Sunday, October 28, 2007
Hand Pieced Dahlia
While camping this past 10 days I hand pieced this Dahlia. I used the pattern by Becky Davis, quiltpox.com, I had fun making it. I had taken a hand piecing class from Becky in March 2007 when in North Carolina.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Noodle Swaps
Along with being addicted to swapping quilt blocks, I am also addicted to noodle swaps. Deb hosts a monthly swap on the about.com quilting forum for 2 1/2" wide strips of fabric. Each month is a different theme. She posted the swaps she is planning for 2008 the other day, and I hit the sale at my lqs. They had a bunch of discontinued fabrics marked down to $4 yd. If you finished the bolt you received an additional 20% off, which brought it to $3.20 yd. Ya just can't beat that. I ended up buying the end of 2 bolts, as they were neutrals, and you can't go wrong with that. All in all I bought 14 7/8 yds of fabric for a grand total of $53.20, These were nice fabrics from timeless treasures, benartex, etc. Here is what I purchased.
Fall colors
paisley
creams/neutrals (Deb, if these are too dark let me know and I will get some different ones)
Blues, although the blue on the far right, might end up in the pastel swap, depends on what I run across between now and then.
Fall colors
paisley
creams/neutrals (Deb, if these are too dark let me know and I will get some different ones)
Blues, although the blue on the far right, might end up in the pastel swap, depends on what I run across between now and then.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Doll Quilt Too much fun to stop
I have joined a doll quilt swap on the about.com quilting forum. We received our swapper's name and information today at noon. I already had decided on a pattern to use, based loosely on this pillow I have from my paternal grandmother. (I love this pillow)
Here is the fabric I chose. This person likes civil war reproduction fabrics.
I had originally purchased a fat quarter bundle of civil war fabrics, and it came with this strange little fat quarter, likely a piece of a panel. I figured I would eventually chop it up really small and use it in a scrap quilt, but today it seemed just the right thing to use on the back of this little doll quilt.
To make the center of the quilt, I sewed strips of fabric together, and then sewed the strips into tubes, and then pressed, and cut them the opposite way to make these little strips of squares. Then you unsew them at certain intervals to make the pattern. I really hate unsewing. Especially when I sewed some strips together wrong, and had to re-sew them. Oh well, these things happen.
Here is the first quarter of the quilt
The two halves, one is sewn together, one still in strips
The center of the quilt all together
The first border
The second border
The quilting on the back
The completed quilt, binding sewn on and hand sewn down.
I love how it turned out. I will be mailing it out tomorrow on my way to work. I had lots of fun making it, and I hope the recipient likes it also. Cross your fingers, this is always the scary part for me.
Here is the fabric I chose. This person likes civil war reproduction fabrics.
I had originally purchased a fat quarter bundle of civil war fabrics, and it came with this strange little fat quarter, likely a piece of a panel. I figured I would eventually chop it up really small and use it in a scrap quilt, but today it seemed just the right thing to use on the back of this little doll quilt.
To make the center of the quilt, I sewed strips of fabric together, and then sewed the strips into tubes, and then pressed, and cut them the opposite way to make these little strips of squares. Then you unsew them at certain intervals to make the pattern. I really hate unsewing. Especially when I sewed some strips together wrong, and had to re-sew them. Oh well, these things happen.
Here is the first quarter of the quilt
The two halves, one is sewn together, one still in strips
The center of the quilt all together
The first border
The second border
The quilting on the back
The completed quilt, binding sewn on and hand sewn down.
I love how it turned out. I will be mailing it out tomorrow on my way to work. I had lots of fun making it, and I hope the recipient likes it also. Cross your fingers, this is always the scary part for me.
October lotto blocks
I almost forgot. I also made these blocks yesterday for the block lotto on about dot com's quilting forum.
Global Warming?
Friday they were calling for up to 3 inches of snow in the valley where I live. I decided this called for chicken noodle soup. I made up a huge batch, minus the noodles and froze it up for good eating this winter. (I think winter is here though) I woke up Saturday to snow again! This is the second weekend in a row. Its way too early for snow. I got on a cooking kick and made up a huge batch of beef barley soup, and also a pot of gypsy goulosh (hamburger soup) I froze them up into meal size containers (actually 2 meals in each container these days). My freezer is full. I didn't take any pictures of the snow this week, but I would guess we ended up with about 2 inches in my backyard. It is melting off a bit today though. Too depressing to think of winter already. If this keeps up next weekend, I'm making pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Yum!
Mini quilt
I made this mini quilt last weekend to brighten my day from the snow we received. I have joined a swap for doll quilts and this was a tester. I made it with the itty bitty hst's leftover from making snowball blocks. Its done in purple and yellow fairy frost fabrics. It turned out too small for the swap, so I will keep it myself.
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