Jade Garden Quilting Plan

Our weather has been hot this week and my quilting "studio" is upstairs where it has gotten uncomfortably hot, so I've spent the past couple of days in our cool basement working on a number of quilting plans. I think this is the one I'm going to go with once it cools down enough to work upstairs. 

These pantographs are primarily from the Spring Sunrise Set by Christy Dillon.

I'm hoping I have enough fabric for the backing but I haven't taken the time to check yet.

Jade Garden Flimsy

The Jade Garden flimsy is finished. 

This is a large 96" square quilt. It's too big for one person to hold it up, but I'll try to take a better photo once my husband returns from his business trip.

I pulled an all-nighter to get this one done since it was too hard to stop sewing once I got started on the borders.

I had thought to quilt it with an edge-to-edge but my husband convinced me to come up with a custom quilting plan. It may take me a while to settle on a design because I often make several options before I decide I like one well enough to stitch it out.

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Jade Garden Blocks Assembled

I paced myself the past couple of days and finished sewing the Jade Garden blocks together. I love the colors and it will be beautiful when it is done.

While doing it, I realized I'd made the kaleidoscope blocks incorrectly. I just used a correctly-shaped block from Electric Quilt rather than use the specific templates provided with the pattern. Obviously, they had to be replaced.

I'm also not happy with the border blocks. I cut the triangles that go on the points the right size, but the 6-inch "arrow" pieces are ending up about 1/8" short. Not acceptable for my perfectionist-self, so I'll be spending a few hours ripping and resewing these pieces. I think I'll also cut some new oversize triangles that sew onto the top pointy edge and then I'll be able to cut them down to the perfect size.

These are the three borders I need to add before the flimsy is finished.

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Design Wall Monday
Monday Sew & Tell
Monday Musings

Jade Garden Blocks Finished

I've spent about five days sewing all the blocks for Jade Garden. My design wall is much smaller than the size of the quilt, so I can't show them all. I'm really happy with how it is turning out.

I need to take a couple of days off of sewing to rest my back, but I think I'll be able to get the blocks assembled over the weekend.

Paid Quilting Gig

I just finished another quilting project for a paying customer. I don't do many these days as I don't do anything to market myself, but occasionally someone hears of my services through word of mouth. 

This is a large 100"x82" quilt. It was quilted with Abbie 3 from Christy Dillon. The quilt is very bright. Really, there is no thread color that would have shown the stitching very well.

Next Up: Jade Garden

Finally, I have begun work on Jade Garden. This was a Block of the Month project offered by Wilmington Prints in around 2021. When I found the pattern offered for free and the fabrics available, I ordered them. I've looked for the pattern to link it here but it's no longer available.

I've spent the last three days doing all the cutting. Wow, what a project; there are so many fabrics! I cut out the rectangles and squares by hand with a ruler, but most of the rest of the pieces with my Cricut.

I think I am finally finished and can start sewing it together for Friday Night Sew In. I think I'll assemble it from the center out.

This is how far I got by 3AM. LOL It is so difficult for me to be a responsible adult when pieces are just lying there ready to be sewn together!

Fibonacci Fleurish Flimsy!

Jeff's fibonacci quilt has been pieced! It actually went together pretty quickly. I spent a bit of time fixing a mistake I made when I assembly-line pieced these block sets, but it didn't add more than a couple hours. 

I think these fabrics are really amazing. As I recall, they are Island Batik's Morris Mist fabrics I bought on clearance last year.

I'm going to let my husband quilt this one. He wants to do a nerdy math-inspired custom quilting job.

Linking up with:

Brag About Your Beauties
Finished or Not Friday
Off the Wall Friday
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Recent Finishes

I guess I got so busy with sifting and selling off my excess fabric bolts I totally forgot to post my recent finishes. Many I've already posted progress, but I never posted the final photos. I'd been trying to clear some UFOs before I start new projects.

This was the quick Scot's Plaid pattern made with a large-scale Hawaiian fabric I fussy cut for the squares. 

This is the Broken Bricks pattern with the leftover Hawaiian fabrics scraps. Even the border is scraps. I quilted it with Hibiscus Tea by A Bit Orange. And the batting is made up of scraps of Quilter's Dream Green.

This is the Nine Patch Twirl I didn't particularly like last year. I still don't love it, but it has grown on me now that it has been quilted.

All of these quilts are in the pile to find a new home. If someone in the family doesn't claim them in the next year or two, they will ultimately get donated to Comfort Quilts.

Fibonacci Fleurish Design

Many years ago my husband designed a fibonacci quilt and I finished it in early 2010.

We ran across the spreadsheet he made at the time and we decided to try and write it up into a real pattern that could be shared. I've been working on it this week. I've never written up a quilt pattern before so I'm just trying to be as detailed as I can be.

He actually decided to somewhat change the pattern and make it larger. Now it finishes at approximately 70"x70". 

I'm mostly finished with my first draft so now I'm going to test the pattern.