AccuQuilt Winner

We have a Winner!

 The Winner of the AccuQuilt Go! Baby Machine is:

#74 Lisa Cox

 

Congrats!

Lisa, you have 48 hours to contact me before I need to pick a new winner.

camillastarks at gmail dot com

{Giveaway} Accuquilt Go! Baby Die Machine

The lovely people at AccuQuilt are giving one of my readers a Go! Baby AccuQuilt machine ($139) PLUS 3 dies of your choice! (The die prices range from $15 upward to $65+). I've had my AccuQuilt machine for about 6 months and I have used it a ton of different ways.

Felt Bird Ornaments

Tic Tac Toe Board

Mobile

And recently the machine was used to make the embellishments on these cute Kleenex covers for your purse.

 I think they made like 100 of these or something...So much faster and easier with the AccuQuilt, and the results are perfect.

So if you want to try to win one of these babies, now's your chance!

Mandatory to enter this contest: 

You must follow this blog via Google Friend Connect right there on the right sidebar.

1. Go to http://www.accuquilt.com/email-signup to receive 22 FREE patterns just for submitting their email address. Return to this post and leave 1 comment telling me you did so.
2. Go to AccuQuilt on Facebook and "Like" them. Return to this post and leave me a separate comment telling me you did so.
3. You can Update your Facebook Status, Twitter status, or blog about this giveaway for additional entries. 1 comment for each site. After you have tweeted, or facebook'ed or blogged about this, return to this post and leave a separate comment for each you did, please copy the url to the post/update and leave it in the blog comment.

 This contest will run until March Friday 30th at Midnight (MST).

A winner will be announced on Saturday morning.

Valentine Mobile UpCycle

My inspiration for this was 3 different pins:

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So I got a lampshade from my mom, ripped all the paper off of it and there was just the frame left.

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Then I just cut out strips of fabric from my scrap pile, just hot glued in a corner and then wrapped around the whole wire frame.

Then I cut out felt hearts from sheets of felt...I used my trusty AccuQuilt to do this part since it cuts out PERFECT hearts every time.

I also used a punch to cut out paper hearts. Sewed them in strips and hung them from the frame and then hung the whole thing with fishing line from my dining table.

My girls love this hanging in the dining room!

Valentine Felt Tic Tac Toe Game

I posted this a couple weeks ago on another blog but wanted to have it posted here too!

Enjoy!

I was trying to think up a cute handmade gift I could give my girls for Valentines Day and I thought of a Tic Tac Toe game made from felt. I knew it wouldn't be hard at all.

I bought some felt sheets at the local Hobby Lobby then I also went over to the fabric department and got a larger piece of felt for the board. I also bought a cute ribbon to use for the lines on the board.

I used my trusty AccuQuilt machine and the Heart die to cut out all my hearts so they would be perfect looking. Then I just printed out a GIANT "X" and used it as a template for my X's.

I cut my game board  15" by 15" so I was able to sew ribbon on every 5" for the game lines.

Rather than just one line down the middle I sewed down both sides so it would be flat'ish.

I wanted there to be a little bit of weight to the game pieces so I put some rice inside and sewed up the edges.

I love the Heart pieces, I hand stitched a white heart in the middle to give it some contrast.

My felt that I used for my game board was a bit wrinkly. 

I don't love that but not sure if you can iron felt??

I can't wait to give it to my girls and see if I can teach them the concept of Tic Tac Toe!

Felt Bird Ornaments with the AccuQuilt Go! Baby Machine

I recently was given an AccuQuilt Go! Baby machine. It was perfect timing because I had a church activity in December that I was helping put together a small craft project for all the ladies to do.

We were making felt bird ornaments, which would have taken EONS to do by hand, but with the AccuQuilt it took maybe 20 minutes to bust out like 300 birds (2 birds per ornament).

We could do 2 layers of felt at a time and there is 3 different bird shapes on the die, so it went fairly quickly.

 

Here's our stack of felt ready to go through the machine.

Then we had to cut out all the wings (We only needed one wing per bird and it cuts 6 layers of cotton at a time, with 2 different wing options, that only took like less than 5 minutes to do those).

 Check out all the scraps!

The night of our activity we had everything laid out so everyone only had to select the color and type of bird and pick up the other necessary things to sew together the birds (wing, bead for the eye, batting to stuff it, thread to sew with, ribbon to make a hanger, etc). We had over 100 ladies at our church event, some ladies made more than one bird ornament.

Some people whip stitched, some did a blanket stitch, and some just did a running stitch. They all were cute. There was all levels of crafting ability, but I felt like everyone had a good time working with their hands and creating something they could be proud of.

 

These cute little ornaments could be geared toward any holiday or season, just switch up the colors of the felt. I was thinking about doing a small tree with pink, red and white ones for Valentines Day, with cute little buttons sewn on to embellish.

 I made the larger one last year from a pattern I found on a blog. The smaller one I made this year using the AccuQuilt die. Love them!!

Thanks to AccuQuilt for making our night so easy and enjoyable!