De-stress with some fabric love

It's that time of the year again - the dreaded exam week is looming very soon.  So to do de-stress, I did a little fabric shopping at Westwood Acres (the best kind of de-stress other than chocolate in my opinion).  Amanda has lovely fabric bundles and I couldn't resist the Anna Maria Horner (AMH) mixed voile bundle and her latest Hand Drawn Garden Fat Quarter bundle.  I also bought a Fat Eight bundle of Full Moon Lagoon with in mind to make a twin size quilt for my God-daughter when I am on school break - watch this space!  The little mini charm pack was a nice surprise from Amanda - definitely made my day!

Here's a close up of Hand Drawn Garden bundle.  The colors and prints are amazing, feels very boho like.  So looking forward to cut into it.

Thank you for stopping by and apologies for a short blog - squeezing in some fabric love time to share with you all in between work and studies.  Happy quilting and crafting!

Still alive...

My dinning table/sewing table has been taken over by books, research papers, articles and laptop at the moment.  It's the dreaded 3 assignments and 1 presentation all due on the same week madness at the moment.  However, I am trying to breath through it all knowing that it will stop at some stage (counting down to tri-semester break in 7 weeks time!)  In the meantime, I am squeezing in some EPP time between breaks and I am hand quilting a commissioned quilt in the evening which will be revealed, hopefully very soon.  

Thank you for stopping by and Happy quilting!

... and Happy 4th July to my American quilters and bloggers! 

The Many Faces of Half Squared Triangle

A study on the humble half squared triangle (HST) 

Got a little side tracked from quilting and decided to play around with some HST.  These HST were made from scraps of a 'secret' quilt I'm making on top of the 'Summer Lovin' quilt on my earlier post - talk about being focus!  I'm leading towards HST 01, 07 & 11 because I want to make a simple quilt with these HST.   I often feel that simple quilts with good color coordination often makes the biggest impact.  Hopefully with three quilts to finish by end of the year, I would have collected enough scarp to make a HST quilt.

Do you have a favorite HST design?  I would love to hear from you if you do.

HST 01

HST 02

HST 03

HST 04

HST 05

HST 06

HST 07

HST 08

HST 09

HST 10

HST 11