Arrow Quilt and 100 Blocks 100 Days Challenge

 I finished the quilt to to my arrow quilt! That was my goal for my summer break. During winter break I'll quilt and bind it. I haven't decided yet if I want to quilt it on my machine or rent time on a long-arm...

I started a project that I will use these fabrics in. I just think they are so perfect together! It's Carolyn Friedlander's Doe and Carkai collections. The challenge is to make and post one quilt block a day for 100 days out of Tula Pink's City Sampler book. Here's the details.

Arrow Quilt - Green, Orange, and Gray Arrows

I've been working slow but steady these last few days and have completed my last sets of arrows! They seem to go faster and faster each time a make a new set.  The gray ones especially since there are only 4 of those!

I'm excited to start piecing the top together soon. Then I have to decide if I'm going to quilt it at home or rent time on a long-arm machine...

Arrow Quilt - Red Arrows

I made a little progress on my Arrow Quilt today. I completed all of the red arrows. I didn't make any modifications to the provided colors for these arrows. It went quicker today than yesterday!

Bucket Bag Challenge

Last week while on my Honeymoon I saw an Instagram post about this Bucket Bag Challenge. I was intrigued by the bag and saved the tutorial as something I wanted to sew someday. I didn't think I would participate in the challenge because I was gone and didn't have an idea for what I wanted it to look like. BUT last night I had a dream about putting on arrow on the front of it, similar to what I made yesterday for the Arrow Quilt I'm sewing. I had to modify the arrow pattern from the quilt a little bit to make it smaller and had to modify the directions from the bucket bag tutorial quite a bit to make it the right size with the arrow instead of what he put on the from. It wasn't too difficult to figure out though. I made the outside of the bag out of extra fabric from other projects. For the inside fabric, rope, and grommets I had to make a run to JoAnns. Oh darn! ;-) I decided on this amazing bright lime green canvas for the inside because I LOVE bright colors and black rope to not distract from the arrow design. I've sewn a few circle bottomed bags in the past, so once I had the pieces cut out, the bag went together pretty quickly.

Wish me luck on getting picked as a winner. The prizes look pretty amazing!

Starting my Arrow Quit - Blue Arrows

I started a kit that I got a few months ago; Elizabeth Hartman Pointy Pattern Quilt Kit. I'm making a few modifications to the colors. I wanted the green/yellow one to be more similar in colors; more about that section later. I also replaced the pink arrows with true orange that I will place opposite the red arrows in the finished quilt.

About a month ago, I cut up all the background pieces so that when I returned from my Honeymoon I could just start sewing. It took a few days to start though because I came home sick! Ugh!

Today I completed the 5 blue arrows.