I’ve recently got some more binding done. This is Crystal from GE Designs Stripology 3.
The Squedge 18° ruler tablerunner is bound and I made a pillow from the extra pieces.
Category Archives: Crystal
Time to Bind
It’s past time to bind. I now have 6 quilts waiting to be bound. On the bottom is my Christmas Star Swap, quilted May 7th. I put this off as I wanted to finish the red, white, and blue quilts and didn’t need it until the Brandon Quilters Christmas in July program. The binding is cut, I just need to make it.
The RWB quilts are Tara, quilted May 20th, Kimberly, quilted July 15th, and Crystal quilted July 29th. Although I’m not sure if they will all be bound the same, the binding is coming from the same set of fabric, so I held off to see what my options were going to be.
The Squedge 18 degree table runner just came off the frame last night. I demonstrated the ruler at the guild meeting last month.
The night before Cairdeas came off the frame.
Guild is Monday night. My goal is to have the Christmas quilt and Cairdeas bound and ready for Show-n-Tell. I’d like to get the entire stack done, but I have a knitting class Saturday morning and a quilting class Saturday night, so I doubt it will happen. Stay tuned.
Stripology 3 Quilt Tops
This is Kimberly, the quilt which started my red, white & blue series. In June I signed up to take a class at the Mississippi Quilt Association’s Summer Gathering. The quilt being taught was Kimberly from GE Designs Stripology 3. The yardage information was a bit different than what I’m using to seeing, so I started reading the book from the beginning. Gudrun described taking a stack of 1/2 yard cuts and adding background, accent, and border fabrics to make multiple quilts from the same set of fabrics. My Kimberly measures 64 x 80.
I purchased 14 5/8 yard cuts – 7 red and 7 blue, background fabric, border fabric, an accent and binding. In total 19 3/8 yards of fabric. So far I have 3 quilt tops.
The first thing I did was cut the fabric for Kimberly, seen here tied up as a layer cake. At this point the plan was to make the Kimberly blocks with just the red and blue fabrics. Once I got to class, I was encouraged to add a “light” fabric. Gardensong Fabrics was vending at the event and had a bright white layer cake for sale which I purchased, adding another 3 yards to my bundle (22 3/8 so far). Also pictured is the fabric I cut for Tara.
I finished the top for Tara in May. It’s been quilted, but I need to bind it. It measures 72 x 91
My 3rd quilt is Crystal, which measures 51 x 71.
But I still have fabric left! I didn’t use all of the squares I cut. So, I plan on making another quilt or two. But I need more background fabric. I’ve purchased 4 yards of the same background I started with and 1 1/2 yards of a bright white. I will also say when cutting the fabric for Tara and Kimberly, I miscut, so pulled the fabric from the mix and found a 1 yard piece to fill in. So my fabric total is now at 28 1/4 yards. When I get these bound, I’ll have used 18 3/4 yards. I think this is how stash happens.
What’s on My Design Wall
This is a photo I took Saturday afternoon. Friday night I was cutting fabric for a couple of new quilts and cut something wrong, so I decided I needed to focus.
Clockwise, starting on the long arm
- Christmas Star Swap on the long arm
- Squedge 18 degree tablerunner on the design wall
- Community Quilt for Brandon Quilters (brown bag on floor by design wall)
- Auction Quilt from Brandon Quilters (butterfly bag on floor by design wall)
- Postage Stamp Leader/Ender because I need to cut more HST for Rivanna (brown bin)
- Pink, Green, & Purple Quilted Sweatshirt
- An old sheet to make some body pillow cases
- Fairy Frost Sunset pillowcase and remaining fabric to process
- Christmas Star Swap pillowcases & binding fabric
- HSTs for Rivanna
- Kimberly from Stripology 3
- Tara from Stripology 3
- Crystal from Stripology 3
So this is the progress I made over the weekend. I’ve left the numbers the same, but obviously stuff has been moved around.
- Christmas Star Swap is off the frame and trimmed. Not only that, I have the binding cut (it’s on the far side of the sewing machine) and most the trimmings have been processed.
- Squedge 18 table runner is now a top. There is a pile of fabric on the corner of the ironing board that is for the backing and binding. I counted wrong and have some extra wedge pieces, so I may end up making either a square table topper or a pillow.
- The Community Quilt is still waiting to be quilted.
- The Auction Quilt will be up next on the longarm.
- Postage Stamp Leader/Ender. It’s put away. I only sew use the 1-1/2″ squares as my L/E when I don’t have another L/E project going on.
- Pink, Green, and Purple Quilted Sweatshirt is still waiting to be finished — I don’t need it until September, so I have some time.
- An old sheet to make some body pillow cases – I’ll work on it after I get the Christmas quilt bound while the longarm is running.
- Fairy Frost Sunset pillowcase is pinned to the design wall. The extra fabric is processed and put away.
- Christmas Star Swap pillowcase and extra binding if I need it. I won’t make it until after the quilt is bound in case I need more fabric for the binding.
- HST for Rivanna. I trimmed the 60+ HST which were sewn, then cut another 240, which should keep me going for a while.
- Kimberly from Stripology 3 – 4 of the 14 fabrics are cut
- Tara from Stripology 3 – 4 of the 14 fabrics are cut
- Crystal from Stripology 3 – I’ll the fabric for this quilt after I get the rest of the fabric cut.
As I was recording my most recent purchases I realized I missed the April Stash Report.
