Monthly Archives: May 2012

Home from vacation surprises!

Home from vacation surprises!

I love coming home from vacation (I missed my sewing room!) and having fun packages of fabric waiting for me!

My Ugly Fabric Challenge partner has sent me 4 wonderful fabrics, not ugly to me, and a sweet pincushion kit!

And another set of charms arrived from my friend in Australia!

I’m only sad that it’s too late to start sewing!!

More later when I’ve had some sleep!

Linda

Bloggers’ Quilt Festival Spring 2012

Bloggers’ Quilt Festival Spring 2012

Oops, I almost forgot about this!  Thanks to Candace at The Double Nickel Challenge for sparking my memory!  I’m entering a very special quilt that I was finishing at this time last year for my son’s wedding.

  This is what I wrote about making the quilt after I gave it to them.

When Drew and Abby set their wedding date a year and half ago, I was very excited because that would give me lots of time to make a very special quilt for them!   I did not want to make a king size quilt so opted for a lap size knowing that it was doable.  Abby is so artistic and creative which inspired me to start making  “wonky” or irregular log cabin blocks with all the batik scraps left over from many other quilts.  I sorted the fabrics into color groups to organize for sewing the logs from the same color family.  I should have taken a picture while I was sewing, my whole sewing room was covered with little piles of fabric!!  I wanted to quilt it with back and forth feathers which works best set on point.  And then decided to leave off the corner setting triangles leaving the non traditional shape.   Even though I had all this time to sew, I still was finishing the blocks a couple weeks before the wedding and if my sister, Patty, had not encouraged me to keep at it, it would probably still be unfinished!!  So, I stopped sewing blocks and the quilt became the size out of necessity.  The small blocks that where left ended up in the pieced back.

Enjoy the pics and thanks for looking!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Amy’s Creative Side for sponsoring this event!

Here’s a button to take you to the festival to look at all the entries!

Have fun!  Linda

Amy's Creative Side

Design Wall Monday and Meandering Feathers

Design Wall Monday and Meandering Feathers

In my effort to find fabric for cutting charms, I found some nearly finished blocks for a “bulls-eye” quilt or wall hanging.  I finished sewing the stacked concentric circles and cut them into 4 segments.

I was playing around with arrangements but I’m back to my original plan of making them into “bulls-eyes” because I will probably need to trim the finished 4-patch to a standard size.  I love the raw edges, too!

The PSQ blocks hang out on my design wall for inspiration!

Here’s a recent quilt that I finished for Emily.  The quilting design is Meandering Feathers.

Emily wanted a freehand E2E and this looks great with the big blocks and borders, adding lots of movement and texture.

I ordered a specific color of Superior OMNI thread for this quilt and used it in the needle and the bobbin with very good results.  The only difference I noticed is the need to wind more bobbins because the thread is heavier than So Fine 50, my usual bobbin thread.

Check out Judy at Patchwork Times for other Design Wall Monday projects!

Thanks for looking!  Linda

Design Wall Monday – PSQ start!

Design Wall Monday – PSQ start!

I’m sewing 2″ charms!  My portable design wall is perfect to lay out the charms right next to my machine and sew together.  I followed Mary’s sewing and pressing instructions and it went together great!  The trick will be for me to repeat it.

My swap partners are sending me charms!  It’s so fun to receive them in the mail, even if they arrive looking like this!

Not to fear, they were all in there!  So, one block down and many more to go!  Thanks to Mary at The Curious Quilter for organizing the swap.  It has changed my behavior, I was checking the trash at our last retreat looking for salvageable scraps!

Check out Judy at Patchwork Times for other Design Wall Monday projects!

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’ !

Linda

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