Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects: Scraps under control
I feel like my house is a downright disaster area. I have projects (physically in progress) or wannabe projects (those only in my head...| miadolceoriginals.blogspot.com
I feel like my house is a downright disaster area. I have projects (physically in progress) or wannabe projects (those only in my head...| miadolceoriginals.blogspot.com
Back when I was decorating the nursery, I came across this dresser for sale on Craigslist:| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Something you may not know about me is that I love looking for treasures in thrift shops and garage sales. If you're willing to spend a little time hunting, you can find some really neat items at a great price! Recently I've been thrifting a lot of picture frames, but I also can't pass up fun vintage sheets! This quilt was made from about 8 different vintage sheet patterns. To keep it from getting too busy, I alternated each print triangle with a solid white triangle (kona snow).| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
I'm calling this quilt "sticky sweet" because the colors remind me of a bag of tropical skittles. This is one of those quilts where I liked the fabrics in a stack, but as the quilt came together I liked them even more!| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Remember this WIP from way back in January? Well, it's finished and now adorning the dining room table. I love the warm colors, now all I need is a few pumpkins around the house to make it feel like fall.| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
This picture pretty much sums up why I haven't been blogging lately! Time is flying by and baby girl is already 6 months old. Needless to say she rocks my world :)| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
I've said before that I'm not really a "wonky" person, but this is now my second attempt at wonkiness (first one was a wonky 9-patch), and I kinda like how it's coming together :)| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
So remember when I was making the orange peel quilt, I had a stack of circles cut out? Well... I used them to make a fabric mobile to hang in the nursery!| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
What an amazing several weeks it's been! I left off in late February, only 2 weeks from my due date with our first child, working on a quilt wallhanging for her nursery. Now I'm a mommy to a healthy baby girl and changed forever. Kathryn was born on March 14 with a full head of blonde hair (just like Daddy). We love her lots!| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
The latest WIP on the design board is an orange peel quilt!| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Here's what's on my design wall today:| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Yesterday was my Friday off, and I had high hopes of spending quality time in my sewing room. BUT..... I spent practically all day on my feet doing projects around the house. Finally my feet (which btw look like Stay Puft Marshmallow Man these days) couldn't take any more, and all I managed to accomplish sewing-wise was to pull a bunch of fabrics from my stash:| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Here's another one that sat in my unfinished WIP pile for well over a year! I originally bought a layer cake of the Hello Betty collection, then ended up dividing it into 4 different quilts, finished 2, then let the other 2 sit for a while... but alas, this one is finished and just one more left :)| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
For those of you who have been visiting this blog awhile, you might remember a certain red rag quilt I did a couple years ago...| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
My little double hourglass quilt is finished! Not a bad little quilt for using up my leftover scraps from the Wonky 9-patch.| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
If I look back at 2012, the main theme for me was traveling - near and far. And I loved every bit of it! | Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
In cleaning up my sewing room, I found these 7 quilt tops waiting to be finished. I really don't like half-finished projects laying around taking up space, so I got busy over the weekend and finished 2 of the baby-sized quilts. As for the bigger ones, you might recognize my Kaleidoscope, Scrappy Strings, Soul Blossom, and my oldest WIP an Hourglass throw quilt which I haven't touched in almost 2 years (ahem, and I used to kid my mother about taking 12 years to finish up a queen-size hand-...| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
So I mentioned in my last couple posts that I've been redecorating in the sewing room. Since we replaced the carpet, I took the opportunity to do some rearranging, downsizing, and making pretty. I'll share the full remodel soon, but this new cabinet is one of my favorite pieces! For those of you new to my blog, here's the old sewing room layout.| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Wow, where does the time go?? Although I haven't done much sewing over the last month, I have....| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
This week's WIP is a facelift for my sewing studio! Thanks to a sweet puppy with separation anxiety issues, we were finally given the push to replace the carpet in the secondary bedrooms - a project we've only been talking about since we moved in almost 5 years ago :) | Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Not much to say right now, but here's the latest WIP on the design wall. Gotta love those Amy Butler prints! The colors in this one are quite the change from my last quilt.| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Ta-da! Another finish :) And this one took less than 2 weeks start to finish. Thanks to everyone for your nice comments when I was designing this one.| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Friday was another Friday Night Sew-in hosted by Handmade by Heidi. I had plans Friday night, so I sewed during the day (thank goodness for 9/80 schedule and my precious Fridays off!). What were my plans you ask? We went to the Eric Church / Justin Moore / Kip Moore concert. Kip is actually my country boyfriend by the way... although I doubt he knows it :) Anyways, I digress... | Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
This quilt was actually made from scraps I purchased from another quilter. Does anyone else do that? I love the Coquette fabric line, but wasn't sure I wanted to commit to a large fabric purchase, so buying a small scrap bundle was just perfect for me.| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
Last week was a productive week quilt-wise. I finished this one and another. This time of year, the secret is having a quilt ready for binding on Saturday (aka college football day in our house). That way I can multitask - cheer on my Horns while getting something accomplished at the same time :)| Mia Dolce Originals - Modern Quilts and DIY Projects
