Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Day & Night


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After much frustration I finally got the quilting process completed. It took a little longer than I expected. The thread kept breaking and I tried everything to fix the problem. Hopefully, cross fingers, it won't happen again. I guess getting use to the quilting frame takes a lot of practice. I am now putting the binding on, I am on the 3rd side. Would be nice to move on to another quilt soon.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Day & Night (Part 3)


I feels like I haven't been blogging as much as I like, but I have been sewing.  I have finally completed my quilt top!  The next step is to get it quilted together. It is a queen size quilt which measures 94" X 106".   I just purchased my backing fabric and batting.  Hope to get this on the frame during the weekend! 

When I wasn't quilting I have had a couple of good books.  Both the Ozzy Osbourne and Michael Crummey's latest "Galore" were both a good read. I am now reading another one of Jennifer Chiaverini's from The Elm Creek Quilts Album called The Quilter's Legacy. So far so good! These books go from one extreme to the other, but I like to mix it up.   




Wednesday, April 14, 2010

DAY & NIGHT

The kids are back to school and I am still trying to get back on track.  I have all my strip sets sewn together and have 168 triangles cut.  These are all pieced together in 6 1/2 inch squares.  So far so good!
 
I am now in the process of joining 4 of these squares to form a star pattern.


           



Thursday, April 8, 2010

Day & Night

This post is long overdue!  I finally got my fabric several weeks ago from Connecting Threads.  I was so excited!  I put my foundation pieces aside and started chopping away at my new fabric!  I am making a Day & Night quilt.  I am off to a slow start!  Having the flu, then out of town and now the kiddies are out of school for Easter Break.  So my sewing time has been dramatically reduced! I hope to catch up next week!
The colors are an Expresso and Frost combination.  Expresso being the night color and Frost being the day color.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

I Spy

Usually, I do not get much accomplished during the weekends. But this weekend I feel I have outdone myself.   Friday, I finished the book titled "The Bishop's Man" by Linden MacIntyre.  In the beginning, I didn't know how I would find the book.  However, because it is a Giller Prize winner, I read on.  I am so glad I did.  It was quite an interesting read!

While I am waiting for some fabric to be delievered by post, I found myself wondering what to do next.  I was in quite a slump!  Down to my sewing room I went,  looking through my stash.  I found these fat eighths sampler from Connecting Threads.   I wanted to try foundation piecing, and thought this may be a perfect way to use up the fat eighths with a scrappy look!  So off to the cutting board I went!


This is how one of the blocks turned out. I now have three completed.  I didn't anticipate what I would go through picking the paper off the back.  That may be hubby's job when all the blocks are completed!

Today,  I have finally completed the binding on my lap quilt.  The kids titled it "I Spy"  They spied the letters L & T.  As well as the shapes diamond, triangle and also a tree.  The tree is the pattern that is machine quilted.  I used a moda jelly roll for this quilt.  The borders are from my stash.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Jean Bag

Every now and then I gets an itch to try something different from quilting.  I love tote bags and I love denim.  I usually make rag bags out of old jeans.  But this time I tried out an old pattern that was kicking around.  The front has a Newfoundland dog appliqued to the center.  The back has a pocket attached and the trim is with Newfoundland Tartan.  The straps have denim on one side and tartan on the other.  It always feels good when you can recycle materials to make new things.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Broken Star

So what have I been doing for the past week?  I have been trying to get some bindings in place for a couple of quilts and I just finished quilting this top for my mother.  I love the pattern.  Maybe one for me to try a little later.





So of course my mind is always going to the next project to go on the cutting board. I think I will try a jean tote bag for a change