Patriotic Parade

 During the last couple months I have worked on a few patriotic table runners. I wanted to save them to show you during our July 4th week. For those of you in the U.S. this is Independence Day week.

This is one of my original designs and it is a favorite for me and my customers. 

Same design with different fabrics.

And even yet another in different fabrics.

Getting creative with the backing.

I hope you will come back on Friday to see even more patriotic table runners!  

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Delectable

 In between working on donation quilts I needed something smaller for quicker finishes. Delectable Mountain table runners to the rescue, three of them in fact!  First up was a teal one as I still had teal fabrics on my mind after making two of the teal braid runners. 

A beautiful green/purple batik was perfect for a fall runner. These measure 15x47.5". The quilting design I chose to do was freehand feather clusters from a Patsy Thompson DVD which I have had for years. It's an easy but so effective design.

I have waited a long time figuring out exactly what to do with this fabric and it was perfect for a backing. Do you buy fabric without knowing what pattern you will use it with? I do sometimes;)

And this green batik will be great as a year round runner, or spring when all things start growing again, and even for a fall runner. It's very versatile with more bang for your buck! I used the same background fabric for these last two.

And a nice green piece for the backing.  Have you ever made a delectable mountain runner or quilt? It's pretty easy. I used Bonnie Hunters scrappy mountain majesty block tutorial for mine. These three runners are now listed in my Etsy shop.

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Jelly Roll quilt

 I am tickled to have another UFO finish to share with you. Things have just aligned right for me to finish up several quilts that have been waiting, some longer than others. This one is going on two years old I think. It sat patiently waiting to be quilted and bound so it could go give someone a quilty hug. 

The pattern is Ridiculously Easy Jelly Roll quilt by Michelle at From Bolt to Beauty It really is easy and fun to make. The backing is fleece given to me by a friend so I thought it fitting to use it in a donation quilt. An allover stipple kept it soft. The pattern says 58x70 for a lap quilt, I forgot to measure before folding it up and putting in the pile. The batiks were from a very long time ago, I was going to make a quilted jacket out of it but as time went on I knew I didn't want to make another jacket. So into a quilt it went and I am glad to have this done. 

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We had tornado sirens go off twice yesterday afternoon, we personally didn't see any activity. However we did get over 3" of rain, it's still coming down lightly. 

I am glad I snapped this photo of my Calla Lilies the day before as they are now drooping with the rain.

And Wednesday morning I was greeted by these cuties! They are only a few feet from the front of our house. They are cute but darn it when they eat our lilies and hostas I am not so fond of them then!

Blue and Mauve scraps

 Yes I still have blue and mauve scraps lingering in my stash. These are leftovers from the days I used to make bunnies, country dolls etc. Little by little I am trying to use those fabrics up. Making donation quilts is a good way to do that. 

This may look like the popular jelly roll race quilt. However these strips were cut into 4" wide pieces. And I cut and sewed row by row instead. 

I kept the size around 41" so  it would fit on a 44" fabric and I was able to use more scraps for the backing.  You might wonder if I used up all the blue and mauve scraps, the answer is NOT! But at least I used some, LOL.  A quick allover stipple on the longarm and a blue binding and this quilt is ready to donate.  It's a hot and humid weekend here so it's a good day to stay inside with AC and quilt away:)

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Criss Cross

Criss Cross three yard quilt is a free pattern from Wood Valley Designs. This has actually been done for a month but I just haven't been able to get decent photos. The colors just are not true to what they really are. In real life the ones that appear yellow are a yellow green, the pink is really brighter, the blue is teal and bit darker than in the photos. The background is the only one true in color!

 Freehand flower swirl made for a quick and cuddly quilt at 41x52. I am now up to six quilts of various sizes for donation. They will go to my DIL's church group to hand out to those who need a snuggle with a quilt.  It makes me happy to be able to make and give these away. There are at least four more in progress. My goal is twelve for the year.

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A string finish

Oh but it feels so good to be getting some of these quilts quilted and bound. Over the winter I pieced this one and it made it over the finish line this past week. Then I had to wait to take photos as the weather didn't want to cooperate.

Phone book pages were used to piece the strings to. Using a jeans needle and a small stitch length makes for easier tearing the paper off.

A large stipple sped up the quilting process a lot, it also keeps the quilt a bit softer.

So thankful for friends that give me fabric for my donation quilts, in this case the backing. 

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Want to see some pretty peonies? Oh I am sure you do;) This is what they looked like just a week ago. We started counting the buds, upwards of 200 on there!!!

Here there are as of yesterday, so pretty and many more to open yet.  I hope you all have a great week.

 

Scrappy Brick Finish

The scrappy brick flimsy is now a full fledged quilt! A quick all over larger stipple  on the longarm made this move along fast. A tan Signature thread called Mother Goose was used. I finished it off with a burgundy print binding. 

The backing was a pre printed panel that I cut apart and added the larger strips of tan muslin in two vertical rows and one horizontal row in the middle to make it big enough. 

The panel was given to me a few years ago, I am glad to finally have put it to good use.  I was pleased to see I was able to come very close to centering the top on the backing. This is donation quilt #four for 2025

The other scrappy project has moved along also. The blocks are all made, now it is time to sew them all together. The two borders have been planned also. It's good to use some scraps-it's like making a free quilt, almost!

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What's on the design wall

Here is what is on my design wall-at least for a few more days. I had some free time and decided to bring out my featherweight for some mindless sewing. 

These began as string strips. 

Next I let my 12" Accuquilt cube companion set do the cutting of this shape. After I get a bunch I will add triangles to the two corners. No rhyme or reason as to the strips I use, it's grab and sew. 

When I tired of that I finished up this little quilt.  It's about 40" square. I used the kite shape from 12" Accuquilt cube. The blocks were all pieced in December and assembled recently. 

I was happy to find just the right size and color fabric for the backing.  This makes donation quilt # three finished for this year.

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It's not a UFO anymore!

The time had come for this flimsy to become a finished quilt this past week.  The blocks were made in 2019 and assembled back in 2020. At that time I couldn't decide if I wanted to do a border and if so what fabric to use. The prints are from a Sundrops Jolly Bar and I added the green polka dot from my stash.

Fast forward to last week while I was looking over my UFO's, this one jumped out at me and said 'it's my time to shine'!  I had bundled up the chevron coral, the polka dot coral and the coral backing with the flimsy. So I went with those for the border and the backing. The backing had to be pieced. 

On Saturday I loaded it onto the longarm and got it basted down by stitching the straight lines on both sides of the green zig zags. I quilted little by little each day since. Custom quilting can take a bit of time and patience. 

Yesterday I finished the last two borders and got it bound. Did you notice how I added a small piece of the chevron coral in between the polka dot binding?  That was done on each side with random placement. I used two layers of batting-one of 80/20 and one of a thin poly. This combo gave me the definition I was looking for to show off the quilting. That also makes it a stiffer quilt so no cuddling with this one. It's all mine to hang on a quilt ladder or maybe a wall since it is lap size.

When you have a quilt top, border fabrics and 5 yards of backing fabric bundled together you can actually see a dent in the 'to be quilted pile'!

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Our Japanese Iris are open. 

 

Strippy UFO finish and a birthday

 Another UFO has crossed the finish line. This one is a spin off of something I saw on Pinterest. 

I pieced this one in November and quilted and bound it this past week.  The quilting is freehand all over swirl flower design, that will keep this quilt soft for a donation quilt. 

Since I used a pink fleece, that was given to me, I didn't use batting in this one and wow is it ever cuddly.  It finished at 39 x 48. 

It's my birthday today so hubby brought me flowers, hmmmm they smell so good!

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Scrappy D4P

 My scrappy green disappearing four patch (also known as D4P) has crossed the finished line and is ready for donation. I posted about the beginning of this quilt here. Since I started it this year and we are only into June(how did we get here so quickly!) I will say it was a WIP not a UFO;)

I had time and the desire to find a backing for this 40 x 50" top and before long it was finished. The backing is a flannel that was given to me. Flannel is a great backing as it gives a cozy feeling to the quilt. 

A quick stipple and a green binding completes this quilt and gives it great texture. 

There were also two other tops made into quilts but I will save those for another post.  This is what I will be working on this week.

Our Spirea was just loaded with blossoms this year.

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