tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24020201900624453262024-03-20T05:07:41.953-06:00The Magic of QuiltingMy love of and experiences with quiltingCarolaDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06576550560869158079noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402020190062445326.post-34314568275929037762020-05-22T17:10:00.001-06:002020-05-22T17:10:53.821-06:00More 2019 quilts Daniel's Baby quiltDaniel's baby quilt July/ August 2019<br />
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One of my close friends was about to have her very first grandbaby, a baby boy so is was trying to figure out an easy baby quilt to make him.<br />
I have so many fabric scraps now that I decided it might be a good time to use some of them up.<br />
I collected a lot of them together and started cutting 2 1/2 inch strips. I found a strip set package of mostly blues, greys and light browns at the Red Deer quilt show and I got started.<br />
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I started making scrappy 9 patch blocks out of the 2 1/2 inch squares, (creating 6 inch blocks.)<br />
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I also had some Winnie the Pooh fabric in my stash which I though would go well. One of the fabrics had small 1 inch squares throughout so I decided to put a 10" X 15" inch piece in the centre of the quilt like a panel. I sewed a 1 1/2 inch border of blue print fabric around it. </div>
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<br />Next I laid out a lot of the 9 patch squares to see which ones would fit together without having 2 squares the same too near each other.The I sewed 3 squares together and sewed them on both sides.<br />
Next I sewed 4 of the 9 patches across the bottom.<br />
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After that I sewed another blue print fabric 1 inch border around it.<br />
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The next part was sewing another border of 2 1/2 squares all around.<br />
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Then add a third blue 1 1/2 inch border all around.<br />
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The last step to this baby quilt top was to add an outer border (4 inches wide) of the same fabric as the centre panel.</div>
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The completed quilt top measured 40 X 45 inches.</div>
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I sandwiched and pinned together the quilt top with batting and a blue bumpy minkee back fabric.<div>
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Then I machine quilted it, sewed on the binding and added a label.</div>
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I drove up to Edmonton at the beginning of September to cuddle the baby and give Daniel his new quilt. :)</div>
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CarolaDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06576550560869158079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402020190062445326.post-5956236941590659092020-05-22T15:43:00.001-06:002020-05-22T15:43:35.859-06:00Star Wars Quilt for a Special Boy May 4/ 2019<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDf83Ll_GSWODyXS4PcAKQskwoMZ5ObwKfvJwcfkMyt-18ZqDE-4nhJcseSAmOSLEIPZZKt9u2uJ2VHkEHs6I-lElUlyLmCCcMseu0cWdRdmCuQPoO81SR_X51FQ-COnFWAhFcsdNy5tMK/s1600/April+12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDf83Ll_GSWODyXS4PcAKQskwoMZ5ObwKfvJwcfkMyt-18ZqDE-4nhJcseSAmOSLEIPZZKt9u2uJ2VHkEHs6I-lElUlyLmCCcMseu0cWdRdmCuQPoO81SR_X51FQ-COnFWAhFcsdNy5tMK/s320/April+12.JPG" width="240" /></a>Star Wars Quilt for a Special Boy<br />
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My 7year old (almost 8) grandson needed a bigger quilt. His toddler sized monster trucks quilt was too small. I asked him what he wanted on it and he said "Star Wars"! So I set about looking at fabrics and patterns and trying to find one I could make him.<br />
After looking at a variety of patterns I decided on Tribal Vibe pattern from McCall's quick quilts - Oct. Nov. 2014 issue (pages 20-22).<br />
It has a variety of large 12" snowball blocks (which would showcase the Star Wars fabric well) in between 12 " chain blocks.<br />
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I also downloaded some paper pieced Star Wars block patterns, a 12 inch Ti fighter pattern, a Darth Vader block pattern and an appliqued R2D2 block pattern :<br />
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I made 15 nine patch chain blocks- solid blue/ red with Star Wars centre. ( 9 blocks have blue star wars centres, 6 blocks have red Star Wars centres.)</div>
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I made 12 snowball blocks- 6 blocks with dark blue Star Wars fabric with grey corners and 6 blocks red Star Wars fabric. (All blocks are 12" square.)</div>
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There are 5 blocks in each row, with 6 rows altogether.</div>
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I added a red 2 inch wide outer border with 3 red and blue 2" blocks at the corners.</div>
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Outer border is 3 inches wide, Starry Night fabric</div>
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The completed quilt measures 70" X 80" inches.</div>
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After washing the kitchen floor, I sandwiched the quilt layers together, then pinned them well using up most of my safety pins.</div>
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I free motion quilted wavy lines across the centres of the blue and the red snowball blocks, </div>
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The 9 patch blocks had 4 stars , one on each solid blue square. (I drew the stars freehand with an air erase pen. )</div>
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The 4 (chain) corner blocks had vertical or horizontal lines quilted on them, (alternating each row). </div>
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<br />Here is the back of the quilt showing my machine quilting:<div>
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I am really proud of this one! :D </div>
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Last : a Star Wars Pillowcase</div>
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I loved this pattern from the first time I saw it in the Quilt magazine. I love how the blocks go together to form pinwheels when there are actually no pinwheel blocks made at all! :D<br />
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<br />Pattern June/July 2012 edition of MCCall's Quick Quilts page 9These are 8 inch blocks made from 2 1/2 X 4 1/2 " inch rectangles. There are 4 different blocks. Each block has 1 or 2 flying geese blocks within it (2 1/2 X 4 1/2").<div>
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The pattern calls for 6 rows or 6 blocks each to make a square quilt, 48" X 48" and then you add 9 1/2 inch mitered borders.<div>
After sewing all my rows together (Using the complicated assembly diagram on page 11 of that McCall's Quick Quilt issue), I decided it would be a more practical as a rectangular throw size, so I made 12 extra blocks (repeating rows 4 and 5 again). Then I added row 6 back on to the end for a quilt top that measure 48" X 64" without the outer borders.</div>
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Claire's Unicorn Quilt January, February, March 2019</div>
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My 7 year old grand daughter had requested a unicorn quilt and after much hunting for patterns, I realized that there were very few to be had. Thus I set out to design my own.<br />
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I found some unicorn foundation pieced patterns on line and I bought two that I liked. I looked for unicorn fabric in the quilt stores here in central Alberta, but no one seemed to carry any. I finally found some unicorn fabric on a US fabric website (fabric.com) and proceeded to order some online as well as some solids in pinks, white and purples that I thought I might want to use.<br />
Then set out to come up with a quilt pattern arrangement of my own.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unicorn head pattern 18 inch block Dec 10/2018</td></tr>
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My first step was to choose of my fabric to make the large 18" block of the unicorn head which I wanted for the centre of the quilt.<br />
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The centre block was a download from<br />
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It was very time consuming but turned out beautifully!<br />
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These heart blocks are a simple 2 piece snowball pattern, from a magazine that I had, (American Patchwork and Quilting- February 2017, page 64- Keys to my Heart pattern).<br />
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This is the centre of the quilt.<br />
After that I decided I wanted more foundation pieced unicorns, one at each corner of the quilt (more or less.)<br />
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I made 4 foundation pieced unicorn (12 inch blocks), 2 facing left and two facing right (I just sewed two of them on the reverse side, by tracing the back of it against a window using a pencil and ruler. )<br />
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Coming up with a design was a lot of fun. Doing the math toi make it all fit, not so much but with a bit of tweeking here and there it worked out.</div>
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I added a rectangle of unicorn print (6 1/2 X 30 3/4) to both sides of the 30 inch heart/ Unicorn head block, then added a 3 1/2 X 57 inch strip of pink leftover smooth minkee, at the top and bottom. I took another strip of unicorn fabric and added alternating 6 inch heart blocks with 6 inch purple squares beside it.<br />
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I made more heart blocks, solid purple fabric squares and unicorn fabric in between the paper pieced unicorns, tweeking all the blocks a bit so they'd fit.</div>
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I did the same pattern of minkee strips and blocks below the unicorn centre (about where kitty is lying in photo above.)</div>
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After that I added pink bumpy minkee fbric strips ( leftovers from other projects) to the sides of the quilt top. Then sewed purple minkee strips to the sides of the quilt top. </div>
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They measure 2 1/2 inches wide by length of quilt top. (3 3/4 X 57")</div>
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Next I added a border of 4 pink hearts ( 2 on each side ) and a rectangle of pink swirl fabric 6 1/2 X 34 3/4 " inches on all 4 sides, with a snowball block of unicorn fabric at each outer corner. The whole quilt top measured 70 1/2 X 80 inches.</div>
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Yes, It took a lot of calculating to make all the blocks in each different row work out. </div>
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But overall, I was a lot of fun to design this quilt as I went along, and I love it! </div>
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I used my Janome Horizon 8900 sewing machine to quilt this. I first sewed in the ditch around the centre block and also ditch quilted horizontally next to the minkee strips. </div>
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I free motion quilted curls on the white unicorn head and meandered on the background candy fabric behind its head. </div>
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I also free motioned sewed inside the hearts surrounding the unicorn head block. I continued to quilt my way outwards, row by row.</div>
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CarolaDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06576550560869158079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402020190062445326.post-85030942163979468022019-11-27T19:02:00.004-07:002020-05-22T16:08:16.402-06:00" Life At the Lake" Wallhanging June 2018I started my "Life At the Lake " wall hanging in early June, 2018. I decided a while back that I needed to hang something intriguing on my empty bathroom wall space. I thought a wall hanging depicting a variety of things found here at the lake in the summertime would be lovely to depict...<br />
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I had collected a variety of paper pieced block patterns to put together, some from the Quiltmaker magazine Summer 2015- a pattern called "Over by the Pond" and some were downloaded from Craftsy, and others were free on the internet.<br />
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I started off making 2 small foundation paper pieced dragonfly blocks, (6 1/4X 6 1/4")<br />
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Then I worked on 2 spiky plant blocks, (7 1/2 X 7 1/2") both also foundation paper pieced. These were relatively easy and fun to make.<br />
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Next came the 2 Frog blocks, (7 1/2 X 9 1/4"). I found the directions in the Quiltmaker magazine Summer 2015.<br />
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After that I decided I wanted some butterfly blocks since there are a variety of butterflies here at the lake, notably the yellow swallowtails (usually found on my lilac blossoms in May) and one that looks similar to a Monarch.<br />
I used a free patten from the internet called B is for Butterfly, (a butterfly from the side.) (8 1/2 X 8 1/2"). and decided to make them bright and colourful. I went through my stash and found a variety of fabrics.<br />
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My next butterfly I wanted shown from the top. I found "Breezy Butterfly" by Marney (Marianne Hertzel@gmail.com) I added some sashing to make it 8 1/2 X 8".<br />
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Next I downloaded a free dragonfly pond block called "Spring in the Pond", which was fun to make, (10 1/2 X 10 1/2")<br />
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Pink Pond Lily- I tried to buy this pattern off the internet, but none of the links I tried worked. I printed a copy of the pattern lines from Pinterest and magnified it 140%. <br />
Then I drew heavy black lines around the segments and used markers to colour in the petals, lily pad and water. <br />
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Next I printed that a second time and cut the separate segments out. Now they needed 1/4 inch seams all around, so I glued them far apart so I could draw the seams on all of them.<br />
Lastly I printed these up on a sheet of paper piecing paper to use. A lot of work! I would have gladly bought the pattern and saved all that hassle.<br />
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Last but not least I made 2 bumble bees to depict the hardworking pollinators in my garden which I love. In all the years I have been gardening (over 45 yrs) I have never been stung by a bee. I feel safe among them and I garden next to them and feel safe. They know That I love and appreciate them, and they have nothing to fear from me.<br />
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Voila! Over the Pond quilt completed.<br />
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I entered my wall hanging in the Heartland Quilt Show in Stettler, Alberta on June 8, 2019, and to my surprise I won a first prize ribbon for Small/ household category! :D<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is heart breaking to find out that a close friend has been diagnosed with cancer. There is much hope at the beginning that a recover can be made, even when it seems hopeless, miracles do happen, and we always want to think positively.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The process of chemo and radiation is daunting and very difficult at best. I thought a lap sized quilt would be a comfort to my friend while she fought her battle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had some red, grey and beige 5 inch squares that I thought might make a happy, good looking quilt to cuddle under when a person was feeling blue. The grey signified sadness, the red signified that battle to be fought and won, and the beige signified the dawn of a new day as the enemy was overcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because of the time crunch, I thought a simple pattern was best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The squares are split diagonally and sewn back together with a strip of grey, then split vertically and another grey strip is sewn in between the two pieces to form the blocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cut out 5 inch grey squares and the edge triangles to sew the blocks together on the point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I arranged and re-arranged the 36 blocks until I was happy with the appearance of the quilt top. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took photos and then marked each row, (covering them with a towel to discourage my kitties from sitting on them.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like how the blocks looked when they were together but I wanted to add a border to make the quilt top a bit bigger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Next I cut 2 1/2 inch strips of red fabric from my stash for another border. (47 1/2" square)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I auditioned a few fabrics for the outer border, but the best one seemed to be the same grey/tall grass fabric as used in the blocks. (Cut 4" border, quilt top = 55" square) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My wonderfully always dependable Janome 7700 suddenly died on April 26! My friend was in stage 4 and only had a short time to live. How was I going to get this quilt finished in time?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The quilt was completely done except for a label on May 4. My friend Dawn passed away after a difficult, valiant struggle on May 8. The family had a wonderful celebration of Dawn's life on May 26, 2018.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many tears, memories and love went into this quilt for Dawn. I made the label on the back dedicated to her two young grandchildren and gave it to them to use when they were feeling blue and missing their grandma. </span><br />
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My twin grandchildren are 6 years old now and starting to lose their baby teeth. I decided to make them a Tooth Fairy Cushion to put the tooth in so that the tooth fairy could find it, collect it, and leave behind a dollar or two.<br />
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I looked on pinterest and found a lot of excellent ideas.<br />
The idea that I decided to go with is from "Color the Moon.com" which I thought I would like to try.<br />
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Thank you, Ellie, for sharing your cute, clever ideas!<br />
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I made each of the twins a little Tooth Fairy cushion out of felt, using white glue to stick the pieces on to the tooth outline. <br />
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I drew a simple tooth outline on white paper and when I had one I liked, I cut it out and traced it with a felt marker onto the white felt to create the teeth.<br />
I cut two 8 1/2 inch squares out of blue dot fabric and two out of the pink dot fabric for the cushions.<br />
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I wanted to make a way to hang them from the twins' bunk bed frame., so I cut 2 long ribbons (10 to 12 inches long) for each cushion, pink ribbon for my grand daughter's cushion and black dotted ribbon for my grandson's.<br />
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I put the squares right sides together and tucked the ribbons inside, leaving about 2 inches sticking out of the top.I sewed all sides with a 1/4 inch seam leaving a 3 inch opening on one side to turn the cushion right side out. (I also clipped the corners.)<br />
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Next I turned the cushions both right side out, ready to fill them with cotton stuffing. The ribbons hang nicely out of the top of the cushion. </div>
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Using a piece of paper, I drew a simple pirate hat to fit the corner of the tooth, and a simple eye patch.</div>
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Once I thought I had the right size, I used the paper templates to cut the actual eye patch out of black felt and the hat out of red felt.</div>
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I made some simple boots the same way, white gluing each onto the tooth. Next I added a "googley eye, a red felt smile and drew the nose. I thought his boots could use a bit of sparkle so I added the blue "jewels". You can make it as fancy as you like. </div>
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I pinned, then white glued the pirate to the unstuffed blue cushion, leaving a pocket unglued at the top to insert the tooth, so some coins or a bill would fit in, but not sink down too far.)</div>
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After letting the pirate tooth dry overnight, I stuffed the cushion, then I stitched the opening closed.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I had actually made the ballerina tooth first.This</span><span style="text-align: center;"> Ballerina tooth is double sided / 2 white teeth glued together with a </span>small pocket opening at the top for the tooth (and to allow the fairy to leave her contributions.) I decided afterwards that it would work well without the double tooth and I made my second one, the pirate differently.<br />
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I cut some red felt lips and black felt eyelashes for the ballerina with I stuck on with white glue. Then I glued on her "googly eyes" and found a piece of pink tulle for her tutu. (This pink tulle has a story behind it which I'll add at the bottom of this post. :) *</div>
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*We were on vacation in Hawaii a few weeks before I started these tooth fairy cushions and I had tulle in the back of my mind. One day, towards the end of our tropical travels, we found ourselves at a thrift store. I spotted a small wicked basket which someone else had decorated with pink tulle. "Exactly what I need," I though to myself. </div>
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As if I hadn't done enough applique quilting in 2017, I decided that I loved this cute little woodland animals pattern and so I set out to make it for our new baby grandson, Dax who was due in December 2017.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Went with the blue background for the hedgehog</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The blue owl was fun to make along with the tree stump and the mushroom.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The first mushroom I made was pink as the directions called for, but I changed it to red instead. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The beginnings of the raccoon block</span></td></tr>
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Then it was time to cut the light blue Minkee backing to the correct size., and pin the whole thing together with the batting in between the layers.<br />
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I stitched each background differently, meanders on one, waves on another and so on. I quilted the tree stump and on the bodies of the animals; Satin stitch around the outlines of the animals, zigzag stitch on the edges of the flowers and leaves.<br />
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I love how this little quilt turned out and I think that there will be many hours spent enjoying it! :)</div>
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<br />CarolaDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06576550560869158079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402020190062445326.post-38321391524725130542018-04-12T15:11:00.001-06:002020-05-10T13:58:44.136-06:00Frieda Fox Collage WallhangingFrieda Fox- Laura Heine pattern<br />
Started July 2017<br />
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This was a fun collage quilt to make, but not so fun to quilt it. If I every do make another one, I would get it quilted on a long arm to avoid the stickiness on the machine needle and the breakage of needles (2).<br />
I took a workshop from Terry Rowland (a member of Central AB Quilt Guild) at The Hub, in Stettler Arena on July 7/2017.<br />
We had to bring some fabric pieces cut out ahead of time to audition for our projects, plus a special background fabric to trace the pattern onto. It was quite a lot of work to fussy cut all the little individual pieces to create the fox. Each piece first had to have the sticky webbing put on the back.<br />
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What I learned was: USE STEAM A SEAM 2!<br />
Any of the pieces that had the Heat Bond on the back, wouldn't stick on until they were ironed on and then they were permanent. The Steam a Seam 2 will allow the pieces to stick temporarily and they can be moved around until you are happy with their location and then ironed on permanently.<br />
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It took hours of moving the pieces around before I was completely happy with Frieda Fox.<br />
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Then came the decision for which background to use. I auditioned about 6 different ones over and over, but finally decided on the rust coloured one. I thought a fox would want to blend into the background instead of sticking out on say, a blue or bright green background.<br />
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Then I fussy cut a lot of flowers out (with Steam a Seam on the back) to put along the bottom under Frieda, and on both top corners.<br />
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Machine quilting this baby was a chore! I did a back and forth meander, "cloud-looking" stitch on the background without a problem. I used the clear monofilament on top of the appliqués and flowers. The tread often snapped and the machine needle constantly gummed up and had to be cleaned off. I broke 2 machine needles and had to buy some titanium ones to finish this project.<br />
I suppose I probably over stitched the collage pieces and next time (if there ever is a next time) I would remember that and also try and use less layers.<br />
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<br /><br />Frieda Fox hangs in our bedroom on my side and I love looking at her and finding again all the tiny little pictures that are hidden on her, spool of thread, lady bug, kittens, fawn, baby bear. . :) <div>
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Trucks and Tractors, Oh Boy!<br />
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This is the 'big boy' quilt that I made for my little grandson Tanner for his 4th birthday. What little boy doesn't like trucks and tractors?! <br />
This is a Buggy Barn pattern (called Convoy), from the pattern book called "Those Crazy Kids". I started it in March 2017 and completed the first 3 truck blocks on April 1/17.<br />
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I have never done a buggy barn pattern before so this was an new and interesting method. The trucks and the tractors are 2 separate paper patterns. You start out by tracing the pattern onto freezer paper and label each section.<br />
Each block uses 3 different fabrics in 3 different places. The trucks require 3 fat quarters stacked one on top of the other. The freezer paper pattern is pinned on top of them.<br />
Cutting: Using your cutting wheel and a long ruler, cut along the pattern lines through ALL the layers in REVERSE alphabetical order.<br />
To stay organized, stack all the pieces onto of the master sheet.<br />
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(These directions want you to stack NINE fat quarters to cut through all at once, but that seemed pretty daunting to me so I chose to do only 3 at a time. )<br />
Now comes "the shuffle" which the directions state clearly how to shuffle the pieces around so you get three 3 coloured blocks.<br />
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Truck Blocks: 16 1/2 X 12 1/2"<br />
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Tractor blocks: 12 1/2 X 21"<br />
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If you want to add an appliquéd bucket on the tractor blocks, you need to add a piece of fabric 6 1/2 to 7 " X 12 1/2 " to increase the size of the blocks. (I put buckets on all my blocks.)<br />
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Tractor blocks:<br />
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I continued to make blocks until I had 6 trucks and 7 tractors. I fussy cut the tires and centres of the wheels and the buckets. I used Steam a Seam 2 to adhere them to the blocks. Next I appliqué stitched around all the raw edges.<br />
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I arranged the blocks differently than the directions to make my own pattern and sewed green sashing strips in between. I added a blue tractor fabric to both ends of row 2 and 4 to get the correct width. </div>
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Then I added a roadway to either side of the quilt to make it wider, plus a narrow black border on the top and bottom. (2 1/2 " )</div>
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Machine quilting: I used a complementary colour of thread on the top of each block background. I tried to do different patterns on most of them, squiggles, or loops, or waves or small circles; Some of the trucks got lines quilted on the boxes. It took a few weeks of work to do them all, but I'm happy with the overall quilt and I think little Tanner will get many hours of cuddly comfort under it. :D</div>
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Top stitching the province/ territories blocks was a challenge but proved to be rather enjoyable, too. It meant a lot of thread and bobbin colour changes and a few times I used the thin almost invisible filament thread. That is quite challenging! <br />
I practiced the tension on a swatch of sandwiched pad to get the tension right. I figured out that on my machine I need to set the tension to 2.5 or 3 in order to do these appliquéd blocks.<br />
I found that the best way to do these blocks was not to leave all the top stitching till the end, (which, to me, was the more difficult part), but to try and do some in between creating new appliqué blocks.<br />
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It was fun to try and anticipate that the new blocks might look like before they actually arrived. I was pleased with most of the blocks that Shania Sunga had created.<br />
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Heat Bond problems-<br />
Part of the problem was the Heat Bond that I had used to adhere the fabric pieces. I had the 'heavy' type which made everything stick really well onto the back fabric of the blocks, but it was quite thick and made the scenes quite stiff. After running out of that I bought more Heat Bond, but it was the light variety and I made the mistake of leaving the iron on too long on some of the appliqué pieces and the refused to stick at all so I had to remake some of them. I even used my glue stick a few times to stick down parts.<br />
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Alberta Block- I like how this one turned out. I left out the dark blue pond from the lower left corner and moved the horse over further to the left. It seemed to open it up a bit more and make it look less busy. I love the mountains in the background! :)</div>
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Note to Self: Use Steam a Seam 2 to adhere the applique pieces instead of Heat Bond. The pieces will stick temporarily where you place them and you can still move them around until you press them on. The you're stuck with your decision! Heat Bond doesn't make the pieces stick at all until you use your iron them, so they tend to move around somewhat and in two of my blocks (Quebec and Nunuvut) I had a bit of a problem because the pieces moved apart and were barely touching each other when pressed on, and a tiny bit of the background could be seen. :( </div>
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I fixed the Quebec block, satin stitching some of the questionable edges. But I didn't even notice it on the Nunuvut block until I had the quilt already madeI I restitched the Nunuvut block afterwards right through the quilt.</div>
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To honor Canada's 150th birthday celebration I decided to make a Canada themed quilt. This mystery quilt block one designed by Shania Sunga seemed like a good one to try.</div>
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These blocks are numbered 1 to 13 and a person is supposed to receive one block every 6 weeks. They were very popular and the quilt place ran out, so I had to wait several months to get my first one; then I received 6 in the mail at once last October. What with all the things I wanted to make/ and/or finish for Christmas, I only just got the first block started in January. (I know have up to block #10)<br />
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The blocks are numbered, but I started mine in random order, random meaning whichever one struck my fancy the most at that time. I began with the Newfoundland block because I loved the two little puffins. next I made the New Brunswick Block because Black capped chickadees are my favourite little birds. We have dozens of them here at our feeders all winter. These polite little birds will come to get one seed, fly back to a tree branch to eat it and make room at the feeder for their next little buddy. How polite and canadian is that! ? :)<br />
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The polar bears on the North west Territories block really appealed to me and I loved the colours of this block so I made this one next. I added a second baby polar bear.<br />
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This is such a beautiful block. I love the Bison and the crocuses and Manitoba has a large part of my heart because I lived these for over 45 years. I love crocuses and every spring I wander on nearby Picnic Hill looking and waiting for them to bloom. (Did you know they won't bloom on cultivated land? And, yes, I tried to prove that theory wrong with no success.)<br />
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Next I made this gorgeous Yukon block. I love Aurora Borealis having seen their beauty with my own eyes a number of times while living in northern Manitoba. And the moose are such beautiful creatures. We see them here in central Alberta, too. I had a "Moose encounter" while driving home one spring evening at dusk. Luckily this one was very polite and stepped off to the side of the road as my car approached unexpectedly. (Almost as fast as she had stepped onto the road.) I don't know who was more surprised, the moose or me!</div>
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It's time to quilt my Stairway to Cat Heaven quilt. I took a free motion quilting workshop in March put on by Wayne and Linda Kollinger of Tuxedo Park Designs, Calgary. I have been machine quilting for about 8 years, but I learned a few new things which I wanted to put to use, including some easy 9 patch quilting patterns.<br />
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The Stairway quilt is about two thirds 9 patch blocks so I started with quilting them first.<br />
I used a black polyester thread in the bobbin, and a fine lilac coloured polyester thread as top thread. It is on a big spool which doesn't really fit horizontally in my machine, so I put the spool in a jar next to my sewing machine and then threaded it in as usual. I used a "quilt sandwich" to treat the tension settings before I started sewing on the actual quilt. (One of the useful suggestions from the workshop. (Thanks, Linda.)<br />
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"Auto" tension setting didn't work really well, "3" seems to be the best. (The workshop suggests that you try various settings first, changing them by half a setting each time.) I put my free motion foot on, then dropped the feed dogs.<br />
I started out at 2, then, 2.5, then 3, then 3.5, sewing a short line of each on the practice sandwich. "3" looked like it had the best top and bottom tension, so that's what I went with.<br />
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I did the "flower petal/ circle" pattern (which I'd learned at the workshop) on the 44 nine patch blocks, then echo quilted around the appliquéd cats and appliquéd moon on the sky portion. After that I isolated some sky areas and did a "narrow cloud" meander pattern on the rest of the sky.<br />
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Next question, how to do the three 2 inch borders. The fastest approach would have been to do all three together as one larger pattern, but I decided against that. I used black thread on the black inner border and did my often used vine leaves all along the lengths of each side. It doesn't stand out at all, but that's OK. Then, looking at the next border, (the night sky/ dark grey colour,) I was thinking about doing moons, but a heart pattern jumped into my mind so I sewed some simple sideways hearts attached to each other at the bottoms. I also used the black thread, but after doing one side and seeing how well it went, I was wishing I had used the lilac thread. Oh, well, too late!<br />
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The scrappy 2 inch squares border is getting the same "flower petal/ circle" design as the 9 patch blocks using the lilac top thread.<br />
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The outer grey border is getting a simple scallop pattern. After that I'm cutting off the extra batting from the quilt edges, and trimming the Fishbones back fabric to 1 inch out from the edge. Next step will be to press that 1 inch outer fabric in towards the raw edges of the quilt, then pin it over onto the quilt top, so it can be sewn on, creating the outer edging. (A mock edging).<br />
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Then it will be done after many weeks of work! Always a proud, exciting moment!<br />
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I am getting really attached to this quilt after all these weeks of work. It is going to be auctioned online for the Animal Haven Rescue fund raiser in May. I might have to bid on it myself! ;)<br />
<a href="http://www.animalhavenrescue.ca/">http://www.animalhavenrescue.ca</a><br />
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All in all this was a fun quilt to make. It involved both piecing and appliqué.<br />
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Again, I would recommend if you are going to do raw edge appliqué, then use "Steam a Seam 2" as it is very forgiving. You can stick your appliqué pieces onto your quilt top temporarily, see how they look, then move them around as many times as you like until you decide where you want them, until you press them on. It is also very forgiving if you press a bit too much or too little.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">I have been working on a quilt top for Animal Haven Rescue's online silent auction fundraiser for May. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">It is called </span><b style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: center;"><i>Stairway To Cat Heaven; </i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Designed by Barbara Dubovsky</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; letter-spacing: 0px;">The pattern is from the October 1997 Issue of </span><i style="font-family: 'times new roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;">McCall's Quilting, </i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">which is no longer in print, but the directions can still be found online.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">It's a f</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">airly simple pattern, made out of 36 nine patch blocks (6 1/2 inches unfinished) arranged in a stairway design. Next some setting triangles are added to the end of the nine patch rows (to attach the block portion to the 'sky'. ) Then it is all sewn onto a triangle of fabric ( </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">42 inches long and wide) which becomes the sky. </span><br />
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I traced the cat templates onto the Heat Bond webbing and adhered that to the back of the black fabric to make the cat silhouettes. I had lots of the dark sky/grey fabric left so I made 2 cats from that as well. (The pattern only called for 4 cats but I figured the more the merrier, so I made 2 extra.)</div>
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I added the 2 1/2 inch black border around the outside and made the moon appliqué to sew on. These appliqués are all raw edge, so I machine appliquéd around the edges in black thread (cats) and yellow around the moon, of course.<br />
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Then I had to think about the outer border. I had 5 nine patch blocks left ( having made a few extra to facilitate the block arranging) so I decided to use these 4 extra blocks as corner blocks for the border. I had been making extra 2 1/2 inch squares to use as a border, (as the directions called for), but now I had to figure out what to do to make the borders 6 inches wide (to accommodate the 6 inch corner blocks.)</div>
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I measured my leftover fabrics, and did some math to figure out how many 2 1/2 inch strips I could make out of them. Yes! The quilting angels were with me that day! It worked out that I could make enough light grey and dark grey fabric strips to add onto all 4 sides; so along with the one scrappy row, my borders worked out. :) </div>
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After much debate, and with Lexy's help, I decided to put the darkest strip next to the black inner border, then, add the scrappy coloured one and last add the light grey on the very outside. The total quill top is 71 by 63 inches.</div>
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I'm quite happy with the way it all turned out! :D</div>
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Steppingstones- 63" X 70" <br />
This quilt is a Judy Niemeyer Pattern. It is a difficult paper pieced design which took many hours of work to complete. It is called "Steppingstones", and is actually one of the easier ones to do!<br />
I took a course in Stettler almost 2 years ago, on the Judy Niemeyer paper piecing technique from the owner of "Quilting from the Heart, a Camrose quilt shop. ( Feb 2015)<br />
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After approximately 80 (plus) hours of work (and rework) I am pleased to be done the whole entire quilt including the free motion (unframed) quilting and binding.<br />
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I used 3 packages of Bali strips for this quilt and which luckily included some extra strips, more than the project had called for. The paper pieced blocks called for each strip to be used twice, but if the seams were not cut "bang on" to a quarter inch, or if you used too much of the strip to make one of the points, then there wasn't enough left to cover the other point. I had to use my seam ripper more than a few times to take a strip off, or finesse the next ones.<br />
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I also learned that not all the sections in the patterns were the exact same size. When the directions said "use strip 2 for section 2 and 4", you had to keep track and not use that piece of fabric for another section or it didn't cover it. The blocks all look the same in the photo, but there are 3 different ones (called block J, K and L) I wrote a list to have it handy:<br />
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I also learned to cut each strip a little longer that the directions said to make it easier to use one strip for 2 points. I cut each 2 1/2" X 42" strip into 3 pieces and that worked well. (About 14 " lengths.)<br />
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Another tip I would suggest for anyone doing this pattern is to write yourself a brief note of the piecing directions. Because I worked on it many times off and on over the course of 22 months, each time I took it out to continue working on the blocks, I had to remember the exact steps again.<br />
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1. Glue strip 1 to underside of paper (just a dab to hold it)<br />
2. Put strip 2 under the paper, on top of strip 1 and pin at both ends.<br />
3. Sew line 1, back stitch at each end.<br />
4. Press open strip 2 to cover section 2 (Section 1 is also covered now and needs to be trimmed when you are done the block to use that strip for section 11- but only on block J)<br />
5. Fold line 2/ Trim seam to 1/4"(save for sec #4)<br />
6. Put strip 3 on top, edge to edge (A new strip!)<br />
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8. Fold line 3/ Trim seam to 1/4" (save for section#5) etc etc<br />
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Once I got onto the pattern it went well, but it's the type of project where you have to concentrate.<br />
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I also found it helpful to trace all the lines and section numbers on the back of each pattern piece in pencil. (I put the paper up against a window and traced,; then its marked on both sides. Just makes the folding step easier.)<br />
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I finally completed all the blocks in December 2016. I spent far too much time arranging and rearranging the blocks on the floor of my sewing room to get a pleasing "perfect" pattern.<br />
After much delay, and indecision, I realized that I disliked one of the blocks and wanted to remove it entirely, so I opened up a few seams and removed it. Then I printed up a new copy of the pattern for that ugly K block (the kit only came with a certain number of paper patterns) and luckily had some unused strips to choose from to make a new block to use, which I was much happier with.<br />
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Another thing to be aware of, if you do draw the pencil lines on the backs of the patterns, make sure you sew the strips on that side every time or you will get a block that is backwards/ reversed.<br />
Yes, I accidentally did that, too, but luckily I was able to add an extra strip on the side and could still use it. You would be hard pressed to find which one it is in the quilt now, but at first it was noticeable to me that it was a bit different.<br />
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Next step was to sew all the black sashing strips between each set of 3 blocks. Then sew the block rows together and last, to sew the black inner border around the outside.<br />
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Whew! Motoring right along!<br />
After a brief sense of accomplishment, I realized that I was still far from done. I had to make the piano key outer border.<br />
The directions called for the coloured strips to be paper pieced as well, but I thought it would be easier just to piece them together ,so I cut the fabric strips to 6 1/4 inches in length then started playing with colour placements for the borders. I decided to go with the colours of the rainbow as much as possible, red, orange, speckled orange, light yellow, dark yellow, speckled green, lime green swirl, light blue marble, medium blue, dark blue (indigo), then light violet, dark violet and repeat.<br />
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After sewing rows of the rainbow strips together I laid them out next to the quilt top to see if they worked well with the colours in the adjacent blocks. Had to do some rearranging, but I finally got a running pattern that I liked for all the sides.<br />
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Now things were getting tight. I had a few fabric strips left to choose from but each block was made up of 6 pieces of fabric so I wanted a combination that looked good together, plus would work with the border and not compete with the blocks nearby. Oh boy!<br />
The red was too dominating, the light gold was too pale, and I didn't have enough of either blue or grey to make all 4 corners.<br />
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Which quilting pattern should I use?? I looked online for ideas but still wasn't sure. Then saw a pattern on an ad for long arm quilting which gave me an idea. I thought because of the sharp angles on the points, I would go with a more circular quilting pattern, so I practiced a bit on scrap fabric what I call "ind swirls and waves". </div>
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Next question, what colour of thread should I use? There were so many different colours on the quilt top. I decided to do each block in one of the two colours showing, which meant I had to keep changing my bobbins and thread, but I liked how it was looking as I went along. I mostly used pale gold, light green, light blue, medium blue, and light mauve. </div>
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Mostly I started out using black in the bobbin (thinking it would match the back but really! What should that matter!) Then I switched to dark blue as that thread seemed to have better tension, and even did one in the middle in gold because the dark colour kept showing up in the block whenever I changed sewing direction (free motion sewing on my beautiful Janome.)</div>
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I love this sewing machine, the Janome Horizon 7700! I have had it for 3 years and I wouldn't trade it for another. It is such a user friendly, forgiving machine. The only tiny bad spot is that the needle threader broke off last year, but I haven't really missed it. I also wish that it had a warning when the bobbin thread was low. Other than that, it's great!</div>
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I quilted the outer piano key border in my favourite design, swirling butterflies. (which also look a bit like leaves.)</div>
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Yay! After months and months of work, my Steppingstones quilt was done! And I think it is beautiful! :D</div>
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CarolaDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06576550560869158079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402020190062445326.post-78481400382825849582017-01-28T20:32:00.002-07:002017-01-28T20:32:21.428-07:00Getting Caught Up- Echoes Placemats and Bows and Boughs MatsLots of quilting and sewing and (even knitting) has been going on in the last few months, but not much blogging. :)<br />
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<u>Echoes Table Runners</u><br />
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I loved this pattern in the magazine (Quilter's World- May 2016) and decided to make one as a wedding gift last summer. Then I made 2 more, one to keep and one more as a gift. (The one on the right has only a thin inner layer of webbing material. It was meant for my cousin in Germany. There they don't usually use batting on their table toppers.<br />
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After finishing 3 table runners to take with me to Germany as hostess gifts (2 Lantern toppers and one Echo topper), I had lots of echo blocks left. In November (2016) I worked on making myself a set of 6 placemats.<br />
They were sandwiched together which eliminated the need for edge binding.<br />
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Some of the combinations work better than others, but the actual placemats look much nicer and than the photo. I loved the uniqueness of this design. There was no use of rulers and cutting wheels for these mats. They were all made from tracing 2 different template pieces on different bali fabrics, then mixing and matching to get the circular pattern.<br />
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The quilting was pretty simple. I started sewing with a simple walking foot at the circle ( produced by the 4 wedges) and I sewed concentric circles about a quarter inch apart smaller and smaller and smaller towards the centre. Then I free motion machine stitched the outer part in a simple meander style. each Echo place mat measures 14" X 16" (inches).<br />
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I was happy with the outcome and was thrilled to start using them at the table.<br />
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I was pretty "done" with tracing and sewing curves by then so I decided that I would work on some straight edges and finish up the 'Bows and Boughs" Christmas placemats that I had started last year (to match the table runner that I finished almost a year ago. Never too late to work on a UFO, right?<br />
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I realized that the Christmas placemat tops were a bit too long and narrow, so I chopped off a half inch from each side and added a red border on top and bottom (to add to the width) and a narrow white /gold star border around the 4 sides. I quilted them mainly with ditch quilting except the spruce trees which I echo quilted towards the centre. (hard to see from the photos.)<br />
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The completed Bows and Boughs mats are 14 inches wide by 18 inches long. I completed them on January first (in time to use for Ukrainian Christmas, LOL! ) :) <br />
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In between these 2 sets of mats, I worked on another UFO, my Judy Niemeyer p<span style="text-align: center;">aper pieced quilt top, Steppingstones pattern. What a HUGE amount of work that was! That's another story coming up soon. Happy quilting!</span><br />
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Lantern blocks are simple to make but look quite pretty. Time was running out to make more table toppers to take along as gifts so I decided to make something that I was familiar with, the lantern blocks.<br />
I first saw this pattern a year or so ago in the Quilter's World Magazine July 2015. The quilt pattern was called Beach Calypso on page 52. It uses 2 1/2 inch fabric strips cut to 8 1/2 inch length, and 2 1/2 inch squares at the corners.<br />
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The blocks are 8" by 8" inches finished. Instead of making a quilt out of them, I made them into a simple table topper last summer for my friend B's birthday.<br />
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That table topper was made up of eight 8 inch blocks plus borders, but in Germany most of my relatives have smaller tables so I decided to make them from six blocks each.<br />
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These easy blocks just zipped along so I ended up making 3 of these, 2 fro give away and one to keep for myself. I finished the last one the day before we left on vacation.<br />
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The completed table toppers are 22" By 30" inches in size.</div>
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The recipients were quite pleased to get them, I'm happy to say.</div>
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Echo blocks are made entirely from traced fabric pieces using 2 different templates that fit together to make the blocks.<br />
It consists of 2 curved pieces of fabric sewn together, then 4 of those are sewn to each other to make the 18 1/2 inch blocks.<br />
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I had seen the pattern in a quilt magazine a few months before and decided to give it a whirl because it was quite different from anything I had tried before (except maybe the tessellating butterfly blocks that I am staying away from ! :) (Quilter's World - Time Friendly Quilting May 2016 issue pg. 19) <br />
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We were going to a wedding in July and I thought it would make a unique gift.<br />
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We were also going on vacation in the fall to Italy and Germany and I wanted to make some table toppers to take along as thank you gifts for our hostesses, my German relatives.<br />
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I liked the idea of using Bali Batik fabrics so I went hunting for some at the quilt store in Camrose, Quilting From the Heart, where they have a huge selection.<br />
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I cut the 2 template pieces out of template plastic, then began tracing on my fabrics and cutting them all out. then I began to mix and match the various pieces. When sewing the curved pieces together I found that it helped to pin them well, starting at both ends and then the middle. My best tool at that point was my tweezers which helped me make sure the fabrics were lined up properly to sew them perfectly. </div>
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Quite a while ago I had downloaded a cute idea for making a scrappy quilt made out of pieces of leftover fabrics. After a time a quilter ends up with so many small chunks of fabric leftover from previous projects, I thought it would be a great way to use some of them up.<br />
I had started making the blocks a long while back. (How long? I'm not really sure, but I'm guessing about 3 years ago…) I had made enough to make pillow shams for my sofa throw cushions, but not enough to make the whole quilt top yet. <br />
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Each block is made out of a 6 inch square and a 1 1/2 x 9 inch strip contrasting of fabric. (anything goes!)<br />
The square is cut in half corner to corner to make 2 triangles. The fabric strip is then sewn in between the 2 rectangles to make a bigger square. Then use a square acrylic ruler to trim the blocks to 6 1/4 inches or whatever is suitable. Easy Peasy! :) I had made about 60 of them.<br />
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In March I found out that a close friend of mine had cancer. My quilt guild makes comfort quilts regularly to give away to people in the community who have illness and I had often taken part in making them, but up until now, it was mostly for strangers. My friend lives in different part of the province and was going to Edmonton for treatments in April. I had promised to visit her there, not having seen her since last year. <br />
"Why not make M a comfort quilt that I could take along?!", I thought to myself. It was only about 2 weeks until the time of the visit, so it would have to be something relatively fast.<br />
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I took out my Scrappidy Do Dah blocks and laid them out on the floor (my "design wall" :) ) to see if I could make a pleasing pattern. I rearranged them numerous times taking photos to look at each time, until I had something I liked. I decided that I needed to make 4 more of a lighter colour to balance out the blocks, but in the end, I think it turned out looking quite good. <br />
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I burned the "midnight oil " to get it completed in time. Next the sandwiching and pinning was done on the kitchen floor, as usual. Then I used my sewing machine to ditch quilt the blocks. I free motion quilted the brown top and bottom border strips in my usual butterfly pattern. The outer border got a meander pattern quilted all around. <br />
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Next I cut the edging strips and sewed them to the quilt top. I finished hand stitching the edging strips the night before my trip to Edmonton. I made a label for the back using the embroidery alphabet on my Janome. (After 3 attempts, I was satisfied with the label for it. That's another story!<br />
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we headed off to Edmonton to visit my dear friend and brought her the surprise quilt. She was so pleased! And so am I!<br />
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Finished size: 60 x 70 inches<br />
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One of our little Grand daughter just turned 3 this month (February) so it's time to make her a "Big Girl" quilt. She loves kittens, puppies and the colour pink so the quilt I'm making for her has two of these on it. I decided to make 8 inch split square blocks. I had made a similar split square block as a border around a panel about 2 years ago for my husband's grand niece's baby. I loved how the blocks looked on that quilt and have wanted to make a whole quilt like that ever since.<br />
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It is made from 2 strip sets, one light, one dark with 4 different fabrics:<br />
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The kitty fabric and the dark pink are my main fabrics.<br />
Cut the fabrics into 2 1/2 inch strips, then sew 1 main fabric strip to 1 supporting fabric strip lengthwise. (Kitty fabric sewn to the green spotted fabric; the dark pink fabric to the small flowers. )<br />
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Next cut the strip sets 2 1/2 inches wide crossways. Cut rectangles 2 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches from both main fabrics. (Kitty and dark pink in this case.) Sew a little strip set rectangle to the same colour fabric rectangle. Now you have a 4/12 inch block. Sew 4 of these blocks together (with the small squares in the centre) to make the larger 8 1/2 inch blocks.<br />
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These 30 inner blocks measured 40 1/2" X 49" inches when sewn together.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now the quilt top measured 44" X 52" inches. I was aiming for a 50" X 60" quilt so I added a 4 1/4 inch outer border. (Cut kitty fabric strips 4 1/2" wide for outer border.) I had to cut 5 strips in order to have extra to add to each of the sides. </span></div>
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Now for the back: I had the perfect size of pink fleece fabric in my stash for the back with lots of overhang.<br />
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I cut a piece of batting to fit the quilt top with 3 or 4 inches extra on all sides. Then I taped the pink fleece to the kitchen floor with strips of masking tape, and smoothed the batting out over it. </div>
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Now it was time to quilt it. Because fleece can be slippery to work with, before free motion quilting, I first ditch quilted down the centre of the quilt, both vertically and horizontally to hold the fleece tight to the quilt top. I ditch quilted around each individual block as well, and then sewed all around both sides of the inner border.</div>
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I started with sewing a circle at the very centre of each 8 inch block, then I sewed 4 petals around it, one in each small centre square and next I sewed a larger petal around each small petal. It looks somewhat like a rose. After that I continued by sewing a wiggly, swirly line to the middle of the next 8 inch block and made another rose there, and so on. I need up with 30 roses. </div>
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Now for the inner border. A simple free motion wave pattern in white thread should do the trick. </div>
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Last: the outer border. Maybe my signature free motion butterflies? Hmmm, maybe I should continue the flower theme and make a daisy chain- a continuous row of daisies all around the outside! </div>
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After that, sew a 3/8 inch seam all around the outer edge of the quilt, Next, trim the excess fleece and batting off the sides. Almost done…</div>
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Now cut 2 1/4 inch fabric strips and sew together to make the binding (perimeter of quilt plus 1 inch for each corner and 6 inches overlap at beginning and end… (a total of 50 + 60 + 50 + 60 + 4 + 6 = 230 inches.) Press binding lengthwise, wrong sides together.</div>
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It seems to take me forever to decide on a quilting design for this little kaleidoscope quilt. These blocks are mostly staggered pinwheels with some solid white blocks in between to give it this extended pinwheel look which I love!<br />
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The back is a soft pink minkee fabric, a bit tricky to sew with but not as bad as some of the thicker patterned minkee.<br />
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Before I started quilting, I stitched in the ditch down the centre of the quilt to hold the minkee in place. Then I ditch quilted around the inner pink border and added a bunch more pins to the outside to hold the minkee securely. (I learned this trick the hard way!)<br />
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The rest of the quilt is done in free motion quilting (using my beloved Janome Horizon 7700 machine.)<br />
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Free motion daisy design on the inner pinwheel/ split square triangle blocks.<br />
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Free motion butterfly and swirls design in pink thread on the pink outer border.<br />
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Ocean swirls in white thread on the white border. <br />
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The binding I did in white which offsets this quilt nicely.<br />
I can't part with this one! <span style="font-family: "apple color emoji"; font-size: 20px;">😊 </span><span style="font-family: "apple color emoji"; font-size: 20px;">💗</span><span style="font-family: "apple color emoji"; font-size: 20px;"> </span><br />
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It's always nice to have a decorative table runner at Christmas. Long before I took up quilting, I had bought me first table runner at a craft sale and it was a Christmas one. It was quite simply made from two pieces of fabric, one of which had a border around it, but I loved it and still use it. <span style="font-family: "apple color emoji"; font-size: 20px;">🎀</span><br />
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Since our daughter and her husband were hosting Christmas this year with all of his family plus a few from our side (about 16 people counting all the kids), I thought she should have a nice big fancy table runner for her huge dining room table. I had enjoyed making the "Bows and Boughs" paper pieced presents and evergreen tree blocks so much that I decided to make some extra ones and turn it into a table runner for her. <br />
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The bow blocks were the trickiest to make as they each involved 7 or 11 pieces.<br />
The tree and present blocks are each 5 1/5 inches by 8 1/2 inches in size. I added a strip of white between each present block and tree block to make it 16 inches wide.<br />
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I made a similar Bows and Boughs block at both ends. In between I put a strip of 2 1/2 inch dark green sashing then added a piece of red reindeer print fabric to the centre. Last I added a 2 1/2 inch dark green border to both sides of the runner. This reindeer bows and boughs runner measures 21' X 58" in total.<br />
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I added the batting and the green mistletoe back fabric, then used the back fabric to the front to make a mock border. Next I machine quilted it. I echo quilted 1/4 inch around the tress and presents in white thread, then ditch quilted around the sashing in dark green. I free-motion quilted a small mistletoe pattern on all the sashing in dark green thread, and did a simple meander pattern on top of the reindeer centre fabric. Last came the mock edging.</div>
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I liked this runner so much, I decided to make one for myself, so I continued paper piecing more bows, gifts and trees. I chose a green swirl fabric for the centre of mine. My table is much smaller than my daughter's so I reduced the size of the centre fabric. I added the same dark green sashing to make a runner measuring 20 3/4 X 44. <br />
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I used an off white Christmas fabric for the back. After adding the batting to the middle, I sandwiched the 3 layers together, turned them right side out and quilted the top. I echo quilted around the trees and presents, then ditch quilted around the sashing.<br />
Next I free motion quilted some mistletoes shapes into the centre green fabric and also on the 2 centre sashing strips. I just did a simple swirly stitch on the outside sashing.<br />
Last I sewed a 1/4 inch seam all around the border and I was done!<br />
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I'm really happy with how my table runner turned out! The only downside was that I didn't get mine finished till mid January! I guess it will just go into the linen closet till next Christmas. <br />
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After that I got industrious and started putting the extra tree and presents blocks together into place mats. Those are still unfinished, but I have lots of time to do that before Christmas 2016. <span style="font-family: "apple color emoji"; font-size: 20px;">🎅</span><br />
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(Paper piece templates were from the McCall's Quilting magazine- Dec. 2011 issue pg 58)</div>
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CarolaDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06576550560869158079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402020190062445326.post-7027537110934065522016-01-23T21:55:00.001-07:002016-01-24T12:33:06.448-07:00Bows and Boughs Wall Hanging<br />
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In the 10 years that I have been quilting, I have never made a Christmas wall hanging! I was so focused on making quilts, place mats and runners, that I had only in the last 2 years made any wall hangings at all. ( One Hallowee'en paper pieced hanging "Wacky Jack" my Oct. 2013 blog and a paper pieced cats and plants hanging, "Tabby's Place" May 3, 2014 . See Photos below.)<br />
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So I decided to rectify that over sight but couldn't really fined a specific pattern that I liked. I looked through my old quilt magazines and saw several Christmas quilts with blocks that I liked so I decided to use 3 different ones and put them together into one wall hanging.<br />
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The first block I made was a Snowman block. I had downloaded that pattern off the Connecting Threads website in the fall. It involved cutting out the 12 1/2 inch square background, which I did from a blue and white fabric that I had bought previously. Next I printed a copy of the template pieces and cut them out.<br />
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After that I cut the snowman's various pieces from scrap fabric, his body, hat, arms and carrot nose, plus 3 snowflakes. I used Steam a Seam 2 to adhere the pieces onto the background, then I used a satin stitch (Stitch # 52 on my Janome 7700 Memory Craft) to stitch around everything, changing the colour of thread as needed. (On the back I used a thin muslin to give the appliqué some stability.)<br />
Last I used a straight stitch on my machine and black thread to carefully stitch his eyes and smile, going over it twice. Voila he was done and I love his happy smile!<br />
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The second block I made was the wreath block. I printed and cut out the template pieces, tracing the wreath pieces on different green fabrics and the bow parts on red fabrics. Again I used Steam a Seam on the backs. The back fabric is a white on white snowflake fabric which I had bought a while back from Connecting Threads. I arranged all the wreath pieces they way I liked, then pealed the paper off and pressed them on. After that I did the same for the bow pieces and 3 red berries on top. <br />
Last I did t quilting, I free motion quilted the wreath pieces one by one, about 1/3 of an inch in from the edges, but used a satin stitch at the edges of the bow and berries. <br />
(This pattern was from the Mc Call's Quilting magazine December 2012 issue page 68)<br />
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The third block I decided to make was the one called Bows and Boughs (from Mc Call's magazine Dec. 2011 issue page 58). It involves paper piecing which I rather like. (More about Bows and Boughs in my next post.)<br />
Again I printed the paper piece patterns on my computer (using thin paper- easy to tear off.) There were 2 different presents and 4 different bows, plus the trees which all went together to make a quilt, but I just needed one of each for this hanger. I added 3 1/2 inch squares of Christmas fabric under the present and tree blocks to look like small presents. It was fun to make and it lead to making other present blocks and tree blocks which I turned into 2 table runners, but that's my next blog post. :)<br />
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Other wall Hangings<br />
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<a href="http://carolasquilting.blogspot.ca/2014_05_01_archive.html">Tabby's Place Blog</a><br />
http://carolasquilting.blogspot.ca/2014_05_01_archive.html<br />
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http://carolasquilting.blogspot.ca/2013/10/wacky-jack.html#links<br />
<a href="http://carolasquilting.blogspot.ca/2013/10/wacky-jack.html#links">Wacky Jack wallhanging</a><br />
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