The sewing day was a huge success. We had a great spread of snacks and lots of projects to chose from. My house and sewing room are not quite large enough for everyone to sew inside (at least not in the same building) so we did ours mostly outdoors. January in San Diego, gotta love it.
In between chores and hand sewing the Figgy Pudding binding, I did manage to get a pillowcase sewn up for my brother. His "travel" pillow is an odd size so I hope this fits okay. It's cold in Afghanistan so I'm hoping the flannel is appreciated. I'm sure the pattern will be. Here's a close up.
Here's my favorite side of this quilt. I just like this flannel and it settled down the sherbet yellow, pink and orange front.
This one went to a friend at work and she has promised not to hang it on the wall.
I was sort of trying not to buy any fabric this month. Just to see if I could possibly do it. Turns out I couldn't. So here's what I got today to keep my projects rolling. Some green polka dot flannel for the back of the Bleeker St. A different green for the binding since my folding of the Dimples fabric was a little too neat and I didn't realize that there were huge pieces cut out. I found lots of that fabric pattern but none in quite the right green. The red with skulls is a little something for my brother who is in Afghanistan.
I cut a pink block and a red polka dot block to see how I liked it and because I'm having a hard time with the measurements of using charm squares for the whirlygiggles. I just added in some randomly recolored blocks although they aren't close at all.
So no, I'm not quite nerdy enough to take photos of all the blocks and slice them on the computer.
At least not today.
To cut them up or just whip them all together real quick?
I'm trying to pull out all of the olive quilting stitches on the top of this quilt whilst MP is helping in her own special way. I've got all the big ugly olives out and now it's just the last of the middle border that still needs to be removed. It's such a slow process and I've already burned through my Hulu queue.
This is an older one. I named it Working at Random because I don't do random well and I had a hard time keeping the small squares from going into a pattern. I suppose that's not random then but close enough for me. It's got Warm and Natural batting in it too so it's a very heavy warm quilt.
I used a die cutter to cut and fringe the small squares at the same time. I did have to go back to cut a fringe for all the big squares and that was a royal pain.
I finished this one in February 2008.
Here's the final pictures of the quilt I gave to my brother and sister-in-law. I used a jelly roll by Sandy Gervais in a cake walk pattern and then used the extra ends of the strips as the binding. I like the way it turned out but it was hard having all those extra seams while doing the whip stitching on the back.
The backing fabric is not flannel which is rare for me. I just liked the little orange flowers too much not to use them.
Here's a close up of one of the secret messages I've been putting in my quilting. We couldn't find the other message but that's okay. I've also been signing my quilts in the quilting which gives me an excuse not to actually label my quilts. I am going to make a better effort to get those on though. Wish me luck!
I think that this is the center we're going to do for the pinwheel's on my niece's quilt. I've sent the picture for approval on to my mom though so it could change. If it's okay then I've got to make 8 more yoyo buttons for this quilt. But I didn't bother to measure this one before I sewed it down. Oops!
