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Jun4

Design Wall Monday and Quilts everywhere!

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Design Wall Monday and Quilts everywhere!

 

My PSQ blocks have grown to four!  When I’m short on sewing time or talking on the phone (lol), I sew charms!  I love the way the blocks look set together.  I’ve received over 700 charms in the PSQ Challenge swap and they are all different!  I’m really quite amazed at that.

 

 

 

I’m also working on:

 

Love’s Woven Rectangles is laying on the design “floor”, waiting for sewing.  I’m loving it!

 

 

 

 

 

Squares and Rectangles is pressed and waiting for borders.

 

 

 

 

 

The Purple Trip top is draped over the longarm, finished!  I’m heading over to Rainbows and Calico Things to acquire the backing fabric today.  This quilt will be reversible.  I’ve sewn most of the leftover squares together for the back and will frame it with additional fabric to make it the right size.

 

That’s what happening in my sewing room today!  Later on today, I’ll be loading a customer quilt on the longarm!  What are you doing today?  If you’re in Iowa, join the All Iowa Shop Hop!

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

Thanks for looking!  🙂 Linda

May21

Design Wall Monday and Meandering Feathers

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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

May14

Design Wall Monday – PSQ start!

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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

May7

Design Wall Monday and retreat update

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Design Wall Monday and retreat update

We had a great quilting retreat at A Place to Sew in DeSoto, WI.  What a wonderful place to sew, sew and sew!  Here’s one of the quilts that I started, Love’s Woven Rectangles.  I designed this on EQ7, based on other quilts of this style, when I decided to re-purpose this fabric.  I cut the long borders today because I didn’t want to piece this fabric for the wide borders.

I posted pictures throughout the weekend on my Facebook page and got a request for the measurements.  So here’s the details for making your own Woven Rectangles.

 

 

Cut print fabric into 5 1/2″ strips

Cut solid fabric into 2″ strips

Sew solid strips to each side of print fabric using scant 1/4″ seam.  An accurate seam is important to achieve a finished 8 1/2″ strip set.  (Ask me how I know that!)

A short strip is pictured here because I cut the long borders from this fabric.  For all the other fabrics, I cut width of fabric to make the strip sets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cut the strip sets into 8 1/2″ segments.  The blocks are a 8 1/2″ square.

Repeat this step for every print fabric.

Alternate the blocks to create a woven look.  I’m making 80 blocks for an 8 x 10 setting.  My design wall picture is a random setting but I’ll probably play around with other looks.

Cut additional 2″ solid fabric strips to make the narrow inner border.

Cut 5 1/2″ strips, either lengthwise or crosswise (for pieced) from the border fabric.

Here’s my link for adding borders to your quilt top.

Thanks for looking and have fun planning your own Woven Rectangles!  Check out Judy at Patchwork Times for other Design Wall Monday projects.

Just keep stitchin’ !

Linda

 

 

Apr30

Design Wall Monday and charms in the mail today!

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Design Wall Monday and charms in the mail today!

Well, I’ve done it again!  I’ve started on another project instead of finishing them!  My camera makes purple look blue, trust me, it’s very purple.  This is version one, 17 x 17 (4″ finished units), plus two borders will finish 81″ square.  I’ve decided to make it smaller, 13 x 15, which will finish 65″ x 73″.  Here’s the layout for that version, which is now on the floor!  The trick will be to pick it up in an organized way so I can take it to my quilt retreat this weekend!

(message to sister:  I hope you like it!)

And I’m mailing charms today!!!  So excited to get some in return!

Big thanks to Mary at The Curious Quilter for organizing the swap.  Time to get sewing postage stamp charm blocks!

 

 

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

 

 

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’ !

Linda

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