Friday, May 18, 2012
{Post #974} Black and White
This is a color catcher sheet next to a white sheet. Even though I prewashed all the shirts I bought (and they all had been likely washed many times before I got them), the color catcher still was a lovely grey when it come out of the washer after a spin with my tan and blue spiderweb. How can that be? I even prewashed my backing fabric!
Off to a quilt show in Greensboro, NC with my Rachel tomorrow AM. It's about 2-1/2 hours away, so a lot of our time will be spent in travel. I'm looking forward to it anyway!
~Joan
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
{Post #973} For My B-Friend, Julie
I O-fish-a-lee LOVE this quilt! Here it is in all its post-dried quiltiness. The back is brushed cotton, just ready to snuggle a new baby boy!
These pics are for Julie, my B-friend (that's blog-friend for those not in the know). I hold her and Bonnie H. co-responsible for my new addiction to plaid/shirt quilts.
Why aren't there more quilting hours in a day?
So I can cross off one baby quilt from my list of five I need before the end of August. Then today I added 4 more names. Two church ladies and two of my daughter's sisters-in-law. Yippee!!
~Joan
{Post #972} Rectangle Wrangle
I have a few more blocks to make for the center of this quilt, but here is a pic from my design wall from this AM.
I am going to make 4 more blocks and make this into a baby quilt. I had 5 baby quilts to make for ladies in our church. One baby was delivered Saturday AM, and Monday I found out two more ladies are expecting! How exciting!!
The above quilt blocks are 6" wide and 12" long. I am going to make one more for the blank spot and 3 more for along the left side to make it 36" tall and 36" wide as well. I'll add a little brown border then a larger one.
Stay tuned for the last pictures of my tan and blue spiderweb quilt. Last night during BYOC I finished hand sewing the binding. It's in the dryer now.
~Joan
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
{Post #971} Nearly Finished Spiderweb Quilt
I got up early and finished the quilting on the tan and blue spiderweb quilt. Then I cut binding strips from the backing that was trimmed off and had to cut one more strip to make enough binding to go around the quilt. I pressed it and machine-sewed it to the quilt front. I was going to sew it by machine to the back, but I decided to do it by hand. The backings are brushed cotton and a little thicker than my usual fabric choice.
And a close up of the center.
After the binding is finished I will be posting another picture after the washing and drying. Can you stand one more picture of this quilt??
~Joan
Monday, May 14, 2012
{Post #970} Baby Spiderweb Quilt
Here's the quilting progress on my blue and tan spiderweb quilt. I wanted to try a couple new things. The one thing I aim for when I machine quilt is not having to break the thread many times and making it evenly quilted all over.
This is about 48" square. Over the weekend I watched the baby's older 3 siblings (with lots of help from my husband and children). I did manage to piece a section of batting from scrap strips and piece a backing for this quilt.
Since this is a spiderweb quilt, I thought it would be neat to quilt some spiderwebs in the...well...spiderwebs. They turned out neat and I only had to stop and start in 3 places (I think) within the body of the quilt.
I wanted to try some feathers, so I am doing those in the 4-pointed "stars" between the spiderwebs. I am liking these although it's my first time.
In the border I just did a meandering pattern in navy blue.
The spiderwebs were quilted in navy blue and the 3-looped feathers in tan...both to match the background fabrics. Sort of!
I only have about 5 more stars to quilt but must call it a night.
~Joan