This project started out as a panel of pre-printed Christmas designs that were meant to be cut out and made into tree ornaments. I wanted to make a quilt with them, so I framed each square with muslin strips and and then added corners to make the blocks into snowballs. Then I sewed all the [...]
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A Little Christmas Project (Design Wall)
Posted in Design Wall Monday, Holiday projects, Patchwork, tagged Christmas quilt, Design Wall Monday, preprinted panels in quilts, quilting, Sewing, snowball blocks on November 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Quiltathon Sunflowers Finished (Stash Report)
Posted in Patchwork, Quiltathons, Scrap quilting, Stash Reports 2010, tagged Judy Laquidara, pieced borders, Quiltathon, quilting, Sewing, stash report, sunflower fabric on August 8, 2010 | 7 Comments »
My Sunflowers quilt top is finished — right on deadline for my own little Quiltathon to join in with Judy Laquidara’s big Quiltathon. I was able to make the quilt top larger by adding four borders, and it’s now 50 inches square. The yellow print below is going to be the binding and backing, the [...]
My Sunflower Quiltathon Project
Posted in Patchwork, Quiltathons, UFOs, tagged 4 inch squares, 4-patch blocks, Judy Laquidara, Quiltathon, quilting, Sewing, sunflower fabric on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For Judy’s Quiltathon this week, I’m working on a UFO project of 4-inch squares in cheerful sunflower prints. I can’t remember what these squares were for, but they’re cute. Today I have sewn them into 4-patch blocks and arranged them in sewing order on my design wall. This is going to be a small quilt, [...]
Respecting the Scraps
Posted in Patchwork, Scrap quilting, tagged Bonnie Hunter, crumb blocks, Crumb chaos, Mary Johnson, Mile a Minute blocks, quilting, Quiltville, Scrap quilting, Sewing on August 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Bonnie Hunter wrote in her “Scrap User’s System” article that our scraps are worth just as much as new yardage from the quilt shop. For me in England, that’s £9.60 per metre, or approximately $14.25 per yard in US dollars. That’s way too much value to toss into the waste basket, and it really gave [...]
Busy busy week (Stash Report)
Posted in Grandmother's Flower Garden, Patchwork, Stash Reports 2010, UFOs, tagged bath mat, Grandmother's Flower Garden, Patriotic blocks, quilting, Sewing, stash report on August 1, 2010 | 6 Comments »
What bliss! I’ve been sewing every single day this week! I have now finished 58 patriotic blocks, and I made a second recycled bath mat. I also did some mending, cut out a pair of pyjamas for my little girl and started basting a lap quilt that’s been waiting in my stack of UFO tops. [...]
Patriotic blocks update
Posted in Patchwork, Quilts of Valor, Scrap quilting, tagged patriotic fabrics, quilting, Red white and blue quilts, Sewing, string quilts on July 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This week I have finished 53 blocks for my Patriotic string quilts. I need 96 blocks to make two quilts. When I was laying the blocks out on the table, I realised that they look more interesting with different red centre strips mixed together instead of keeping them in strict matching sets. So I pulled [...]
A new quilter in the family (Stash Report)
Posted in Patchwork, quilting, Stash Reports 2010, tagged corduroy fabric, English paper piecing, free quilting patterns, Grandmother's Flower Garden, hexagon templates, quilting, Sewing, stash busting, stash report, turquoise scraps quilt on May 16, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This week, my step-daughter came over for dinner and told me about a quilt she has started making. It’s her first large project, and I am really excited for her! This is the young woman who received the turquoise quilt for her birthday in March. She prefers hand-sewing to using a sewing machine, so she [...]
30 blocks finished and 36 hours to go….
Posted in Patchwork, Sewing, tagged black and red quilt, Patchwork, Quilting and Sewing, red and black quilt, Sewing, stash busting on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve finished piecing the 30 red and black blocks. They are laid out on the floor, and I’ve been moving them around for over an hour trying to find the right combination. The only problem is that every time I move one block, I have to move three others as well. I’m tired now, so [...]
Staying on Track with Red and Black
Posted in Patchwork, Sewing, tagged black and red quilt, Quilting and Sewing, red and black quilt, Sewing, stash buster, stashbusting on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve decided to make my older daughter’s Red and Black quilt larger than the original pattern. (note: link updated 30-8-2011) My version will require a total of 30 blocks, arranged 5 blocks across by 6 blocks down. I’m not going to put borders on it, only binding, so the finished size should be 80″ x [...]
Back to Work on Red and Black
Posted in Patchwork, Sewing, tagged quick quilt pattern, Quilting and Sewing, red and black quilt, Sewing on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Now that the pillowcases are finished, I’m back at work on my older daughter’s Christmas quilt. Here are the first four completed blocks. I’m starting to really like this red-black-white combination. My husband paid me a nice compliment. He said this quilt is going to look “striking”. A little encouragement goes a long way!
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