What can I say, life got in my way for a LARGE amount of time. Between having my computer go bad on me, my back putting me in bed, having a couple great grand babies arrive, not to mention...we've buried my father in law and my brother in law in the last year. Can I say I'm hoping 2016 is a much better year!
I'm going to see if I can get busy bring you up to date on what I'm working on throughout the days to come. So...stay tuned!
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Friday, February 28, 2014
A Snails Pace
I finally finished my flannel rag quilt for our new 3 horse LQ trailer. I got it washed and dried yesterday so that once we get the trailer cleaned today and the mattress put in it, I can make the bed and it'll start to look like home! Will post pics of the trailer later. But below is a pic of the finished quilt before washing.
It's not perfect but hubby is very happy with it and that is all that counts in my book!
Now I can go about cleaning my sewing studio because the flannel lint is EVERYWHERE! Anyone know how to keep flannel from being so linty other than washing it first?
My next step should be to cut up fabric and get it tucked away in my scrap users system.
Now I can go about cleaning my sewing studio because the flannel lint is EVERYWHERE! Anyone know how to keep flannel from being so linty other than washing it first?
My next step should be to cut up fabric and get it tucked away in my scrap users system.
I have just a little bit of fabric to go thru as you can see. I think though I will work on it a little at a time. I'm going to participate in a quilt challenge and that should help me get some of it taken care of. Doing Celtic Solstice helped quite a bit. I've also been pulling blues and neutrals for my Blue Ridge Beauty quilt from Bonnie Hunter's book Adventures with Leaders and Enders. This has been my leader/ Ender project while doing the flannel quilt as well as Celtic Solstice.
I need to make a quick baby quilt for a young lady at church. She had a baby girl a few weeks ago, has no one for help or support so I want to be of encouragement to her. It will be different colors of pink and black. I'm going to do it in the Dancing Nine Patch pattern. This will also help get rid of a little bit more from those containers!
Then Blue Ridge Beauty will be my main project while I have the challenge project as my leader/Ender.
Hope your week has gone well! Have a totally awesome weekend!
Chris
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Lint, lint and more lint
Working with flannel can be a bit linty. This has been my problem today. I was sewing merrily along when the machine told me I needed to fix the bobbin. Well, much to my horror I had forgotten to clean the bobbin and feed dogs out the last time I put a fresh bobbin in the machine. I had lint packed around the feed dogs so bad I'm amazed they could function. Bet I don't forget to do that again.
I had to cut more blocks out for the flannel quilt and more batting blocks. I am using 7 inch squares of brown and green flannel for the blocks with batting squares of approximately 6 inches. Then, I sew from one corner to the other diagonally across the block in both directions. When I'm assembling the blocks I use a half inch seam allowance for blocks and rows.
What do you listen to or watch while quilting? Today I watched two of Bonnie Hunter's recorded quilt cams. They were from 2013. It's amazing how you can learn from watching someone else sew. I have always struggled with knowing how to label a quilt. In one of the episodes I watched today, Bonnie covered what she does. She uses an eight inch square of fabric folded into a triangle, bastes it onto the quilt back so two edges of the triangle will be sewed in the binding seam and then she hand stitches the remaining side down when she is sewing the binding down.
The quilt group I was a member of in Colorado insisted that every quilt had a label. Because we sold all of our quilts we used preprinted labels that we filled out with our information: the quilt name, month and year it was completed in, whether it was hand or machine quilted and then hand sewed them to the lower, left hand quilt back once the quilt was completed.
I like Bonnie's method of labeling quilts. I will be able to write a personal message to the person I made the quilt for and include any other information that I feel is pertinent. Wish I'd known this before I gave my great-grandson his baby quilt! May ask for the quilt back so I can add a label to it.
What method do you use to attach labels to your quilts? Or do you attach a label? What info do you include on your label?
All of this because of the flannel quilt I'm making for our bed in the new LQ horse trailer. Think it needs a label to commemorate the occasion!
I had to cut more blocks out for the flannel quilt and more batting blocks. I am using 7 inch squares of brown and green flannel for the blocks with batting squares of approximately 6 inches. Then, I sew from one corner to the other diagonally across the block in both directions. When I'm assembling the blocks I use a half inch seam allowance for blocks and rows.
What do you listen to or watch while quilting? Today I watched two of Bonnie Hunter's recorded quilt cams. They were from 2013. It's amazing how you can learn from watching someone else sew. I have always struggled with knowing how to label a quilt. In one of the episodes I watched today, Bonnie covered what she does. She uses an eight inch square of fabric folded into a triangle, bastes it onto the quilt back so two edges of the triangle will be sewed in the binding seam and then she hand stitches the remaining side down when she is sewing the binding down.
The quilt group I was a member of in Colorado insisted that every quilt had a label. Because we sold all of our quilts we used preprinted labels that we filled out with our information: the quilt name, month and year it was completed in, whether it was hand or machine quilted and then hand sewed them to the lower, left hand quilt back once the quilt was completed.
I like Bonnie's method of labeling quilts. I will be able to write a personal message to the person I made the quilt for and include any other information that I feel is pertinent. Wish I'd known this before I gave my great-grandson his baby quilt! May ask for the quilt back so I can add a label to it.
What method do you use to attach labels to your quilts? Or do you attach a label? What info do you include on your label?
All of this because of the flannel quilt I'm making for our bed in the new LQ horse trailer. Think it needs a label to commemorate the occasion!
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