Sunday, December 29, 2024
Just a Few More Quilts and StuffThe
Saturday, December 28, 2024
I'm Still Here!!
These 40 x 40 inch quilts were all made for donation to the neonatal unit at the local hospital.
It is a variation of the old kaleidoscope block but with some light color in the "spokes".
Before Christmas, I had a very fun time with some friends of my daughter working on a cookie exchange in the kitchen of one of her friends!The next four are all donation quilts
for another group I participate in. They are all about 40 inches wide and 60 to 80 inches long.There is also another one still on my camera!! I have been very busy machine quilting!!
This is the block! You then put four of them together. I am working on a version of this for my guild's challenge but won't post that for awhie!
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
It's Been Far Far Too Long Since I Have Posted!!
This is one of two that I completed. and they are pretty good sized at 42 x 80. If you look closely, you can see something new that I tried -- faux piping (that thin yellow strip next to the blue binding). Luckily, I didn't look on the internet on how to do it! My way worked well and I think was a lot simpler. I cut my binding at 2 1/2 inches like always and then cut some yellow 2 1/2 inch strips in half (I have a ton of them!) so that I had strips that were 1 1/4 inches. I folded them in half and ironed them. The trick for me was how to turn the corners. Well I did for the blue binding as usual but started the sewing down of the binding at about an inch from the corner with the yellow strip with the folded side out reaching to the corner. It worked just fine and the 1 1/4 inch size seemed just about right. I did this with several of the quilts I completed that I thought just needed a little something extra!
I now have piles of yellow, blue, green and purple blocks so there are definitely more of these in the future. As they are a bit small for the neonatal quilts, I will be adding a white border and then a colored border (color yet to be determined) before binding them. I have seven more baby tops to do but have to get some batting from the club to finish them..
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Still Making Comfort Quilts!
Trying to use up the bags of miscellaneous strips that I brought from NC and I am absolutely sick of looking at them and the pile never gets smaller! I may do the unforgiveable and just heave them!
I had a couple of huge bags of purple 45 degree triangles left over from a quilt I made in 1998!! So I decided that I would make a purple version of the "blue bagel" quilt I made a couple of years ago. I did have to cut up the light colored background pieces though as well as some of the corners. This is a closeup of the block so I will remember it the next time I make this quilt!!
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Slowly Using Up All Those Previously Cut Pieces !
This has one block turned around which I subsequently fixed but somehow lost the picture! It took me 45 minutes to undo and redo as the bad block is on one of the insde spots!
Monday, August 19, 2024
It's Been Far Too Long!!
This is the lighter brown one.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Catching Up!
I decided to do some dyeing this past week while my husband was away. I was anxious to try a new technique I saw on FB. It seemed it would be less work than some of the other techniques I use in Ice dyeing.
The technique is to apply the dye directly to the fabric, sprinkle some soda ash on top and then cover with the with the ice. The tshirts were first soaked in soda ash solution for several hours and then dried before applying the dyes.
Hint -- it was probably not less work and I am not sure I am crazy about the results but it was worth a try. There was so much dye used that the rinse out was a super pain!! Bloggerf is not behaving and keeps losing my pictures and making all my text get underlined and changing colors!
This was an attempt and vertical stripes but not very successful.This was probably the one I liked the best of the bunch!A slightly more successful stripey one.Not too bad but still not there!This and the next top were both finished from the same flowered fabric and I have a lot more but will use to back one of the quilts.The third picture is the fabric I used,