TTMT #594 - nmjewells - October 13, 2026 - Traveling, Thrifting, & Scrappy Sewing (Crafty Show & Tell)

The longer I go without making videos, the harder it is to get myself to commit to making them. But here I am again finally after nearly a MONTH. This week I talk about some of my fun thrift finds, both today and also when I was in Austin about a week and a half ago. I also talk about my new classes and a new display sample for them, and I talk about the kit for my Defying Gravity wall hanging pattern.

Get your Defying Gravity Kit

Join us for Paper Piecing Club

Check out my new classes to see if one is right for you! The book Seasonally Scrappy is included when you sign up for one of my Paper Piecing for Beginners classes, but you can purchase the book separately if you aren't a beginner and want to sign up for one of my Paper Piecing 2 classes.

Take care of you and yours, and stay crafty y'all!

Love,

nmjewells

TTMT #593 - nmjewells - September 15, 2026 - Long Time No Me (Crafty Show & Tell)

 

Well well well, I'm finally posting again. While I was away I've been launching a new kit and workshop called "Defying Gravity" just in time for Balloon Fiesta, which is the first week of October. You can get your own Chanterelle Pants & Shorts pattern directly from Sew Liberated, and it appears to currently be on sale! Mine were made using a fabric from the Ruby Rose Collection by Robert Kaufman Fabrics. I also just started a new pixel Axolotl quilt using an image that I couldn't pinpoint to the original poster, there are so many different images on pinterest, identical in pattern but in different colored pencil drawings, so I'm wondering if maybe it was from a tutorial on how to draw it or something. I'm using TenSisters Easy Piecing Grid to put it together and keep my strips & squares lined up perfectly and not stretching/skewing.

Be well y'all. Create. Move. Rest. Take care of yourselves.

Love,

nmjewells

TTMT #592 - nmjewells - This and That (Crafty Show & Tell)

 

I'm back, and with a few pics of things I've been getting done, like samples for my updated classes, quilting and binding my wall hanging from my 2025 Paper Piecing Club Pattern Series (bound with premade bias binding from Riley Blake), and more.

Now I need to get caught up watching y'all's videos.

<3

nmjewells

Paper Piecing for Beginners class incorporating the book Seasonally Scrappy

2025 Paper Piecing Club Pattern Series

Bias Quilt Binding By the Yard

TTMT #591 - nmjewells - July 21, 2026 - Embiggened Heart & Geese (Crafty Show & Tell)

Hey look at that, I'm posting 2 weeks in a row! This week is a relatively short video about the quilt project I started last week for which I got some piecing done at Paper Piecing Club on Thursday. Probably not a ton of sewing/crafting happening this week as this Saturday is the Hip Stitch Birthday Bash. July 1st marked 18 years since Hip Stitch opened in its original location, and so we're celebrating with a big party this weekend with prize giveaways, a tattoo artist, craft fair, sewing machine maintenance demos, cake, and League of Women's Voters will be registering people to vote. It's going to be fun! And then, of course, I will need a nap, lol.

Stay Crafty Y'all

Love,

jewells

 

TTMT #590 - nmjewells - July 14, 2026 - Dragon Jeans (Crafty Show & Tell)

Hey I'm back! AND I'm wearing my newly reconstructed "Dragon Jeans". I really love how these jeans turned out and I can't wait to do more recon projects like this. I used part of a Fireglow charm pack from Moda. This collection has flown out of the shop where I work faster than a herd (flock?) of dragons, so we ordered another casepack from the reprint that's arriving in the store at the end of October. I truly love these jeans but I think my next reconstructed jeans will use scraps/orphan blocks again instead of stuff all from one collection. I love that scrappy look.

Stay crafty y'all

Love,

nmjewells

You can get my tee AND the Fireglow fabrics at Hip Stitch!

TTMT #589 - nmjewells - June 23, 2026 - BFF Retreat (Crafty Show & Tell)

 

This past week Jennifer O came to visit me here in Albuquerque and we had such a great time! She came to my Paper Piecing Club at Hip Stitch and we worked on a quilt for her impending grandbaby. We also sat in our hotel room and hand embrroidered on my Doctor Who quilt. I even had time to finish binding the quilt I designed and made for my nephew Joel.

There was, of course, plenty of thrifting, we even visited one I'd never visited before. It was fantastic to have this time together and we need to make it a priority at least once each year FOREVER.

Stay crafty!

Love,

nmjewells

Video where I talk about finishing Joel's quilt top in 2022 (that's not as far back as I thought, thank goodness!)

 

TTMT #588 – nmjewells – June 16, 2026 – Again with the Coffee Talk (Quilty Show & Tell)

 

This week I’m talking to you about my OLDEST UFO my project room. Remember when online swaps were a “thing”? Well, in 2012 I belonged to a swap group on Livejourmal called Birthday Blocks, and over the past week I pulled out the quilt top that I pieced many years ago with those swap blocks and I pieced a backing for that quilt! OMG y’all, I had no idea it had been SO VERY LONG since I pieced this quilt top. Wow. It’s officially my oldest UFO, and this past week I moved it along one step further. Now I need to get batting and quilt this thang.

Stay crafty, y’all.

Love,

nmjewells