Now I'm torn whether to call my batch of stuffies wrapped in blankets as Bear Hugs or Care Bears. What do you think?? ( due to overwhelming choice from some quilty friends, it shall remain "Bear Hugs") Thanks to everyone for your input.
This is # 9. I spent too much time quilting on it. I would like to finish #10 by tomorrow to keep up with my goals. In the meantime here is # 9 for this year .......... this little blanket is made with the twist n stitch tool. Such fun, I want to make a bigger one now. Please ignore the patch job I had to do on one petal due to mis-cutting. This guy measures 23 x 27.
Here is the fleece print on the back. So cuddley with batting and fleece. I quilted it with yellow Glide thread.
Here is the little guy getting wrapped up in the blanket for gifting ..
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'm wishing everyone a safe and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
I've tried to have a productive week while working around appointments. I started piecing my Crimson Christmas kit designed by Krista Moser. You can get it HERE . I cut and pieced through steps 1-6 & 12. She has helpful videos on a private group which she will close after one year....come October.
Since I have so many photos today, I kept them on the smaller size. You can click on any photo to get a larger pic.
Then I moved on to donation projects. These bear hugs # 7 & 8 came from the blue scrap bin which was still out from February's RSC. I was going to put it away but there were several rail fence type sets sewn together for L/E. I made a few more to complete the sets and made two bear hug quilts.
# 7 is made from 3" finished rails. finished at 17 x 20. I paired it with a PBS Kids stuffie and free motion quilted a grid using rulers plus a little swirly in the tiny border. The backing is an adorable fleece print of puppies.
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 hope everyone has a safe and creative week ahead. Thanks so much for stopping by.
I was picking on google for blue and yellow quilts and stumbled on a pic like this one and couldn't resist doing it. It was a bit of work, sewing all those 2 - 1/2 inch squares together, drawing the boats in EQ which I paper pieced. Now it is a completed flimsy 47 x 55. It covers my quilt of the month for RSC. The color for March is yellow.
I have tons of tops to quilt at this point, so don't know when I'll get this one quilted, but I'm aiming for this year! In the meantime, I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. 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
Wishing everyone a safe and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
It may not look like a lot was accomplished this week, but I do have several things in the works. So, for today I can share little Bear Hug # 6. I am still working with the recent RSC colors of blues and yellows. I used the same print fabric on the back. I fmq swirls and used a ruler for the straight line grid in the center.
and here he is all bundled up and ready for gifting ...........
I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. 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
Wishing everyone a happy and productive week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
This dear little quilt languished in the laundry basket for eons, aka a few years. It began as a 3-yard quilt project from a free pattern I got at Wood Valley Designs website. I must have been experimenting with a new binding method because when I washed it, the fabric frayed away from the binding. Hence, the living under a laundry basket.
I finally decided to pull it out, cut away the attached binding, a begin again. It now has fresh binding and is ready for the 'quilts 4 kids' collection. It now measures 42 x 48.
 |
The backing is a soft fleece print. I free motion quilted it with rulers and also played with other free-style designs.
I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. 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
Wishing everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
When the specs for round 6 was released, I spent my morning in EQ, playing with options for the new round. It just made this quilt far too big. I already have several queen size tops to quilt and finish. So I stayed with my first thought of using Round 6 for my corner blocks to round 5. I love how it finished because my border on round 5 just looked to me like a finishing frame to this quilt.
I used the kite block times 4 for each corner. I used an accuquilt die (thank you very much) to cut these pieces. My biggest problem came where the 4 blocks join together in the center...too many points which needs a hammer to make it flat. Each kite block only finishes at 3 inches making the 4-patch unit finish to 6 inches.
This is not a good photo. DH could not hold up the entire top since it measures something like 72 x 78? I hope to get a better photo this Sunday with help from others to hold it up.
I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.
The Darling Dogwood to see all the SAHRR 2025
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
Wishing everyone a happy week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
More delightful little bear hug quilts to share this week. For bear hug #5, I pulled some bricks, blues for RSC and yellow for an accent. I sewed them as leader/enders while stitching on my SAHRR project. I had to trim down parts of the bricks to make the blocks. Then finishing up by cutting alternating squares from a piece of leftover wide backing. It is a nice soft blue print. It measures 24 x 28.
The backing is another piece of that royal blue fleece. I used 80/20 batting and quilted it with Glide threads using one of Natalia Bonners templates.
I also finished bear hug # 2 made last month using pink leftovers from the pink and brown flimsy. I quilted it with very large swirls. The backing is a red fleece. It measures 22 x 28.
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
Wishing everyone a happy and productive week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
My quilt is getting larger than I wanted it to be. I will have to make Round 6 to be very small. Round 5 called for some form of half log cabin block design. I play in EQ, you would have to in order to do the border you will see here. Initially I began with assorted log cabin style blocks all around the quilt. It was just more labor intensive than I was aiming for.
You gotta love how EQ can create over the top and still make it easy for you. I started with a half log cabin block and popped them in assorted border styles. Eventually I cut it way down to just 4 blocks each side. My quilt right now is 70 x 78. Then I had to re-draw them in the size I wanted because I wanted to eliminate the center seam and make them each one full block. Figuring out the cutting dimensions was confusing trying to convert the two blocks into one, (eliminate seam allowance here; add one on there, etc).
So I re-drew these crazy blocks, there is a different size for the top/bottom border from the side borders. I made my blocks yesterday and sewed them on the sides this morning. I am not going to sew on the top/bottom blocks until I decide what I will do in the corners....trying to not grow it larger at this point.
Not the best photo, too cold to make DH stand outside and it is too large for him to hold it up properly by himself.
You can see what the other participants are creating for their Stay at Home Round Robin at this LINK .
Have a great week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
I pulled 2 leftover pieces from the shelf that went together but not with anything else. The navy was a 15 inch piece and the celery green had 18 inchs, there is still a bit left of that. I had fun constructing this little bear quilt which took every bit of the navy blue print, finishing with a narrow binding made from 2 inch strips. I rounded the corners just a teeny bit, so easy to bind.
I used a dark royal blue fleece on the back and included some batting scraps; quilted with cream Glide thread using the walking foot. What a mistake with dark glide in the bobbin as it kept poking up the top no matter what adjustments I tried. Eventually, just went with it as is. It finished at 22" square.
This little stuffed guy was generously sent to me by an online friend, Dee. Many of you here will know of her. lol.
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
Every Monday morning I spend in EQ8 playing around with possible borders for the new round. This time I settled on a pretty quickly. Now I know there is a quicker, stripset method for making this block style, but I stayed with the plan to cut the fabric apart, insert a strip or two, re-assemble and trim to size.
I started with 4-1/2 inch squares plus the accent strip to be inserted:
I seem to be getting ahead of myself with tops lately and neglecting my machine quilting. This top is unusual it how it came together. A few years ago I was sent a small bundle of batik strips won in a blog drawing. Wish I could remember who it was.
Anyway I know I made something (another flimsy inspired by AlyciaQuilts) from the strips. It's stored somewhere. The cutoffs ended up with diagonal cuts at one end of each and they were saved in my blue scrap bin for ages. This month I decided to do something with them so I joined them all together 'jelly roll race' style. This made up the center panel.
Now what? I had only this one piece of batik that would work with the center. It is very light with blue tints. I searched my stash for something to offset these light shades, so you'll find a mix of fabrics making up this top. The pieces of the light are so large and look awkward. I plan to do some fancy quilting there to make sense of those areas. It will finish about 47 x 56.
I'm joining these 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
Wishing everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.
