Good year / Dobry rok

When at the beginning of 2011 I got back to work (full-time, stressful, exhausting), my whole family was telling me that I won't have time or strength to sew...
Luckily for me they were wrong:)))

Thank you soooo much for your comments and support during this year - it's really important for me (without you, I wouldn't make so many things!!! Sometimes I was so unhappy with things that I sew, but your comments and honest remarks, made me feel better and motivated in ripping the seems:).

This year was a good crafty year: I've learned a lot (still not so much to skip into intermediate level of quilting), I've been a part of lots of swaps and bees, I've made some tutorials and (what's probably most important): I had a lot of fun!

I've picked 20 favorites things that I made this year (at first I wanted to pick 10, but it was too hard:):

1. Pretty in pink - ready, 2. My new tea breaks sunshine, 3. In the mood for lime, 4. Julianna, The BOOKKEEPER, 5. Circle pieced, 6. Dandelion quilt top, 7. Quilt top - WIP, 8. Memory Board quilt top, 9. Pillow for a friend, 10. Pillow or... [FtLoS swap], 11. Block for Bearpawandbearpaw, 12. Pouf close up, 13. My very own lap quilt, 14. Something to try beige, 15. One of Christmas gifts, 16. Almost done. Almost tutorial., 17. PLPS done, 18. Without green option, 19. Baby quilt folded, 20. Sewing under rainbow

When you look at quilts (baby, lap - some WIPs) I made this year:

1. Finished!, 2. My very own lap quilt, 3. Simple wall hanging, 4. Nap quilt for Mary, 5. Memory Board quilt top, 6. Dandelion quilt top, 7. Quilt top - WIP8. Not available

you'll notice that I'm not a quilter, but pillow-maker!

1. PTS4 pillow, 2. Kitty for my daughter, 3. Romeo & Alice in Wonderland, 4. Back of a pillow, 5. Front of a pillow, 6. In the mood for lime, 7. PTS5 finished or almost finished?, 8. Pillow for a friend, 9. Pillow or... [FtLoS swap], 10. Without green option, 11. Rainbow option, 12. Sweet shop pillow, 13. Christmas pillow, 14. One of Christmas gifts, 15. Next one (Christmas gift), 16. Christmas gift for my Mum

(these are not all pillows I made this year -some are not revealed yet:)

Tutorials that I made this year (actually last 3 months of 2011) make me proud a little bit:)

1. Memory Board quilt tutorial - is here!, 2. Guest post at Sewing Back-To-School, 3. PP pattern - '12 days of Christmas' Sampler QAL, 4. Fussy cuts in paper piecing - short tutorial, 5. Pattern avaliable on my blog:), 6. Wordy Cross Block tutorial


I hope that next year will be good too!

This is my wish for you for the 2012
- let it be as good (or better!) as 2011.

Blogger's choice FQ bundle

I just had to join THIS competition. Not for the prizes (well, I wouldn't mind winning:), but for the fun in picking the fabrics:)

Here's my bundle (this is my first choice. I've actually submitted another bundle, but after noticing that someone else made similar bundle I switched them:):

This was my bundle created as second, but submitted at first:

Christmas gifts - part one

Oto parę prezentów uszytych na Gwiazdkę:

/ Just a quick post to show what I sew for Christmas gifts:

Merry Christmas! / Wesołych Świąt!

Życzę Wam Wesołych Świąt spędzonych w gronie rodziny i przyjaciół. Radosnych i spokojnych!
Nie jestem dobra w spisywaniu moich myśli, ale możecie mieć pewność, że te skromne w formie życzenia płyną prosto z serca. Wszystkiego najlepszego!
/ I wish you a Merry Christmas spent with your family and friends. Joyful and peaceful!
I'm not good in writing down my thoughts, but you can be sure that my simple wishes come straight from my heart. All the best!

SMS Giveaway winner

Thank you very much for all your lovely comments! I tried to reply to each of them, but there were too many (I didn't expect it!).
Your ideas are really helpful (I told about most of them my husband -we'll see soon which one inspired him:).

And now... the winner:

Congrats!

* number 330 is my comment closing giveaway, so I didn't count it:)

Color wheel pencil case

Dawno, dawno temu uszyłam piórnik na kredki w formie kolorowego koła, zrobiłam zdjęcia podczas szycia z myślą o tutku. Nie dokończyłam jednego elementu tego piórnika, gdyż musiałam coś innego szybko uszyć. A potem zapomniałam o tym projekcie.
Opublikowany dziś tutek przypomniał mi o piórniku, ale... zgubiłam gdzieś na dysku 90% zdjęć do tutka:(
Mogę więc tylko pokazać to, co uszyłam do tej pory:

/ A long long time ago I've sew color wheel pencil case, took some photos while sewing it and wanted to make a tutorial. I didn't add one thing to this pencil case, because I had to sew something else. And then I forgot about this project.
Today my other tutorial reminded me about it, but... I lost (somewhere on the hard disk) 90% of the photos to the tutorial:(
I can only show you almost done pencil case:

Mój zamysł był taki by piórnik-torebka na brzegach miał troczki i po rozłożeniu tworzył kolorowe koło (nie zdążyłam wszyć właśnie troczków). Po szyciowej gorączce prezentowej chciałabym wrócić do tego projektu:)

/ My idea was to sew color wheel for pencils which can be easily carried by making from it drawstring bag. I hope that after Christmas sewing fewer I'll finish this project.

Wordy Cross Block - tutorial

Today I'm going to show you how you can make blocks for pillow like this one:


This pillow is perfect for a modern gift or as a Christmas decoration for your home.
If you don't have fabric with Christmas sentences - don't worry! You can always make version using regular fabric with words and some Christmas fabrics for background.

You can make one two versions of this block:
1) top stripe from fabric with words and background stripe from matching solid - like in my Christmas pillow, or
2) top and background stripes from wordy fabric - like in the block from this tutorial (be careful with choosing the wordy fabric for background stripe, it looks nice when the sentences on top stripe are clearly visible).

To make a block you'll need fabric squares (charms) and fussy cut strips from fabric with words:

Sew background strip on the charm:

Cut charm at the edges of background stripe (like shown above).

Press the background stripe on the right side and match cut charm to the background stripe:

Press the charm on the right side - your block is half ready. Now you can repeat each step (placing the top stripe horizontally) or use simple method without cutting. I'll show you this method below.

Place top stripe on the charm, pin it and sew it on:

Then press the edges (for seam allowances distance):


Press the whole stripe on the right side (keeping the pressed seam allowance part under the stripe) and pin it:
Top-stitch the top stripe with matching thread:

Congrats! Your block is ready:)

To make a pillow sew a few blocks, add sashing between blocks in rows:

and between rows of blocks:

and complete the pillow - easy-peasy:)

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day

Polska wersja na samym końcu:)

I'm really glad that I can be a part of this day (thank you Sew Mama Sew!) and that you visited my blog!

If you are here for the first time I prepared mosaic with some of my works (just to say Hi:):

1. Something to try beige, 2. My very own lap quilt, 3. Pouf close up, 4. Christmas truck - '12 days of Christmas' Sampler QAL., 5. Block for Bearpawandbearpaw, 6. Pillow or... [FtLoS swap], 7. Pillow for a friend, 8. Memory Board quilt top, 9. In the mood for lime, 10. Julianna, The BOOKKEEPER, 11. My new tea breaks sunshine, 12. Christmas swap with my friend

And now for the most important part of the day:
what can you win?

This novelty bundle:

These fabrics comes from different lines, some from Alex Henry Fashionista collection, but you'll find also some other funky fabrics.
Total of 5 yards (most are half yards, some FQ's, AH Fashionista are almost all half yards since the prints are bigger scale):


How to enter?

1. Leave a comment telling me what funky gift could get quilter as a Christmas gift?
(my husband asks me about this every day, so I hope that your ideas give me some hint:)

2. Leave second comment if you are follower of my blog (old or new:).
This is not obligatory part of the giveaway!

If you're no-reply blogger (or don't have a blog), please add your e-mail in a comment.


Giveaway is open till December 16, 2011.
Mr. Random.org will choose a winner on December 17, 2011.
Giveaway is open internationally:)


Thank you for visiting my blog!!!

And... good luck and have fun with all Sew Mama Sew Giveaways:)


/ Tym razem polska wersja na samym końcu, gdyż jest to wydarzenie "zagraniczne", więc i większość zwiedzających pewnie będzie władała obcym językiem.

Zasady są proste: by wygrać wystarczy komentarz z jakimś ciekawym pomysłem na prezent dla quilterki (mój mąż codziennie mnie o to pyta, więc mam nadzieję, że podsuniecie mi jakiś pomysł:).

Drugi komentarz zamieść, jeśli jesteś obserwatorem ("starym" albo "nowym":).

Losowanie odbędzie się 17 grudnia 2011 r. - Pan Random.org zadecyduje:)

Christmas pillow / Świąteczna poduszka

Szyję nie tylko świąteczne prezenty, ale również dekoracje. Jedna z nich już zdążyła się na dobre u nas rozgościć:

/ I sew not only gifts for Christmas, but also some decorations. One of them is ready:

Advent Calendar

Właśnie zdałam sobie sprawę, że nie pokazałam Wam jeszcze naszego nowego kalendarza adwentowego (ten uszyty w ubiegłym roku ukrywa się w szafie):

/ I just realized that I haven't showed you yet our new Advent calendar (the one I made last year is hidden in the closet):

Codziennie coś słodkiego chowam w odpowiedniej kieszeni - inaczej Marysia zjadłaby wszystko jednego dnia:)

Szyję nawet sporo - głównie prezenty gwiazdkowe, więc pokażę je dopiero po Świętach.

/ I hide something sweet every day, otherwise Mary would eat everything during one day:)

I'm sewing a few things - mainly Christmas gifts, so I'll show them after Christmas.