When I was at the Quilt Festival, I happened to see a booth with a monthly pillow kit and best of all the teeny tiny pieces were precut so all I had to do was trim the backing fabric, put the pieces into place and move around as needed, sew and that was about it….
Category: Completed quilts, etc.
Christmas stocking
I bought a panel the other day that included the front and back of a Christmas stock as well as several gift card rectangles. I’m not sure I’ll end up quilting the gift cards and use them. However, as we are working through a different Christmas get-together than we’ve ever had I asked my sister…
Just Like Heaven
Hot off the press – I just finished the hand binding on this quilt. It’s in the washing machine and I’ll need to trim threads after it’s out but otherwise it’s ready to go in the mail to my nephew. The pattern is called Just Like Heaven from Libs Elliott. I knew when I originally…
2nd of 2 Star Wars quilts done!
Woo hoo! Let’s hear it for vacation time! I’d say I’m working hard at hardly working but truthfully I’m working at non-paid things this week. It’s all good stuff though! It’s 70 degrees outside with a beautiful blue sky if you can’t tell from the picture. The last quilt I followed a pantograph; for this…
Star Wars quilt # 1 complete!
One thing I always do when I’m working on a quilt is to pin the completed rows or columns up to the wall during the interim so I can catch anything that’s “off” before I get too far down the road. How did I miss this? The sewing was completed. I quilted it from top…
Purple star – finished!
And another one is finished, except for of course the threads but then again I always put that off for a rainy day. I had it all done but the binding I think by this weekend. I originally had more of a blue/purple for the actual purple part of this quilt but this is for…
Christmas quilt -done!
I am officially finished with the Sergeant Pepper Christmas quilt! I sped through the binding – and yes, I did sew it by hand like I should have. I had thought I would do a binding like what I used for the 1″ strips between triangles but it didn’t go well with the fabric on…
Bloom quilt finally finished
This will be the last finished quilt for me for a while. The Splendid Sampler sew-along runs through next February so that one is months away from being done. And the machine quilting block party runs through December so that will also be also be next year before it’s completed. Patchwork of the crosses has…
modern quilt completed
This is supposed to arrive by the end of the day, so I’m crossing my fingers that it’s safe to post about this now. I was in the middle of making the wedding quilt when my sister-in-law confided to me that my niece really wanted me to make a quilt for her but was…
wedding quilt
We received a wedding invitation a month ago for a wedding; I had known about it for a while but was holding off to starting a quilt until I received the invitation. That wasn’t such a great plan because the clock was ticking the minute I got it. I had thought originally I would make…
Quilt guild name tag
That was quick! Today over lunch, I basted and quilted the block I sew yesterday. Then I cut 2 pieces fur the back and basted and quilted them together. . I cut 2 long pieces 5/8″ wide and ran them each through the same stem maker I used for the Bloom quilt. After that,…
friends
The quilt was finished in a week – including hand binding. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. It’s hard even to write this blog post because it’s just so personal. There’s a real person behind this. He has an extremely fast growing and fast moving cancerous brain tumor…glioblastoma multiforme. I can’t even pronounce…