Dusk to Dawn quilt is finished

Hi everyone, 

I have a finished quilt to share. 

My Dusk to Dawn quilt, designed by Stacey Lee O’Malley @slostudio

This pattern was published in issue 43 of the Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine. I have a digital copy. 

I used glide thread for the first time for the quilting. I love it! My machine loved it. Even though this quilt is heavily quilted, it is still soft. The glide thread is so light and soft. I think it’s my new go to quilting thread. 

I hope you like it. 

A modern quilt top “Dusk to Dawn”

Hi everyone, 

I just came back from a ten day motorcycle trip with my husband. We drove to Nova Scotia and back. It was so much fun!!  

When I got back I was itching to sew. 

I managed to finish this quilt top today. 

The pattern is by Stacey Lee O’Malley from slostudio.ca

It was published in Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine, issue 43. 

I have a digital subscription. 

I love this pattern. 

It was quick to make and such a wonderful design. 

I need to buy backing fabric for it and quilt it now. 

And just a few pics from my bike trip 

TV interview about Quilts Kingston

Hi everyone, 

I did an interview this morning with the local tv station about the quilt show coming up. 

Here’s the link

https://globalnews.ca/video/4236005/all-about-quilts

I had my Rainbow Medallion Quilt and two of my table runners in the segment. 

A few zipper pouches

Hi everyone, 

Last week I took a day off work because my stress and anxiety was really bad. 

It happens sometimes. 

There’s no better way for me to deal with this then sewing. I stayed in my pjs all day and made simple zipper pouches from cute fabric. 

These pouches I’m donating them to our quilt show member boutique in June. 

These are the first five pouches I made. 

These are small little pouches. They are perfect for those little trinkets you want to keep together or for a child crayons. I had a bag of remnant leather and vinyl.  I used these to jazz up the pouches a bit.  

I also made two pencil cases with this super cute Canadian moose fabric.  

In all, I have 2 pencil cases and 6 mini zipper pouches. I plan to make a few more pencil cases to donate. 

I hope you join us in June for the Quilts Kingston quilt show June 8-10th, 2018.

A completed UFO!

Hi everyone, 

I have a finished quilt to share. 

My Summer blues quilt is done. 

I made the top in 2011. 

It is not very well pieced, but that’s okay. 

I wanted it done. 

So I did some simple quilting and made a scrappy binding and backing.

I need to wash it now. 

Yes, it’s off my UFO list!!!

So happy!!

I also made this small modern table topper with left over scraps from a current quilt I’m working on.  

That’s another finish, 

Makes me happy!!

A completed table runner!

Hi everyone, 

I have another finish to share. 

I finally finished this blue table runner that I started in October 2017. 

I quilted it yesterday and finished the binding today. 

I love how it turned out. 

I free motion quilted it on my domestic machine. 

This was made from scraps from my stash. 

I picked a dotted fabric for the backing and I really like it. 

A finished quilt: Arkansas Crossroads

Hi everyone, 

I finally finished my Arkansas Crossroads quilt. 

I started making the blocks for this quilt in January 2017, as part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

Every month I made 4 blocks in the monthly colour. 

I made 5 blocks in December for a total of 49 blocks. 

I added a 9 patch border. 

The quilt finished at approximately 96” square. 

I really love how it turned out. 

I had it long arm quilted by Tammy Spencer with an all over swirl design. 

It looks perfect. 

It’s a really big quilt. 

It’s almost too big for a queen. 

I love it though! It really brightens up a room! 

I hope you like it!!

A small finish and some progress....

Hi everyone,

It's been a while. I've had a slow beginning to 2018.

Oh well.

I have a little finish to share with you.

It's a small fidget quilt that I made for a work friends mother.

Her mother has Alzheimer's and lives in a home.

My work friend wanted hers and her kids names on it.

She wanted lady bugs.

She wanted some yellow and a cheerful quilt.

Other than that I had not direction.

I came up with this little quilt made from charm squares.

I added vintage trims, laces and buttons.

I made three dimensional flowers, and pennants with the names embroidered.

I did a lot of hand embroidery on this little quilt.

But it was a fun little project.

I hope you like it.

I've also been working on this quilt top designed by Diane from the Butterfly Threads blog.

I haven't been sewing regularly, so it's taking longer than it should to get this top done.

I have finished the center portion since this photo was taken.

I'm now working on the border blocks.

I hope to have this quilt top done in the next few weeks so that I can send it to my longarm quilter.

A finished quilt top

Hi everyone,

I finally finished putting the border on my Arkansas Crossroads quilt and it is now a finished quilt top!!
I’m so excited about that!!

This is a big quilt. It’s 96 inches square. I’m going to send it out to be quilted by a long arm quilter. I’m not up to pushing this big quilt through my domestic machine.

I’m keeping this one for myself. It’s going to be what I call a “visitors” quilt. I’ll take it out and put it on the bed when visitors come to stay.

I need a few of these bed quilts for our house, since the kids took all the bed quilts with them when they moved. So now I’m left with beds without quilts. Can’t have that! Lol!

So, my next scrappy bed quilt top is in the works.
The pattern is a free sew along that was held by Diane of Butterfly threads blog. It’s the scrappy star. I have a lot of the blocks done already. I’m starting to assemble it now.

Here’s what have so far.

This is just the centre. I have a lot to do still, but I’m going to try to get it done soon.

Boxing week fabric purchases

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well. I know the flu has been going around like crazy and I’ve done my best not to get sick. I’ve been working a lot of night shifts lately. I struggle when I work nights. I can’t sleep. I feel exhausted all the time. I don’t get anything done because my brain doesn’t work.

Oh well, I did add quite a bit of fabric to my stash from all those boxing week sales. It was fun receiving packages in the mail.

I did buy some fabric at my local shop Stitch by Stitch. Some Kona black and white, plus a few more blacks and off white prints to add to my collection.

These are half yards except for the Kona which I purchased 3 metres of each. The fabric on the bottom is a flannel I bought to back a baby quilt.

The next bunch I ordered from Mad About Patchwork. I love all these modern prints. I use a lot of blues. So I got quite a few of those. These were all in the sale section, and are fat quarters. Love them all.

The next batch came from Fabric Sparks. These were also all from the sale section. Three bundles of fat quarters and some half yards. I love all these modern prints.

Then, I ordered some cute prints from Fabric Please. These were also in the sale section. I bought some children prints to go in a boy quilt as I didn’t have many of these in my stash. These are half yards.

Then I ordered a big order of fat quarters from Canadian National Fabric. These are traditional prints. Lots of blacks, blues, reds, greens. I use these colours a lot. They will be used up no problem. Again, these were all on sale.

I did buy more fabric at another local quilt shop, but I put it in my stash before I took a picture. Oh well.

It was fun adding new fabric to my stash. I hadn’t done much shopping last year and I felt good about getting all these. I spoiled myself. I know. But it was fun. Lol!

Now, I just need to get back to feeling like myself so that I can sew. My motivation has been low from working all those night shifts.

My Arkansas Crossroads Variations quilt top progress

Hi everyone!!

I’ve been working on my Arkansas Crossroads Variations quilt top. I made the blocks for this top during the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2017.

I finally got all the blocks sewn together today. This has 49 blocks in a 7x7 layout. I made 4 blocks a month for 12 months, plus one to give me 49.

I want this top a bit bigger. So I will make some low volume 9-patch squares for the border to finish the top, I’m going to start those tomorrow.

I’m really loving the look of this top so far. I hope you like it too!

2017 in review

Happy New Year Everyone!!

I would like to share a review of my makes of 2017. I did complete a lot of projects. I didn’t finish too many UFO’s, but I’m hoping to get a few more done in 2018.

Here are some of the larger quilts I made.

Then I have a lot of smaller quilts, table runners, placemats, mug rugs, pincushions, needle keepers, project bags and such.

 

I’m pretty happy with all the quilting and sewing I did in 2017. I hope that I can be as successful in 2018. Wishing you all the best for the New Year!!