Quilt #10 Christmas All The Trimmings

I've been wanting to do a Christmas quilt for myself and I found a charm pack on special a month or so ago, so Christmas quilt it is.
I pinned this quilt sometime ago from Helen Philipps Blog.  I liked the simple square and loved the quilting.  Since I am such a beginner, I though this would be a simple quilt to try.

I am using Michael Miller All The Trimmings and Bella Solids in Snow




Here it is all pieced and ironed.  I'm going to add a border, but don't have the right fabric.  I hate to not finish, before I go onto my next project, but the Christmas fabrics aren't really out in the stores I've been to.  Hopefully this summer I will find the right border and backing.

Until then, I'm off to check out my fabric box and find my next project.

Quilt 9 is done!

So thanks to the rainy cold day yesterday I quilted all day and here is my finished quilt.

I think it turned out quite nice.  This was my first time binding with the backing fabric.  It was much easier for me than using separate binding.  I haven't mastered binding yet on the machine, but some day.

So here are my last two quilts.  I  need to Sarah of Hands2Help for the mailing address.

Well I'm off to decide what quilt to do next........

Sandwich is done for Quilt #9

  

Yesterday was a beautiful day finally.  Sunny and low 60's.  My sis and I had planned a road trip to Shipshewanna for the flea market season opener.  We walked alot and enjoyed the weather.  The flea market was a bit to "fleay" for me.  Lots of the same things over and over.  Where do all these vendors buy a package of 10 toothbrushes they can sell for $1?

The we headed to town, had lunch and stopped in to Yoder's Department Store.  Let me tell you they have the best fabric selection.  They may be my new favorite place to shop for fabric, even though they are over an hour away.  I saw so many collections and precuts (which as a beginner I love). All the great collections I see on line they have.  Amazing

As a bonus, they have a great shoe department for casual shoes and I'm a casual girl (well getting to be old lady, but we settle for girl today).

My sister Patti, who isn't a quilter, has been watching me quilt on her new sewing machine she leaves at my house (what a great sister).  She bought some charm packs of Dot Dot Dash, a layer cake of For You and a layer cake of Nocturne with some backing fabric.

So today is a rainy cold day, all the better to start quilting Quilt #9.  Here is my sandwich for today:

So after I get my 10,000 steps in for today, then I can get on with quilting.  Here is to a great day.

Quilt #9 is Started

While I was hand binding my last quilt, my fingers got tired.  So what else should I do, start another quilt.  I  had bought a charm pack from Parade on Main from MSQC.

I loved the HSTs I used in my toppers and wanted to do a quilt with them.  So I paired this charm White charm pack and off I went.

Once I square up all my blocks, I need to make a decision.  Which pattern to choose.  I like each of them, but not sure which way to go.  So I'll think about it today and decides once my squaring up is done. 

I plan to add a red border around the front, not sure of how wide yet.  Might then follow up with a small white border, since I'm going to bind with the backing.  Here is the backing, as well as a navy, which I may throw into a border too.

More decisions, I love to use a pattern, then most of the decisions are done for you.  But this isn't really a pattern, so I'm on my own, which scares me, as I am a newby and don't really trust my decisions yet.

One day I'll get there, but for today, I am off on errands and then spending the evening working on this quilt.

Quilt #8 is Done

This is my eighth quilt, because I am counting my two table toppers as individual projects (stretch in calling them quilts).

I quilted the top by machine.  I would love to say my machine, but it is not.  My sister bought a Viking Platimum 930 and she leaves it at my house.  Not sure why, but I'm not asking any questions or pushing it to go home.  It is very happy here at my house.

After I finished the quilting, I added the binding and hand stitched it.  Today it will be washed and ready to go.  Hand 2 Help here she comes.

Binding my 1st quilt

I finished the quilting of the top this morning.  Here it is.  It looks pretty good, of course I can see issues, but hopefully the recipient will not notice.

That wasn't too bad.  It took me two mornings, but I wasn't in any hurry.  This morning I put together the binding strips, ironed and clipped to the quilt.

So now it is time to start putting on the binding.  

Hope I get this done without the need to rip out.  Positive thinking this will be easy, take my time and it can be done.

Quilting my first top

Over the weekend I started to quilt my tops for Hands 2 Help  It was some trial and error.  Many wonky lines and some tearing out.  

So I decided to try the painters tape way.  Found it on google and gave it a try.

It looks pretty good for a first timer.  Only had enough time to do half, so I plan to finish the quilting today,

What did I sign up for? Hands2Help

Being new to quilting, I spend some time (ok way too much time) browsing the web for quilts, patterns, fabric and lots of other stuff.  So I came across Confessions of a Fabric Addict  and saw some very nice quilts.  She also has been doing for years quilts for charities.  So I signed up for her newsletter.

Well a few days latter I get an email welcoming me Hand 2 Help and thanking me for joining and agreeing to make a quilt.  Whoops!  I did what.

So I had started a quilt and didn't really have a owner in mind so I decided I would give it a shot.  So here is my quilt so far

 I chose Cool Blueberry Park charm pack by Karen Lewis for Robert Kaufman

 I used the She Quilts Alot layer cake coin pattern.  

Once I had the top and bottom part done, I decided to also add sashing between them, since my piecing didn't line up correctly.  The sashing is a great hiding tool.

Here is the completed top.  Now on to the backing.

I had some left overs from the layer cake and some plain white and decided on this for the backing.

So here is the backing all done.

Now it was on to doing the sandwich.

I finished up the sandwich and now need to quilt.  I know it will be lines, I just hope and can do them straight.  This will be the first quilt I have quilted on my machine.  I have sent all other quilts out for quilting.  I've practiced on the table toppers, but this will be my challenge.

So wish me luck.

Table Toppers

So I wanted to try quilting on my machine, rather than always sending things out for quilting.  I've wanted to try my hand at triangles too.  So thought I would do them both at the same time.

Now that I have it all pieced I see that it needs to be a bit bigger for my nightstand.

I added sashing to add to the size.  I kind of like it with the sashing.

Pinned up my sandwich, now on to my first quilting.  

It didn't take too long and it looks great.  I can see a few spots that aren't quite straight.  But overall first time, looks good.

Then I moved on to the binding.  That wasn't fun.  I used store bought 2 1/2" double fold tape.  Sewed it on to the back and folded over.  I attempted to sew the folded over piece on the machine, but that just didn't work.  I wasn't always hitting the back tape and it looked messy.  After about 4 iinches, I decided to do it by hand.  It wasn't too bad to do, although I had sore fingers after.  It worked out great.

Now I'm going to do one more for my dresser top in the bedroom.  Same colors, just going to do bigger traingles.

Quilt #5

Wanted to do a quilt for my Aunt's 90th Birthday this summer.  So I found this quilt Kona Cotton Cozy Throw kit and ordered.  It came so quick from Craftsy, it was my first purchase from them.

Once I got the kit, I did my cutting, which went very quick.  Then I headed into the piecing the strips and cutting them into the blocks.  It was so easy, fun and quick.

Once I put them blocks together, then it was time to put the sashing on.







I took me a few days to put together the top, then it was quite a bit of time before I got in gear to find some backing.  Went over the weekend and bought backing at a small local shop Pressing Matters.

I got a Moda Flow Apple Egeria.  It is very cute, bright and soft.

Time to make a sandwich.

Got my sandwich done, now I need to give Alice a call to get this quilt on her schedule.

Wow I've really planned ahead.  Don't need this one until August, but I know that Alice has a big job  coming up so want to get on her schedule.  

Quilt #4 Done

Got the call from Alice, AMS Quilting, that Quilt #4 is done.

Ok I ventured off the straight line quilting for this one.  We went with Circles and Lines (by Cyndi Herman).

Here is the finished product:

It looks so cute!  Now it is time to send off to Emory for her 1st Birthday.

Quilt #4

So the first Dot Dot Dash Jelly Roll Quilt was a hit.  Preslie (the owner of the first quilt) had a visit from her Aunt Stefani and new niece, Emory.  They both like the quilt.  I already had plans to make a quilt for Emory's first birthday.  So I thought it would be great to use the same fabric.

I decided on the Jelly Roll Jam II.  So it was very quick to put together and I decided to use the remaining strips of the roll to do a back also.

So I have them put together and pinned.  Here's the front

And here's the back.

So need to give Alice a call, AMS Quilting