ALYoFinishes Feb goal - SuperNova Friendship quilt
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For my Feb goal I want to get this quilt backing made and this SuperNova Friendship block quilt quilted. This is the the quilt I made with friend Jennifer. I think the extension date is mid Feb so I have to get a move on. I think Jennifer is going to have her finished this weekend.
We are doing this qal through HERE
Linking up with A lovely year of finishes Feb goal party HERE
You can do it!! We have until February 14th to post photos on Flickr. I did get my binding sewn on and my quilt is all washed up! I just LOVE IT!! I'm hoping to take some photos tomorrow.
"Closer to you" approx 46" x 48" spiral quilting did not straighten edges, just bound as is I finished! I am super surprised at this one. I have been working on doing the Improv scores from the book The improv handbook for modern quilters by Sherri Lynn Wood. This is my #4 score on the patchwork doodle. I started the center blocks of this quilt last year when Louisiana Bendolph taught a class about Gees Bend quilts and quilters. A good portion of this fabric is up-cycled pieces from my moms scrap box. The coral strips are pieces from an old dress. There is even a dart or two in my quilt that I left in. Some of the denim is from a patch bag that she also had in her stash so I am assuming they are bits from her old jeans. I didn't have any striped scraps from my dads old Oshkosh overalls so I went to the thrift store and bought a few striped shirts. The lighter blue fabrics are from the portrait quilt I made of my mom called So Blue . ...
Well this week for Project Quilting 13.5 the theme is Rhythm and Repetition. I dug into my pattern/ruler pile and came up with "Mountain Hiking" by Kate Henderson out of the book Scrappy and Happy Quilts. It uses Perfect rectangle rulers but I had EZ Tri Tool by Darlene Zimmerman made by simplicity and they were same size for the three smaller triangles. I had to make a template for the biggest. This quilt measures approx. 72.5" x 80.5" I had to decide if I could do this large size in a week. I used all scrap or a variety of older low volume pieces for the background. I emptied out a bag of these red violet lovelies ( one of my favorite colors the last few years) that I had been saving for something. So the cutting took a little bit of time because of the scrappy pieces I had to deal with. Still I was able to make the top relatively quickly. did have trouble with my large template size triangles because the top tip was so wide it never gave me a point. I decided...
For quite awhile now I have been focused on fabrics donated to me or to my church group. I get in a mindset that I need to work through the bags and piles and try to keep it as organized as possible while also producing end products. So that is the case. I have not posted much but thought I would do a montage of some of the end pieces going to the womens help center, mission, and outreach places. When I get several mixed bags of material I try to cut down the already scrappy odd cut out fabric into usable squares of precut like sizes. It takes a long time but you end up with a nice stack of variety. The first quilt above is the odd pieces that were left over from all this cutting. I love a good coin quilt don't you? A friend donated a large stack of 15 quilt tops she made from upcycled bumper pad fabrics. I finished all of them for the womens center. They are cozy with bits of minky and other fabric appliques that have texture. Some flannel some denim some mixed. My mantra...just s...
So glad it is Friday and I have a finish this week!! This was inspired by Jacquie Gering's version of a tumbler quilt pattern called "Lava Lamp Revisited" seen in the special issue of Modern Patchwork spring 2013. This quilt is made from my stash. I actually won this fabric last year in a giveaway. (I already used it for a childs craft tote bag that I shared on here before). It is Michael Miller fabric designed by Tamara Kate called "Flight Pattern". Backing is a piece I also had in my stash from a line of Dear Stella. Worked perfect. just added some jumbo tumblers from a few pieces to compliment the front. Organic wavy line quilting to sort of go with the lava lamp vibe. Bound with scraps that fell off the sides and some leftover end pieces. Finish size approx. 48" x 70". Flowers compliments of my husband for Valentine's day and they are still going strong! :) Linking up with Finish it up ...
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