Paisley Party Skirt

Banner informed me the other day that she prefers wearing dresses or skirts.  With my fabric stash of Paisley Party I whipped up this skirt yesterday afternoon.

The perfect spring skirt.  I think she likes it.

Charm Pack Quilt!

This quilt top is made up of three charm packs of Aster Manor fabric.  My daughter Miranda did all of the laying out and sewing the squares together.  She wanted it to be a queen size so I added borders.

This is what I did this morning.  I started with a 1 1/2 inch plain brown border and then a 3 inch pink floral border and lastly a 9 inch large floral on cream.  I laid it on a queen size bed and it seems to fit.  I hope she likes it.

Spring Tablerunner!

I had some extra fabric from Banner's Scottish Star quilt so I thought I would

make a tablerunner for my mother-in-law.  This is all from April Cornell's Poetry Collection by Moda.

This looks very much like "spring" to me.  My mom-in-law loves floral prints so hopefully she will enjoy this.  I just need to quilt it and bind it and it's ready to be wrapped.

National Quilt Day!

In honor of National Quilt Day, Lizzy, Miranda and I attended the Coal Country Quilt show. I was nervous about how my quilts would look compared to the others there but they looked as cute there at the show as they do at home. We saw some nice quilts that have given me some ideas for future projects.  Miranda and I then worked on quilts the rest of the weekend.  I can't post pics because they are future gifts and we don't want to spoil anyone's surprise.  Anyway,  I quilted the top that we had sewn previously and then she sewed the binding on.  The next project was a quilt top for a baby girl, done.  Then we quilted 2 tops that she put together herself.  She will get the binding on them when she has time between work and school.  Now on to my next project, a tablerunner for my Mother-in-law who will be celebrating her 73rd birthday on thursday.

I'm All Ready!

The last quilt for the quilt show is finally complete.  This is Tennyson's Triangle Tango.  What a fine alliteration.

This is Red Rooster's Paisley Party fabric.  Very bright and tropical.

I don't know what to call the quilting pattern.  I just kind of made it up as I went along.  It kind of reminds me of seaweed, floating to the side.

Luckily, I purchased extra fabric.  I will be making some curtains, shams, and throw pillows.  I don't have enough for a bed skirt though.  I will have to come up with something.  This old one just doesn't work very well.

  I got some cute pictures and mirrors to put on the walls from Ikea.  I can't  wait until it's all finished. 

These are the labels I have been putting on all 9 of the quilts that will be in the show.

I used a method found online which uses freezer paper and a printer.  I don't think these turned out too bad.  I still have 3 more to make but alas my printer is running out of ink.  I guess I'll be buying a new ink cartridge tomorrow.

My Newest Love!

I was visiting in Salt Lake City for a couple of days this week.  While I was there, Whitney and I made a trip to Quilts Etc. in Sandy.  Little did I know that this cute fabric was there waiting for me to buy it.

We found all but the first two fabrics on the left in 

Sandy, and we were lucky enough to find the floral and red dot at Daine's Cotton Shop in Murray.  This is a new Henry Glass fabric called Simply Sweet, designed by Barbara Jones for Quilt Soup.  Theses colors just scream "summer" and after the winter we have just experienced, I need a little something to brighten up my days.  Has anyone worked with this fabric?  Do you think I should pre-wash the reds?

Glad All Over!

This is a pattern by Abby Lane called "Glad All Over".

I used Moda's Wonderland collection.

I love the bright colors and the ric rac.

This fabric is called Rabbit Hole Sugar, it is my favorite.

I quilted it in a meandering pattern.  The quilt measures 60 x 72 and the backing is yellow broadcloth.

Easy Triangles!

I have started my last quilt for the Castle Country Quilt Show on March 19th and 20th.

It involves a whole lot of triangles.  A few weeks ago I was trying to explain this easy way of doing triangles to my daughter over the phone.  She was not really understanding my explanation, being new to quilting.  So, here it is, nothing new to those of you who are experienced quilters, but to those who are trying triangles for the first time, this is a quick and easy way. 

You will start with squares.  Any size will do.  These just happen to be 6 and 7/8 inch squares.

Place squares with right sides together.

If you look close, or click on this image, you will see I have placed the squares of fabric with the diagonal line of my (sad) cutting mat running through the center, corner to corner.

With any straight ruler, draw a line from corner to corner.

Sew a seam 1/4 inch on both sides of the line.

Your squares will now look like this.

With scissors or a rotary cutter, cut on the line.

You will now have 2 sqaures that look like this.

You can place them in a number of combinations.  This will make a diamond shape.

This could be the start of a zig zag quilt.

You would start a pinwheel block like this.

Good luck, and happy quilting.