Quilt 105

This quilt has been a finished quilt top for a few years - really can't remember when I took this class at the Quilt Asylum but I know it was a long time ago! Marie took the class with me and her top never got finished. I am so glad to have this finally in the finished pile. Still not very wild about my ability to quilt well but I just need to keep going - I assume I will get better with practice. At this point I am down to 3 finished tops that need quilting. My plan is to finish them up before starting any more projects! We'll see!

 

This is Judy Niemeyer's Deset Sky pattern. At the time I was amazed that I could make something like this but paper piecing really is pretty easy. Picking out the paper is a pain though!

 

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Quilt #104

I finished the quilt I'm giving to my son for Christmas. This will be his 3rd quilt - all lap size. He's my cold person so he uses them well! I enjoyed making this quilt - half square triangles are amazing. Love the way this turned out. The only difficult part was keeping it laid out so that I could sew the rows together correctly. The colored stripes are all from scraps. I quilted it by quilting two parallel lines on each side of the black stripes with black thread.

 

Marie and I went to Houston for the Quilt Festival which we didn't get to go to because of a wreck we were in the night before. I had to stop quickly because the car in front of me stopped quickly but the car behind me did not stop at all. We were fine but my car wasn't. Anyhow, my car is all fixed and back at home where it belongs which is a good thing! While we were there we went to a quilt shop in Old Town Spring and while we were wandering a classroom we happened upon some rings to use with a sit down midarm sewing machine like my Sweet Sixteen. I could tell they were something that I would love. So that night at Marie's I ordered them on line. And I was right. They make live much easier for me. They grip the fabric and have knobs to hold on to - much easier than just holding the fabric! I do have to stop and move the ring but I really think I was stopping with the same frequency just guiding the fabric with my hands. They just make moving the fabric under the needle much easier? Love them!

 

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Quilt #103

This year I decided to make a Christmas quilt for me. Marie and I were at the quilt shop and saw jelly rolls of Christmas fabric that we liked. I had never made a jelly roll race quilt so I decided that is what I would do. Now I can say I have done one and will never have to do another! Did not enjoy the process at all and I'm really not that fond of the finished product! But I have a Christmas quilt! I didn't realize that you needed to make the first strip shorter so most of my connections happen close to either side - maybe I would have liked it better if I had done it correctly! But I still wouldn't like the process. For the back I used some poinsettia fabric from the same line as the jelly roll. I quilted it with red thread in a big wobbly stipple. Still not very good at this quilting part!

 

 

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