Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Sew Delicious, Sweet Pouch Swap received

I was to happy to receive my Sweet Pouch the other day.


These are the great little pouches with chocolate sent to me for the Sew DeliciousSweet Pouch Swap.

Now for me back to sewing.



I am currently quilting this owl one up and have two more yet to quilt after that. I can believe I have so many.

Thanks,

Jera MacKenzie

Monday, February 25, 2013

Modern She Made Swap - Round 3 Sign Ups Are Open!

I signed up for the newest Modern She Made Swap. They are are currently on round 3 and the theme is stars.
Here is my mosaic for the swap



I am so excited to participate. I want to get more involved in swaps and exchanges. so I am hoping to meet a lot of great quilters and be inspirited to post more and sew.

Thanks,

Jera MacKenzie

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Yes, it has been a long time.

Hello there! Believe it or not I have been doing a lot of sewing since by last post. I have not been very good about taking picture of my sewing nor have I been very good at writing post about what I have been up to. My long delay in post has also been due to a very long vacation for the month of January down to Ecuador, to visit my wonderful sister in law, who is working for the Peace Corps there.

Here is what I have been working on since getting home. Some open wide zippered pouches.
This one is for my swap partner in the Sew Delicious, Sweet Pouch Swap.




 These two I made for myself.



This one I adapted the tutorial to make an even smaller pouch than the smallest on Noodlehead's Tutorial. Here I used a 7" zipper, cut my fabric 7" X 5", and did my box corner width at 2".


I think it worked out alright, but I think I might order some 8" zippers. 7" zippers are what I had on hand at the time, but I think that 8" might work out a bit better.

I have lots more to catch you up on, but that is all I have for now.

Jera MacKenzie

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Echo Quilt Start

A quick little post today. Just wanted to show what I am currently working on.


I finely cut into my Echo fabric and I am working on this pattern. I have been so busy lately that when I get a little bit of time I work on these blocks. It has been going pretty well so far. So hopefully it won't take to long to finish up.

Jera MacKenzie

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Friday, September 14, 2012

A super quick sew

Yesterday I was able to get a little sewing done. I was frist able to convince my son to go to the fabric store, because we where going to make him a Halloween bag. He is so much more pleasant to take to the fabric store when the sewing project is for him. We looked at all the Halloween fabric and he choose these for his bag.


I think he did a great job. This is the bag I created for him.


I followed this lovely tutorial Simple reversible totebag.  I modified the pattered by adding a accent piece to the top. Overall I keep the bag 13 1/2" by 14, but instead of cutting two 13 1/2 by 14" pieces, I cut out two 13 1/2 by 3 3/4" and two 13 1/2 by 10 3/4" and sewed those pieces together. I also changed  the straps, because I wanted them to have different fabrics on each side. So I cut two 2 by 20" strip from each of the fabrics I wanted to use. Then sewed them together and flipped right side out and sew into the bag as directed. 

Here he is with his new Halloween bag.


He just can wait to get out there.

Thanks,

Jera MacKenzie

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Yeah! I have finished a quilt.

Way back in June I participated in a fabric exchange. The way this one worked was that you cut 10 different 2 1/2"by half the width of the fabric, so the strips where 2 1/2" by 22" or so. Then pack those 10 strips in to snack sized ziplock bag, you can exchange more than one set. Most people in this group send in approximately 10 sets. Then mail your sets into the swap hostess. She swaps all the packages around and mails the fabric back out to you. Pretty nice.

Well, anyway the first one of these I participated in was the purple exchange. Shortly after getting my purple fabrics back I got the book Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison. This was just the inspiration I need for these purple strips if fabric. I decided that the Sunday Morning Quilt by Cheryl Arkison was the perfect fit for these fabrics.



 It is not quite the same as in the book, but I wanted to work with what I had. I think it worked. Don't you?


I machine sew the binding of my quilts. This time I tried an new stitch. I am not quite perfect at this, but  I kind of like it.


I just did a simple back.

I am very happy with this quilt. 


Jera MacKenzie


Wednesday, August 22, 2012

It's Wednesday.

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It's Wednesday. This is what I am working on.




These blocks are for a a quilt I am making inspired by this one:


and this one:


I also have acquired the book Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison.

I have so much purple fabric that I am making the Sunday Morning Quilt from that book. I need to get it out in the next could of day so I can get some good photos of it. That all for now.

Jera MacKenzie