Double wedding ring mat finished!

Presenting my first finish for the First Quarter FAL 2013:

I started this project on May 2nd, 2012. Listed it in several FAL posts, but somehow it always got overlooked. Do you remember what it looked like?

It's a little wobbly because I used my less quality fabrics and I believe the white was a sheet from my friend. I knew I will not make a whole quilt out of it, just wanted to try what it looked like if I strip pieced the fabrics and used the large curved templates as opposed to cut out the individual patches one-by-one. It doesn't look bad, but will try the patches anyway.

As some of you know I signed up for Leah Day's class Free Motion quilting a sampler on Craftsy with the intention of getting an idea of how to quilt my  blue and white baby quilts. She  had these  3  patterns I liked and wanted to practice so that's what I decided to use.

So here are the finished pictures after washing:

Close-up paisley ring:

Close-up paisley stitching:

Close-up  ring crossing pattern:

Close-up smaller paisley:

Close-up swirls:

That's all for now, I'm in the process of deciding what pattern to use on the blue-white baby quilts. Stay tuned! :)

'Til we blog again! :)

Double wedding ring scrap test block

Hello  again, I'm back! Last weekend I made progress with my sewing room re-arranging. I'm not quiet done yet so pictures will be up on the blog later.  Besides the sewing room "makeover" I had some time to try out a new recipe which I found on Pinterest, pinned from Food Snots' blog. It's called the Cinnamon and sugar pull-apart bread, and the recipe can be found  here. I took some pictures when I was done, here's how it looks:

I've put my 2 cents about the recipe in the comments of the blog, but  will tell them here too.

• I'm not sure about the amount of the flour/liquids, but my dough was not sticky at all at the end, so I had put  a little bit of extra milk while kneading to make it sticky
• The amount of melted butter and the cinnamon sugar for spreading was way too much and had half of it left

Luckily I bake regularly so I know what a sticky dough should look like and I could adjust the recipe accordingly. The bread came out really delicious. We had it warm with hot chocolate for dinner :)

The other thing/sewing I did yesterday afternoon while watching Transformers 3 and Something Borrowed was the double wedding ring, this time in scrappy version. I did not follow the template version (how surprising), but decided to strip piece the scraps and cut the ark out from the strip pieced fabrics. I'm not sure if I like it this way so I might just have to try the template to see if that appeals to me better.

The points are not exactly as matching as I would like them, but it's all right I guess.

Here's a picture:

So I'm asking you now. Which version do you like better? The scrappy  or the not scrappy? Don't mind the fabrics, they're just leftovers from the log cabin quilt I'm making. Please leave a comment!

Thanks, until we meet again! :)