S family memory Quilt 2 - finished

 Jordan likes red, so we added a red border to her quilt, used red for the backing AND red for the binding.

Here is the binding being sewn on.  This is a 99 I gave to Jordan so she would have a sewing machine to use.  I would like to update it and get her a machine that has back stitch.  I shall keep looking.  But it's been a good machine for her.  And I showed her how I back stitch by turning the item around and taking a few stitches.  Not the easiest, but it's a work around.

And here is the full quilt all finished!  I love it.  And the best part is that Jordan loves it!

S family memory Quilt 2 part 2

 

Jordan did a great job of figuring out exactly how many squares we would need for the hearts and then the background. 

While I was at school she laid them all out on the design wall. 

I love her placement and patterns. This is one of the reasons I’m so glad she was able to help work on her own quilt. If I would have done it, the squares with stripes would not have been going the same direction. I would have made them more random. But since she is helping she got to lay them out in the way she prefers. 

 

I chose to sew this a little differently than I have in the past.  Before I would have sewn each row individually, then sewn them together.  I chose to do something called webbing.

So I sewed the first two rows together.  Then I added the third row to it, so they were all connected.  It makes it big but then also kind of easier to put together.

S family memory Quilt 2

Jordan came out to visit for her spring break this year.  She has come out a few times, I definitely enjoy the one on one time her and I get.

We decided since she was coming out we would get started (and hopefully finish) her memory quilt.  When Becca & I did hers, we first cut up all the clothes, then put them in four piles for the each of the memory quilts.  So that part was a lot easier when starting on Jordan's.

We also had a box of left overs from Becca's quilt so Jordan was able to pull from that too.

Originally when we were designing the quilts she had wanted a big heart, which would look nice, but the issue would be that there are so many different colors of clothing, one big heart wouldn't work well, so we decided on multiple hearts.

We chose 4" squares, we had thought about 5" squares, but then it would have made the quilt too big.

Jordan was very excited to start putting up blocks as soon as she could!  I had her do the ironing (of interfacing), and then I cut blocks for her to put up on the wall.  I had only cut a few but she wanted to start deciding how to lay them out.

Then as we continued we had enough blocks that she could put up a test heart block.  I can't wait to see how this quilt turns out when it's all finished!

S family memory Quilt 1 part 2

We have most of the strips for B's memory quilt from her dad's clothes cut, so we started laying them out on the wall.

This is the fun part.  And it definitely comes together quickly at this point! it's just long sewing.  

Most of the pieces fit on my design wall, which helped with putting it together and making sure everything was in the right spot and to make sure nothing that was similar was next to each other.

Memory quilt 1 part 1

 

One of my friends husbands passed a few years ago.  She gave me clothes to make quilts for her & her 3 kids.  One of them was here, so I asked if she wanted to get started on it.  So we decided to start on it.  She really liked the Ray Quilt and asked if we could do that for her quilt.  

So we started ironing on the interfacing and cutting up some strips.  I decided starting on hers would be best since it would take the largest strips.

It was nice because she was able to decide how she wanted it laid out.

Finished Quilt

I finished the memory quilt (and washed it).  I love how it turned out.  I took some pictures outside.

Memory Quilt - blocks

I have finished interfacing/sewing/cutting all the blocks I needed.  There are a total of 20 blocks, so 4 x 5 blocks.  With the 5th row being slightly longer.

This is not the final layout.  Just me putting them on my design wall to make them easier to count.  I had two blocks that wouldn't stay up there.

These were a pair of leggings.  All I could see on them was "Celine Dion" which is funny to me. 

Memory Quilt

I was commissioned to make a memory quilt.

The woman whose clothes these were enjoyed traveling and visited many Hard Rock Cafés.  This is about half of the blocks I would like to have done.

There were also some leggings, I was able to get enough for one block (the top left one) and then I sewed some strips together to get another one.  

Finished tops!

Top #1

 I think this picture shows the colors the best.

Top #2 this one I didn't take as many progress pictures because it was the last one I did and it came together pretty quick.

Top #3 this was one of my favorites of the 4, you can see so many different kinds of fabrics.

 This isn't the FULL top, but close enough.  I love how the star points turned out!

(and these are finish #6, #7, #8 & #9!!!)

I am linking to link a finish Friday!!! 

Teaser pictures!

Here are the 4 quilts laid out with the labels showing.

And I downloaded a new app that allows you to put pictures together.  And so I put the 4 quilts together in one picture.

Long arm part deux

Here are two pictures of me long arming one of the memory quilts.  I like the first shot because you can see the backing I chose.

 Here you can see the long arm.  Gosh I am so in love with those machines!

Quilting

My original goal had been to finish the four quilts before school started.  Well I wasn't able to do that. But I was pretty close!

Here is one quilt on the long arm.

I just did a meander.  You can kind of see it is here.

 And I outlined some of the designs.

Lake house

I know I posted about going to a lake cabin with my in-laws. I had to work in the memory quilts, so I brought them along, and was SO excited to sew out on the porch with a lake view.  

It was very cool, until the bugs started biting.  So I actually wasn't outside too long!

laying out blocks

This was the first quilt I started, because of the star points and borders.  It was tough to do at home because I needed room to lay it out.  I joined some Indiana quilters at a quilt shop in Greenwood (Indianapolis) and was able to use the large tables to lay it out.

 These were a little easier, but I still wanted to make sure I had enough.  It took a lot!!

 

This one didn't take as much, because I used the same squares as above.

Memory quilts

I was commissioned by a friend to make memory quilts for her and her three girls. Her husband/their dad died in November of last year.  I of course said yes, this woman and I had been quite close at one point.  (moving is difficult)

I searched the internet for memory quilts, I knew I wanted four different quilts, and I had been given a variety of fabrics.  There were tee-shirts, jeans, suit coats, boxers, dress shirts and even some shoes! (which I managed to incorporate) I started a board on pinterest.

Here are the four quilts I drew inspiration from (each picture is a link to the original):

I have shared pictures of interfacing the fabrics.  There was a lot to interface. Then the cutting.

Cutting up some clothes

I have been cutting up some clothes to put into a quilt.  I can't share much about everything just yet.

It's taken a lot of interfacing, and there has been a lot of interesting fabrics!!  I think the most interesting is the ski jacket (the red & black).  I have also cut up some boxers, suit jackets, pants, jeans and khakis!  It sure will be an interesting quilt, but I needed to cut up the clothes before I got much further!