ENGLISH PAPER PIECING

Another quilt in the making.  I love this type of hand work.  The directions call for over 3500 hand made hexagons.  Sounds like a lot and I have been working for a year and have about 600 hexagons completed so I have a ways to go.  Ha !!

I am making a Grandmother's Garden quilt.  I got my supplies from paperpieces.com and my pattern. there are so many pre-cut shapes and ideas.  Some of Jen Kingwell's pattern have a mixture of English Paper Piecing. Appliqué and tradional hand piecing in them.  I would love to try one of those also.  I have Sweet Tea and Green Beans pattern by her and also a book of patterns Quilt Lovely.  Great for the many leftover scraps.

Here is a picture of my current progress.  I believe I have a ways to go.  ☺☺

Gypsy Quilt Progress Since Last Post

It has been over a year since I have posted anything on the progress of my Jen Kingwell's Gypsy Quilt that I am making.  See some of my project just take forever as I am always starting new ones in the process because of my obsession with all things fabric.  I am hand quilting with Aurifil 24 weight cotton in a off white color and it is great thread to work with and I have some nice medium like stitches which make the quilt remind me of a nice old patchwork quilt that I grew up with and loved.  I thought about quilting this on my sit down longarm "George" but decided I would try my luck with hand quilting.  I probably have another 6 months to go before I finish it.  (at least).  I took a bunch of orphan blocks and made the backing for this quilt.  I have been trying to use up some of my fabric stash as I don't have the space to keep storing more and more fabric so am trying different ways to do my quilt backs which I think are even prettier than just one solid piece of fabric.  Almost like making 2 quilts.   I will post again when this project is complete.  BTW, I did not buy one single piece of fabric to make this quilt as it is mostly just my left over scraps.  I loved piecing this quilt top!!!!!!

Happy Quilting and Sewing!!!!!

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Pillows For Sewing Room

Yes, finally after 3 years I have actually pulled out an unfinished sewing project and is now completed.  I know we all have those and I still have plenty more of them.  What makes me do this?  Well, I believe it is my love of all things colorful to do with fabric, thread, pictures, markers, pens, crayolas, etc.  I see a new piece of fabric and get a vision of what I can do with it.

I also believe my new bullet journal system of organizing my life is helping with this.  If I put it on my list I have to accomplish the to do or keep moving it to another week and after several weeks of rewriting I think my mind said "just do it and move on ".

Can you tell that one is a spool of thread?  No one in my family saw that but me but then they aren't sewers/quilters. These were made from the left over scraps from my curtains below.  Happy Sewing!!!

Playful 2 Quilt For Zoe

My latest finished project is attached below.  Noticed I used the words finished project as I have many that are works in progress but not finished.  This is a quilt for my Grand Daughter, Zoe as she got a new bed and needed a new quilt.  It is Playful 2 by Cluck Cluck Sew.  It took about a month from start to finishing.  I quilted on my Bernina 750 using a walking foot and the #4 stitch.  It was a fun project.  The matching pillow I just used up the left over strips of fabrics and used my Fabrique Die cut machine for the alphabet letters.  I used the raw edge appliqué technique I learned from a Sue Nichols class I took through my Sewing Guild several years ago.

Gypsy Wife Quilt By Jen Kingwell

I am working on the Gypsy Wife Quilt.  Very challenging but fun and only using scraps from my bins to do this.  Can't imagine how long this is going to take me to complete but will have fun working on it.  I am a sewer/quilter that likes many projects going at same time.  I just like to work with different fabrics and colors.  I have another block of the month quilt from 2014 that I recently started and have made 2 24 inch blocks so far and have 7 more to go so after a few more sections of Gypsy Wife I will return to block of the month.   Look at the pictures below. These are blocks that are made from scraps and they are So much fun to make.   I believe this will turn out to be a beautiful quilt.   Jen kinwell has some very pretty patterns they all seem to be made from random scraps. This is good for me as I have a huge scrap pile.  As I continue to work on the quilt I will post additional photos and definitely when finished I will post the finished results. Sewing in quilting is very addictive for me.  I will have to post a blog on my block of month quilt as I continue working on it.

Christmas Quilts I Made

 Here are some of the Christmas that I have made.   I always buy too much fabric when making a quilt so with some of my leftovers And some additional fabrics I made these .  Here they are in order of making them and have use some of same fabrics in each though some of fabrics were used on the backs.  The last 2 were quilted by me on my George.  I need a lot more practice. I actually made one more quilt like the last one pictured here but gave it away with pictures.  The first quilt pattern came from a Fons and Porter magazine and was pretty time consuming to piece.   I had it quilted by Kathy Kirk in Apex North Carolina.  She is an excellent long arm quilter.  www.quiltingcowgirl.com

This is backing for above Quilt

Quilting Pattern I used for This Quilt

Quilt Salvage Edge Projects

I thought I would share a few of my salvage edge projects.  The quilt is just a design I made up to use up some of my salvage blocks I had worked on over the winter months.

The bag was quite intimidating but finally got it finished. My do plan to make more of those now that I have it figured out .