Winter projects are finished and something new!

This is a red, brown and beige quilt made using the X block ruler and strip sets.  It will be a Quilt of Valour donation.

After I made my 50 Shades of Gray quilt last summer, I had some hst's leftover and that was start of another project using the same variety of fabrics and colours.

I demonstrated the use of the X block ruler to my winter quilting group, the Sunland Stitchers and this was one that I made from 9 patches. 

That finishes up my winter projects.  All are quilted and bound!  Yippee.

Today, while watching season 1 of Mr. Selfridge, I practised making a zippy bag.  The modern guild I belong to is having a swap with the Victoria guild and so I needed to make a bag to get the feel for sizes, quilting, inserting the zipper etc. 

Mid May, rolling along with more finishes

I have finished a few projects recently.  This first one is a Thangles block of the month for the local quilt shop, Hamels and they will be happy to have it to show the finished quilt to their customers.

This next quilt is one that I started three years ago.  I sold a quilt made from quarter square triangles at our last quilt show and it was a fun project so I started making blocks using the same technique for Quilts of Valour.  The blocks were so busy looking that I saw a quilt that used the bar or strip of fabric and that seemed to calm the quilt down a little, keeping your eye from jumping like crazy all over the place! 

These last two quilts were made from blocks that were swapped with quilting friends via the internet.  Am sure that they were from Quilter's Funtalk group but I didn't seem to have many names with the blocks that I recognized.  The blocks in both quilts have to be over 10 years old - they are from way back when purple was the 'in' colour!

I love finishing a quilt.

One more project is completed.  This is called Touchstone and is by Cozy Quilt designs.  It was a chance to try something out of my comfort zone.  Binding done.  Added to my pile of finished projects and ready for display at our local quilt show in June.

This quilt is finished.  It is an Atkinson design from the book Happy Hour.  A fun way to use fat quarters that are fun and funky.

And this another quilt that I made for the same quilt shop but it needs to go the long arm quilter and will come back to me for binding. It is a Thangles block of the month and again, a shop sample.

And best of all, we had some heat and warmth the last few days.  We were able to play tennis but the sun also showed me that I should take a break from quilting and clean some windows!

Tuesday... moving along

I am continuuing to work on the Thangles blocks.  A few at a time! 

Finished quilt for the local quilt shop.  She will have kits available as soon as I get this to her.

Close to the end of March

I wrote some goals for the month of March and have three days left to try to complete them.  I watched season three of Downton Abbey yesterday and today, sort of a marathon session for both watching the show and getting some quilting and piecing done as well as making bindings and adding them to my quilt tops.


The boxes quilt has the binding added to it.  

I have three quilts to bind.  One I quilted yesterday and today and added the binding.  One of the quilts in the stack belongs to Bonnie and is a shop sample for our local quilt shop and the third is the sample I pieced last week and it is now quilted and ready for binding. 

On my design wall is a Thangles block of the month sample that I am working on for the shop.  Not my favourite, working with blocks this small but it will go together quickly and am aiming for two blocks a day so it should be done by the end of the week. 

Now, I really need to get some housework, laundry and some fitness added into my routine.  Enough sewing and tv watching for a few days!  Will return Downton Abbey to the library and wait for season three which will be about 4 weeks.  There are 300 ahead of me on the wait list and 100 copies! 

Quilt 4 and 5 in 2014

Two finished quilts.

The windmill quilt was made from a kit/mystery from Aunt Lena's website. 

Tradewinds is  a pattern from Cozy Quilt Shop and I used a package of jelly roll strips that I have had for a year or two. 

So, two more tops that were pieced this winter are now completed and ready for donation.