Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

Author Archives: Pam

I made my first quilted item as a visual aid for a math project in 7th grade. Over the next 25 years quilting was hit or miss, but quilting took over all the other crafts I've done in 2003.

Quilts From My Past – Which Way Is Up?

August 20, 2015 1:52 pm ⋅

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Today I’m linking this edition of Quilts From My Past to Krista’s Throwback Thursday post.

This quilt was started in the November 2004 on-line virtual retreat hosted by Wonder Cut Ruler. I’m not sure when I purchased the Wonder Cut Ruler, but I know this is the first quilt I made with it. As part of the ‘retreat’ we simply made the 9-patch blocks. The final layout was up to the individual quilter.

My husband and I jointly worked on the layout. He’d tell me which block to turn and I was crawling on the floor flipping the blocks around. Once I we had the layout worked out I got the center sewn together. It was probably 18 months before I got the borders on the quilt and got it quilted and bound.

The outer border and backing is a cool looking fabric. I originally bought some to make a reindeer on my Christmas Block of the Month.

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Once I decided the fabric was perfect of my quilt, I raided a friend’s stash as she bought the rest of the bolt!

The quilting is simple.  Straight lines through the “arrows”. flying geese in the light border and a diamond cable in the outer border which I found in a Georgia Bonesteel book.

The quilt measures 69″ x 86″. Warm and Natural batting.

This quilt is well used.  It’s on my half of the bed.

Posted in: Which Way is Up

480 Tumblers

August 19, 2015 9:38 am ⋅

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July 1st I started this year’s Leader/Ender Challenge that Bonnie Hunter is hosting. My tumblers are from recycled shirts. Thus far I’ve managed to stitch 480 tumblers into 240 pairs while working on the Disappearing 9-Patch quilts over the past 7 weeks.

Speaking of the Disappearing 9-Patch, I didn’t quite get the 3rd section sewn together. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll finish the quilt top tonight. Since I’ve run out of light tumblers. I’ll stitch the pairs into 4’s until I finish the D9P. Then more tumblers both light and dark will be cut as I cut the squares for the backings.

Posted in: Leaders & Enders, Tumblers

Half a Quilt Top

August 17, 2015 9:40 pm ⋅

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I suppose technically, it’s just shy of half of the quilt top as there are 7 rows in the bottom half. Here’s the 3rd section ready to be stitched together. (The white squares are tags with a letter or number so I know where to put the block.)

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Posted in: DP9

What’s On My Design Wall

August 17, 2015 12:25 am ⋅

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I’ve started sewing blocks into rows for the Green Disappearing 9-Patch. This is 1/4 of the blocks. Since Monday is a travel day for the Royals, there won’t be a baseball game to distract me after work and I could get this top finished. That is unless we end up going through the clutter in the basement, in which case I’ll carve out enough time to at least get this section done and the next one up on the wall.

See what others are working on by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, DP9

Stash Report

August 16, 2015 8:50 am ⋅

I didn’t get the Green Disappearing 9-Patch finished this past week, but it’s closer. The last 13 blocks have the 3-patches stitched together so unless I have to work last this week, I should have the top done by the next report.  Who knows, I might even have a backing pieced — although I now need a 4th shirting backing for my Nifty Thrifty quilt, so I may still be cutting squares this time next week.

On the other hand, I received a pile of beautiful hand dyed scraps – just under a pound of them, so those get added to my total.

Fabric Added Since Last Report 4 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 185.805 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 54.979 yards

INCREASE in Stash to Date:  130.826 yards

See how others are doing over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report

The Challenge Is On

August 15, 2015 6:05 pm ⋅

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Several years ago I was challenged to finish 6 quilts in the space of about 4 months and the count ultimately rose to 13. Some of those quilts are in the photo at the top of the page. Most were tops, but I was in the middle of piecing a few and one I started from scratch.

Well, today I’m challenging myself to completely finish at least 7 quilts by the end of the year. The six quilts pictured above plus the Green Disappearing 9-patch that I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. The only catch is that I’ll be piecing the backings for at least 5 of the quilt tops — 8 1/2″  finished squares of shirting fabric for the 4 shirting quilts and a similarly pieced backing for the pink floral. I may have a wide black backing for the quilt with the bright green strip – if not I’ll buy it since it’s 103″ square and quite frankly I have no idea what I’ll do for the orange quilt on the end.

Four and a half months. I should be able to get this done. Right?

Posted in: Challenges

Gorgeous Fabrics

August 14, 2015 10:45 am ⋅

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My photo doesn’t do these fabrics justice.  These are gorgeous fabrics.  They were hand dyed by Vicki Welsh. She sells her fabrics in her Etsy Store. I received these by way of a drawing from participants in her UFO Busting Challenge.

 

They arrived yesterday in the mail. It was a wonderful pick-me-up.  I stayed up late Wednesday night to watch the meteor shower and then Thursday was one crises after another at work and back-to-back conference calls. Midday I had about 5 minutes which I used to check the mail.  I opened the package and exclaimed “These are gorgeous!”  I think I said that 4 or 5 times before I got back to my office a the other end of the house.  I know I heard my husband say “You said that already” at least once.

I cannot wait to use these fabrics. But I think I’m going to pet them for a while.  They are gorgeous!

Posted in: Uncategorized

Progress

August 11, 2015 8:18 am ⋅

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Last night after watching the first inning of the ballgame, I turned the radio on and started sewing 3-patches into 9-patches.  23 done, 10 to go.  Here they are sorted “lights and darks”. I have no idea where the remaining 10 will fall.  I’ll have to stitch them to see.

Posted in: DP9

What’s On My Design Wall

August 10, 2015 8:30 am ⋅

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A little bit of progress.  This is the stack of 3-patches for 13 of the big 9-patches. After I get these made, I still have 13 more to make.  I think tonight I’ll listen to the ballgame instead of watching it on television and see if I can make any progress on this quilt.

See what others are working on by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, DP9

Stash Report

August 9, 2015 8:20 am ⋅

I think all I did last week was press the ten 9-patches for the Green Disappearing 9-Patch. I didn’t even cut them. Needless to say that means no fabric out – or in for that matter. In fact other than groceries, my ‘big’ purchase was Books 1 – 7 of the Outlander series for my Kindle when it was on sale for $1.99.

So here’s the report — same as last week.

Fabric Added Since Last Report 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 181.805 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 54.979 yards

INCREASE in Stash to Date:  126.826 yards

See how others are doing over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report