Michelle's Log Cabin Quilt

Here is the quilt on our spare bedroom queen size bed.  The quilt measures 84 inches square so that leaves a drape on each side of 12 inches.  The quilt is 12 blocks by 12 blocks, with each block containing 13 pieces for a total of 1,832 pieces in the body of the quilt. 

The pattern was derived from Eleanor Burns Quilt in a Day Log Cabin book.  However, she used 2 1/2 inch strips where I narrowed it down to 1 1/2 inch strips...pre-sewn.  The width of each strip sewn is 1 inch. 

The entire quilt is handquilted.  That means, it is quilted over every single inch of it.  I used over three spools of quilting thread on this quilt - more than I have ever used on any quilt. 

If you travel through  my blog, you will see that I made Breagha a quilt almost exactly like this one.  Michelle liked it so well that she wanted an identical one for herself.  I loved the idea of having matching mother/daughter quilts made by mom/grandma. 

I backed the quilt in a soft white muslin and here is a view of the quilting on the back.

The binding was done in red to match the red centers of each block.  The border was done in my favorite quilting stencil of hearts as I always feel that I am wrapping it up with love. 

I must say that when my daughter saw the photos of her finished quilt, she was awfully happy.  She did a search on the history of log cabin quilts and loved what she discovered about them.  More than fitting that both she and her daughter, living in Scotland, will each own a log cabin quilt. 

More Free Motion Quilting

Everytime I practice free motion quilting, I discover something new. I am throughly enjoying the process of learning this skill. AND Breagha ends up with another quilt for her dolls.

Canada Post

Canada Post never makes my day but today was worse than ever!

Finally purchased a box so I could get Breagha's picnic quilt sent. It was long overdue and since spring comes early in Scotland, it just had to be sent.

And here is the receipt! Unbelievable as it was just a tad larger than her other quilts and the average cost of sending them is just under $25.

I have to learn how to squish the quilts to fit in smaller boxes, lol

Breagha's Story Book Quilt

Finished Breagha's 10th quilt this morning. I think she is going to just love this one! No store bought blankets for this child, only quilts made by her grandma.

Did not back it in flannel, backed it in muslin instead. Can't wait to get it packed up and shipped to Scotland. I must apologize for the photos but I have been blogging from my Iphone.  For some reason, I have been unable to upload photos from my digital camera folders to this blog.  And for some reason, the crisp and clear photos from my phone do not come through to the blog very well. 

Precuts

Ever since I started buying precuts, I love them ALOT. Went out today to purchase a particular quilt book, was unable to find it, but discovered this one on the rack. Now for a lazy afternoon of reading and dreaming.

Breagha's Story Book Quilt

I had charm packs of Little Rascals, Lil Apples, Sherbet Pips, A Walk in the Woods plus charm packs from Connecting Threads in About Town, my Little Farm, Parlour Pets, Love my Honey and Just Desserts. Took them all and cut them down to 4 inch squares and did a basic 9 patch block.

Made a total of 25 blocks with lots of interesting characters in them. Even managed to salvage enough from the Elmo fabric to make a block of Sesame Street characters.

Michelle will be able to develop all kinds of story lines with this quilt, thus it's called Breagha's Storybook Quilt.

Here are the blocks:

Hello UPS

Look what UPS delivered to my door this afternoon.

I ordered this from Amazon when it went on sale but I've been wanting it forever! I just love everything MODA and especially their fabric designers.