Chiefs star quilt

Here is the quilt on the long arm.  I just did a meander.

 And here it is laid out.  I don't have a picture with the binding, but I used solid, red, white, yellow & black.

Top done!

And here is the top all finished! I think it will be big enough for my sister & her husband (who is 6' 4") since this is our California King bed!

Chiefs star quilt

 Here is step one of adding sashings.  Some of the blocks were 12.5", so that made it interesting.  I had a very hard time trying to decide how to sash it. 

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Stash bee 2014

I joined stash bee this year. I asked for star blocks in red, white, yellow or block. 

These are the lovely blocks I received. I added a few of my own. But here it is laid out. I wanted to make a Kansas City Chiefs quilt for my sister & her husband.  So I added the large KC to the center.

My dads quilt given to him

Here is my dad with his quilt!  I think he likes it :)

 

He was definitely surprised!!

Dad quilt top done!

Here is the top all laid out (it sure was hard to get a full picture of it!!)  I chose a smaller white border then a wider black border.  I had wanted to do a yellow border also, but then I would have struggled finding batting to fit it! as it was it JUST fit on the batting.

I tried to get a picture of the quilting here.  I stitched inside the letters 1/4" (of the Chiefs and the KC) and then inside the yellow of the arrowhead and white of the arrowhead.  I also stitched around the black border.

This quilt was probably one of the quickest quilts I have ever made. Now I haven't always kept track of when I started projects (I am doing that now) but I started this one on January 3rd (designing it) and finished it on February 16th (minus the label).  It's amazing how fast something will come along when you are motivated!

Quilting my dads quilt

I'm still amazed I was able to quilt this on that tiny machine!!

I quilted this while I was in DC visiting my friend.  I will say I am kind of glad I did it there, so that I could use the table behind the machine to lay out the quilt on.  But I had to throw it over my shoulder to support it!

And here is what the back looks like:

It doesn't match the red on the front, but they aren't next to each other so it's ok :)

Dad's quilt - top done!!!

The top was finally (almost) done!!! I haven't added borders and I think I will add a row of red to the bottom (where it says Chiefs) and the left side of the arrowhead.  But to have this top done!! I am SO excited!!

My dads quilt cont.

This thing came together very quickly, even though it was a lot of 3" squares!

Pepé blended in ;) Even though I was trying to be very careful I still messed up a row or two.

Pepé didn't care.  He just thought it was cozy!

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My dads quilt

This is the quilt I made for my dad.  I googled and found this design :

And then using paint (and a little help from microsoft word) this is what I came up with:

And I was SO excited to start

Friday night sewing

I got SO much done tonight! Wish I could share more pictures.

I finished a quilt top. And started quilting it. I hope to finish it soon (maybe this weekend?)

I've been working on Celtic solstice. I have pieces that I'm starting to put together blocks but there's not enough for me to take pictures. 

Tomorrow I'm working on finishing the quilt and possibly working on a table runner. 

Hopefully more pictures to come!