Starting a "My Precious" Quilt and a 4th of July Skirt

For my birthday this year, my mother-in-law got me the Quick Curve Ruler by Jenny Pedigo of Sew Kind of Wonderful. I've heard a lot of great things about this ruler and was excited to give it a try. For our June quilt guild meeting, we had a pillow cover swap. I thought it would be the perfect time to try out this ruler using some Katie Jump Rope and Flea Market Fancy squares that I already had precut. I loosely used the tutorial here to make this block (I started with larger squares for my four-patch and added a border to make the block approximately 19 inches finished).



I didn't end up making the pillow for our guild's swap because I liked how it turned out so much that I decided to make more blocks and turn it into a quilt. Sorry guild ladies!

I also used this ruler for my Modern Yardage star quilt, which I shared a bit about here.

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As I'm sure any of you regular readers know, The Middle loves wearing skirts and dresses. Some days it bugs me (wear something else, kid!), but other days I'm glad that I can whip up quick and easy skirts for her. I had this Dress Up Days zig zag print on hand that I thought would make a fun 4^th of July skirt. I added a bit of ric rac trim to the bottom. The skirt is a little on the long side, but it’ll work for this summer AND next.

For those of you in the states, have a safe and happy July 4th holiday tomorrow!

What I've been doing over the last month

Like I mentioned in my last post from a month ago (!), I've been really busy lately. Here’s a quick snapshot of what I've been up to.

I cut bangs. The last time I had bangs was seven years ago so it’s taken a bit of getting used to.

I did a bit of traveling. I visited Kansas City for work a couple times. The mister and I also had the amazing opportunity to go to Paris and Rome.

I fell in love with art history in high school and studied it for a couple years in college. It was one of the highlights of my life (so far) being able to see so many works of art that became dear to my heart in my teenage years and early twenties.

We took a zillion pictures and I hope to blog about our trip in more detail soon.

In between all my visits to the airport, I also did my fair amount of sewing. I made four baby quilts, finished the mister’s quilt (which I’ll post about soon – I promise), pieced some quilt tops...,

and started a new project that I’m kind of obsessed about.

I need to take some photos with my real camera so I can start showing all the projects I've been working on. Hopefully, I'll be able to do some of that this weekend.