Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014!

I guess I did create some quilts and other projects this year.

Pond Pillow

Koi Pond Quilt

Baby Wrenly Fleece

Tote and Queen of Hearts Purse

Orphan Baby Quilt

Make It Right Challenge Quilt

Elephants on Parade Quilt

Layers of Life and Love Quilt

Mug Rug Central

I also posted a few popular tutorials this year on basting with boards:

Board Basting with Pins Tutorial

Board Basting with Spray Adhesive

Hello 2014 - Here is to more creations and tutorials!

Linking up with Lily's Quilts for Fresh Sewing Day January!

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Pat

WIPping on the Stripes!

Who doesn't love stripes? Okay, so maybe there are people that don't love stripes, but I adore them, especially for binding.

The binding on my Koi Pond quilt is almost complete.

Not quite halfway around. I decided this quilt deserved a hand stitched binding. I glue my bindings before I stitch them so much better than pins.

Yesterday, I finished my Sweet Little Orphan Baby quilt, with a striped binding. Not bad considering last week, I had just completed the top! This was my first project using a longarm machine to quilt - lots of fun!

So one finish this week and one almost finished. WOW, my list is kind of small! Guess I'm going to have to get some new projects started!

Here are this weeks stats:
In-process: (2)
Elephant quilt
Koi Pond quilt -  Finish the binding

New projects: (0)

Finished (1)
Orphan Baby Quilt. - done

   
I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday

 

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Pat

My Sweet Little Orphan Baby Quilt is Finished!

 The binding is on and sweet little orphan baby quilt is complete. I love striped binding and I have the same stripe in the quilt.

I will definitely be using Quilters Dream Puff batting again. I love the "Puff"!

Back was pieced from stash

Finished size 40" x 50". A generous sized baby quilt.

All ready for some future baby, this quilt is going into my growing stash of quilts.

I'm linking up today with A Quilt Story for Fabric Tuesday and Free Motion by the River for Linky Tuesday. 
Also linking up to Cat Patches for January's 2013 NewFO Challenge, because this is a January start (and finish)!

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Pat

First Time On A Longarm!

I am a lucky girl! A friend just got a longarm machine in October and let me play with it yesterday. So the little baby quilt that I put together last week from some orphan blocks was just the ticket to use for this practice.

We had a little trouble with the thread breaking at the beginning. We added some fabric on the edges to practice. Just like on a domestic machine, it's best to use the same thread top and bobbin. Once we did that, it was smooth sailing.

I used Quilters Dream Puff batting and it gave me almost a trapunto look.

The hardest part was around the blocks. It was hard to stop the momentum of the machine in the smaller areas.

The back was pieced from my stash. By no means is the quilting even close to perfect, but I think it looks pretty good for a first time.

All in all, I had a good day. I'm not sure I'm ready to jump into longarm quilting, though. I like sitting at my domestic machine, I feel like I have better control. But I really like having the longarm option for certain quilts, it's a huge bonus. A big "THANK YOU" CHRIS!

Now I just need to trim and bind it. Yippee, Skippee!

I'm linking up with Leah Day for UFO Sunday at the Free Motion Quilting Project, since this quilt is using up some orphan blocks.

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Pat

First Little Finish for 2013!

Okay, so it is just a little finish. But a finish is a finish and my Pond Pillow is complete!

The front of this pillow was December's Sew Cal Gal FMQ challenge. It will coordinate with my Koi Pond quilt, once that's done.

FMQ detail

The back! I found this gilt FQ the other day and just loved the sparkle.

"Antique" mismatched buttons - my husband thinks I'm crazy for intentionally using different buttons, but I love it.

I did work on a few other projects this week. I continued to quilt my Koi Pond quilt.

I love my little fishies.

I also made this little baby quilt top from some old orphan blocks.

All in all it was a productive week.
Here are this weeks stats:
In-process: (2)
Elephant quilt
Koi Pond quilt -  continued FMQ

New projects: (1)
Orphan Baby Quilt. - make back and quilt
 
Finished (1)
Pond Pillow

   
I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday

 

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Pat

Sweet Little Orphan Baby Quilt

 

I was cleaning up my sewing area and I came across these sweet little orphan blocks that were in my mom's stash. I have no idea why there were just three or when they were made, my best guest would be the 1990's. In the back of my mind, I've been searching for something to practice on a friend's new longarm machine, that she said I could try out. Then, if that wasn't enough, I found this coordinating fabric yesterday at my LQS.

I found almost a perfect match to the darker pink in the block.

Quilt is approx. 42" x 48"

Leah Day had mentioned that you should make up a few spare baby quilts to have on hand. Well, I think this will qualify, for a girl that is!

Although I don't really count my mom's UFO's as seriously as I count mine, I still count it as a UFO. So I'm linking up with the Free Motion Quilting Project for UFO Sunday!

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Pat

Whipping Up a Baby Quilt!

This week's homework from Leah Day's Quilt Along is to stitch following a line. In the video she showed a "cheater" quilt (a quilt printed on fabric), so I thought about a panel that I have had for some time. So this weekend, I whipped up this cute little baby quilt to use to practice stitching on the line.

Center panel and for corner squares added into the plaid border

I love the bright colors!

The quilt top is done, and it's all sandwiched and basted, ready to quilt! Sew now, I have to "shut up and go quilt"!

Today I'm linking up with Manic Monday and Sew Modern Monday!

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Pat