace


Beads


Materials
16mm wooden beads
1/8" drill bit and drill
fabric scraps
glue stick
knitting needle
1/8" eyelts (found in scrapbooking section)
Hot glue gun

Drill out the hole in the bead to make it a little larger


Cut fabric, I started with 1 1/2" x 3", then trimmed to get it to fit, you want it to wrap around the bead with a little overlap and the top edges should cover the hole completely when you fit it in that direction


Fringe the long edges of the fabric, no precise measurements here, but I did find that I liked to fold it in half and cut both edges at the same time, then you know you are staying centered, and  you have a little finger press crease to use as a centerline


Coat fabric with glue stick


Wrap fabric around wooden bead


Press strips of fringe down (if you are anal like me one by one going around the bead) after every 2-3 strips poke the ends into the hole wiith the knitting needle


Add the eyelets, I put them on the knitting needle (so I didn't burn my fingers) and put a little hot glue around it


Stick the hot glue loaded eyelet into hole in bead and repeat for other side


Pretty bead done!

I had some that I coated in modge podge and diamond glaze as well just to see what happened.  Painting the coatings on with a brush made for a stiff kinda over starched fabric look and feel.  However, dipping in the coatings made a smooth glossy finish that really lost the look of fabric.  I would proabably coat before inserting eyelets.  These were not coated, since it was for the fabric jewelry swap and I thought keeping the look and feel of fabric was important.

Craftsy has a free block of the month video class series going on.  I was wondering if anyone was interested in doing a craftalong.  The photo above is the fat quarter bundle that they are recommending, I'm going to buy a different bundle or make my own, I should be using my stash, but I don't have 36 fabrics I like together.

I'm hoping to make the January blocks soon, I'm waiting till I decide for sure what I want to do about the fabric.

http://www.craftsy.com/class/The-Craftsy-Block-of-the-Month/50

I was really surprised to see that there wasn't a thread in here for shopping recommendations (at least not that I could find).

Right now I'm looking to buy a fat quarter bundle (30-36) and was wondering if anyone had any sites they could recommend.  I've done some google searches and there are tons of sites that sell them, but it is always nice to have the word of someone who has used a site before.

I just finished my first quilt.  I read about the basting spray online before hand and it sounded great.  Turns out that it was.  It held everything together and quilting went pretty well.  My first quilt looked great. 

I just washed the quilt to get the spray out, and the quilt came out looking aweful.  The fabric is stuck to the batting and is all puckery and nasty looking instead of being puffy and quilt looking.  I went to the manufacturer website for the spray (June Taylor) and it says not to use on poly batting (oh crap), it doesn't say that anywhere on the can, so I didn't know ahead of time.

Has anyone else ever done this or know how to fix it.  I hate the thought that I could have ruined my first quilt.

So I just learned how to knit.  I took a class at my local yarn shop.  Tuesday was my last of 3 classes, so I started my first project, this hat.  I just finished and I am so proud!!!  I love the yarn too, it is a really soft wool.

I made this for my September wedding.  I wanted something different.   My friends and family helped contribute pieces to it.  It was really nice to have something that had little pieces of all the people I loved in it.