This first quilt is approx 39" square. The top was made by Valerie Osborne of Maine which she generously donated to me for quilting and donating to a local mission. I did alot of straight line quilting on this one. The border and center strips are a very dark navy. It is backed with a lovely fabric which was also donated by another generous quilter friend in Illinois. I have been greatly blessed this year and grateful for the opportunity to continue to pass it on.
I was also given a couple bags of flannel scraps that one of my quilter budds didn't want to use. So I've spent some time this week cutting most of it up into oversize bricks. There are also a few generous sized pieces for backings. These will be baby quilts which I can donate to the pregnancy center. I have a few ideas saved for patterns for the bricks. I've sewn some together this morning. I found it stretching and resorted to the walking foot for piecing the flannel. I have been over-exercising my creativity to bundle these bricks into logical groupings. I fear a few will be more functional than adorable. Here is the first one done, which I gave back to the gal who donated the fabric as she also has outlets for giving. This one is definitely 'use what you have' . I did mostly outline quilting. It measures 34 x 42.
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I prepped this 'strippy' style quilt last year. These kits are great when you need a quick finish. They are all quilts-for-kids size at approx 48 x 56. It's also a great playground for practicing new free motion quilt designs.
The Elmo fabric was donated to me. I pulled some other fabrics that were colors in the focus print. The backing is a red fleece and cotton batting between. I free motion quilted continuous loopy circles in the printed areas and a crosshatch grid in the red and another easy design in the blue border. ( I forgot its name). A buttery yellow Omni thread on the top and gray for the blue border and bobbin. The thread just disappears in the fleece.
In the meantime, I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.
Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...
Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter
Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com
Friday - Alycia Quilts
I wish everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
I wish everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
I adored this panel the minute I saw it. I got it at my LQS along with some extra prints from the fabric line. It is called Tossed Leaves.
With EQ's help, I added some borders to bring it up to the desired size of 46 x 55 . I fmq around and in all of the elements and pieced and plain borders. I kept the quilting light and did not put a filler in the cream background. I used several shades of Glide threads. Its now hanging and I'm working on a complimentary table runner.
Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...
Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter
Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com
Friday - Alycia Quilts
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I've just finished up the final batch of lil bear hug tops donated from several quilter friends of Heartstrings Group. I paired them with batt, backing & binding and got to quilt them up and donate to wonderful charities in my area. I've used walking foot and free motion quilting with Omni and Glide threads. This is a long term mission for me. You can learn about the program over at Heartstrings.
Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...
Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter
Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com
Friday - Alycia Quilts
I wish everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
My Jelly Roll Saturday was supposed to be a quilt sewn together in a day, right? So I did work on it pretty diligently BUT just finished putting on the borders today. I did interrupt the progress with alot of appointments this week and some free motion quilting on my Tossed Leaves panel to get ready for autumn decor.
I have several jelly roll quilts I want to whip up, but I chose this one first because I was gifted the perfect jelly roll and bolt of background fabric for it. I used the Safari 2 jelly roll pattern by Gina Gempshaw and quilted treasures. I know I have the free pattern but heck if I can find a link to it on the net now !
The instructions called for 26 safari print jelly roll strips and 1-1/2 yards of background. The thing is...the pattern had you cut pieces for a block which only used half of the strip. So, I made double the blocks for a twin size quilt. So with a couple borders added, the flimsy measures in at 64 x 92. I have 16 full length strips leftover from this roll. I might use them to make a very scrappy binding.
Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...
Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter
Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com
Friday - Alycia Quilts
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Another busy week on my schedule meant I could only finish 3 lil bear hug quilts. I also concentrated on the Tossed Leaves autumn panel, adding several borders and now I am in the early stages of doing all the free motion quilting on it.
Back to the Lil Bear Hugs ............
This first top was donated by Karen O'Neil. I used a puppy print fleece on the back and quilted it with a diagonal crosshatch.
Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...
Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter
Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com
Friday - Alycia Quilts
I wish everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
I could not resist this donkey panel and immediately ordered it and quilted it up so I could hang on the wall. It makes me smile every time. I added a border strip top and bottom, mainly so I would have a hidden seam line to sew on the hanging sleeve by machine. It has a bit of a wave on the sides. Not sure what I did to make it hang like that. It finished at 35 x 44.
I just wanted quilting to show but not the thread, so I used Superior Threads gray Microquilter 100 wt. on top. My Janome QP 18 loved it. Why did I come up with such a strange name? The only thing that came to mind was Donkey Kong and I needed 2 names, so I guess they are Qui (pronounced 'key' in french) and kong. Good think I live in the city limits as I just love those little miniature donkeys but havent a clue how to care for them.
I also restored a neighbor's 35 year old baby quilt so they could use it for first granddaughter in family. It originally belonged to the mother of the new to arrive baby and she kept it all these years. I won't display a photo of it but it was taken apart, replaced with 80/20 batting, new binding and a bridging stitch over the seams to reinforce the tender old fabrics. the back is/was a flannel.
Finally this week, I used a serpentine stitch with a buttery yellow Omni thread on this 24 inch bear hug quilt. The pale yellow thread blends in all the colors so well. The top was donated by Kathy Nyman. I put a darling plaid on the back and a red binding, reminiscent of the 1930's feel. This will be donated to one of our local community service departments ( police,fire, childrens services) .
Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...
Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter
Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com
Friday - Alycia Quilts
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I've been stitching along with the City Square free quilt along offered by Scott of 4th and Main Designs. You will find all the links HERE .
I did add a couple extra rounds to finish at 92 x 104. I used some gorgeous fabrics - all the taupes were from a Color Club collection at GEQuilt Designs, the gorgeous teal I had in my stash, searched for more but it must be old and vanished. Also used a darker brown for trims and backgrounds of a printed batik and some fairy frost. It is just lovely. I won't be quilting it right away as my mind is wandering to autumn and Christmas projects.
Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...
Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter
Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com
Friday - Alycia Quilts
I wish everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
I had pieced up these strippie=style quilts a few months ago when SoScrappy's RSC color of the month was orange. I pin basted them at group sew day last month and decided to dive in with a quick quilting plan.
They each finished at 46 x 56 and are already packaged for donation to our local community service departments for giving out at this discretion. I used a lovely Glide lavender thread for free motion quilting. They are each backed with a fun fleece print.
Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...
Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter
Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com
Friday - Alycia Quilts
I wish everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
