Category Archive: quilts
Stars of Honor done
It’s all finished and ready to be delivered as soon as she goes east of the mountains. It was difficult to get it up as it is long. So someone will enjoy it’s warmth.
Sane?
Today after breakfast, we, no I, decided to do our workout. So we took the mattress off our king sized bed, then proceeded to reverse the sides of each set of box springs. What a difference that made. When one often sits on the side of the bed, it gets a bit weak, so by changing them around, we probably will get another 2 years out of this mattress set. And that was a big workout!
Then while I spent time on the phone with Carbonite (I recommend them to anyone who doesn’t want to lose info on the computer) DH went to get more feed. When he came back we put it in the garbage cans for that purpose.
After a late lunch, I had time to work in the studio, which convinced me that I may not be totally sane. This has been on my desk for a very long time, Copyright is 1993. I have no idea when I bought it nor did I remember even cutting these pieces out. The finished size is 18.5 x 16.5″. The pattern is meant to hang on the wall to pin lapel pins on.
I found two sets of these vest backs with instructions to “turn under raw edges of armholes, shoulder and neckline 1/8″ and applique edges to background fabric.” And I have 24 of these!
This is the other set. These vest fronts were sewn, but not turned. You see there is one missing in the upper right and the first set (above this) have only backs. There is no additional colored fabrics, and only a bit more of the white background. The fronts are attached only at the shoulders and many of them will have an inside pocket – also hand sewn. This is how ufos are created. So now I have what little vests have been sewn, turned. I will put it away for awhile. Maybe I’ll run out of something to do and figure out what to do with this.
Stars of Honor quilted
I spent most of the day on this. It is quilted now and I tossed it over the board so it can wait until I get time to cut all the thread tails and cut the extra batting off the sides. Then it will be ready for binding. Bit by bit, these quilts get done
Fox and raspberries
I have about a quart that I picked tonight and maybe I ate that many while picking. These will go into the freezer for winter eating.
My friend had car troubles so didn’t come to do her quilting today. So I quilted the little foxes and will bind tomorrow (I hope). I’m thinking these will be fun for someone who has lost their home to the fires. I have a few other child quilts that I will also give. The quilt that was too short yesterday is long enough today, but has not found back to being loaded on the machine.
Too short
Quilting was very challenging today. Perhaps if I quilted a quilt every day, I might actually get good enough at this to enjoy it. Today there were several challenges. But the worst was that I did not measure correctly for the backing. Fortunately, I have more fabric and I’m only doing one block at a time instead of moving across the entire row with one stitching. Can you see that I am about a foot short – what’s up with that? Because of how this is being quilted, I took it off the machine and will sew the additional fabric on before continuing.
Here is the block I’m currently quilting and then I will go back and do the ones in between.
So now, it looks like this with which I am happy. Because a friend is coming over tomorrow that wants a quilt done, I decided to just quit early and get the floor swept and a couple smaller projects done, so we can use the cutting table.
I have been bemoaning the zucchini were so slow and DH wants zucchini bread. Look what was very well hidden. With this there will be several loaves in the freezer.
A finished fox flimsy
This fox flimsy is now in one piece despite the fact that we spent too much of the day shopping for bathroom counter top, groceries and signing up at the gym. It is infant size and I think some baby boy will look adorable wrapped in this. Oops, amazing what one sees in a photo. Tomorrow, I will put the eye on that I missed.
Fox quilt
I found this photo on the internet, but it was late and I didn’t bother to do the proper calculations, so it is a bit small right now. I will add another 3 triangles to each row and probably another row or two. It will be perfect for a baby after I add the borders. It looks long right now, but each time I sew a row together I take 1/2 inch off the length. The current plan is for felt circles for the whites of the eye and embroider the black iris. I’d love to put those cute buttons on, but this is for someone who might ingest them, so I’ll curb my desires. It consists of totally one size triangle. These are 3″. If I do it again, I’ll choose a larger size so it will be for an older child.
Little Joys Christmas table topper
This simple little Christmas table topper is quilted and bound. At 34″ square it would be the perfect size for a tiny baby blanket as well. It’s a bit before Christmas, which gives me time to decide what to do. This is a great time to start looking at patterns that will go together quickly for the holidays. The Fat Quarter Shop has a good supply of free and simple ideas.
Prairie flower finished
