May 10, 2014

 

We had a beautiful day for quilting. Eight of us were able to get together and spend the day sewing. This time if year is always hard to find the time to sew with all of the beautiful weather and outdoor activities. I myself have spent more time working outdoors instead of in.

 

Frossie brought in this baby quilt she finished.

This is another baby quilt she finished. She is trying to get ahead of the babies coming.

 She also worked on her blocks for Pat Sloan's Globetrotting Quilt Along.

 Andrea completed this wonderful flannel caterpillar that she had been working on for awhile. It is a very cute quilt.

She spent the rest of the day working on her Churn Dash blocks for our exchange in June. Love the colors!

Brenda was working on blocks for another baby quilt.

Judy was working on hand sewing a binding on a quilt.

This is the finished product. She always makes such beautiful quilts.

Brent worked on another jelly roll quilt. He used the pattern called Harmony by Stephanie Marie Designs. www.stephaniemariedesigns.com

 

Nancy worked on the block she received as part of the Stitchin Time Quilt Club Round Robin. She added the first border to this block and then it is pasted on at the next club meeting.

This is my Round Robin block that I worked on. First border complete and ready to pass on to the next quilter.



My mother was going through her photo albums and came across these two pictures of quilts that my Great Aunt Evelyn made. I love finding pictures like these. I knew she quilted, but hadn't seen anything she had done. She has been gone for awhile now and don't know where these beautiful treasures ended up.

This Necktie Quilt made into Grandmother's Fan pattern was made in 1991. She used my Uncle Adrian's ties. When this photo was taken, she was not quite through quilting it - on the bottom at left.

This is her Monkey Wrench quilt finished in 1990. On the wall is a small hanging she made the winter before.

 

Bright Linen: Cuts from a Fat Quarter

Bright Linen: Cuts from a Fat Quarter: I decided to make a little sheet illustrating the number of squares you could cut from a fat quarter based on the size you needed. Thi...

A Block I Made for a Current Challenge

 

I am a member of the Stitchin Time Quilt Club and we are having a Round Robin Challenge where we make a block then it gets passed around to others to add various borders on it. This is the block I made for it. It is a little wrinkled from being folded in a pizza box. The block is called Summer Nights.

 

Sauder Village 2014 Quilt Show

Spent part of the day at the Sauders Village Quilt Show. What a wonderful display of quilting workmanship! There were so many lovely quilts, it was hard to choose a favorite. Several of the ladies in our quilt club entered quilts and won some of the ribbons (I apologize in advance of missing anyone from the club that may have had a quilt entered, as I have not memorized all of the members yet). I am posting pictures from the show. Some are of the quilts entered by our members and other quilters I know and some were just ones that I liked.

This wall hanging was total fun with all of the dimension on it.

This was a beautiful tiny pineapple.

This is the back of the quilt above.

This is the back of the quilt above. I love how they make the backs as beautiful as the fronts.

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year!

I loved the use of black and white with pops of color.

This was my most favorite, as it contained both a barn and quilts which I love.

Someday I am going to make a quilt like this. What made it more unique was the added touches of buttone and fibers to add dimension to this quilt.

Making Quilt Labels

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/how-to-quilt/finishing/making-quilt-labels?page=0%2C0

All People Quilt has a nice three page article on Making Quilt Labels.

Save Time! Make Triangle Labels Tutorial by Pat Sloan

This is a wonderful tutorial on making triangle labels for your quilt by Pat Sloan.
March 23, 2014

Click on this link for the tutorial if you have problems with the pictures showing up:

http://blog.patsloan.com/2014/03/pat-sloan-triangle-label-tutorial.html


Pat Sloan: Triangle Label Tutorial

Do you find it hard to find TIME to make a label for your quilt? Even simple ones?

Years ago I came up with the idea of Triangle labels. they solve a few problems.

1. They go UNDER your binding so they are super secure
2. They are fast to make, we like that!
3. And you sew 2 sides into your binding so you only hand stitch one side...

Let me show you how easy this is!


I have this container full of fabric for labels.

Take a square.. anywhere from 5" to 8" square. Cut it in half for triangles.

Get some fabric strips. I use leftover binding. This is 1.5" wide with one edge folded under 1/4".
You can also use leftover double binding.. all good stuff!

measure out a strip that is at least 1/2" longer on both sides of the long edge of the triangle.

Put the label and strip right sides together

Sew and press open.

Using your ruler trim the excess off even with the triangle

Position in the corner of your quilt.
Now to sew on your binding!

I sew from the back and pull to the front. Where I will blanket stitch the binding on the front.
CLICK HERE for THAT tutorial
and go HERE to watch my videos

zoom zoom.. sew on that binding!

When It's all sewn down it will look like this

My other BIG TIP for motivating me to have a label is to
1- cut a label and put the edge on as soon as the top is done
2- cut the Binding as soon as the top is done
3- store both of these with the pattern in a bag until the top is quilted.
And what info do I put on it?
1-Name of the person the quilt is for (and not Bob.. Bob Smith)
2-My name... (not Aunt Pat, but Pat Sloan. If you want to put Aunt Pat that's good, just put your full name too)
3-City and State
4-Year Completed
5-Phone number and email (incase it's misplaced)