A blog where I can share the textile projects I create in my craft room.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Sometime in the past few years someone from the Northwest Quilter's Guild gave me a big bag of scraps and in it there was a pile of these WOF strips.
There were also quite a few of approx. 4-inch square blocks as well. I had to do a bunch of trimming to actually make them a uniform size. (I would not be surprised if that is why they originally ended up in the scrap bag.)
I had times when I questioned myself why I was spending time on this project. These are not fabrics I ever would have chosen, but not everyone has the same taste (at least that is what I keep telling myself).
I don't know what the pattern is called, but I've been calling it Basketweave.
I almost always use Quilter's Dream Green batting. I quilted it with Christy Dillon's Harrison E2E. I used a light purple MaxiLock thread because I hoped it would bring out the purple in the light fabric, but it is almost invisible on the front. It does show up on the back.
I'm actually proud of the binding as this was my first flange binding and I made it from the leftover strips, which weren't wide enough. I found this Flange Binding Tutorial helpful.
