Quilted hearts

Quilted hearts embellished with handmade roses.

You can order them in my Etsy store or DIY!

Using heart template cut of freezer paper I used all kind of red fabric scraps: iron-fold-stitch-trim - simple freezer paper technique!

 Made a sandwich and quilted all hearts.

 Put together face to face, inserted ribbon and stitched all over leaving a little opening to turn it inside out. Stuffed it polyfiber stuffing and hand-stitched the opening on the side.

 Embellished with roses using glue gun. 

These are my last year little Valentine coasters.

And this is my favorite Valentine pillow with dimensional hearts. I had so many compliments and wows, so I made a pattern and wrote a tutorial on it. You can find it on Craftsy.

Happy sewing!

Natalie Quiltessa

Magnetic ring pin holders and pin pickers - FREE domestic shipping

Magnetic ring pin holder. Adjustable, fits any size. Very handy when sewing using a lot of pins, also helpful in chain piecing. Don't be distracted looking for regular pincushion or even wrist cushion, just set your pins on the magnet on the side of the ring, which is the closest place to the sewing foot and needle, so you can keep sewing without moving your eyes from the needle and stitching line! 

You can choose black or gold, with magnet or without magnet

Choose silver or gold, with or without magnet.

or another design

Have you ever had trouble to pick pins from shiny surface, acrylic ruler, from under the table or hard to reach corners of drawers or shelves? Not anymore! Wear this elegant ring on your pinky finger and just point it where your stubborn pin is! The magnet will grab it for you!
Diameter is 42 mm, resizable.
You can choose with or without magnet, if you want to wear it just as a piece of fashion jewelry.

These are all one size - 42mm diameter.

You can also find them and place your order in my Quiltess.com store.

You can also calculate your shipping cost for international orders. 

Responding to some people's concern about "how dangerous it is":

- You are not wearing it during daily routine or when going to bed. It's just for TEMPORARILY usage while holding fabric with pins in front of you making the chain piecing process easier, without being distracted for another pincushion somewhere on the table. Your eyes are only concentrated on the sewing, you don't even move them from the needle.

And another concern about influence of a magnet to computerized sewing machines:
- This magnet is very small, strong enough to hold several pins, depends on the size, but weak enough to hurt your machine. Plus, the ring is on your finger, not attached to the sewing machine mechanism, and you need it only for short period of time when sewing! The rest of the time you can wear it just like a regular piece of jewelry! 
Enjoy!

Happy fancy sewing!

Natalie Quiltessa

12" pizza placemat made in real pizza technique

 After making 18" pizza placemats by the pattern "Farmers basket: 18" pizza" on Craftsy 

I had some leftovers, too small for the same technique pizza, but just quite enough to make it in REAL pizza technique!
Bonding agent 007 will help to join those small pieces!
On a background fabric sprinkle some powder and spread the larger pieces of scraps first.

 Keep going and fill the whole circle with smaller scraps, covering the whole area.

 Cover pizza with non-stick pressing sheet or fiberglass ironing sheet  and fuse all pieces to the background.

 Sprinkle some more powder on the top. Make some "shredded cheddar cheese". I use my favorite serrated scissors by Karen Kay Buckley for all those cuttings.

 Fuse again with ironing sheet.

 Now cover pizza with black tulle. Yes, black! This color works the best on multicolored surface.
Add the batting and backing making regular sandwich, prepare for quilting.

 If you want to iron the tulle before quilting, be careful with the iron, too high temperature will damage it (see the right bottom corner).

You can join it with quilting spray or just attach it to the sides with quilting pins.
Set your machine for free motion quilting and stitch all over with any kind of pattern. Simple stippling is just OK for pizza.

 To cut perfect 12" circle cover your pizza with a cake container top and cut all around with roller cutter.

I found papaya color batik works fine for the crust! Cut off 1 3/4" of bias strip for the binding.
You might like to join two rulers for the long cuts like binding strips, sashing and borders with the ruler connector.

Attach the binding and your pizza is ready! It took me just couple hours before supper to start and finish it! Enjoy!

Happy sewing!

Natalie Quiltessa