Onto Easy Street - Part 2

Part 2 of Easy Street brought a bit of a challenge for me ... Flying geese.. my first ever. I was a bit nervous but thankfully the instructions were easy to follow and it turned out to  be much easier than I was expecting.

2" strips

A lot of cutting

Piecing and ironing, then more piecing

It worked a lot better once I engaged my machine's handy dandy even feed

So after 3 sessions of cutting. sewing, ironing, clipping I have conquered my fear of the flying geese (and bias piecing)... TADA !!

All counted and bagged 

Along with last week's

in a giant zipper plastic bag... bring it on week 3 :) 

See everybody else's progress here in Quiltville

Onto Easy Street - Week 1

Crazy me .. since I apparently I don't have enough to do at this time of the year, I added to the pile with the latest Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt : Easy Street.

Since most of my stash is still inaccessible (in boxes in a storage unit) I only had limited choices but I think I was able to pick a cohesive palette.

Here is my fabrics selection :

My color table:

Lime -> Red & pink
Aqua -> Grey
Purple-> Orangey yellow

Grey-> Black
White & Black->White

All fabrics are small floral prints or polka dots except one of the scraps of grey

I went to work ... cutting

Piecing...

Ironing...

DONE !!

See all the other participants' first week in the linky party : 

http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/11/easy-street-monday-link-up-1.html

15 minutes dress fix

Happy Thanksgiving to all! This morning I decided to take a couple of pictures of Bug in her pretty formal dress, and I noticed a little problem. Do you see it ??

 Look closer... Here.

Well, Bug is one of those string bean kids, show only grows one direction : UP, and fast at that. While short dresses are cute for babies and toddlers, I felt this was a lot of leg to show for a formal dress, even with tights underneath.

So a little stash dive later... I cut some 6" wide strips of satin that matched the sash color as closely as possible:

Folded in half, ironed and cut to size.

Then sewed into a loop

And added to the bottom of the skirt

Ahhh much better and it only took 15 minutes :)

Happy Thanksgiving !!