On a roll—Past and Present finished

The ladies in our monthly sewing group are very seasoned quilters who all possess substantial stash.  Last year we all bought the book Scrap Basket Surprises by Kim Brackett and made several of the quilts from the book.  This year our book is All-Time Favorites.  This quilt, Past and Present is in both books so I counted it for both years!!  I just finished the binding and will toss it in the wash before donating it. It was made from a set of fat quarters I’ve had in my stash for several years.  I think the fabric is by Barbara Brackman and Terry Clothier Thompson for Moda. 

I did a little fancy quilting on this—diagonal lines through the dark squares and small stippling in the backgrounds.  The borders are quilted with a freehand scrolled vine.  Another 8 yard of stash busted!!

Quilts Beyond Borders-Finished Quilts

Quilting is my therapy and I love making quilts but I have more quilts in my home than I could every possibly need.  So now, most of the quilts I make are for charity, for gifts or to sell on Etsy to fund other charitable endeavors.  This week I quilted and bound three quilts for Quilts Beyond Borders.  They send the quilt top, back and binding.  I just have to add batting then quilt and bind them.  They require the binding to be finished by machine and when I first started quilting for them I was very apprehensive about that.  Now I’m better at it and am pretty happy with how it looks.  I do a better job when I sew the binding to the back first, then turn it to the front and topstitch it down.  The next time I do a binding like this I’ll take photos and do a little tutorial.  Here are the three quilts I finished.

I really liked this quilt. It was made of simple squares and rectangles with narrow sashing between the blocks.  The design was very effective and it looked great made in the homespun plaids.  I quilted each block with continuous squares (or rectangles)—very simple but it looks nice.

This is a very sweet quilt.  The flower blocks look like antiques.  They are hand appliqued and the flowers are made from feed sacks.  The alternate blocks are a cute birdhouse print.  I outline quilted the flowers and stippled the background.  I used a simple continuous design in the alternate blocks and meandered the borders.

This is a simple, fun quilt made of bright squares in fuchsia and aqua print fabrics. It is quilted with overall swirls.

Two New Quilts Listed on Etsy

Lately I’ve been busy with commissions and other quilting commitments and haven’t had time to finish any new quilts for my Etsy shop.  This week there were a couple of “snow days” so I worked on finishing a couple of quilts.

First was a four patch variation made mostly from the Chemistry line of fabric designed by Sandy Gervais for Moda.  This was a fun, easy quilt and I just loved these fabrics—pink, rose, cream and brown. 

I quilted it in a modern wavy crossed line design. It was quilted freehand and turned out pretty nice!

The link to this quilt is: https://www.etsy.com/listing/124091596/in-the-pink-lap-quilt

The second quilt I finished this week was from the Papillon line designed by 3 Sisters for Moda.  This is a beautiful line of fabric with a shabby chic look in colors of aqua, ivory, scarlet, blush and stone.  Since we’ve had a ton of snow this week I had to take the pictures inside and they just don’t do the quilts justice.  I really hope we have a couple of nice, sunny days in the next week so I can get some better photos.  This quilt was made with a nine-patch and hour glass design.

The Etsy link for this one is here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/124094282/papillon-lap-quilt

It seems like I’ve been on a roll lately with finishing quilts.  Sure hope it continues!

Buried Treasure Discovered-Big Box ‘o Stuff

A couple of days ago I was looking for something in the basement and I came across this box of fabric. 

What a mish-mash of projects.  There were no UFO’s, just a bunch of fabric with absolutely no rhyme or reason as to why they were in a box together.  I’m going to jump right in and try to get this stuff sewn together so it will be one less box in the basement.  There were some jelly rolls and fat quarter packs I bought to make charity quilts, an apron panel that I’ll sew and donate to the emergency shelter, some flannels for pillowcases and a bag of Moda “Blush” scraps from a previous project.  I just loved that Blush line with colors of chocolate, cherry and aqua.  It will be a challenge to figure out a fun quilt to use those scraps.  Now to get sewing!