Another melt and pour: rose clay goat’s milk soap

This was yesterday’s project, another melt-and-pour project inspired by Brambleberry. Here are the details with modifications from the original project:

32 oz goat’s milk MP base

4 tsp rose clay

9 mL orange EO

9 mL rosemary EO

1 tbl 99% isopropyl alcohol (mix with clay to disburse)

99% isopropyl alcohol spray

In other news, I unmolded my cold process project from the other day. I was a little disappointed, because when I went to cut the 4-inch cube into bars, it was crumbly and I couldn’t get nice clean edges.

Activated Charcoal Facial Soap with Tea Tree EO

I’m dabbling in soap making again, mostly because it’s like cooking but without the eating and the calories. I have two batches of soap curing right now. Because these two batches need to cure for four weeks and won’t be ready until late August, I needed just a little bit of instant gratification.

This is a melt-and-pour project from Brambleberry, which is where I also bought all my supplies. I cut the recipe in half (about 16 oz), which is a little less than 3.8 oz per flower. This is intended to be a facial soap, as activated charcoal, tamanu oil, and tea tree EO are all said to have healthy skin and healing properties.

I adjusted the recipe as follows:

11 oz shea butter melt and pour
1.5 tsp tamanu oil
.5  tsp activated charcoal
2 mL tea tree EO
99% isopropyl alcohol spray

UPDATE: I will update once I actually use it!

Block 3, Eddystone Light, variation (Red & White Star Sampler)

Piecing instructions for the third block are now available! As always, you can go to the Red & White Star Sampler tab at the top for all the blocks in this series.

Block 3, Eddystone Light (Variation)

Block 2, Wyoming Valley (Red & White Star Sampler)

This is another version of Wyoming Valley. You can probably see that I love this block, as I also used it for the center of my Medallion Quilt last summer. The piecing instructions for this one is a little bit different than the block in the Medallion Quilt. For this one, I used a center diamond-in-a-square unit surrounded by flying geese and half-square triangles. Click on the image or caption below for a PDF of the piecing instructions. You can find all blocks by clicking on the Red & White Star Sampler tab above.

Block 2, Wyoming Valley (Red & White Star Sampler)

Block 1, Kansas Star - piecing instructions posted!

This is a 12-inch block that uses a total of nine diamond-in-a-square blocks. My current plan is for a 13-block sampler. At the end, I will make 12 Irish chain blocks for a quilt of about 72 inches.

Click below for a PDF of the cutting and piecing instructions for Kansas Star. All of the blocks in this series will also be available by clicking on the Red & White Sampler tab above.

New and continuing projects: Block Heads 2 and Red & White Quilt

Even though I haven't posted here lately (I've mostly been on Instagram @elvycrafts), I have been fairly consistent with sitting down at the sewing machine.

After I finished the Medallion Quilt, I wanted to find a filler project that I could work on here and there, so I started the Moda Block Heads 2 quilt-along. This was back in October, and I was quite a ways behind. However, as of a couple of weeks ago, I'm all caught up (except this past Wednesday's block), AND I even began piecing together some of the blocks:

This past month, I also received the first of the year-long Mystery Sampler block-of-the-month by Fig Tree. The collection for this BOM is Farmhouse II. These are the blocks from January:

And, after several starts and stops, I decided to take a new tack on my Red & White Sampler Quilt. Here is the first block, just finished today:

I will post more info on this project later this weekend!

Quilt top finish - 2012 Designer Mystery BOM

I finished up this quilt top a couple of weeks ago, but didn't have time to post it until now. The pattern directions for each block were extremely well written. I only deviated in some parts, for instance, where the directions were for flip-and-trim flying geese, I used the four-at-a-time no-waste method.

I saw that Fat Quarter Shop just posted the 2019 Designer Mystery BOM. So tempted, but I already signed up for the Fig Tree Farm House Mystery Sampler BOM. It was a bit pricey, but I'm glad I signed up, as I see that it is now sold out.