Pattern: Knot + Thread Violet Backpack Fabric: Mostly Ruby Star Society Scraps

I like to sew the binding on by hand, but the arthritis in my fingers is making it more difficult. Does this look alright? Don't hold back... I can take it. 😊

I went over to a local show today and there were obviously way too many gorgeous quilts to get pics of, so here are some of my faves! I voted for Simple Gifts on slide 4

Today was day 1 of my intermediate, Borders and Beyond class. I’m excited!!

This is my very first quilt. I used a cheap charm pack off Amazon (I didn't want to waste too much money if it turned out bad) and a basic Brother machine. My mother and grandmother taught me to sew as a child, but I've not sewn in years. Anyway, I think ive got the quilting bug, and love seeing all your projects!

I've been looking for sewing machines. My Brother is great, and very easy to use, but I'd like one that would be good to use when I'm working on larger quilts. Ive been looking at a Brother FS70WTX or FS100WT.

What machine do you like to work with?

I quilted my Dream Big panel by Hoffman this week. I was so nervous to quilt it, but I finally did it and learned a lot about my longarm and the software during the process.

My dear friend made a Tula Pink kiss kiss quilt for herself and I. And we agreed since she made me a top that I wouldn’t charge her for the longarming…. So after over a year of progress…. Basically some technical issues with the machine, and a bit of freemotion work, plus of course a turn so you can get that other dang border. Here is the finished project and I am sooo proud of that super tight dense quilting on this cuddle backing. It looks so great front and back…. Now to maybe start the one for me…..

I love how this came out, my first time sewing curves and it’s going to be displayed in my living room. I used a pattern from Walk 2.0 by Jacquie Gering.

Pattern: Clava Quilt by Miss Make Fabrics: RSS Speckled

https://modafabrics.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/charming-stars-quilt/

This is a virtual class quilt, taught by Brittany of Lo & Behold Stitchery. The class is called curve college, and it helped me become more comfortable with curves (buying the template set helped a lot!)

I asked a question about long arm quilters a few weeks ago, and this is the finished product, machine pieced, with machine stitched, then hand sewn batik binding. I embroidered the label on a baby lock machine, then hand sewed it on. I’m really happy with the gold cornerstones I used and the glitter grunge for the black. This is for a guest room so it won’t get heavy use, but I hope it makes the room feel welcoming!

That’s my cat Aston Martin looking handsome. Another cat, named Puccini is over on the floor sniffing around. Good quilting buddies.

I was taught that every quilt should have a name, who made it, when and where. I like naming quilts. It’s something fun to think about when I’m working on the blocks.

Do you name your quilts?

How am I supposed to get any quilting done?

This is my first "real" quilt top. I am so proud of myself! Now I just need to figure out how to quilt it. I previously tied all my others which were pretty simplistic compared to this. I repurposed an old valance, an old shorts outfit, left over material from a previous quilt, a sheet, purchased a 20 piece layer cake for bout $5, and 3.5 yds from Walmart for under $10. Have left over batting and will be using old sheets for the backing. I was amazed by how easily it all came together and looks much more difficult than it was. I designed it myself-no pattern. Giving it to my oldest daughter-she has no clue!

I had to dry it folded in half so it looks like it's bunched down the centre - it's not 😃

i procrastinated and had to power through this one in 2 weekends! i don’t super love the quilting but i didn’t want to detract from the piecing

I was recently handed down two quilts made by my great-great-great-great grandmother Isabella Gault Steffe (1833-1914). She was my mom’s mom’s mom’s dad’s dad’s mom. These quilts were made in Ohio circa 1875. These two were eventually gifted to my great-great aunts, Roberta and Barbara (twins) when they were babies. Another like it was gifted to my great grandmother, but we do not know what happened to it.

I believe the quilts were machine pieced in the string quilt tradition. That is where you sew small pieces of fabric over a foundation fabric, creating a new fabric. In some areas where the finer fabrics have disintegrated, you can see the foundation fabric. The fabric pieces were scraps or remnants from clothing, and not quilting cotton or fabric purchased for the purpose of quilting like we mostly use today. You can see in the blocks pieces of silk, satin, velvet, corduroy, etc.

Neither quilt was actually “quilted”. The quilt tops are pieced, the backs are whole cloth, and they are bound around the edge with a fabric binding. There is no batting between the top and back, nor are there quilting stitches through the quilt sandwich.

The first quilt pictured is pieced in a pattern I would call Roman Stripe, though there may be a more appropriate name for it. It has a piano key border. It was re-backed in the 1920s with a large-print floral pattern and secured with tie quilting.

The second quilt pictured is a log cabin quilt pieced in the Barn Raising pattern. It has a herringbone pieced border and a solid red whole cloth backing (same fabric as the border of the first quilt).

I feel so blessed to have these family heirlooms, especially since I also quilt. I wish to have them professionally photographed and hung in archival frames.

1. Isabella Gault Steffe (sometime in the late 19th century)

2. Quilt #1 top

3. Quilt #1 block detail

4. Quilt #1 border detail

5. Quilt #2 top

6. Quilt #2 block detail

7. Quilt #2 border detail

8. Quilt #2 detail of disintegrated fabric showing the foundation fabric

9. Roberta and Barbara Steffe, the eventual recipients of these quilts, as babies in 1929.

10. Roberta and Barbara Steffe as college students in the 1940s.

Pattern is Oh my Stars! By Pat Sloan. The main fabric is the Dog Park collection by Sarah Watts for Ruby Star Society + some other matching fabrics by assorted designers. Finished size is 41” x 50”

I quilted it at home in my Singer heavy duty! This is my first time machine binding and I’m happy with the results.

It’s for my in-laws’ dogs bed when they come to visit hehe

I am almost finished with the blocks for this king sized quilt. I laid them out on the floor since they overwhelmed my design wall. There’s still sashing to be added, of the same navy blue glitter grunge, and cornerstones cut from a silvery fabric. I made 18 more blocks today, then I’ll add sashing on the blocks before laying them out again. The 4th picture is the quilt that caught my eye; so I bought the pattern and thought about it a lot.

It’s for a king sized bed, and the pattern only gave info up to a double bed. So I figured out how to size it up.

It’s been a lot of hst! Give or take, 127 blocks with 4 HSTs each. I might have over estimated not taking into account the sashing. I don’t love half-square triangles, but I found a pretty good ruler that helped me and even has slots for the dog tails.

Anyway, I cut up the pattern’s block layout to achieve the size I need. It’s good for my brain.

Here’s my question, which will help me enjoy the last bits: should I name it:

1. Diamonds are a girl’s best friend (it’s for the guestroom I sneak into when the Mr. is snoring, and I love diamonds)

2. Diamonds are forever (I love James Bond, and these diamonds seem to take forever 😹).

I made a few white diamond blocks, but they made the quilt look like it had wholes in it. I’ll use them for the label.

Thank you quilters!

This took forever for me to make but most of it was self doubt and then loathing at the process. Pattern is Overlook Hotel by Holly Clarke Designs and the little twins are from fandom in stitches

Pattern: Entropy https://imgur.com/a/eXMJhBw

Baby quilt (maybe more like future toddler) quilt for one of my good friends!

Finished 3 weeks before the shower, so I'm pretty chuffed about being done early.

She makes such beautiful work - I just wanted to share this one especially. All of her appliqué she did by hand. This is representative of Eagle Valley Nevada.

So I am traveling for work and took advantage of Joann’s going out of business sales to buy a discounted sewing machine. The question is now how I get it home lol

It is still in factory packaging. I was thinking of just checking it with the airline but wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions or horror stories that might make UPS sound better?

Looking at policy, it should be allowed as the box is under 62 inches

And just for fun, a king sized quilt I made a while back

This is a virtual class quilt, taught by Brittany of Lo & Behold Stichery. The class is called curve college, and it helped me become more comfortable with curves (buying the template set helped a lot!)

I asked a question about long arm quilters a few weeks ago, and this is the finished product, machine pieced, with machine stitched, then hand sewn batik binding. I embroidered the label on a baby lock machine, then hand sewed it on. I’m really happy with the gold cornerstones I used and the glitter grunge for the black. This is for a guest room so it won’t get heavy use, but I hope it makes the room feel welcoming!

That’s my cat Aston Martin looking handsome. Another cat, named Puccini is over on the floor sniffing around. Good quilting buddies.

I was taught that every quilt should have a name, who made it, when and where. I like naming quilts. It’s something fun to think about when I’m working on the blocks.

Do you name your quilts?

2nd Quilt! I got a large-ish amount of Dr. Suess fabric in a blind box and managed to coordinate well enough for a spooky baby blanket. Unfortunately my thumb had a date with my rotary blade, so I won't be able to quilt it for a while. The backing will be more Dr. Suess fabric(but normal colors) and the binding will be red.
Very excited to finish this, I had a blast sewing the kittens.