Category Archives: Finished Tops

BabyBlanket, Crafting, Finished Tops, FMQ, Quilting

Pink Parade

This last month it’s been “All About The Pink” for me.

I have 5 quit tops now down, baby blankets = yes all in pink.

2 I have actually quilted and bound!!!!

I ran out of backing that goes with the other 3 so I have to get that, but I am practicing the quilting patterns that I want to do on them.

The first one that got finished is simply pink squares – nothing fancy about it. The quilting shows up so nicely on the back – so cute the way it came together. I am proud to say that I actually did the quilting on my HQSS – you start the learning curve all over again when you don’t use her for months/years at a time. 

The binding on these one didn’t go so good, I did learn a lot about what not to do with binding.

 

 

Finished Quilts, Finished Tops, Quilting

Actually Completed Quilts!

I have an old Quilt stand in my hallway that I walk by all the time. I always, always, always touch the quilts that are on there. They are mine, they are quilting and completed quits. They are a mismatch of things in some cases, and a tribute in another. But I just never thought about them.

This was a kit that I picked up when I was doing a shop hop, nothing fancy, it’s a weird size, but it is a completed project. I did the quilting on my Sweet 16 using a curved ruler. Nothing fancy, no special foot, thread or anything.

This next one is a group of Row by Row kits.

Each row is quilted differently and in the case of the flowers and the butterflies, they are each quilted differently. Even the pots on the bottom.

This other one, I am counting as finished as I am not going to embroider the faces on the snowmen (which are upside down – didn’t notice that until I took this picture). These patterns are all from a Row by Row hop, each is a different shop. You can see in the summer RxR quilt that almost every “ROW” was a different size. The patterns on these rows are all different levels of quality – one of them was a piece of paper with a hand drawn sketch of the block, no dimensions, just “REPEAT” and the “KIT” came in a brown lunch bag. Kind of disappointing when you are paying $10 for a kit. But I used the fabric to make a row, not exactly the pattern that I got with it, but I used it any way.

Finished Tops, Panel Quilt, Quilting

Fairy with Unicorn

So after finishing up the loon quilt yesterday, I was going thru stacks of fabric and I came across a few (12) kits that I didn’t know I had – you know the old “out of sight, out of the husband’s view”  syndrome.  I pulled out 2 kits that I decided I would do. They are little girly quilts, and I was just in that kind of mood.

Well, kit 1 was missing the pattern – so I have to wait until that comes – hopefully soon. Then I came across this really pretty little Fairy with Unicorn panel kit. So cute, so so cute. So I started it yesterday and finished up today.  I would have been done a lot sooner if I would have NOT followed the little pattern that was with it. It was vague and referenced the material incorrectly (I had 2 fabrics, it only referenced 1). Who ever wrote it should not be writing up patterns.  And the backing was miss measured (If you followed the pattern). So I just thru another border around the outside with what was called out for the back – I think it’s even cuter this way.

Tell me this isn’t the cutest little thing:

Finished Tops, Quilting

Loon Quilt Top – Complete !

Well, it’s done. It’s large and in charge.

It all started with a panel, added a layer cake that I fell in love with, some black fabric that worked so well it just had to be included.

Put it all together and this is what I came up with:

  • 2×4 geese
  • 6×6 rails
  • 4×8 geese, mini rails(left overs)
  • 73×80 – not your standard size
  • I have some geese, rails, layer cake pieces left that I am going to make some pillows

 

I know I really, really want to quilt this one and get it complete, but I think I’ll do some smaller ones first, I don’t want to mess up anything on this one. It’s one of my favorite, favorites.

 

Citrus Quilt, Crafting, Finished Tops, Quilting

Bright Stars in the Fall?

So when I finished up binding on that last one, I was in a mode and I wanted to keep working on stuff. So I looked around the room to see if I could find something that I could finish. 

I started opening up project boxes to see if there was one that I could ‘whip’ together.  I ran across a stack of blocks that caught my eye – my “citrus quilt”.

Maybe it was because of the dreary, rainy day that it was, maybe it was just what my soul needed at that moment. Who knows, but I grabbed them and put them in to a cute little top.

The blocks aren’t prefect, a lot of the tips got trimmed off, but it just is so bright and shinny.  I think it would be so cute to be finished off and hung in a young girls room.

So I put the binding on 3 little quilts and took them off that pile, only to add another one to it.  Good grief, it’s an never ending cycle!

Crafting, Finished Tops, Quilting

Snowy Day Quilt II

Well last weekend we were on a day trip up north and on the way back it was early enough that I got to stop at a couple of small quilt shops.  It was awesome.  One shop had lots of finished quilts that are so fun to look at and see how they look done (not at my house, that’s what makes it so fun).  There were not many kits or samples at that shop, but I still love stopping there – lots of Up North Feel to it.

Then the second shop – they always have lots of kits available. Which are my weakness.  I swear, every single project they have on their walls screams out to me to take home and make. But I had to refrain, because I know how much is already here to do.

3 yard bundles from LQS – best thing ever in my book

I got all the way to the back of the store and I broke. They had 2 quilts up on the wall as samples of a 3 yard and a 5 yard quilt. And quess what – they had fabric bundles …. ready to go …  How the devil and I supposed to pass those up.  I picked up three of them.

Once I got them home I just knew that I had to make another Snowy Day Quilt with the bright purple & green pack. With a little white added, ok a lot of white it seems, it came together so cutely.

 

I so love the colors, it would have taken me a month to put together these fabrics for this quilt. It it just perfect.

But it was pretty close.  I have a small, small piece of green left (I even had to piece together 2 sqaures to complete one of these large ones of the green), and when I was sewing the little bit of sashing around the outside, I ran out of bobbin – 32″ from the end, and this is what I ended up with for top thread…  I don’t think there is 24″ left from here to the needle.  Good grief for cutting it close.

So because I had some extra fabric I decided to use on of the blocks (that I didn’t use in the original pattern) to make a small kid size throw blanket.  I can’t wait to get this one done, it so darn cute.

Finished Tops, Quilting

SnowDay Quilt – All put together?

So got all the blocks made – falling deeper and deeper in love with this project every moment!!!

During the week, I was able to get them all ‘sashed‘ together and a border around the whole thing – love, love, love it!

Then it happened … I made the mistake of asking my hubby what he thought of it.

He said : “It’s kinds short isn’t it?”  – he’s 6’2″ I’m not!

So off I went to add another row. It took me longer to design/choose 3 new blocks, make them, take apart the end and attach the new row than it did to make all 9 blocks last week. Not quilted yet, but I have the perfect backing material and I love how this top turned out.

 

And the best thing is that I already have a coordinating fabric (that I love as much as this top) for the back of this quilt. Maybe, this will be the first one I actually finish all the way – my hubby sure hopes so, the fabulous quilt rack he made me is still hanging on the wall empty.

Crafting, Finished Tops, Pinterest, Quilting

HST Arrows – another pinterest project

So I snuck in some sewing time this past few weeks. I had to break it up but, this is such an easy pattern it could be done in one day or weekend for sure.

I am a “American Pickers” addict, it’s so romantic to go into those places and come out with ‘good stuff’ – the only thing better is ‘Flea Market Flip’ – we usually give our design ideas first then critique what the contestants did and then sit in awe at the prices they get for those thing – how romantic is that!!!!!

Anyway, I learned a term on Pickers lately – “Completest”

completest:  having all necessary parts, elements, or steps – in quilting terms: this is where you are obsessed and have to have the whole line of fabric – even if you don’t have any idea or plan for it.  I have come to realize that I am a completest! and to complicate it even worse, I am a purest. I cannot take a pattern and change even the colors – or I cannot image a pattern in a different color set.   I am not a doodler in the terms that I can sit and sketch things, I sketch words or phrases – not images.

So, any way, back to my mini project: I found this on Pinterest and total fell in love with it.

I had to find the exact fabric it was made in and this time it wasn’t out of production (you can’t imagine how many times that happens. Order it. There is no pattern exactly, she just tells you what you need for squares, then triangles then you put it together. But I had some alone time this weekend and I was able to get it put together. I am putting this on the top of my UFO pile to be quilted/finished – that pile is getting very tall, by the way.

Her directions are here, in her instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQnh3RfBp2B/

Here is mine and I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT.

 

Finished Tops, FMQ, Quilting

FMQ Sampler – Complete

Well, I have had this done for a month or so, just had to do the binding – yuck, I hate binding.

It was a huge challenge to do this but it turned out pretty good, even if I do say so myself. I strongly suggest joining the group on facebook “Sit Down Free Motion Quilters” and doing this tutorial.