Showing posts with label strip sets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strip sets. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Reminds me of a lovely summer day!

I made this quilt a couple of years ago and stuck it in my pile of quilts and promptly forgot about it. I guess that's because I made two quilts - same design, same fabrics - one just a lot bigger than this one. Well, I don't need two of them! :)








So this one is in the shop!

Take care,

Saturday, January 26, 2013

FNSI results...

I've been working on strip sets, small placemats and mug rugs for awhile but sat down last night and got quite a few started and a couple (actually 4) finished.

Although I love them all, I think this one is my favorite in this grouping.





This group need to be sandwiched, quilted, and bound. Tonight, while watching TV, I'll do that.

I'm going to be selling these, and more, very soon. Hubby will take some of them into his workplace and if there are any left they will go into my new etsy shop (which is unpopulated presently).



And while I normally don't show to the world what a slob I am when working in my sewing room, I thought you might find it interesting. I've got frames/photos that need to be hung on the wall that are in the paper shopping bag in the background. The blue shirts need to be ironed and I'm working on a pink/white pillow cover which is one the far right top side of the photo. The rest of the mess is just mess!  :)) I'll bet most of you find yourselves in this same position when you're being creative.

I finished my Scrappy Trip Along quilt top and prepared the backing. All I have to do now is cut a piece of batting and pin baste it. I hope to do that sometime next week and then I'll begin quilting it. Not quite sure how I'll quilt it yet, but it will be something very simple. Lately, I'm thinking that simple is good.

Shipping rates have been raised (boo hoo) but my fabric SALE is still going strong. We've got GREAT prices...come see!

Take care,

Monday, October 15, 2012

NY Beauty, making fabric & strip set blocks...

I have not been able to finish my NY Beauty quilt for some reason. Something just kept nagging me about it and I finally decided it was the large square layout that I didn't like. I played around a bit and came up with something I like a lot better. I want to hang it in my house and this size works better for that than a large square shape would.


I think this is how I'll assemble it, but I still don't feel 100% sure....so.....I've packed it up and put it away until I can make up my mind. I'm not sure if I need another row on the bottom or not. I just need to ruminate about it a little longer.


In the meantime, I've started two new projects! I'm not apologizing or feeling guilty either, even though I have many UFOs that need to be completed. I haven't felt this excited about quilting in a very long time and I'm going to go with it.

I've told you already about the strip sets that I've been putting together. Thursday evening at my quilt group meeting, I was able to get 20 blocks assembled. They are now on my design wall and I'm pretty sure this is the layout I want to use with them. There are many variations possible, but that just may require another quilt (or two).


My husband came into my sewing room as I was putting these blocks up on the design wall and told me "he loves them!" He was amazed (and, frankly, so am I) how well all these disparate fabrics work together. I guess that's just the beauty of a scrap quilt, isn't it?


The second project I've started is again working with strips, but these strips are leftover from other projects and, thus, they are shorter than 42". I originally thought that I would make a "jelly roll race" quilt even though (1) I'm not using a jelly roll, (2) there are many (disparate) fabrics, and (3) most of the strips are pretty short. Once I got it done, and even though it's OK the way it is, I changed my mind and decided to use it as "fabric". I'm not sure yet which pattern I'll use, and this is where I could use your help/suggestions.  Got any good ideas how I could use this as "fabric" in a quilt?


I enjoy working with the scrappy strips because not being able to predict how the finished quilt top will look until it's all assembled keeps it interesting for me. As is fairly obvious by now, I have a pretty short attention span and I work on the slow side! :)) 

Take care,

Sunday, October 07, 2012

My Sunday...

I watched the "Into the West" marathon all day and then the final episode this evening.

I sewed more strip sets,


 I cut said strip sets into more strip sets and thought about how I'm going to sew them together.


 In the meantime, I put them all into a pile. I'll take these with me Thursday evening when I go to my quilting group meeting and try to get them all sewn!!


I looked for some furniture painting ideas on Pinterest cuz I have some furniture pieces I think I want to paint.


I looked at some gorgeous photography on Tumblr to find inspiration.


And, I found this in the new Pottery Barn catalog. I decided I want to copy it make it as a quilted pillow cuz I'm not spending $60 to buy it. Isn't it cool?


 It was a good day.

Take care,

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Started something new...

I'm still working on my NY Beauty quilt...only have 5 more blocks to complete! Yeah!! But, in the meantime, I needed something a bit more portable. Something I could take to my small group meetings so I can sew instead of just sit. :)

I was planning on using my little white featherweight, but at the last minute it stopped running. Hubby is going to take it apart and fix it, but instead of waiting for that to happen, I just used one of my black ones. It's in great shape and just purrs along. I don't know why, but I still prefer sewing on the white one....something about the color I think.

Anyway, I started some strips sets and will show them to you as I go along. These are the first two sets I made.



I'm trying to use up a lot of my older stash, which consists of more muted and toned colors than what I presently prefer. I'm finding that they all go together and, in fact, the older fabrics just make the newer fabrics looks that much better! I've got enough strips cuts to probably make about 5 quilts! lol

Take care,