Julia's Dream About Quilting, Sewing & Crafting

Pic of the work in progress: my black nail polish was also very fitting the theme! Hi! My name is Julia and this is my way too much neglected blog. I wonder, would this be the turning point? Maybe. Or maybe not. But I love to share my love for quilting and creating with the world, so here I am. I love Halloween. Even though I live in Italy and this is not originally part of my tradition, it's still something I feel deeply connected to. I guess it has something to do with my year as an exchange student in Vermont: I lived Halloween for real, on my own skin, even partecipating to an Halloween musical in the woods at night with a path of carved and glowing pumpkins so something sticked with me. I've seen quite a lot Hexagon Halloween quilts all over the web and I gave a look to some tutorials. It did seem like a pretty cool project but everything was way too colorful for me this time (THIS TIME: I love colors! The brightest the better) so I fixed my mind on a black and whit

Block 1 to 5 - Number 4 is my own personal variation of the original appliquè block I love sew-alongs. Discovered them last year (2016) and opened a whole new world of learning new techniques and meeting friends!  My first one was the Splendid Sampler by Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson. Block 1 - with QAYG Right now I'm in love with this new one, it just started, today block 6 just came out and it's so pretty!  This sew along is weekly, every Wednesday a new block is uploaded! Block 5 - Coronation by Lisa Bongean I am loving this sew along so much. All my online quilting friends are doing it! I challenged myself to make the blocks only with 4 fabrics of the same line from Kansas Trouble and it's absolutely amazing. Block 3 - Four X I initially started to Quilt-As-You-Go my blocks but I'm not sure I'm loving it so I've decided to stop. I will remake the first 3 blocks and probably this will become fancy mug rugs! Happy sew

Happy New Year! 2017 just started and I really hope this one will be a good one. At least I hope it will be better than 2016.   I started the day with some sewing! This is block 2 of Pat Sloan's Solstice Challenge, it's so much fun, this is a 12' block and I LOVE IT! I think I found my fav block in the whole quilting world! This evening I will clean my sewing machine from an intensive month of Christmas gifts sewing... she deserves it! :)