Good morning fellow quilters! It is a beautiful day here in Michigan, and I have made some progress on my quilting goals:
I have two quilts I made (for the Churn Dashers group display at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival) all boxed up and ready to put in the mail tomorrow. They are on their way to Virginia, to a Churn Dasher friend, who will gather all of the group's quilts and get the display ready. I am hoping to go to the quilt festival in Newport News, VA to see the quilts hanging, but we shall see if I can get there. It's February 23-26, 2017, if you are in the area and would like to go.
To get them ready, I added hanging sleeves and labels to the backs of a bed quilt and a doll quilt. I should have taken a picture of the finished quilts, but I will take a picture when I get them back after the show.
While cleaning out my quilt stash, I found a "kit" someone had given me years ago, and at the time, I was confused about the instructions because there was no picture. I am a very visual learner. But now, when I looked at it again, I figured it out, and decided to put it together while I was temporarily enlightened. I have the wall hanging made, and the bias binding cut, waiting for the quilting to happen. I do not know the fabric designer, but I love the fabric. I am not inspired yet on how to quilt it. What do you think? I am just learning machine quilting, so this will be a good practice piece.
When working on the blocks, I did the mitered corners by hand. That is, I sewed the dark green strip to the left side, the light green strip to the bottom by machine, and then ironed the miter in place, and hand appliqued it. It was so easy that way, and I wondered why I haven't done them that way before.l
So, it's one more project out of the unfinished fabric stash, and on it's way to being a finished project.
What is on your design wall today? Monday Design Wall Linkup (Here) at the Patchwork Times blog.
Post Script: Sandra Walker asked me what magazine the "Merry Christmas" sledding pillow was in, because she liked it so much. Original post is (Here) At the time, I couldn't find the magazine to answer her, but now I have the info. It was a project in American Patchwork and Quilting, December 2014 issue, and was designed by Tina Lewis.
I have two quilts I made (for the Churn Dashers group display at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival) all boxed up and ready to put in the mail tomorrow. They are on their way to Virginia, to a Churn Dasher friend, who will gather all of the group's quilts and get the display ready. I am hoping to go to the quilt festival in Newport News, VA to see the quilts hanging, but we shall see if I can get there. It's February 23-26, 2017, if you are in the area and would like to go.
To get them ready, I added hanging sleeves and labels to the backs of a bed quilt and a doll quilt. I should have taken a picture of the finished quilts, but I will take a picture when I get them back after the show.
While cleaning out my quilt stash, I found a "kit" someone had given me years ago, and at the time, I was confused about the instructions because there was no picture. I am a very visual learner. But now, when I looked at it again, I figured it out, and decided to put it together while I was temporarily enlightened. I have the wall hanging made, and the bias binding cut, waiting for the quilting to happen. I do not know the fabric designer, but I love the fabric. I am not inspired yet on how to quilt it. What do you think? I am just learning machine quilting, so this will be a good practice piece.
When working on the blocks, I did the mitered corners by hand. That is, I sewed the dark green strip to the left side, the light green strip to the bottom by machine, and then ironed the miter in place, and hand appliqued it. It was so easy that way, and I wondered why I haven't done them that way before.l
So, it's one more project out of the unfinished fabric stash, and on it's way to being a finished project.
What is on your design wall today? Monday Design Wall Linkup (Here) at the Patchwork Times blog.
Post Script: Sandra Walker asked me what magazine the "Merry Christmas" sledding pillow was in, because she liked it so much. Original post is (Here) At the time, I couldn't find the magazine to answer her, but now I have the info. It was a project in American Patchwork and Quilting, December 2014 issue, and was designed by Tina Lewis.
4 comments:
That little floral quilt is SO pretty with the fussy cut blocks! I've never made an attic windows before - you did a wonderful job on it! I think I'd quilt around the flowers and along the seam lines and call it good!
The attic windows quilt is very pretty done with the pink flowers fussy cut for the centers.
temporarily enlightened. my first morning laugh :)
The floral quilt is lovely. The 3D effect really works.
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