Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts

Friday, February 9, 2024

Triangle Star top is done

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.



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

I made this table runner over the weekend. The pattern is in a booklet called "Moda Candy Oh Sew Sweet".

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




 I wrote an earlier post about finding a book filled with 40 patterns to make mini pincushions.  I spent this gray, rainy day sewing the smallest quilt I've ever made.  It was made with 1 inch pieces and it about killed me.  LOL  For those who didn't see the earlier post, the book is called Pin Pals by Carrie Nelson.  I recommend it!  The patterns are spot on and, while it might kill you to sew 1 inch pieces, the end result is so rewarding!

This little quilt was made into the 3rd pin cushion, I'm making 10 of the patterns as decorations for my sewing room.

Update May 18th:  This is the 4th mini pincushion.  It took all of 2 hours to make!

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.




I've entered the finished quilt into 2 judged shows and it has won 4 ribbons, the last one being awarded last night.  The Capital Quilters Guild Show gave me a ribbon for Viewers Choice!  The quilt was chosen out of a possible 130 quilts.


Sunday, April 9, 2023

10 mini pincushions


I found a book called Pin Pals by Carrie Nelson and had to have it!  
It has patterns for 40 mini pincushions and they are adorable!  I thought I would share my progress as I make 10 as decorations for my sewing room.


        





I decided to use Civil War theme fabrics on the first one. It went together quickly and I'm happy with it!










The second one took 4 hours to sew all the tiny half square triangles.  Each was 1-1/4 inch!  





Filling for all the pincushions is crushed walnut shells.  TIP:  Buy walnut lizard or bird litter at the pet store instead of the walnut shells sold at fabric stores.  It's much cheaper that way!  This 5 lb. bag was only $8.00!  

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


I bought a new pattern for a QOV top that I couldn't resist.  It uses one charm pack and yardage.    Here's a photo of the center of the quilt.  I'll add more photos to this post as I progress making the quilt top.

Update March 11:  All I have left are 5 borders and the top is finished.



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.


 Update: Jan. 21:  I've stitched some of the star blocks together.


Update: Jan. 26:  Star blocks are finished!  Now onto the other blocks.



 Update: Feb 5th: Assembly has begun.  I'm still deciding on the arrangement for the blocks in the outer border, but the center of the quilt is finished!


Update: April 26th:  I've finished and hung my wallhanging!  It was fun making this quilt, I'm very happy it's hanging in my sewing room.



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!

 My daughter is pregnant with our second grandchild and we found out yesterday it's going to be another boy!  We are thrilled to know Joshua will have a buddy to grow up with.  This is the quilt top I made to celebrate.


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.