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.