Roll On

I made this quilt called Roll On, a Debbie Caffery mystery, twelve years ago and gave it to my youngest son for his twelfth birthday.  I was over at his house today and pulled it off his bed to take a picture. He still loves and uses it, obviously.

I realized when I was over there today that I had never taken a picture of it, other than the one of him holding it up on his birthday, so decided I needed to document it better.

I did the quilting myself and mitered the corners, though the stripes do not exactly line up.
The lighting at his house is not the best because he likes it dark.  :)

I still have some of the scraps from this quilt in my scrap draw.

OFF KUiLTeR

I started this quilt with the idea of doing one quilt, but got carried away making block centers and ended up making two tops.  One large and one lap size.

The pattern was designed by a local Alaska quilter and if you are interested in buying it you can contact Quilt Zone, here in Anchorage as I believe it is the only place that carries the pattern.

My larger quilt is above. I chose to machine piece rather than applique it and I did not think it really took much more background fabric, even though the instructor/pattern maker says that it does.

The smaller quilt will have a bluish-black background and the blocks are more colorful as they did not work with the brown background.

Binding by Hand Takes a lot of Time and Love

Today I worked on binding this quilt:

http://quiltmashup.com/index.php/topic,67.19005.html

It is queen size and I spent a good amount of time hand stitching down one side.  I also worked on hand stitching down the label. I am not done, as there are three more sides to go and the label still needs to be stitched down the rest of the way.

I had a deadline to meet, but I know I will not make it, but that's okay.  I will get it done when it is done and that is all that matters.

Pressed binding for three other quilts today and pressed two  receiving blankets that still need to top stitch. 

I feel, I did well today.  Tomorrow I have more to do.

Quilts Returning from the Quilter

Here are pictures of the quilts that just returned home.

Planning to bind this in the green.
Close ups of a couple of the blocks:

Here is the black and cream quilt with a close up of the quilting.  The pattern is called Too Simple.

And last but not least a picture of Coins in the Fountain.

This pattern and fabric came from Pat Sloan.  She had the kits available on her site Pat Sloan's Web Store though I do not see the kits there any more, she still has some wonderful things for sale including jelly rolls of her fabrics Eat Your Fruits and Veggies and her patterns.  I stocked up on her fabrics and have a plan for them.

I am off to finish cutting and piecing bindings so I can finish Crazy Hearts, and the three above and send them on their way to their new owners.

Thank you Shirley Jackson for the beautiful pictures that you took of my quilts. I love the wonderful job you did on the quilting. I need to get busy and get more done and in the mail.

Have a wonderful evening and happy quilting.

OFF KUiLTeR

My quilts have arrived safely from Shirley in Kentucky and are ready for binding which I am busy cutting and piecing today.

I started a new quilt at my favorite quilt store Quilt Zone, here in Anchorage.  The quilt can be done pieced or machine appliqued. I prefer to piece, so am doing mine that way.

The pattern was designed by a local quilter, Janet McWorkman and she is teaching the class.

I started with a bluish-black background, but then when I choose fabrics from my stash for the block centers I changed to a brown background.

After I made all the centers and then some as the quilt called for 31 and I made 46, so I can't count.  :)  I was involved and going strong, so kept going. I did not realize until I had them all done that I was as my friend says, an over-achiever.

Once I laid them out on the brown I decided that some of them just did not work and pulled the original background back out, and a second quilt was born.

Here are some pictures, the centers are just laid out on the backgrounds for both quilts.

I will start cutting and adding the backgrounds to make the blocks the correct sizes after I finish piecing the bindings for the three that are home from the quilter.

This is the brown background and a sampling of the blocks.

This is the bluish-black background with a sampling of the blocks and a few more off to the side.