Wheel Around Quilt Finish

So lots of determination to reduce the pile of quilt tops waiting for the quilting process resulted in this.

More Pillow Covers

It seems my DD has a couple of pillows that are in need of covers, and the ones I made for myself seem to appeal to her.  Hmmm, 18" pillow forms you say.



But this time around I thought I would make the angle of the wedges a bit bigger so I could get the centre smaller and have a smaller pillow too.  This time I did 15 degree wedges instead of the 11 degree ones I did on my version.



Lots of tape on my ruler and more figuring but it was a good challenge.  I sewed together two strips 3 1/2" wide and then cut them at 15 degree angles.



I was a bit worried about my ad hoc template but it worked great.



Some diagonal quilting and then I found some suede fabric for the backing as she has a leather couch and I hate cushions that slide... oh, yes and invisible zippers...

Re - Quilting

I had made my eldest son an orange star quilt when he was in grade mmmm, 11 I think, in 2000.  It was my one and only time using an invisible thread for the quilting.  It turned out to be awful mainly because over time it grew a terrible beard of see through threads...

I took it back into my care after Christmas and began doctoring it.  There was enough intact thread to act as basting so I ran a line of quilting with cotton thread on either side of the original diagonal lines in one direction.

It was a bit troublesome but I wrestled it into submission.

Considering the fabric is 15 years old the quilt is hanging in there pretty well.  I did not find any other problems other than normal wear.

The Lord's Prayer is pieced together

I finally finished the Lord's Prayer Quilt to the binding.  I felt I was quite inspired with my machine quilting and it went quickly.

This is just the beginning but I managed to take the quilted sandwich to my Mom's for a bit of a show and tell, as she is my guiding light and the one who started me down this quilting road.  Anyways, I also managed to leave it at her house and then I visited again and still forgot to get it into my truck.  So now it is a couple of provinces away from me and my sewing machine.  It will make it's way home I am sure and then I will add the binding and have another photo op.

Little Stepping Stones Quilting

I haven't done a lot of machine quilting but this is turning out to be fun.

Unveiling the finished Coffee Mug Quilt

I like this more every time I see it.  My DH says, 'very orange' but he was smiling I think...

I did a simple machine quilting finish with slightly wobbly vertical lines 1/2"-3/4" spacing.

The binding is done by doing each side separately so it was easy to make the bottom blue to match the border.

And one more thing...

Maybe I should quit and work on the wall hangings but I just can't seem to stop...

My first mug rugs.... Pretty, huh?

Patchwork Box Pouch Part 2

Still working on the Cosmetic Pouch as I am longing to get it done so I can use it on my next trip.  I am really loving the colours and Ayumi really knows how to get the directions clear.

 As I said before I put the lining on the back of the outside so I wouldn't have to line the finished bag.  Laziness I guess but it's working well.  I'm making two at the same time which also complicates.  So I'm looking at the seams on the inside and I'm not too happy so I carefully zigzagged and trimmed the edges.

Not so bad.  I like.  I took a couple of extra steps when I placed the zipper between the outside and lining and sewed with one go.  Then I quilted as I went...

Patchwork Box Pouch Part 1

Again, I am back to Patchwork Please! did I say 'great Book' at least twice - good.  Cause it is great.

 

I did change a few things but I like to think the author (Ayumi Takahashi) wouldn't mind.  It's personalized now. :)

Starting with my initials.  Then I made the quilt sandwich complete.

I machine quilted the carcass with a cute lining with 1/4" parallel lines of stitching.
That went quickly.

Clara's Quilt is all Done - Yeah

So here it is finished.  Lovely, a citrus-y quilt for a fresh little one.

Applique Fantasia

I know I've blogged about this quilt before.  It is kind of slow but I just moved my sewing machine (again) to the dining room.  That is important in the next step of quilting this sandwich.

Engineered Quilt by request

My sister says that I didn't blog about this engineered quilt.  So here goes.  I started out by making a nine-patch block tutorial for my mom's quilting group.  When my DH saw it the engineer brain kicked in and he suggested I do more blocks with more cuts....so I started with 5 in squares of fabric.

With his suggestions that sixteen square block was recut into a nine patch.  Then I manipulated the squares by just spinning them in their places.  Interesting...

I finished it by machine quilting each 17 1/2" block separately and then joining them with a 1/2" wide sashing hand finished on the back.  This was finished in January of 2011 so sort of old news but apparently I hadn't blogged about it before on this site.