{Post #982} Pink Quilt Finished...Brown Quilt Needs Binding Hand Sewn

The pink baby quilt is washed and dried.  I love the crinkly look of a vintage-block quilt.  I washed the border print and the sashing ahead.  The blocks were too dirty and fragile to wash before quilting them.  It is 51" x 60", much larger than my usual baby quilt, but this mama loves vintage.  I think this might end up on a wall or something!!

This AM I also quilted this baby quilt.  Well, you'll just have to come back to see the front.  I LOVE this quilting pattern.  It's from Pajama Quilter, and it's called Fern Ziggle.  It is huge and soft and oh, so easy!!  

I used a brushed cotton for the back...so snuggly soft :)

Top picture has flash on and the bottom one does not.  One quilts the wavy line first, then goes back and fills in ziggles on both sides.  Easy peasy.  I think it took about an hour to load this on the frame and quilt it.  Lightning fast, I tell you!  It's only 40" square.


~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

{Post #963} Two New Shirt Projects

I am showing the two small projects I have started.  Both are going to be baby quilts for boys.  


I asked the Dad of one of the boys to donate a shirt to the cause.  I don't think their family ready my blog, so I'll share this one here:

Here is the second project.  String quilts are so easy and "mindless" if you want a super easy project.  Here is mine so far...

These are both patterns from Bonnie Hunter.  I am going to make a larger Spiderweb one with a brightish-blue constant after I finish this one.


Last night I saw and visited with my daughter and took apart a few more shirts.  I don't think I've cut into the fronts/backs of any shirts, and just a few sleeves.  The fabric I've used so far is just yokes, cuffs, sleeves, and pockets.  It's amazing how much fabric is in a man's shirt.


Off to run errands and come back to face Mt. Neverest, aka laundry.


~Joan

{Post #961} Fair and Square on New Design Wall

Here are the 30 center blocks, corner triangles, setting triangles, and one strip of the outer border for my Fair & Square quilt.  The top left corner has 3 rows actually sewn together.

It is hard to detect in the picture, but I have a second design wall on the left side.  The "old" one is on the right.  The new one is taller.  My husband cut down and screwed the insulation board to the particle board this past weekend.  This AM I stapled the tablecloth onto it.  Again, pics don't tell all.  The above blocks cover a huge area.  Scale is hard to determine in pictures.  Looking forward to finishing the piecing on this one.


Truth be told...I've started 3 other shirt quilts.  I am in the process of cutting the shirts apart.  I would rather only handle them once.  So as I cut off the collars, sleeves, cuffs, and yokes, I deposited the pieces I cut out into 2-1/2" x 16" for a scrappy bargello, 2-1/2" x 10" for Rectangle Wrangle, bricks and squares for Hand Me Down blocks, and the smallest strange-sized pieces into an old plastic spinach box for a spiderweb shirt quilt.  I have a few blocks of each one made (just to see what they would look like, of course).


To my surprise, I came across a stack of 9" wide x WOF woven plaids.  I THINK I might have gotten them from my sister in this purchase.  Anywho...I cut them up.  My process...as I cut the shirt parts down, if a strip was 2-1/2" wide, I cut it into 16" if it was long enough, and 10" if it was long enough.  The Hand Me Down blocks take sets of 4 or 8, so I had to see if there was enough for those.  The string box quickly filled up.  Pics of the spiderweb string later.


~Joan

{Post #960} Rectangle Wrangle Goes Brown

Here are 4 Rectangle Wrangle blocks.  I decided to give brown a whirl instead of black for the consistent color.  I was going to wait until I could buy some solid brown, but that might be a couple weeks.  I gave this Thimbleberries brown (that I had in my stash) a try.  I think I like it.  I am using brown because my bedroom walls are brown, and this just might live in my room eventually.

This section is 12" wide by 24" long.  


Last night I spent a bit of time cutting up plaids into strips for this quilt.  I also bought 4 more shirts yesterday.  They were $1 each.  More shirt deboning (as Bonnie calls it) in my future this afternoon.


Now off to cook lunch and make a big mess!


~Joan

{Post #959} Rectangle Wrangle Block

Just wanted to stitch up one of these blocks.  This is from Bonnie Hunter's Scraps and Shirttails II book.  The pattern is called Rectangle Wrangle.  I photographed it with my hand in the picture so you could see how big (or rather SMALL) the block is in comparison.

Only a bazillion more to go, and I'll have a good-sized quilt! This one block is 6" x 12" finished.


~Joan