I'd like you to meet Nancy. (named by M)
D helped me with the photo shoot yesterday while M was fixing dinner. Since M will be living in an apartment next year he wants to learn how to make his favorite meals. One of his summer projects will be to copy the recipies and practice making them. I also told him that if he helps in the garden and with canning that he can take some of our yeild to stock his pantry next year. Yay for tall people being home. I can get double help!!
I just can't say enough how much I love scrap quilts. Really. They make my heart sing.
So many memories stitched into this quilt. In the photo above I see a bit of P's backpack, and some pink pajama fabric, bug fabric that I used for a baby sunhat for D....I also LOVE the backing fabric. That is such a pretty color of brown with the pink flowers. I also love the way it looks with the green. It has a sort of electrical "does it really go?" vibe going on.
I've had some questions about the quilting on this so I'll tell you how I approached that.1. I stitched in the ditch on all of the vertical block seams.2. I stitched in the ditch on all of the horizontal lines.3. I stitched in the ditch on the diagonal half square triangle lines.4. I stitched a serpentine line across the diagonals in the string pieced areas.5. I stitched the feathers in diagonal passes in the green triangles.I used aurifil 50 wt. for the green feathers, ditch stitching, and all of the bobbin thread. I used a vareigated King Tut thread in the string pieced areas.Nancy is 64.5 inches by 87.5 inches.Here are other posts about the making of Nancy:quiltingchartreuse as a neutralauditioning fabrics for the groundhalf square triangles
Pinwheels and Strings
Last night I finished hand stitching the binding on this Pinwheels and Strings quilt.This scraptastic quilt is heavily quilted and finished with a half inch binding.
I have started putting more quilting on quilts that will be used and washed. My early quilts didn't have nearly as much quilting on them and I have found that with wear and washing some of the quilting threads have broken. More quilting means that there is less stress on any single quilting thread.Also, I like the half inch binding better for wear too. After quilting I trim the batting and backing to 1/4 inch bigger than the top. That way I can avoid clipping any of the quilting threads and they will not be able to slip out from under the binding seam. Straight quilting lines will have an extra quarter inch of stitching to help keep it from pulling out.
The finished quilt measures 83.5 x 60 inches.And I think I can still pull a few more scraptacular quilts from the scrap bin!
Chartreuse!
P and B are visiting Grandma this week and I am hoping to get lots of things done while they are away. Yesterday went well and I finished a quilt top. Today was not as productive.
I decided on chartreuse for the setting fabric for the string pieced triangles.The quilt is twin/single size. I like the way that from a certain angle it looks like rows of banners or flags.
Now I need to decide on the quilting design.My UFO pile is growing again.
