Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

What’s On My Design Wall

May 26, 2014 9:04 am ⋅

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First off, I finished the quilting and binding on this quilt for Sydney.  She pieced the top. It measures about 51″ square. I think she’s giving it to her cousin.

As for my own quilts…

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All the green star points have been sewn, so into pairs and then I can start piecing the blocks.

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I cut the squares for the replacement 4-patches for this UFO. The original 4-patches are bright white and the blocks are off white/cream.  I’ve got 6 different light fabrics to use in the border. These are going to be my leader/enders at the retreat this weekend.

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My projects are packed – Orca Bay (Bonnie Hunter, String Fling) is in the box — ooh I need to go find my Flying Geese Ruler for “squaring” the geese  and put them in the box with the rest of the rulers I’m taking with me (12-1/2″ square, 6″ x 12″, Easy Angle and Companion Angle).

Under the box is the box with Jared Takes a Wife and the zipper bag with Candy Sunflower Seeds (The Chain Event by Dorothy Young).  In the flat zip bag is the fabric and instructions for my “August  C” done in black and batiks.

The plan for today is to make progress on Eeyore. I’d really like to have the applique done by before I go to the retreat.  We’ll see if that happens.

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To see what other are working on, check out the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: applique, Candy Sunflower Seeds, designwall, Jared Takes a Wife, Orca Bay, Sydney, The Chain Event

Stash Report

May 25, 2014 1:30 am ⋅

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Yesterday morning I saw a notice that the shop where I rent time on the long arm was having a sale on packaged batting. Since I used up the last of my Warm and Natural and this was less expensive than W&N on sale, I bought one to use on the Scrappy Trips quilt which I hope to get quilted in June.

The Tossed Cats and Magic Black came from another LQS. They were having a moving and bolt sale – both pieces were on sale.  The Cats will go with the paw prints I bought a few weeks back which in turn go with the panel I bought several years ago. I really need to start thinking about that quilt and gathering the rest of the fabric I’m going to need.  I hope I can pull it from my stash.

The Magic Black will be used in the Eeyore quilt.  I need to redo the fingerboard and tail piece on the bass without glitter.

So, what have I gotten done so far this weekend?  The red, black and white rail fence quilt is bound and headed to the wash. I ripped out about 6″ of the quilting on the brown quilt, then a friend offered to work on it while she watches TV — works for me.  Then last night after I finished the binding, I wasn’t quite ready to work on Eeyore, so I stitched some star points on JTAW while I finished listening to The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Angels Anglada.

So, this week’s tally is:

Fabric added this week: 2.865 yards
Fabric added to date: 76.744 yards

Fabric used this week: 0 yards
Fabric used to date: 49.382 yards

Net used to date: -27.362 yards

Check out how others are doing over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: binding, Jared Takes a Wife, Stash Busting Report

Plans for a Long (?) Weekend

May 22, 2014 5:03 pm ⋅

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I’m not able to take Friday off and I’m working on Monday, so this really isn’t a long weekend – I’ll get that next week when I take off a noon to go to a local retreat.

So what do I plan on working on this weekend?  These three quilts.  The red, white and black needs a binding — I have a bit of leeway – I don’t think it needs delivered until the 6th, but I may get the call earlier. I’ll work on it tonight after dinner since it’s the easiest/quickest to do.

That mass of brown and batting? That’s a quilt that I quilted a while back (October 2013) that I didn’t like the quilting on. I was encouraged to just bind it and call it done, but I can’t do it. But the good news, is I’ve had a flash of inspiration and know how I’ll quilt it when I get the original quilting ripped out. Fortunately it is a relatively small quilt (60 x 71).  My deadline is June 1st.

Then there is Eeyore/Piglet. I need to get this done – as in quilted, bound, labeled & washed – by the 6th.

So, the weekend is binding, ripping, quilting and applique — and going to the Lee’s Summit Symphony Showcase Sunday afternoon. I wonder what I’ll have done by Monday?

 

Posted in: UFOs

What’s On My Design Wall

May 19, 2014 8:16 am ⋅

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After finishing up the Irish Chain quilt I needed to figure out what to work on.  I pulled out Orca Bay, thinking I was ready to attach the black and white corner pieces to the purple string triangles — only I found that the paper had not been removed from the triangles yet.  I did that and then got maybe 20 “geese” built when I decided I really needed a leader/ender project.

So, I pulled out Jared Takes a Wife, cut the pink squares and green star points and the green star points will be my leader/enders. Since I had the fabric cut I went ahead and made one block up.

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Finally on Saturday, I quilted Sydney’s quilt for Samantha.  It still needs trimming and binding something to get done this week.

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See what others are working on over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, Jared Takes a Wife, Orca Bay, Sydney

Stash Report

May 18, 2014 7:02 am ⋅

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If I had only stayed away from the thrift shops and garage sales….

Saturday morning, I pulled a list of garage sales that I thought might be good prospects for shirts. My plan was to call and see if there was an open machine where I rent time on the long arm and then go to the sales afterwards. But given it took nearly 15 minutes to find a parking place last weekend, I started toward the shop before I knew there was a machine available.

There wouldn’t be one until 1 PM, so that gave me plenty of time to hit the sales. The first stop — clothes $5 a bag didn’t have any cotton shirts, other than t-shirts. I headed to the second stop, a fund raiser for a youth group. There were 6 shirts, but at $2 a shirt – admittedly a better price than the big thrift shops, I only bought 2.

I thought I had been told there was a quilt shop out that direction, so I searched on my recently updated Garmin and found one supposedly 6 miles away. It was closer to 11 miles away and when I got there I realized that was the shop which closed several years ago. Oh well. On to the next destination.

Before I could get there I spotted a guy waving a sign “Blowout sale. Thrift Store”. Naturally I turned in.  Shirts were $1 a piece normally, and for the sale buy 3 get one free.  I picked up 4, including a reversible shirt — blue on one side and green on the other.

Back into the car, spotted another shop, but no shirts and tried again to get to my next stop only to find another thrift shop with a sale going on. Picked up 2 more shirts at $1 each.

Finally got to the quilt shop I was headed for and they were having a “garage sale”.  They are moving at the end of the month. Saw a lot of cute stuff, but given I knew I was going to be buying a punch card for long arm time, I managed to not spend any money.

Pulled in at 1 to the rental place.  Two hours later, I had quilted Sydney’s latest quilt and purchased 3 cones of thread — all at 40% off.

Swung by to pick up “lunch” — it was pushing 4 when I got home, ate then took a nap.

8 shirts – 12 yards. I don’t get to count the backing as that came out of Sydney’s stash, but I did make a pillowcase. I think I need to finish something of my own soon.

Fabric added this week: 12 yards
Fabric added to date: 73.879 yards

Fabric used this week: 1.111 yards
Fabric used to date: 49.382 yards

Net used to date: -24.497 yards

See how others are doing with their stash over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report

Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Scrappy Quilt

May 16, 2014 12:39 pm ⋅

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Amy’s Creative Side is hosting the Blogger’s Quilt Festival.

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My entry in the Scrappy Quilt category is the Spool Challenge quilt.  This was the leader/ender project that Bonnie Hunter lead beginning in July 2012.  Over the course of a year I made 334 spools. The great thing about this quilt is with the exception of the backing it came entirely from my stash.

When it came time to buy the backing I found the perfect fabric (it’s the body of the pillowcase in the picture below).  Everyone who saw it looked at me funny — until they saw it with the quilt.

When I started making the quilt, I had no idea where it was going to end up. By the time I quilted it, I knew who I was giving it to.

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Boo claimed it when it was unwrapped and placed under the Christmas tree, but ultimately landed on this beautiful antique bed.

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Doesn’t it look like it was made specifically for that bed?  I had no idea they owned it.

Do hop over to Amy’s Creative Side to see all the quilts.

Posted in: Spools

Q is for Quartered Star

May 15, 2014 5:15 pm ⋅

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The letter for this May is Q. Dorothy calls this block Quartered Star.  Nine months to go, but the blocks all go together quicker than picking the fabric out, so it’s not too late to join.

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Posted in: Alphabet Blocks

Scrappy Irish Chain

May 14, 2014 1:28 am ⋅

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I’ve finished the Scrappy Irish Chain.  I used the pattern from Bonnie Hunter’s Adventures in Leaders and Enders.  The 4 patches were done as leaders/enders — but for two other quilts that I decided I wanted a different look to.  So, I repurposed the 4-patches, found a length of background fabric and completed the quilt top.  It had to age before it was ready to be a quilt.

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Details:

  • Repurposed the 4-patches 3/21/12
  • Completed the top 10/11/12
  • 1593 pieces / about 6 yards of fabric – all from stash
  • Wide backing (works out to about 5 yards of 45″ wide fabric) – the only new fabric
  • 8 – 2½” strips for binding – from stash
  • Warm & Natural batting
  • Superior Omni Thread – Light Tan in the top
  • Used just over 3 Super Bob – Cream(?) pre-wound bobbins
  • Continuous Curves in the dark part of the chain
  • Alternative blocks quilted with  G1-10 from Pam Clarke’s book Quilting Inside the Lines
  • Quilted in two sessions on May 9th  & 10th (about 4½  hours total)
  • Finished binding May 13, 2014
  • Quilt top measured 68″ x 83 before washing and 63″ x 79″ after

Edited:

  • Quilted on a rented Nolting long arm – I can’t remember which one.
  • Made a pillowcase to go with it from the backing and binding.

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Posted in: finish, Irish chain, UFOs

What’s On My Design Wall

May 12, 2014 6:43 am ⋅

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Friday night & Saturday morning I quilted my Scrappy Irish Chain.  I’m still attaching the binding to the quilt. I can’t wait to wash this and see how it crinkles up.

Check out what others have on their design walls by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, Irish chain

Stash Report

May 11, 2014 9:20 am ⋅

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The plan was to use the green as the binding on the latest quilt – but I found something better in my stash — should have looked there first. The spider webs will go into that Halloween quilt I’m going to make some day.  The good news is it was all 40% off, but it is 2 yards added to the stash.

On the other hand, I get to count the backing and binding on my Scrappy Irish Chain that I just quilted.

Fabric added this week: 2 yards
Fabric added to date: 61.879 yards

Fabric used this week: 5.559 yards
Fabric used to date: 48.271 yards

Net used to date: -13.608 yards

Check out how others are doing over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report