Happy Thanksgiving
I'm pulling out a very old quilt. One of my firsts. Not even a label. I didn't know better. Not well done but the spirit is there. It started me on my journey into the art of quilting.
HAND PIECING - ALL THINGS MADE WITH YARN, THREAD, COTTON
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
BABY QUILT
I've been absent from my blog for a time. I'm coming close to being organized. It's been rough. Moving when you are my age is a long process. And so much needs doing in this Florida home. The sewing room/computer room is at least usable now.
Our new grandchild is expected in December and a quilt for the baby was requested some months back. We know it's a girl. I've been so busy with the new house and the parents estate that I could not take time to hand piece and hand quilt even a small baby quilt. So I brushed up on my machine skills and came up with a nice little quilt for sweet baby girl soon to be born granddaughter. Parents haven't given the darling a name yet.
A request was made a request for beige and pink. I decided on 5 inch squares which I was able to cut by pulling enough from my stash to make it interesting. I used EQ7 to set out the design. It's machine pieced...and it's a miracle...I got all those corner points to match. Machine quilted with a walking foot in the ditch and then cross hatched. All done. Label done. I like to come up with rhymes, so the little label poem is my own. Ready to send out. I'm in Florida. Baby is in Pennsylvania. I enjoyed making the quilt. This was super fast speed for me.
The colors are much brighter than what shows in the iPhone photo....taken in the evening in a not-so-well lighted room. It's on my design board. Yes, I used flash. Reminder to self....get better lighting in your sewing room.
And now on to a quilt made by hand. My next sewing project. I plan to hand quilt a quilt top made from Inkingo's Free Collection. It's a hand pieced carpenters wheel. My first Inklingo project. I've been using it as the background for my blog. The top was finished some time ago. I think I'll put borders on it first. Maybe a thin strip of color, then cream. We'll see. I miss hand quilting and haven't done much of it in the last 4 months. And the hand quilting will take a while.
Our new grandchild is expected in December and a quilt for the baby was requested some months back. We know it's a girl. I've been so busy with the new house and the parents estate that I could not take time to hand piece and hand quilt even a small baby quilt. So I brushed up on my machine skills and came up with a nice little quilt for sweet baby girl soon to be born granddaughter. Parents haven't given the darling a name yet.
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| Baby's Quilt |
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| Label Poem Sandra Lee White © 2015 |
The colors are much brighter than what shows in the iPhone photo....taken in the evening in a not-so-well lighted room. It's on my design board. Yes, I used flash. Reminder to self....get better lighting in your sewing room.
And now on to a quilt made by hand. My next sewing project. I plan to hand quilt a quilt top made from Inkingo's Free Collection. It's a hand pieced carpenters wheel. My first Inklingo project. I've been using it as the background for my blog. The top was finished some time ago. I think I'll put borders on it first. Maybe a thin strip of color, then cream. We'll see. I miss hand quilting and haven't done much of it in the last 4 months. And the hand quilting will take a while.
