Fresh Sewing Day April

Happy April! I am so ready for spring. I hope it is going to come around my way soon, although today is supposed to be in the 50's. Yippee!

What the question is, what did I accomplish this month? Well, not as many finishes as February, but I have a lot of nice starts and some new quilt tops.

1. Casserole Carrier
2. 2014 Pantone Challenge Quilt
3. Mod Olive block
4. RMQG QAYG Demo sample
5. Tree quilt top and quilting
6. Tree quilt back and board basting tips

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

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Snow Day, Sew Day!!!!

Spring should be springing, but no, we are supposed to get 10" or more inches of snow today. My father always said that some of the worst snow storms happen in March. The best part, a day off and time to sew.

Sew this is what I accomplished this week.

I finished my casserole carrier, pretty happy with it.

I created some samples for the RMQG QAYG demonstration that I was supposed to do tonight, but it's been cancelled :( 

I finished the top of my Pantone Quilt 2014

Now I need to get back to sewing!!!!

Here are this week's stats:
In-process: (5)
Express Your Love
Humphrey's New Bed
Mod Ovals Quilt
Pantone Quilt 2014
IMQG Guild Block (reverse applique')
 
New projects: (1) 
RMQG QAYG Samples

Finished (1)
Casserole Carrier
 
I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

 

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Pat

Ready to be Stylin' My Next Pot Luck

Over the course of the year, I go to a lot of  'Pot Luck' or 'Bring a Dish to Pass' dinners. Needless to say, I really like to go in style and I think I can do that with my new casserole carrier.

That is actually a pretty big casserole dish, diameter is 9"wide x just over 6" high. It also fits a traditional 9"x13" pan also.

And what a great way to practice free-motion quilting. I followed around all of the flowers and leaves on the cover panel and had a little more fun on the inside panel. I used Aurifil 50wt thread.

Can you see that I quilted 'mm good' on the green strip?

I used Insul-Bright batting (shiny side toward the back or inside) and a second layer of white and warm batting. It made it pretty thick, I think next time I might just use the Insul-Bright.

The outside cover panel is approx. 30" finished and the inside panel is the width of the fabric, approx. 41" finished.

I included an inside "pocket" to put a thin board to help stabilize the casserole dish and to put a hot/cold pack.

This is just a prototype, I think I need to make a couple more to work out some of the 'bugs'. This is also my fourth week in a row with a finish!

Today, I'm linking up with FMQ Project Friday, TGIFF, Link-A-Finish Friday, and Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop

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Pat  

WIPped Into Shape

Sometimes I have epic fails, that was what I had this week. Okay, maybe that's just a tad dramatic, I just basically screwed up.

I decided to "try" and finish my casserole carrier this week. I needed to trim up the pieces and bind them. The problem is that they have 90 degree inside corners that make up the handles. Silly me thought I could do them just like an outside corner. That would be NO!

Clip the corners, just shy of the 1/4" seam

Pull the corner straight as you stitch on the binding

I didn't have time to fiddle with this to get it to lie flat, but I think it will.

I would love to think I could finish this up soon. I have several project swimming in my head and I don't want to start them until I have some of my current WIP under control.

It must be my week to work on new skills. I started a block for my guild's cancer quilt that has reverse applique'. 

Reverse applique' is definitely a new skill I will use again.


Here are this week's stats:
In-process: (5)
Express Your Love
Humphrey's New Bed
Casserole Carrier
Mod Ovals Quilt
Pantone Quilt 2014
 
New projects: (1) 
IMQG Guild Block (reverse applique')



Finished (0)

I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

 

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Fresh Sewing Day February 2014

January has come and gone. Nothing finished to show for it, although, lots of stuff almost done, lots of projects worked on.

Left to Right, Top to Bottom:
Red Window Quilt
Casserole Carrier
Express Your Love/Goddess Quilt
New Baby Lock Tiara
QAYG Demonstration

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

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Pat

WIP Wednesday

I think I found a huge part of my ongoing tension issues with my Tiara; I missed a thread guide while threading. Isn't that sewing 101, know your thread path for threading your machine???? I can tell you that I feel a little silly missing the stirrup guide!

I think it's a testament to the machine that it ran as well as it did, threaded incorrectly. Threading it correctly has allowed me to loosen the top tension and less thread breaks. YIPPEE!

I will say that quilting on the Tiara really makes the quilting go quite quickly.

I finished the red section of my Red Window quilt and I started the quilting the left side of the quilt. I think this quilt will be nice and snuggly with the fleece on the back. I love how well the quilting shows on the fleece.

I've also made good progress on my casserole carrier this week.

I've been waiting on something to add to my carrier to make it complete. I received it yesterday, so hopefully I'll finish this up this weekend.

All in all, not a bad week!

Here are this week's stats:
In-process: (6)
Express Your Love
Grandma's Quilt
Charming Squares Quilt
Red Windows Quilt
Humphrey's New Bed
Casserole Carrier
 
New projects: (0) 


Finished (0)


I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

 

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

FMQ Friday!

I had so much fun last night quilting the inside piece for my casserole carrier. I'm getting the hang of my new machine.

Can you see in the green stripe where I quilted "mmm mmm good" over and over again. I thought that was fitting for a casserole carrier. Don't most casseroles have Campbell's soup in them????

The back or actually inside of the carrier is flannel

Here's the outside panel. I think they look good together

The inside panel will wrap around a casserole dish.

This is the original carrier. I still have to add handles and join the panels together. There are a few more features I need to add to make it function properly, but I think it will be pretty cool when it's done.

Today I'm linking up with Leah for FMQ Project Link Up.

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Pat

WIPping It Up!

Well, I'm not very focused this year, I seem to be flitting from one project to another. I started fiddling around and making a casserole carrier this week. It's a good project to learn how to use my new machine.

I'm using two layers of batting; Insul-Bright and Warm and Natural

Inside of my carrier is flannel.

The original that I'm copying

I also worked a bit on my Express Your Love/Goddess quilt this week.

So that's what I've been up to this week.

Here are this week's stats:
In-process: (5)
Express Your Love
Grandma's Quilt
Charming Squares Quilt
Red Windows Quilt
Humphrey's New Bed
 
New projects: (1) 
Casserole Carrier

Finished (0)


I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

 

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

The Start of a Casserole Carrier

A few weeks ago, when I was cleaning out my father's apartment, I came across my mom's casserole carrier. I'm not sure where she got it or if someone made it for her, but I remember her using it. It worked great. The only problem, it is seriously ugly!

So I decided that it would be easy enough to make a new one for myself in a bit more modern fabrics.  I figured that this would be a great project to practice quilting on my new machine. So I started making a prototype casserole carrier.

The back/inside of the carrier

I'm using Insul-bright and with another layer of Warm and Natural batting. If it turns out, I plan on writing up a tutorial for it and posting.

I'm linking up with a Quilt Story for Fabric Tuesday and Free-Motion by the River for Linky Tuesday.

Color Me Quilty!

Pat