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I learned all my free motion quilting skills from Angela Walters at Quilting Is My Therapy by participating in her semi-annual challenges. She keeps all the video lessons on her you.tube channel where we hope they can live on forever. I have re-visited videos many times.
My "Help-How Do I Quilt It" Challenge was started Summer 2024? I started with her center panel and the first feather border. I thought it too pretty to stop there, surely it should be queen size! So I fussed over more border styles until I finally settled on this pieced ribbon style border. It was alot of work but miraculously fit wonderfully around the quilt without adjustments.
Here is a post when I had the project pin basted; ready for quilting on my "hand-guided" sit-down Janome. If I remember correctly, I started quilting in the center, got about 2/3 of that portion quilted; then took a detour to make christmas projects ! Why does christmas quilting always take you thru January of the new year?!
This quilt spent much time sitting on my sit down machine table while I indulged in the Lil Bear Hugs project. So far, that will be an on-going mission in my life.
Okay, I had to get past this project, so I could move on. I devoted more effort to its finish, all the while telling myself to quit making queen size quilts!!! In Angela's honor, I did quilt it to death, Lots of Glide threads. It finished at 90 x 99 ! It sure feels bigger than that. I forgot to get a photo of the back fabric, it is a wide back I got at my LQS. I love these ones with multiple colors that can compliment so many designs from the tops. The bobbin thread was Bottom Line white/silver. I just took a quick shot of the back that you can see from the tote the quilt is stored in at the moment.
On with the show .......... photo heavy . While I'm fmq, I dont feel that confident, I just keep on. But when its all done and I look back, I think "Did I really do that?"........ always amazed.
Let's begin with some close-ups; scroll to the end for the full quilt.
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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.
This post is a continuation of the Lil Bear Quilts Mission started by Mary Johnson. You can read more about Mary's contributions here on her blog HeartStrings Quilt Project
These are 2 more tops made by other quilters and sent to me for finishing and donating. These tops were so sweet, I felt the urge to add borders and make them baby quilt/ car seat / stroller size.
This first lil quilt was a 16-patch made and donated by Karen O'. Lovely colors of aqua and orange prints.
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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'm still in the orange. I nearly have the 5th flimsy assembled this month. This 5th one is identical to # 4 . It turned out that the project needed 1-1/2 strips of 9 fabrics to make a quilt; so instead of cutting 2 strips, I might as well cut 3 strips to yield 2 quilts. It was only slightly tricky because the quilt needed 11 cuts and I was cutting them at 5-1/2" which only gave me 7 crosscuts per strata. I solved that by cutting one of the stratas at 5" which gave me that one extra cut and interspersed them in the two tops. I don't notice a difference. It did make the project 2" shorter in length, so I added a border strip to the top and bottom.
So here is Strippie #3 flimsy - my favorite pattern these days - a trip around the world. I love to free motion quilt them with the orange peel shape, so simple and quick. It measures 47 x 56 .
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Here is Strippie # 4 ( #5, not shown here, is identical to #4 ). I have forgotten where I first saw this design, but Stephanie from Stashbusters has made a few, and I figured mine out from her photo. This one measures 46 x 58 . My first paragraph today is all about this flimsy.
That's it for me. I should not have cut up all those orange strips because now I have 5 more tops to quilt up. These are all quilts 4 kids and I know they will love the orange and purple.
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I wish everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
It seems as I pulled the bulk of my orange fabrics for RSC, I was in a quick strippies sort of mood. My oranges needed another pop of color, so I added a deep purple.
First up is this 2 hour - 5 fat quarter baby quilt. It really does take only 2 hours and it's so cute. Here is the free pattern if you want to make your own 2 hour baby quilt ,,,,,
Two Hour Baby Quilt Tutorial – Storied Quilts
I pulled my unusual fq for this set, it looks a bit like fall, but it will make a nice stroller/car seat throw at 36 x 40.
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.
