Beautiful Life : My Heart Belong to You.

Four paper piecing blocks and one piecing block for my 7th row of Beautiful Life project.

I love you so much.

But even more than that,

I love myself when I am with you.

Happy Valentine Day!

Beautiful Life : Home Sweet Home

This 12" House block is going to be a 6th row in my "Beautiful Life" project.

I made a simple block, like my house :) 

Home is the place where your heart will stay.

Home smells good because of cupcake and pie, fresh baked from the oven :)

Home feels warm because of a cup of coffee and tea :)

I will make cupcake, pie and cups with appliqué blocks to complete my 6th row.
I already made "Heart" paper piecing block for my 7th row, I'll posting it a day after tomorrow on Valentine day :)

Beautiful Life : Pets

The majority of people like having a pet in the house, but not me. I don't like any kind of pet. I don't like their smell and don't like to take care of them.. a lot of work to keep them at home.

My kids asked for a pet every single day since they were little. I always told them : "Yes, we can keep ant if you want a pet" (LOL).

But I changed, about 4 years ago I suddenly agreed when my kids and my hubby ask for a cat at the pet shop.. when I looked at the kitten eyes, I fell in love with this little creature. We named him "Master Yoda", and he has some babies from our friend's cat. But we gave them away, we only keep him. One is enough :))

One day, my daughter brought a little turtle. She called him "Kiddo". She keep him in her room. Having a pet to take care of will teach a child responsibility, and a pet is a friend for them.

When I was young, our neighbor left their dog when they move. My mom liked to keep him, his name was "Kincit". My mom took a good care of him. She fed him with our leftover food. She gave him a bath using one brand hair shampoo.. a famous brand and we never use that shampoo until now because it smelled like Kincit (LOL)

Back then again, still when I was young my dad has two chirping birds. He named his birds "Kamandaka"and "Kamandanu". If I'm not wrong those names are from Sundanese's folklore. Every weekend, I went with my dad to chirping bird contest.. He put the birds in the back of his yellow pickup car. I didn't understand about the contest, I just loved to go out with my dad.

Bunny the rabbit.. they are cute but I don't think I want to have them... too much work work work. 

So all I can do to have them is to make this cute appliqué block. ;)

People say:

If you are as good as your pet believes you to be, you are probably a really good person.

Beautiful Life : Butterfly and Friends.

After five appliqué flowers for 11th row, I finished up my 10th row this morning..
Butterflies, dragonfly and ladybug will flying around my flowers.. so lovely!

The butterfly counts not month, but moments, and yet has time enough.

The Dragonfly hums its way through life, dipping its wings in the sun to shine.

The Ladybug, a humble little creature of this earth, so satisfied with his turf.

The 9th row should be piecing/patchwork blocks, but I am going to put it a side for awhile. I will make the 8th row, still appliqué blocks. I still want to enjoy my sitting and calm time and listen to my favorite songs.. (No need to rush!)

I love this song, Sting and the movie too ;)

Beautiful Life : Flowers

Just finished some appliqué blocks for my new project. I will make a quilt for my daughter, she asked for pink and green colors. And I have plan to make it row by row quilt. These cute flowers are going to be the first row if I count it from the bottom.

I planned this project last October  but I started to make it 2 days ago.. Still a long way to go! :))

"Focus and Smart".. done before NYE!

Today I finished this "clean look" quilt, before New Year Eve.. I'll be going to a party tonight!. 

My son said:"Finally mom you finished it!"..It took so long to finish this project, too busy doing some other things made this project untouched. This is going to be his quilt, I give it a tittle "FOCUS and SMART". I mix and match two blocks, 12 Ohio Star blocks and 6 Log Cabin blocks. My son is a smart young man (He's 18 last week) and he needs to focus on his dream...I wish him all the best.

Ohio Star means Smart.

Log Cabin block means Focus.

Simple Tutorial.

Cut:

Red  3 1/2" square (1x)

White 2"x 3 1/2" (2x)

White 2" x 6 1/2" (2x)

Blue   2" x 6 1/2" (2x)

Blue   2" x 9 1/2" (2x)

White 2" x 9 1/2" (2x)

White 2" x 12 1/2" (2x)

Sew white strips to red, left and right side.

Sew white strips on upper and below.

Next, sew blue strips with the same steps.

And last the white strips again.

Ohio Star tutorial, here.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!

Charm Pack Baby Quilt

I have 1 set of charm pack (42 squares "Grow With Me" from MODA), nice soft fabric with cute design.

I made half-square triangles from 5"x 5" precut fabric. I tried some background fabric for these nine four-path blocks but I prefer it on the white. It looks modern and nice. I hope this baby quilt will done by the end of this year :)

I took this picture for an idea about colors because sometime I will need it.. these yarns look so delicious (LoL).. My friend will give birth next month.. Ohh, I wish I still have time for knitting a tiny little hat and shoes too.