Design Wall Monday

My Long Arm Quilter sent an email last week stating my name came up for (3) more quilts.  Oops!  I better get the tops, backs and batting ready for Thursday, the 22nd.  That's the day I chose to have everything ready to take to Susan.  Yesterday, I worked on "Here Comes Santa".  I'm really happy with the border fabric.  I had enough for the binding and for 2 borders sewn to the backing fabric.  I'm hoping Susan can machine quilt the reins.  If not, I'll have to add them later.  I never have found the pattern.

Here Comes Santa Top and Backing shown at bottom

On Friday, I worked most of the day and up until midnight working on a Tablerunner for my Secret Sister at church.  The top went together nicely but the machine quilting with the walking foot took much longer than I
had anticipated.  Finding enough fabric for the back and the binding that matched was a challenge.  Thankfully, I only had to piece about 10 strips together and I was able to sew the binding down with no seams falling on the corners.  Yea!

Table Runner for Secret Sister (Beth)

Back of Table Runner for Secret Sister (Beth)

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Design Wall Monday

It's hard to believe that almost half of January has flown by--I've been working on....

Bonnie Hunter Mystery - (3) blocks completed with pieced sashing strips & corner stones
The delay in sewing the blocks is Part 2.  I had only made one strip and then went on to the next part.
So I've been making (8) strips and then sewing a block together, which has slowed down the process.
My friend, Corinne is working on this mystery, so we've been encouraging each other via email.

Bonnie Hunter Grand Illusion Mystery

 
Table Runner for my sister's birthday, which just happens to be today.
She is 89 today!!
After, I shipped it, I realized I hadn't taken a picture of the finished runner.  So, hopefully someone
in my family will send me a picture.  Suzanne has always enjoyed a cup of tea in the morning rather
than coffee.  I had found a cute fabric with mugs and tea bags.  I always seem to wait to the last
minute before I decide what to make.  I discovered a little bag of half square triangles already sewn and
they just happened to match the tea bag fabric beautifully.  So, I created stars with a tea cup block in the center of each square.  The table runner had (5) squares on the front and (1) square on the back, which I used as the label.  This is all I have left of the tea cup fabric, since I also used it as the binding on the table runner.  

Tea Bag fabric used in center of each square

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Cat Panel Quilt Top completed--
This was a fun top to work on and I have another cat panel that is similar and needs to be designed.
This will be turned in to my Sewing Group tomorrow.  We will need to find a back, which will need to be pieced to fit, since it is wider than 42".

 
 

Happy New Year 2015

Yesterday, I worked most of the day on the Grand Mystery quilt blocks.  Before I checked on the final reveal, I completed Part 5, so I'd be ready to put together a few blocks.  However, when I started to make the first block, I discovered I needed to make at least (8) of Part 2 to complete one block.  So, today I have been working on Part 2 and have one Grand Illusion block completed.

This afternoon, I took my sewing machine over to Marcia's house to help her and Reta design a Prayer Quilt.  They bought a delightfully soft blanket from WalMart and  (1.5) yards of flannel to use as the ties.
I had never made a Prayer Quilt.  The flannel was cut selvage to selvage, 6" wide, folded over about 1" and sewn to the blanket edge.  Each strip of flannel was pre-cut into 3/4" strips prior to sewing onto the blanket edge.  Each strip will be tied into a knot as a prayer is lifted up.

 
     

Getting Ready for 2015

Shall I list what needs to be completed in 2015?  I dug into my closet and found a couple of plastic tubs with more quilt tops waiting.... Some I had wondered where they had gone and others I was surprised to finally find them.  First up, I need to choose (3) quilt tops and prepare them with batting and backing for Round 2 of machine quilting by my friend, Susan Shea.

1)  Attic Windows needs a border, back, and batting.
2)  Cube aka Honeycomb Waffle top needs a back and batting.
3)  Pinwheel top needs a back and batting. 
All need research as to when I made these and the history, so labels can be made.

Design Wall Monday

The last couple of days, I've been working on The Grand Illusion Mystery Quilt, designed by Bonnie Hunter.
This is Part 3 with the green, black, and neutral squares.  I've enjoyed pulling out numerous fabrics from my stash.  So far, I have 63 units completed.  The pattern calls for 120 units.  Bonnie's quilt finished at 88" x 88".
I don't really need a quilt that large, so I may make it a bit smaller.  We shall see.......

Part 3 of Grand Illusion Mystery Quilt

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Quilt given for Christmas 2014

Landscape Quilt for Eric

 

 

Here's the landscape quilt that I gave to my nephew, Eric for Christmas this year.  I used several different fabric panels, along with various fabrics I had in my stash.  I thoroughly enjoyed making this quilt.  The quilting was done with the walking foot and some free motion quilting around the birds and animals. 

Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt

Lessons learned this week--
Print the instructions first with pictures
Read the instructions carefully, prior to cutting--
When I used my Die Cutter for the green strips, I didn't catch the fact that they were to be cut 2" wide not  2.5" wide, so all needed to be trimmed.  I'm now back on track. 

Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt blocks (2014)