Category Archives: Quilts
Tuesday’s Progress
Wow! With the Go! Cutter I was able to cut all of my strip sets in about an hour. Now I’m ready to sew!
Monday’s Progress
It doesn’t look like much, but I spent all evening sewing the red strips into strip sets. Next they’ll get run through the Go! I don’t know if I’ll get it done tomorrow or not. My niece’s band concert is tomorrow evening.
What’s on my Design Wall
This week I have my Turning Twenty Again that I’m calling “Summertime”. Several years ago during a FQ sale at my LQS I picked up a bundle of Venetian Glass. At the time, I thought “What was she thinking, some of these are ugly.” I LOVE how they all work together. I guess it’s true you need some “uglies” in your quilt to make it sparkle.
I finished the quilting on this Sunday afternoon.
I’m not sure how well you can see the quilting. It’s pretty basic quilting — wavy diagonal lines. I was having the worst time finding something to mark the quilt that I could see. Then I decided to use painter’s tape.
I put several lengths on my cutting mat, then cut both sides using my wavy ruler. Then I put it on my quilt top and quilted around it. Worked like a charm — and no marks to wash out!
Now I’m working on the binding. I normally machine stitch my bindings down, but this one simply wasn’t working — so at the moment I’m stitching it by hand. No telling when I will finish it, except it will be before June 18th. This is one of my 7 10 by June quilts.
So, up next is the quilt is the crossword puzzle quilt.
I bought a few more reds at the quilt show yesterday. Since it was right before closing, they let me pick the FQ from two different bundles. This is what I have so far:
Not all of those fabrics are FQs — some are just barely F8s. I think that piece on the far left of the bottom row is going to have to go. Other than collecting the reds, I’m at a standstill on this one. My friend V is letting me borrow her Go! and I’ve ordered the 7″ Drunkard’s Path Go! die, but it hasn’t gotten here. I don’t want to start cutting the fabric until I have an understanding of the die. I’ve got a great visual in my head of this quilt, so we’ll see how it translates to fabric.
Don’t forget to check out the other great design walls by following the links over at Patchwork Times.
Quilting The Chain Event
Pattern - The Chain Event
This is one of my 7 by June 10 by June quilts. I found the backing fabric last month and now that I’ve met the 2nd deadline with the Mini Ohio Star quilt, it’s on to the next one.
My original intent was to do a bit of grid work on my machine here at home, but yesterday I pulled it out and hung it on the shelves for my subconscious to work on it. Which worked — to a point. I’m going to take this quilt down to Rocking Chair Quilts and quilt it on the longarm. I’ve figured out the quilting for the blocks and setting squares/triangles, but I have no clue what I’m going to do in the peach and green borders.
This is my goal for the pieced blocks. I can’t remember if the machine can handle a 12″ block on point or not. So, I’ve figured out how to do this in two passes — I fact, I like it better in two passes than just one!
The setting squares and triangles will get a large fan/plume, for lack of a better description. I’m really glad this print is so busy — it won’t be possible to see my quilting! I’m going to use a camel thread, so I suppose it won’t be completely invisible.
This is roughly how I’m envisioning the quilting. But what to do in the peach and green borders? The peach border is 2″ and the green 6″ wide. Maybe my subconscious will think of something.
Twin Mystery Top Finished
I really should have re-hung the quilt and waited for better light, but I’ve got a mini Ohio Stars quilt to make this weekend.
Mystery Quilt Revealed
This past weekend I attended the 10th Anniversary Kaye-Woods-Quilting-Friends (Yahoo! Group) retreat at Camp Beth Eden in Conway, Missouri. This was my 7th year. I had a great time, but I’m exhausted! One of the activities which you can participate in is a mystery quilt.
A mystery quilt is where you are told how much fabric you need, then are given the cutting and sewing instructions, but not told how what you are making. Hopefully the instructions are written clear enough that there are no frustrations and in the end you have a finished quilt top which looks like the original when it is revealed.
I wrote this years mystery quilt. My friend Mary over at Quiltn’ Gramdma’s Blog tested the pattern for me. After the pattern was tweaked, Terri who wasn’t able to make it to the retreat offered to post the patterns to the list for anyone who wanted to participate, but couldn’t make the trip either. She also tested the pattern for me. This is her quilt.
This year we had six ladies complete their quilt tops.
More about the retreat and the shopping I did later. I’ve got to straighten up my sewing room so I can unpack.
What’s on my Design Wall
Woo Hoo!! I finally finished my Dresden Plate quilt. It was February’s UFO Challenge Quilt.
The fabric for the plates started out life as a skirt my mom made for me in the early 1990’s. I loved that skirt. But an elastic waistband on a longer skirt and a rolling desk chair just don’t mix well. I rolled over my hem and attempted to stand up one too many times. Putting the fabric into a quilt apparently has not solved this problem. As I was binding the quilt, I rolled over the end of it and got tangled up.
This is the back of the quilt.
I’m working on a pillowcase to go with the quilt. Right now I’m leaning toward a black case with alternating blades and a narrow gold trim.
I hope to get this pillowcase, and perhaps one for the Dragonfly quilt finished before I leave for retreat later this week.
To see what others have been up to follow the links over at Patchwork Times.
Stash Report
I’ve still used more fabric than I’ve brought into the house year-to-date, but the difference has shrunk considerably. Last week I picked up the backings for two of the “7 by July” quilts, and since they were wide backings I did a bit of math to figure out the 42/45″ wide yardage equivalence. The only fabric used was the backing for the borders of the Dresden Plate quilt which I have finished quilting.
Fabric Added this Week: 14.4 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 33.094 yards
Fabric Used this Week: 2.16 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 43.791 yards
Net Used for 2011: 10.667 yards
Check out how others are doing by following the links over at Patchwork Times.
Making Progress
The borders are on the Dresden Plate quilt. I have one border quilted. Now to mark and quilt the other three.
