Anyhow, this was the end result at my first attempt and I think Breagha will be getting a quilt for her doll!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Free Motion Quilting
Yesterday I made my first attempt at machine quilting. I've been busy buying books on it, watching videos and gathering all the necessary equipment including two different attachments for my sewing machine. The first attachment was wrong and broke almost immediately. The second was perfect!
Anyhow, this was the end result at my first attempt and I think Breagha will be getting a quilt for her doll!
Anyhow, this was the end result at my first attempt and I think Breagha will be getting a quilt for her doll!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Breagha's Sherbet Pips Quilt - Part 2
Backed the quilt in flannel, pink teddy bears and little birds. Used just a white binding.Breagha's Sherbet Pips Quilt - COMPLETED
Breagha's Sherbet Pips Quilt is completed and already on it's way to Scotland.
I am almost embarrassed to admit that I finished this quilt so quickly, means I spent way too many late nights, sitting on my couch, watching movies and quilting away.
For some reason, I am having a difficult time uploading images so I am just going to put them on here and hope for the best!
I am almost embarrassed to admit that I finished this quilt so quickly, means I spent way too many late nights, sitting on my couch, watching movies and quilting away.
For some reason, I am having a difficult time uploading images so I am just going to put them on here and hope for the best!
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Breagha's Sherbet Pips Quilt
Oh, the Sherbet Pips fabric line. How I love this!!!!! I discovered the pips at the end of their production and ordered what I could find on Ebay. I managed to obtain three charm packs of this delicious fabric and I also managed to buy some bits and pieces as they appeared on Ebay.
There is no question that Breagha would be getting a quilt from this line and today, I finally finished sewing up 12 - 12" blocks of it, using two packs of my precious pips and some of the yardage.
And here are the blocks
Each block will be bordered in white fabric. I plan on getting this top completed by the end of the day, ready for marking tomorrow. With our frigid winter settling in for the rest of the week, the timing is perfect to stay indoors and quilt away.
First Quilt of 2012
Started off the New Year making a coin quilt. I have looked at these on so many blogs and thought it was time to try one.
The top is made completely from fabric from Connecting Threads - design called Peppermint Forest. I ordered quite abit of this fabric with the thoughts of making a Breagha a quilt from it. In my order, I also had a layer cake of this fabric and that's what I used to make this coin quilt.
I like it well enough but not enough to mark and quilt it right now. It's gone into the pile of WIP and I'll get to it when the mood strikes me, lol. I have quite abit of this fabric in fat quarters and yardage so I foresee another quilt using this fabric.
I really do love the color combinations in this quilt.
The top is made completely from fabric from Connecting Threads - design called Peppermint Forest. I ordered quite abit of this fabric with the thoughts of making a Breagha a quilt from it. In my order, I also had a layer cake of this fabric and that's what I used to make this coin quilt.
I like it well enough but not enough to mark and quilt it right now. It's gone into the pile of WIP and I'll get to it when the mood strikes me, lol. I have quite abit of this fabric in fat quarters and yardage so I foresee another quilt using this fabric.
I really do love the color combinations in this quilt.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Breagha and her Lollipop Quilt
The lollipop quilt landed in Scotland a week or so ago and my daughter sent me this video of Breagha with her new quilt. It's so cute, it has to be shared.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Breagha's Elmo Quilt
Finished Breagha's 8th and final quilt for the year. I am so pleased that I managed to complete so many quilts for my precious grandaughter in that time frame.
This was my first "modern" quilt, my very first attempt at making a quilt without a pattern to base it on. There were a few bumps along the way, things I might have done differently now that it is completed.....but I thoroughly enjoyed the "process".
The center block was made from a fat quarter, contributed by my daughter, Michelle in Scotland. It is definitely the focal block of the entire quilt.
Backed the quilt in a flannel alphabet fabric. I found this at Fabricland, on sale, and was so excited that I was snapping a picture of it, in the store, and emailing it to my daughter, all while the fabric was being cut. An Elmo quilt needs an alphabet backing.
Handquilted the entire quilt in a new stencil I found but did the borders in a straight feather pattern. Bound the quilt in yellow.
Started this blog a year ago and although I am not a regular poster, it has been fun putting this together. The blog is really a diary of quilts for my grandaughter, a thing done in real time, something that she can read when she is older. My daughter and I both love and treasure quilts and it is my hope and dream that Breagha loves them just as much as she grows up.
This was my first "modern" quilt, my very first attempt at making a quilt without a pattern to base it on. There were a few bumps along the way, things I might have done differently now that it is completed.....but I thoroughly enjoyed the "process".
The center block was made from a fat quarter, contributed by my daughter, Michelle in Scotland. It is definitely the focal block of the entire quilt.
Backed the quilt in a flannel alphabet fabric. I found this at Fabricland, on sale, and was so excited that I was snapping a picture of it, in the store, and emailing it to my daughter, all while the fabric was being cut. An Elmo quilt needs an alphabet backing.
Handquilted the entire quilt in a new stencil I found but did the borders in a straight feather pattern. Bound the quilt in yellow.
Started this blog a year ago and although I am not a regular poster, it has been fun putting this together. The blog is really a diary of quilts for my grandaughter, a thing done in real time, something that she can read when she is older. My daughter and I both love and treasure quilts and it is my hope and dream that Breagha loves them just as much as she grows up.
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