tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77248294644725576252024-03-19T05:35:59.593-07:00Mini Quilt A WeekJenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17781991040886587275noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724829464472557625.post-40296183111570017012015-07-21T19:22:00.001-07:002015-07-21T19:22:45.549-07:00Flirty 30s<p dir="ltr">Here's the finished product of my work with those Flirty 30s prints.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I used some leftover white for the solid, and used the tumblers for the backing. I'm so happy how this came out, and I really think my in laws will like it. <br>
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<p dir="ltr">I did straight line quilting 1/4" apart in all of the turtle blocks, and in the 4 patches I quilted words from the movie - Channel 6; Casey; April; Leonardo; Donatello; Raphael;  Michaelangelo;  Splinter;  Shredder; Cowabunga; Ooze; Pizza; Turtle Power</p>
<p dir="ltr">Overall it took about 10 hours to quilt with a bunch of stops and starts. Burying all the threads was a royal pain in the butt. Overall, I had a ton of fun quilting it and would probably do a similar quilting style again.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Quilters Confession:<br>
I have *no* idea where I got these charm squares. I honestly don't remember ever purchasing them. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm not one for 30's prints really, but these are kind of cute and are really growing on me.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Fast Forward:<br>
Staring at the bag, I just felt the absolute need to create something. Since we're going to visit my Father in Law and Stepmother in Law in 2 weeks, I figured I'd make a gift for them. </p>
<p dir="ltr">A Pinterest minute later, I found the pattern. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Two hours later, I had a quilt top.<br>
Another hour and I had the pieced backing. By then it was 4:30 in the morning so I went to bed for 2 hours. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Then, I quilted it up. All that's left is to bind. I'll do that tomorrow night while watching some Netflix. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Oh.. those tumblers are truly addictive. Used my MSQC charm tumbler template and cut around 108 of them for the backing. Just pieced them together randomly, grabbed two and just stitched them up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Quilters Confession #2:<br>
I still have a ton of 30's prints left. Barely made a dent in that baggie.<br><br><br></p>
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<p dir="ltr">As I showed in a previous post, I cut out 1600 small tumblers. I know, I know this is a leader and ender project, but I had a ton of piecing to do on another quilt top. That top required a lot of pressing, so between each piece I sewed for the other quilt top, I sewed a "leader and ender" of a tumbler.</p>
<p dir="ltr">After 5 hours of working last night on the other quilt top, I kind of managed to sew over 2/3 of the cut tumblers. </p>
<p dir="ltr">And just to see what a row of beautiful scrappy tumblers would look like, I made a row. Ok. Ok. 4 rows.. of 40 tumblers in each row. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Look who's peeking out to say hi!</p>
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<p dir="ltr">So I got my 2 1/2 inch tumbler template out (I purchased it from <a href="http://missouriquiltco.com">MSQC</a>), grabbed a plastic shoebox of 2 1/2 inch strip scraps and went to town cutting. </p>
<p dir="ltr">After a full day of cutting from that ONE box, I have 1600 small tumblers cut out.  Yes, you read that right,  one thousand six hundred tumblers. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The worst part? I barely dented that one box of scraps.  Barely. Dented.  I have 12 more plastic shoe boxes full of scraps, and a big garbage bag of them. </p>
<p dir="ltr">So I just had to order the larger 5 inch template from Missouri Star Quilt Company.   Maybe that will put a dent into more scraps. Maybe. Just maybe. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Without further ado, here's what 1600 miniature tumblers look like sorted into "light" and "darks".  If anyone is interested I got these bins in a 3 pack at Lowe's for about $5. </p>
Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17781991040886587275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724829464472557625.post-70641517127368563542015-04-26T19:05:00.001-07:002015-04-26T19:05:28.683-07:00Big Fun - A M&M Quilt<p dir="ltr">Been busy working on a new quilt for a special boy. He's autistic and absolutely fell in love with this M&M quilt top I had. I told him that it would be his as soon as I finished it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">So it's taken a while; I promised him this quilt at the end of February and just finished it up today. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The backing fabric has all the M&M characters and the words Big Fun - hence the name of the new quilt "Big Fun". And it was a lot of fun making it.</p>
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In total there are 16 blocks. They're each bordered with white, then stitched together in white. Then there is one row of a white border done in double crochet and the last bit is dark blue for a border wave design. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Its been so cold we've slept under this for a few nights even without having the ends woven in. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">It took a few days but I settled on a  technique and style of quilting used by Ricky Timms,  called Convergence.  </p>
<p dir="ltr">As a top before any quilting it measures approximately 26.5x26.5 inches. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Since I literally just finished the top I'm going to take a day or two to think on how I want to quilt it. Currently I'm thinking just a stitch in the ditch because the center is busy as well as the fabrics. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Any thoughts? </p>
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<p dir="ltr">I found an awesome fat quarter of a blue sky and cloud print and a little bit of a red and cream print sewing themed fabric   I paired the red and cream fabric with one of the fabrics I purchased my last trip to JoAnn before it went out of business in my area. The fabric I picked is a cream music print.  Its very subtle. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Then I used my favorite Dresden Plate ruler to cut the blades. When the whole plate was made I discovered that the fat quarter was slightly too small to applique the plate.  </p>
<p dir="ltr">So I added strips of Kona white to each side of the fat quarter.  This gave me enough space to applique the Plate. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Currently I'm in the process of hand appliqueing the plate to the background. I have four of the 20 blades done. </p>
<p dir="ltr">After its all appliqued down I still need to figure out how to quilt it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">When everything is done my final touch will be to add my fathers buttons to the points of the blade. Daddy passed in 2007 and I've been holding onto buttons I pulled off his favorite clothes. They've been living in a baggie in my desk drawer. But I think this will be the perfect use for them. </p>
<p dir="ltr">So... any suggestions on how to quilt this one up?</p>
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<p dir="ltr">A few errors on it but its ok. Now to trim, label and bind by Wednesday. :( I'm not getting much sleep I figure. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Kiddo is in Pre-K, so I asked each parent to trace their child's hand print. It took forever for 25 hand prints to come in. I asked in February and got the last of the handprints LAST WEEK!! </p>
<p dir="ltr">Now to finish quilting, trim, label and bind by Wednesday. </p>
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So this is for my friend Sandi. She loves purple and hates pink. So.. Shades of purples it is. Not one drip of pink to be seen. </div>
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I'll have to quilt it over the summer when I have a bit more time to dedicate to the custom quilting I want to do. :) I do have a few different shades of purple thread, but haven't decided on the specific color to quilt it with. I'm thinking that I may want to quilt some feathered hearts in the large squares, or maybe some feathered squares. Oh the decisions!</div>
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Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17781991040886587275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724829464472557625.post-6168763652529538862014-04-14T02:00:00.000-07:002014-05-28T17:59:38.576-07:00Coast Guard Lone StarMy mom has a big birthday coming up this year, but she's sworn me to secrecy about her age.<br />
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So, I won't say her age, but I will say that she's getting a quilt for her birthday - and it features the super hard to find Coast Guard fabric!!<br />
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I've been looking for Coast Guard fabric forever, and finally got my grubby hands on some.<br />
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Now, all I'm waiting for is the stencil of the Coast Guard emblem so I can quilt that in the large squares and anchors in the triangles. This still has to be trimmed up, but I'm waiting for daylight to do that so I don't screw it up.<br />
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And here is the whole star. It really is flat, I'm just lazy and didn't want to lay everything out perfectly, when I'll just have to press it again before I trim. :) </div>
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My husband is a Saints (American) football fan. Its funny that he's a Saints fan because he didn't grow up in the US. When he moved here to the States, I gave him a year to learn the rules of American football and another year to learn the different teams. </div>
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So the one year, he watched all the games and declared that "Whoever wins the Super Bowl will be my team." </div>
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2009 - Saints won. </div>
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I'll be quilting it with a fleur de lis this summer. I'm also not sure if I'll be adding another border or two. Perhaps a skinny solid black, a medium size yellow border and then a wider Saints border. :)<br />
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Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17781991040886587275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724829464472557625.post-49626740008571753872014-02-14T11:26:00.001-08:002014-02-14T11:26:37.613-08:00Can't pass up a bargain!<p dir="ltr">Our local Joann Fabrics is closing down and moving to a location that's not in my "normal" driving route, so from now on I'll be working from my stash of fabric and ordering online. I will really miss touching the fabrics though. </p>
<p dir="ltr">But.. here is my glorious fabric. All the remnant pieces had to be rung up separately (why I don't know) so that's why there's two receipts. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Before all the discounts this would have been over $400. After all discounts were taken I spent.... $98!!! Seriously. :)</p>
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<p dir="ltr">So far, these are my favorite projects that I hope to make this year. Ambitious huh?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Harvest Star, Delectable Mountains, Amish Inspired Shoofly, Prairie Baskets, X's and O's, Feedsack Flags, Use A Napkin Only For Your Mouth (and the best part is I have a charm pack I've been saving for the perfect project. So I'll use that for this project)</p>
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<p dir="ltr">I love rainbows and figured that I could make some granny squares using rainbow colors. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm using red heart yarn in red, pumpkin,  bright yellow, paddy green, royal, soft navy and medium purple.  I'm planning on making 16 blocks, and I'm on the green rounds on 12 before I ran out of the skein. So I moved on to the royal blue. </p>
<p dir="ltr">If you plan on doing this like me you'll need one skein of red, pumpkin and yellow.  You'll need two skeins of paddy green, royal, soft navy and medium purple.  I'm crocheting two rows of each color using a 5.5 mm hook, using US terms double crochet. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I haven't joined the blocks yet (and they still need to be blocked) but I purchased a pound of yarn in white. That should be enough but I'll keep you updated. :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">I've completed one full block so I had an idea of what everything would look like. The block hasn't been blocked yet and to give you an idea on the size the newsprint pad its shown on is 18"x24". :) nice and big. <br>
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<p dir=ltr>I love you Mum. I always will. Thank you for being so accepting of me, for teaching me to crochet, for loving me as a daughter and for giving me so many fantastic memories. I'll be missing you for the rest of my life. </p>
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I've loved the San Fransisco 49ers since forever, and he took me to see one of their last home games at Candlestick!!<br />
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<br />Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17781991040886587275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724829464472557625.post-38137715899633745882013-08-16T13:34:00.001-07:002013-08-20T12:53:38.849-07:00Cracked Pots - Fabric Received<p dir=ltr>I finally decided on what fabrics I'll be using for the Cracked Pots mystery quilt. It starts September 1st. </p>
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Black Numerals - the dark<br>
Grey with Black and Yellow - the blender<br>
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Yellow Flowers - the medium<br>
Grey Scroll - the light<br>
Black and White - the border</p>
<p dir=ltr>Ohh I'm excited. I had hubby take the test too and he's also an INFJ. Maybe as a surprise I'll make one for him. (Just because you know I need another project!)</p>
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