Pinks & purples

I finished it!! My pinks & purples quilt! I am so happy with how it turned out!

Here is the full top after it was quilted!

And here is the pieced back.  I did not have HAVE to buy anything for it, but I chose to buy something, only because I was at the fabric store, and they had fabric ;)  I liked doing the pieced backing, I like how it looks and using up what I already have.  I also used some left over blocks/pieces on the back also.
 

Christmas ornaments

I got a great deal on these rounds last year off Amazon.  I hadn't had the chance to play with them until this fall.

 

I actually used HTV (heat transfer vinyl) also known and iron on vinyl.  I was able to use my easy press mini to put these one!  

Some definitely turned out cuter than others. 

 

 I am not sure if I will give them as gifts or just hang them on my tree!

Potholders

I have been making some more potholders for my craft fairs, so I have a good variety.

 

 I found these cute you rule SVGS and thought they would make a nice potholder gift set, since many people that buy them, buy them as teacher gifts.

 I found some very awesome coffee SVGs, so of course I tried a few of them.

 And then the ever popular Thanks for making me one smart cookie.

This time when I did them, I used my easy press mini, and it was SO much easier than using my iron had been!!  

If you are interested in buying a potholder, you can contact me by leaving a comment here, or checking out my facebook page (http://facebook.com/quiltedgoods)

Pinks & Purples quilt top done!

 

Here is my pinks & purples quilt top!!  

Here is a link to the posts I have done about this quilt.  I started this quilt in Spring 2019. I made the quilt, but knew I wanted to add a border.  So I created the pieced border, EXCEPT when I went to attach it, it did not go so well.

The pink zig zags didn't match up! So I had to take it apart, then figure out how to get it to work  I did get it to work, and I am QUITE happy with it! I will get full measurements once I get it quilted.  

I am working on the backing now, it's going to be pieced.  I am going through my fabric and trying to use up what I have.
 

Border - pinks and purples quilt

For my pinks & purples quilt I wanted to make a border.  Here is the original post about the border. It was going real well.  Until I went to put it on the quilt.  The corners looked funny.  So even though I had put two borders on, I had to take them off to do some adjustments.

I needed to add a few blocks and change the way the corner block looked. I am happy with how it turned out.  But not happy with how long it took!

Minnie was my helper while I was working on this!  Making sure I didn't mess anything up!
 

cats on quilts

This is my sisters cat, Edna on my sisters' tee shirt quilt.

Here is Earl on the orange & white snails trail quilt.  I love how much he loves quilts.  He will lay on spots on the bed that have a quilt on them, and not others!
 

Ray Quilt along

I found this on instagram.  It's a quilt by Carolyn friedlander, called Ray.  And she is doing a quilt a long, I am a little behind, but I will say it goes together, VERY quickly! 

I got quite a bit done last night! I am hoping by later today I will have a finished top!

I am not going to call this a Ray quilt, but I am going to call it a pokémon quilt, I picked the colors I did because they are the colors of a pokéball.

Quilt fort

My sister has two kids.  One day they used some of the blankets they had (that I had gifted them) to start a fort.

But they had decided it wasn't big enough for the two of them.  So they decided to add some more to it.

Here is their fort with two of the quilts I have made the family being used! I love seeing quilts being used!

Thanksgiving

Thanskgiving is spent with my friend, Christine that is in the Navy. This year was no different, except, we did not do any shopping.  We wanted to do more sewing.  Which I don't know if we got more sewing done, but we had a good time doing the sewing we did.

 

 These are the bow tie blocks I finished there.

 

 Most of my time was actually spent cutting fabric.  I took the mask left overs I have, and cut.  And cut and cut.  I cut out a variety of sizes:

Bow tie blocks (2", 1 1/4")

Spool blocks (1.5" x 3.5", 1.5")

1.5" squares

2" squares

2.5" squares

1.5" x 2.5" bricks

2" x 3.5" bricks

2.5" x 4.5" bricks

I still have a lot more to cut, but it helped make the amount a little smaller.  I do have another quilt I worked on, but I don't have pictures to share. . .yet ;)

Tee shirt quilt DONE!!

 And here is my sisters Tee shirt quilt all finished!

I made most of the blocks 14", but the middle row had blocks that were about 17" tall.  Also on the left side I sewed the green and orange blocks as a mini side row, because they were slightly longer.

I kept fronts and backs together, per my sisters request.

I love working on tee shirt quilts!

Binding

I showed the time lapse video of my long arm, but I also like to get a shot of the quilt on the machine (especially when it's a big quilt and I can't get a full picture on my own).

I chose to use a grey thread for the quilting and a grey fabric for the binding.

Here is Earl NOT helping me trim the quilt.

 

Time lapse video

Here I created a time lapse video of me loading a quilt onto my long arm.  

And a time lapse of me quilting my quilt.

tee shirt quilt 3

The shirts my sister gave me, there were some that had small squares on them the fronts and a few that had designs on the sleeves.  So rather than sew them together to make blocks, I used them as a row, a really skinny row.

I love how this quilt is coming together!

 

Tee shirt quilt 2

 I finished cutting and trimming all the tee shirts and have it put up on my design wall! 

It's quite big!! It fills up almost all of my design wall (top to bottom!)

 

Masks

 Since we have to wear masks, I have made some and decorated them :)

This is one with my school logo since I have to wear one when I am in the building.  There aren't any students in the building, but we still need them.

My husband works for Tractor Supply Company

Tee shirt quilt 1

My youngest sister asked me if I would make a tee shirt quilt for her, so of course I said yes!  The first part seems to take the longest, cutting the shirts apart and ironing on the interfacing.

I have started cutting them apart and putting them up on my design wall.

Quarantine Quilt 2

During Quarantine because of everything with school and such, I wanted something easy to work on.  This is my second quarantine quilt. 

I wanted to work on something fairly easy, and sewing all those 16 patches definitely fit that!

Spool blocks

I haven't taken a picture of my spool blocks in a while.

I currently have 295 blocks! I don't have enough room on my design wall once I make some more ;)

Quarantine Quilt

Here are the 31 blocks I have for my first quarantine quilt.

I'm not sure how many blocks I will make, probably 35!

Finished quilt

I showed this quilt on the long arm.  But here is a picture of the full top.  It was hard to get a full shot of, because it's quite large!

Here is the fabric I picked for the backing.  And you can see the binding.  

I decided to do a teal binding, I think it worked well even with the orange.

I was trying to sew the binding and noticed the quilt was not moving. . .Earl was NOT helping.

AT ALL.

This boy loves his quilts!

Long arming or I think I got some mojo back

I have not had much sewing mojo lately.  I have been biking, cleaning up/doing things around the house, but when it comes to sewing, I don't have much.  Not sure why! I have things I want to finish!

So this quilt, was one that they found when they cleaned out my husband's grandparents house.  Since I am a quilter, they offered it to me (along with a sewing machine, but this is not about that).  

I was SO excited to get this quilt.  It's a snails trail quilt, and that is my FAVORITE block!!! I love the simplicity of the colors.  Orange and white.  

I realized I don't have a picture of the fabric I used for the backing.  I will get a picture once I get the quilt finished.  Now I have to decide what color to bind it in! I don't have a lot of orange, and I don't think I would like a white binding.

Masks

School has been out for almost two weeks.  I don't know where the time has gone!

I haven't had the chance to do a lot of sewing, I have been doing other things around the house that I have wanted to get done, but we don't always have the time.

I have had a few friends and family ask me to make masks for them, so I have done that.

I only use two layers of fabric, and mine don't have a filter pocket.  But I am doing my part.

Quarantine Quilt

24 blocks! I had more time to sew!

If this keeps up, this quilt is going to be massive! It's so crazy, but full of so many fabrics.  Things I have had used in other quilts, and fabrics that just needed to be cut up.

I am not sure how big I shall make this quilt.  I might go to 30 blocks.

Quarantine Quilt

15 blocks.  School can be difficult, finding things for my students to do, doing the grading, checking up on students.  

I can imagine how tough things are for them, because they are difficult for me.  

I am glad I have this hobby to help keep me sane.  I just would like to finish other things.  But I need something that doesn't require thinking.  

Quarantine Quilt

These blocks really are coming together so quickly. I am running out of variety of blocks.  For each individual block I am using different fabrics. I am not caring about color, light or dark. 

I have been trying to go through my scraps, using things up or cutting it down.  I want to have things more organized, so it's easier to quilt.

I am up to 12 blocks!

Quarantine Quilt

These blocks are coming along SO fast.  It takes a few seams to put together, but they go together quite quickly.  I already have 6 blocks! I am not sure how many blocks I will make the quilt.

The blocks finish at 12".  So it won't take much to make this a large quilt.  This is definitely helping me through this quarantine time.  I want to sew, but I seem to have lost some mojo, so these are easy to do.

Sewing machine

I have loved using my 99k for the past 10ish years (before that it was a Montgomery Ward from the 80's that was my moms).

While I loved that machine I really wanted something with a little more throat space and backstitch.

So I have been searching for a 201 for a while.  I decided on a 201 because it has a drop in bobbin, more throat space & back stitch.

This is my 1951 Singer 201!

I found one on facebook that was close to me and within my budget (you'd be surprised ate how much some people want to charge for these machines just because they're vintage, not realizing they aren't actually worth that much.)

This one was in fairly good condition.  I did give the cabinet the once over.  And eventually I would like to fix the arm that holds the cabinet open.  But for now it's fine, I have some shelves that fit perfectly under it.  

There is actually more room to the right of the machine.  I am hoping I can train Minnie to sit there.

a new quilt?

I finished 4 quilts, so that means I need to start another one right?!

I don't know where I saw a picture of a quilt like this, probably facebook (there's so many nice quilting groups there!)  But I decided to draw it out to see how each block was put together.

I drew it out in September 2019! So over 6 months ago.  I did the math and could use two sizes of blocks, just dependent on what size strips I wanted to cut up.  2.5" x 4.5" or 2" x 3.5"

The 2.5" x 4.5" are the same size blocks that my rail fence quilt uses! So I already had some started!

These came together SO fast.  For my leader ender I have been using, the mini spools, I ran out of backing fabric (ok I can't find it, I have more, I am just not sure WHERE). So I used this as my leaders and enders.  The blocks came together SO quickly!  I love that there aren't seams to match!

I think I am going to call this Quarantine Quilt, because things being the way they are, it's very mindless sewing.

Tee Shirt Quilt done!

I decided in the long run to add the smaller blocks to the top of the quilt.

I added a 2" sashing because I didn't want the quilt to get TOO large.  I measured each row, and for the most part each of them were close in size! I did end up having to add a little sashing to the top of some of the rows.  Then I added a full row to the top & bottom of the little blocks.

I also added a slightly larger border to the bottom, I figured that if I felt it was too long after quilting I could trim it, same for the side borders.

When I quilted it I actually did it upside down, because the of the back.  (there is a picture further down), but I had one small block left over and I used it in the back, I wanted to make sure the whole thing was on there. (If you don't know, when long arming you need to make sure your backing is a few inches larger in width & length to be able to attach it to the machine.)

Here is the finished quilted quilt!

 

 

And this is the back.  I don't think I have a close up of the fabrics I used, the left & right pieces have donald duck on them.  My FIL loves him.  I had actually bought the fabric for the back a few years ago to make him a quilt.  I think it works well for the back!  You can see the one extra block on the bottom right.  The bottom left is the label I used.  I tried something new.

It's cricut infusible Ink.  I usually have done corner labels and write them with a pen, but after a few washes, it ends up coming off :/ infusible ink will NOT do that!  Next time I will use my heat press to do this, you can see where I kind of moved the transfer sheet with the iron.

 I should have made it a small block on the backside, but I folded over the edges and stitched it right on top.  But like I said it's my first time, gotta start somewhere!

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