100 Modern Quilt Blocks

I have been bitten by the follow along bug and am working hard on the Modern Blocks by Tula Pink.  They are quite fun and addictive.

Wanna see how far I am...

Did I mention that there are a few blocks from the Splendid Sampler QAL?

I like the book and how the blocks are illustrated.  Easy to work with.

Wheel Around Quilt Finish

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

Wall Hanging Foxglove at Night

Ta Da!

Small Items: and old quilt come home and Tilda doll stuffed

I really admire the work of Tone Finnager and her wonderful dolls.  So here is mine stuffed.  She may just stay this way as she seems at home in my sewing room in her pink underwear.

On a side note my youngest son was home from University and brought back his quilt for repairs.  I made it quite a few years ago now but I still like the bright colours and slick way those stars went together.  The red edging is velvet and that has worn very well.  Its the corners where I neglected to put velvet - oops!

Finished Our Father Quilt

Yeah, this was done a while ago but...just enjoy...

Some straight forward outline stitching....

I followed Jenny over at Elefantz and am very pleased with the resulting quilt.

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.

Plate Pockets

I am lucky enough to have two sets of dishes.  One for summer and one for winter.  The ones in storage are always in danger -- yes real danger of being chipped,  dropped or just messed up with the usual dust issues.  I started thinking I would look for a pattern for some sort of cover up for them....

Then I just decided to design it myself.  Leftovers from other projects and bits of batting....

I also wanted to experiment with invisible zippers as I had just seen a sewing show on TV about putting them in with your regular sewing foot.

TaDaaa...

I am really happy with the plate ones.  I wonder if I can manage to make some for soup bowls and saucers.

Inspirational Sightings

A sighting at the Heritage Park Festival of Quilts

sorry I don't know who made it.

A Baby Quilt

My DD has commissioned me to quilt her baby quilt gift for her friend.  The top arrived in the mail today and after some photos of possible backings I spray basted the carcass together.  It's so sweet....

Quilting...Quilting....Quilting...

There it is... moved to the dining room table for the big finish.  Then lots of work...The Machingers are marvellous.

Yes more apple-y goodness....

And then the border.  I used a puffy polyester bat so to tame and contain it, I did some straight line sewing to outline areas and then I put on the binding.  It worked well and sure made it easier to get the carcass in and out from under the foot.

Here's a Top that's done...

Wanna see it from the other side??

The Hexagons are growing

Enough said.

Citrus Quilt

So my DD finished the quilt we were working on.  It is so beautiful and I found it on ...hee, hee,...the spare bed... the one I get to sleep on when I visit.  How lucky am I??

Bright Colours Bali

Quilt in Waiting

And here are some pieces for another quilt all cut up and ready to go...
Most of the fabric are bali prints from a bundle of 2 1/2 in strips.  Quick cutting and hopefully quick piecing...

Bright Quilt

Guess what?  I am finished quilting a smallish quilt.  Here's a peek.  It still needs some binding though.

Bunny garden

I found this embroidery project on the web at Willowberry Designs.  The instructions are very good and the embroidery worked up pretty quickly.  My favourite block is the bunny garden one.  So sweet.