I took my longarm machine to the shop for servicing and it's going to be 3 weeks before they can get to it. To stave off the withdrawal I'm busy sewing some of my many UFOs. Today, I finished my Triangle Star quilt top! It has 560 HSTs and made with scraps along with a background fabric. All it needs now is to be longarmed.
Friday, February 9, 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Triangle Star
My latest quilt is called Triangle Stars. It has 560 HSTs. In August, my husband and I spent a week in Williamsburg, Virginia at a resort. He spent some of his time riding his bike on the bike trails and I spent my time sewing the HSTs. I put the HSTs together last month and now I'm making the applique blocks. There are appliques that go in each corner and then I can assemble the blocks!
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Sugar & Spice quilt pattern
My next quilt project is starting this week. I found the very last fat quarter pack of the fabric collection Promenade by Moda. This collection is sold out everywhere but I found one website that still had the fat quarter pack!
The pattern calls for the use of 2 rulers made by Studio 180 and I have those rulers. One is the Tucker Trimmer I and the other is the Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star ruler.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Cottage Stars table runner
The Durham Orange Quilters' Guild has a challenge that will be held at our guild meeting Monday evening. The challenge was given in March and the topic was to be on houses. We could make any type, color and size quilt with the theme of houses or neighborhoods. This is my entry!
Friday, September 22, 2023
Winnie the Pooh quilt
I've longarmed 15 quilts since my last post and I thought I'd better get another post up since it's been so long! This is a customer's adorable Winnie the Pooh quilt. It's a queen size and it's looking great!
The Christmas rush has begun! I've got 14 more quilts here, waiting to be longarmed. 4 of those are charity quilts, all for the Quilt of Valor sewing group I'm in.
Friday, June 2, 2023
My latest quilt
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Peanut Butter SAL
I've been sewing a quick project called the Peanut Butter quilt sew along. I wanted an easy quilt to feed that need for piecing this time and this project fit the bill!
The pattern is a free one, found here:
https://mailchi.mp/thencamejune/peanut-butter-quilt-pattern
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Smallest quilt I've ever made
This little quilt was made into the 3rd pin cushion, I'm making 10 of the patterns as decorations for my sewing room.
Friday, April 21, 2023
2023 Capital Quilters Guild Quilt Show
About 2 years ago I began stitching tiny 2-1/2 inch blocks for a quilt called the Circa 1880 Nine Patch. I knew it would be a long process to make a queen size quilt out of 2-1/2 inch blocks and I needed 716 of them! I starched the fabrics I chose before cutting into it to help stabilize the 1 inch wide strips of fabric the blocks were made of. Finished, the blocks measure 2 inches.
Sunday, April 9, 2023
10 mini pincushions
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Award-winning quilt!
I entered a quilt in the Raleigh, North Carolina quilt show held by Capital Quilters Guild. It was held on Friday, and I was pleased to see a special ribbon on the quilt when I visited the quilt show. The ribbon was an award of merit for outstanding achievement in quiltmaking. It was given by the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges. This quilt took well over 100 hours to make over 14 months. It has 7934 pieces and 716 two-inch blocks.
2 of my customers are so sweet! They sent a photo of themselves in front of the quilt.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Starting a new QOV
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Quilt for Sammy
My grandson turned 2 months old yesterday! He is a little brother to 3 yr old Joshua. I made this quilt for Sammy and now that the binding is finished I can give it to him.
Friday, January 27, 2023
Quilt of Valor tops
I'm working on more Quilt of Valor tops this week. It is a privilege to do a small part in making these comforting and healing quilts for Veterans who gave so much of their lives serving our nation.
If you sew, please consider becoming a volunteer to make quilt tops for these men and women. You can find a local QOV sewing group by contacting the National foundation. Their web site is https://www.qovf.org/
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Promenade by Moda Fabrics
I'm starting a new project, a small wall hanging for my sewing room. The fabric collection I chose is called Promenade by 3 Sisters for Moda Fabrics. The pattern I'm using uses recipe cards, something I've never tried before. Here's a photo of the fabric, isn't it luscious?
The recipe cards are paper piecing. I'll put 2 charm squares together, place a recipe card on top and sew on lines printed on the cards. Each card will help you create pieces to combine into the blocks shown on the cover. It's simple really. I'll add more photos to this post as I begin sewing.
Friday, December 16, 2022
Latest quilt top
While waiting for my grandson to be born, I worked on a new quilt top. This one is going to be donated when finished. The pattern is called Chandelier. You can download it for free at this website:
https://blog.lellaboutique.com/2021/03/free-downloadable-chandelier-quilt-pattern/
Monday, August 15, 2022
One of my own quilts
I've been stitching quilts for others for so long I forgot I had some of my own to get finished. Today I put one of those on my frame. Here it is! This one was made 6 years ago! It has 1840s reproduction fabrics used in it, and they are homespun all except for the background fabric. I hope to get one more of my own on the frame before I start back on client quilts!
Friday, August 5, 2022
It's a boy!
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Old blue jeans
I love May in the Carolinas. It's always a wonderful day in May. This is the latest quilt on my frame. It's made out of old blue jeans. It's for someone who lives in Tennessee. I'm doing hand-guided quilting on this one. On my design wall is my progress on the ForeverMore BOM quilt. I haven't had much time to work on it lately.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Winter is over
Winter is definitely over in my part of the world. And the slow period of longarming is over, too! I have 11 quilt tops to get longarmed over the next 2 weeks. I love the busy season.
I finished up a table runner I've been working on. It took awhile to applique the pieces. I used the invisible applique method with monopoly monofilament thread. This was a laser cut quilt kit and it was so easy to iron down the precut applique pieces.