quilters: what have you done recently?

It is called broken dishes. I took the class from Jenny Doan who was our national teacher at our Quilt Walk Festival this year. It is on her tutorials on her web site also. The fabric line is "table for two" thanks,

for matching seams I use the stick school glue and iron it before sewing to dry the glue thoroughly. For basting quilts I use the liquid school glue. I think it's important for the glue to be dry before sewing over it.

This is how I learned to quilt too. Of course, it takes forever to do it all by hand, so the modern techniques really transformed quilting.(I ran across some of my old cardboard templates while sorting boxes from my attic this summer. There was a time that using see-through template plastic was a huge improvement!) I still have a hard time accepting machine quilted quilts as on the same par with fully hand pieced and quilted quilts, and there was a time when machine quilted quilts would not have been exhibited in a major quilt show, but some people have turned machine quilting into an art form in recent years, and I'm in awe of their work. It's not something I have yet learned how to do. I do love all the modern cutting and piecing techniques and how fast quilts now come together. I wish I had the patience for machine quilting but I find it so difficult and still prefer to hand quilt because I'm afraid I'll ruin my pieced top by trying to machine quilt it.

This week I put the first coat of paint up in my new sewing room! We have a long way to go before I can move into it- probably January by the time I'm able to unpack boxes. I'm looking forward to pulling out all my fabric and getting back to quilting.

I took another twin size quilt to my llong arm gal. ( I made a quilt with Frida Calo sp? fabric) I am also having hervwuiltva x-mas tree panel and then I am going to add lights to that. I am almost done with another outdoor mans quilt. I bought a kit when I was in South Dakota. My other daughter wants me to make a quilt for her and her roommates to use while they watch tv.. I ordered some PItt fabric the other day.

Beautiful!! Wow, that is a lot of small pieces.

Some beautiful fabric and quilts in this thread.

This is my plan for the new year. Never made a quilt before but my sister has, so I am going to try and make one. I can sew so I think I'll be okay .

I love looking at all the quilt pictures.

I bought a jelly roll, attended a day class, made one square, other one needs a fix and ................ now I need to get my a..e into gear and do more. Problem is because it is a new skill every step is taking ages as I triple check myself. But making a quilt is on my bucket list so I better get cracking.

All these fabulous quilts and fabrics are wonderful to look at and make me realise what a journey I have ahead of me. Where are the dead easy patterns??

LOL. Cats are sooo helpful, aren't they.

I took a couple more pics and think I might go with this instead. I think the extra border of dark brown sort of finishes off the lines in the top.

Whoa-that is probably one of the neatest quilts I've seen, ever. Did you have a pattern or did you make that up yourself? I love it!

Thanks Gale W and Ashley! I made this quilt from a sketch I did awhile ago. I used my own hand dyed fabric for the background, fusible applique to cut out the girl. The trees started as a rubber stamp, then I thread sketched on top and for the leaves. I've made several of these "girl" quilts before and like using text print for the face and body.

Because I'm a showoff here's another one:




Thanks again!

Only thing I've done that is quilt-related is buying fabric.  I have a friend that has asked me to make three "lovey" quilts out of her grandfather's old flannel shirts for her and her two siblings for their children to share.  I am going to make them rag quilts with the shirts on one side with alternating navy blocks (front and back) and then to orange on the back side of the shirt fabric so that the back is orange and navy checkerboard.  They are Auburn fans so they will hopefully love it! 

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I've been MIA from quilting for awhile.  My sister is coming to visit me this month and I started a quilt for her about 2 years ago when I first began quilting.  The top was 3.4 of the way done.  I  had about 20 more squares to sew together into blocks then sewed all teh blocks together.  It's amazing how much my piecing has improved in that time.  it was a bit of a challenge in some places and there are lots of places that don't match but that's ok.  she won't mind and she knows how much I've grown in my skills since then.  

There are about 95 different fabrics in this quilt and some only appear once while others only appear twice.  It's a log cabin which make up the "pluses".  I got the sandwich glued together today so will start quilting it tomorrow.  I must say it was very nice to sit at the machine again.  My happy place.