London Calling cont.....

 I'm caught up with piecing the London Calling blocks 12, 13 & 14.  This is a block of month project created by Gudrun of gequiltdesigns.com.  She writes the pattern and demonstrates cutting and sewing each in the accompanying video.  You will find the project available for purchase  HERE .

Block 12 represents Trafalgar Square.....

Block 13 is Liberty Flowers .....

Block 14 represents Parks and Gardens....

Only a few months until Our mystery will be revealed and assembled.  I already have a great british print fabric for the backing.  I love the brits so had to take part in this project.

During July I also joined in a Christmas in July cross stitch along presented by Fat Quarter Shop.  I've done so little cross stitch in my lifetime and its been years but ...........  I was encouraged to start up again to occupy my hands in the evening.  This is a free project you will find   HERE .

This lovely stitchery measures only 6 inches.  I am planning to add some rounds of christmas fabric and make it into a small quilt to hang on the 12 inch table top hanger.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 8-16-2024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Monica Curry Quilt Design: Tutorials

handy tutes:  how to test fabric content,  make your own

ruler grips, how to trim HST, how to make the twist block,

plus lots more

Monica Curry Quilt Design: FREE PATTERNS

really nice Canadian Maple Leaf Block, UFO block, beach house, plus more

Quilt Block Library: Free Downloads & Cutting Charts | Scissortail Quilting

several tradtional quilt blocks; each come with assembly breakdown

and color sheet

The Little Fabric Blog: Tutorials (thelittlefabricshop.blogspot.com)

lots of small items, baby items, especially noted the

Olympic Flag!  plus more.......

Wishing you all a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Help! How Do I Quilt It challenge

 This is a free motion quilting challenge presented by Angela Walters of Quilting Is My Therapy. It is just wrapping up. The feather border quilting will be showcased on Angela's  you.tube channel on Tuesday. The videos will remain for you to watch anytime.

BUT ..... it's not too late to start, right?   Old habits die hard and since I prefer to start quilting near the middle of the quilt, I waited until the end.  I quilt on a Janome mid arm sit-down machine. In this challenge, Angela started the lessons on the outside of the quilt and worked inward.  I was okay with waiting until the end since I "JUST"  got my quilt sandwich pin basted this week!  But I watched the video demos each week and I'm anxious to begin.  So fun!

It took me  FOREVER  to decide on additional borders  for the center panel to bring it to queen size.  I used an accuquilt die to cut the half rectangle triangles.  Turns out all my border blocks finished  1/4" smaller than originally needed.  So ........  back to EQ  to work in some spacing borders and re-calculate number of pieced blocks to make everything fit.  I was SO EXCITED when assembling the pieced border fit perfectly all around !!  

It measures 97 x 104 before quilting.  I had to pin baste it on tables at the church.  I could have used more pins but I hope there is enough to hold it together. The quilt center and feather border are printed panels; then I added the last 5 borders.  Originally I was planning a ribbon border design but changed it to this half rectangle block design.  I know it will be a blast to quilt once I get past the center bulk.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing you all a lovely creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 8-9-2024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Free Tutorials - Center Street Quilts

spooky parade has 3 adorable halloween characters;

flowers, hearts, project bag and more ....

Shop | TenSisters Handicraft

lots of free patterns; go thru shopping cart;

designs based on a grid system for printed fusible interfacing

christmas designs, flowers, lots of minecraft designs, more

Free Quilting Patterns | Yarnspirations

3 pages of fun free patterns; click on each one

downloads in a new window

Wishing you a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Dresden Toppers

 I did not piece these toppers except for making 3 of the center circles.  A dear friend made the toppers but did not get the chance to finish them.  She made them for some specific family members.  I did the machine quilting so they would be finished and giftable.

I free motion quilted them using assorted shades of Glide threads and Bottom Line thread in the bobbin except for the one with the green back which used a matching thread.  I quilted them with an assortment of ruler/templates and tried to make them each unique.  They each measure 32 inches point to point.

There are 4 of them.  I am sharing a pic of front and back so you can see the quilting better.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing you all a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 8-2-2024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Disappearing Nine Patch Variations (chickenscratchny.com)

disappearing 9-patch variations

How to Make a Disappearing 9 Patch Heart Block (chickenscratchny.com)

make D9P Heart Blocks and the shamrock-clover blocks

has more potential

Free Quilt and Sewing Patterns | Connecting Threads

2 pages: valentine table set, Making Waves (maybe use charms instead of mini charms),

curtains, bags, coloring pages, quilts & more

30 + Awesome Websites with Free Downloadable Quilt Patterns | Scissortail Quilting

your resourse of links to major free quilting sites

Wishing you all a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Lima Twin Quilt - finished

 This quilt began in April with the 3Yd quilt challenge at Material Girlfriends (scroll down to April's post. I made this one scrappy and used yellow since it was the RSC color that month.  My cutting plan for scrappy took much too long, so I challenged myself to a smaller one that was actually cut from just 3 fabrics.  You can see it  HERE .

My yellow Lima is finally finished.  I quilted it with a yellow Glide thread, quilting an allover design of overlapping circles.......  so fun. It measures 60 x 82.  It's already been donated to our local Childrens Foster Closet.

I used a soft green print on the back. Bottom line gray was used in the bobbin.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing you all a safe and productive week ahead.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 7-26-024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Free Quilt Patterns and Projects Designed by Leah Day – LeahDay.com

quilted jacket, looking glass tumbler, chain of beads plus much more

Fat Eighth Flapjacks Shortcut Quilt Pattern | Free PDF Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive | Fat Quarter Shop

Flapjacks - an interesting scrappy and strippy quilt

Fat Eighth Flip Shortcut Quilt Pattern | Free PDF Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive | Fat Quarter Shop

Fat 8th Flip - quick and easy - a great design for the man/boy in your life

Free Quilt Patterns (tarareed.com)

2 pages free quilt patterns - uses panels

Woodberry Way: Tutorials & Free Patterns

assorted pillows, dog collar,  Folk Stitches Quilt (Love),I'd cut

the squares at 2" for a 72 x 84 quilt;

Rise Quilt (hot air balloons)

Butterflies  and  MORE

Wishing you all a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

FMQ Row by Row

 This was a whole cloth,  free motion quilting via row by row style designed by Jeanne Harrison on Facebook back in 2019.  Each row had a different design.  Jeanne has since passed away.

This is Row 3 of 5.  I believe I did Row 1 also but it was set aside for some unstitching? Since then, I knew I would not complete this project so I decided this row could be a dresser scarf.  I quilted it on my DSM on ecru color fabric with Gold Glide thread top and bobbin and a poly batt.  It sat all these years, so I decided to bind it and move on.  It measures 13 x 54.

Here are some close-up photos................

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing you all a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 7-19-2024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Sew Lux Fabric : Blog: Tutorials & Patterns

lots of patterns here....photos dont show up but if

you click on the title, it will take you to the tutorial

Free patterns. Quilt Jubilee by Lisa Sutherland - Patriotic Quilts

QOV patterns galore !

Quilt Patterns | Quilts of Valor Foundation (qovf.org)

Lots of patriotic patterns; this month I'm in love with

Pinwheels Plus and Salute to Service (which is a nice design

for any celebration)

Stars & Stripes - WeAllSew

a beautiful pattern for flag and triangles

I wish you a safe and happy week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Meet Me in Paris - Pt 1

 Meet me in Paris is a new 'quick project' being shared at the Jelly Roll Club Meeting Room, which is a private group on facebook.  B U T .....  if you join the group, you also can play along.  The project is starting next Sunday  BUT  I had to play around in EQ to make my plan.  THen I had to choose fabrics. I settled for 2 groups of fat quarters, one for the center squares and one for the sashing.

I couldn't resist getting it cut out.  Then I couldn't resist sewing pieces and parts together.!  I made 48 blocks and 20 sashing stripsets which need to be subcut into units.  Why is it so difficult to resist sewing the parts together when they're all stacked nicely from cutting?  

Here is my sampling.  I am positively waiting until next Sunday to assemble all my blocks!

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing you a great week.  THanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 7-12-2024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Mack and Mabel: Quilt Patterns

scrappy 4-patch quilt; scrappy hearts cushion;

orange peel cushion;  cute mug rug for mom

and a lovely triangle quilt 

Quilting Tutorials – The Cloth Parcel

free tutes avail in individual blog posts

Fat Quarter Four Patch Shortcut Quilt Pattern | Free PDF Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive | Fat Quarter Shop

one of my favorite scrappy 4-patch designs

The Parish Piece: Twister Quilt Tutorial... (parklandparish.blogspot.com)

a review on how to make the twister quilt

I wish you a safe and happy week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Help How Do I quilt It - borders

 Angela Walters is hosting a new quilt along challenge.  You can buy the gorgeous panel to quilt on or you don't have to as the video lessons are free.  They also come with free handouts.  You can find out all about it  at     How Do I Quilt It Challenge – Quilting Is My Therapy

In the meantime .................  the panel was so gorgeous, I determined it was only fit for a bedquilt.  So I delved into adding borders to make it queen size.  I began in EQ8, import a photo of the quilt, then start building around it.  It seems the border style I liked best was made up of 6" x 8" blocks.  It took much messing about to adjust inner borders so the blocks would fit properly around the quilt.  Then, you still have to sew them accurately!  Now, I've added 5 borders in the plan; 3 of which are open background.  These added borders were necessary when I found all my blocks are finishing at 7-3/4" instead of 8", which make for more adjustment to have it fit.  

I'm getting too old for this.  I need to stick to kiddo quilts,  so much fun and quickly done!

So my progress has been to get this pieced border ready for assembly happening at church sew day.

This doesn't look like much  BUT  it is 42 blocks containing 12 pieces in each.  I have told myself "no more bed size quilts" --  more than once.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing you all a happy and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 7-5-2024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Heartspun Quilts ~ Pam Buda: Freebie Patterns

a few free patterns;  'sugar rush' would make a

nice wall hanging or re-sized for a placemat

Fabric Mutt: tutorials

some adorable quilts and lots of smaller projects:

the button quilt, vintage vanity quit, picnic medallion quilt

and much more

Gigi's Thimble: Tutorials + Free Patterns (gigisthimble.com)

Firework Quilt, Glory Quilt, Lattice Quilt

plus lots more 

Wishing you all a creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Friday Quilt Hop * 6-28-2024

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Sewing Tutorials | Top US Sewing Blog | Ameroonie Designs

lots of colorful items to make

click the  'older posts' button for LOTS more pages of tutes

Upstatelisa: Tutorials

a few uses for freezer paper, 

a few fmq methods like quilting circles or writing words

and a bit more

Tutorials (reproquiltlover.com)

make some miniature blocks

Have yourself a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

It's a Block Party !

 I didnt have a flimsy or finished quilt to share so ....... I'm having a block party of blocks made over the past several weeks.

This is the lovely feathered star block which finishes at 24 inches.  It will be the focal point of my Mystery Stars QAL offered by   Jelly Roll Club - Mystery Stars Sampler Quilt (google.com)  This one was a challenge and once may just be enough.

These two blocks were just squares play time.  I do have a plan .....

These remaining blocks are all from the London Calling BOM from GEQuiltDesigns.com.

The first block is segments for the Tower Bridge

This block is for the Underground Railway

and finally all the pieced segments for the 2023 Summer Mystery shared by Grid Girls on Facebook.  I call my project Plum Pudding ...............

With all this piecing going on, it's no wonder I don't have a quilt finish to share.  I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing you all a safe and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 6-21-2024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Working Our Scraps Off Series Archives - Create with Claudia

2 pages of scrappy inspiration (click on the 'older posts' button

Quilt Block Patterns Archives - Create with Claudia

several pages of quilt block patterns

Mystery Quilt Alongs Archives - Create with Claudia

3 mystery quilt alongs - completed

Three Yard Quilts - Primary Website (onpointquilter.com)

adorable rendition of a 3-yard quilt; also includes

some expanded sizes

(no instruction for making the 2 basic blocks)

Wood Valley Designs | Free Patterns

several quilt patterns organized by size

Wishing you all a safe and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Safari Panel

 This is my progress this week.  Lots of interruptions but mostly too much time spent online.  I quilted up this little panel with free motion around and in the shapes.  I kept it light for child cuddling.  This little panel was gifted to me by a dear friend and quilting buddy, along with the flannel print that you can see on the back where the bottom right corner is pinned up.  She has since aged out of doing the craft.

This piece finished at 32 x 43.  I quilted it with Glide thread.  I tried a sample of King Tut gold variegated which gave my machine fits and so it is eliminated from my thread drawers. I worked for 1-1/2 days getting my machine behavior back to its normal. 

I'm joining these linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

                        soscrappy (superscrappy.blogspot.com)

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -   Quilt Fabrication

The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Have yourself a happy and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 6-14-2024

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Tutorials, Tips and Free Patterns – Storied Quilts

pull a few fat quarters for the Bisection quilt;

scrappy hearts on point is perfect for your RSC challenge;

who doesnt need to make a 2-hour baby quilt.... more

The Patchsmith: Freebies

adorable designs of gnomes, snowmen,

acorn, gingerbread plus other small items

The Patchsmith: Across the Pond

lots more small projects to make

The Patchsmith: What is a Mug Rug

lotsa mug rugs - cute, cute, cute

Free Patterns – Sassafras Lane Designs (sassafras-lane.com)

use patchwork squares to create favorite designs plus

mini christmas stockings .... more

Have yourself a nice productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.