Number 401!
I tallied my quilts to date through August and Agnes’ quilt was number 401! That’s pretty exciting! Thank you to everyone who partnered with me to help finish their quilts and projects. I’m looking forward to 400 more! Agnes’ quilt has Hobbs Heirloom wool batting which makes this very large quilt soft, cuddly and surprising light.
Do you have a quilt top in your closet that needs to be finished? Deb had one of those! Her grandmother started the quilt by making the butterfly blocks and her mother finished it. According to Deb, the butterfly fabrics are from the 60’s and 70’s. I was very excited and honored to have the opportunity to finish this quilt for Deb from the quilting to the binding! And now she’ll be able to give her daughter a completed heirloom!
What if it’s not sewn very well or is not high quality fabrics? What if it has holes from being stored? These imperfections are noticeable when it’s unfinished but after some repairs and quilting it can become an heirloom! Here’s Deb’s Antique Butterfly quilt before quilting.
One thing that I noticed was that it had side borders but no top borders, maybe they ran out of fabric? There were small holes in some of the pink areas that I repaired by snipping small amounts from the seam allowances. I then placed the snipped pieces under the holes and used Stitch Witchery to adhere them. The blocks were not accurately pieced, resulting in some puckering of fabric.
In the next post, I’ll show the quilting process and the final product!
Two of my niece’s are pregnant and I’ve got 2 “Tummy Time” quilts ready to deliver when they do! I used the “Rectangle String’s” pattern on Mary Quilts and lots of bright scraps. They both have flannel backing and Quilter’s Dream Puff batting. The yellow quilt is freehand baptist fans and the purple is another freehand called looped spirals. The binding is machine stitched like Zeke’s baby quilt. I’m in the process of making another one with royal blue centers just in case the second one is a boy! Don’t you love having lots of relatives giving you reasons to make quilts and give them away?!
When my nephew got married this summer, what was his present? A “Stacked Squares” quilt! Here’s how I “wrap” my quilts for gift giving. You might notice one square has their name and wedding date stitched on it, too! The second Stacked Squares went to college with my daughter and I forgot to get a picture, thus here’s a pic of me and my daughter posing in her dorm room! For Brett’s wedding quilt and Rachel’s dorm quilt, the border is a wavy crosshatch, otherwise, the details are the same as my previous post.
Betty’s quilt is perfect for the Basket Case pantograph and by using Quilter’s Dream Puff batting the texture of the pantograph photographs very well!
Basket Weave pantograph
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