by Nancy
About a month ago I was getting bored with our plain blue and maroon placemats. Christmas was past but it was too early for flower placemats, so I decided to make some kite placemats for windy March days. The kite is a paper piecing pattern from the 2010 Project Linus quilt. Some of you may recognize the kite fabrics from James’ quilt. I am pleased to say that no fabric was purchased for the making of these placemats. 🙂
It’s finally, completely done! Label, hanging sleeve, dowel rod, hung on the wall (mostly level)…the whole shebang:
My “assistant” “helped” me hang it on the wall and I was unable to get a photo of the completed quilt without him.
Here’s another view, that shows it with the wedding quilt that Ann and Nancy made ten years ago:
I’m now moving on to other UFOs…stay tuned!
by Nancy
My quilting productivity is inversely proportional to the number of snow days in our school district, so progress has been somewhat slow lately. But I have finished piecing my hat and mittens table cover, quilted it, and sewn the binding on. If all goes well, I’ll blind-stitch the binding to the quilt back tomorrow at Quilting Ladies, and it will be done. Here it is in its nearly done state:
UPDATE: I was able to go to the Quilting Ladies yesterday and got it all done! Yay! Picture to come soon!
By Nancy
I think this may be the second Crackpot project made using fabric (the striped one) Lorene gave us at Thanksgiving. I want to make a table covering for the table which is right inside our front door. Currently it still has a fall leaf applique on it, so I’d like to get caught up on the correct season. 🙂 These are the three blocks I’ve made, and now I need to put them together with some setting triangles and a border…
I started working on this in January, 2003:
I finished the hand quilting during and after All Together Week this summer, so all that was left was the binding, which I sewed on a couple of weekends ago and have been finishing off ever since. I still need to put the hanging sleeve and the label on the back (and wash it, because it is covered in cat hair!) but it’s finished enough to show in public!
is to make a new lap quilt. The old one is dated 1984, and it’s getting a little grubby.
This is the fabric I’m using:
Most of it is a collection of quarter yards purchased in a bundle at Schoolhouse Fabrics in Floyd, Virginia, in 2002. Yep. This is fabric in its prime.
Since I can’t decide on one block er am flexible in my choices er prefer to be spontaneous er like variety er am a Crackpot er don’t have a plan, it will be a sampler quilt.
I haven’t done any serious piecing in a while so I decided to go back to the old standby–Marsha McCloskey’s Block Party. This means that however many blocks get done will be nine-inch blocks. To make it easy to get started, I decided to group my fabric into sets of three, with varying colors and values. Then I looked for blocks that used just three colors. I eliminated all the blocks that called for measurements of 1/16 inch (indicated in the book as +) because my rulers don’t have that marking.
My first block was Ohio Star, and here it is:
The second block was Perpetual Motion, and here it is:
Now, what shall I make for the next one? Get out your Block Party book (I know you have one) and make some suggestions.
by Nancy
Here is this year’s Project Linus Pattern from the Jan/Feb 2011 Quiltmaker. I think it’s quite cute, and I have plenty of bright colored scraps from other kids quilts that I could use for the sailboats. I don’t think I’ll be making any blocks before Christmas, though – too many gift bags and other things in the works!
by Nancy
I’m pleased to report that I’m making good progress on the train quilt, seen in this post. I finished machine quilting it and sewed the binding on to the front. Now I just need to hand sew the binding to the back, and it will be done. It feels nice to work on a flannel quilt when the weather is cold! It was not as much fun to do the machine work in the sun room, which is not well insulated. 🙂
By Ann
These are two “Arrowhead” blocks that I pieced during our last visit to the Cute Little House following directions in the Nov-Dec. Quiltmaker. The piecing technique starts with two 8″ squares of fabric that are stitched together around the edges, leaving two strategically placed gaps in the seam. The blocks are then cut so as to yield 4 triangles, two halves of a 4-patch, and 4 “arrowheads” that are then stitched together to make the completed 9″ block. The fabrics are from my friend Lorene, who has been de-stashing her sewing room, much to my amazement and puzzlement. [Note: this was a minor de-stashing that took place about a year ago, probably as a warm-up to the much more recent de-stashing that yielded 4 boxes of fabric and notions that we Crackpots will explore and disperse over Thanksgiving weekend.]
But now that I have these very cool blocks, what shall I do with them?? I have enough fabric to make 2 more blocks. I’m thinking of an apron with 1 block as the bib and two or three more (probably two on point) at the bottom of the skirt. I am in desperate need of new aprons since my 8-10 year old ones are showing some signs of wear. So, maybe after Christmas and the 2010 Crackpot summer quilt, and the wall quilt for the CLH…..
by Nancy
Friends of ours recently had their first baby, a little boy, so of course a baby quilt was in order. I saw this flannel train print a while ago at JoAnns and knew I had to buy it because eventually there would be an opportunity to use it for a special baby. Right now I’m machine quilting it, as you can see by the basting safety pins in it. Here’s a close-up of the fabric:
