My jelly roll quilt is done. It is bright! 😎
I kept the quilting to a simple meander
I used part of a sateen sheet for the back.
And bound it with some leftovers from the same sheet.
This finished up at 48 by 60, a good size for a kid.
Part 2 of the AccuQuilt QuiltCon event is today at 12 PM Central time. Click here to register for prizes.
You might just see a short interview with someone you know….
Have a great day!
QuiltCon was such a great experience! I’ll be sharing some of my favorite quilts over several posts. Artist info follows each photo.
I was so excited to meet Janet! She’s a blog reader and fellow snowbird, spending her winter in Mesa. Quilters are the nicest people!
Also, AccuQuilt has a program today so you can see even more. Click here for details and to register for prizes.
Have a great day!
I decided to move ahead with my fabric choice for this leader/ender project. I appreciate all of your comments. You were right, use the good stuff! I’ll figure out the back later.
I have 6 12 inch blocks done so far. This will be limited in size by the amount of blue background fabric that I have.
There is certainly no shortage of scrappy squares!
Hmmmm…..
Have a great day!
My strips have all been sewn and subcut.
Blocks are being made. I almost need sunglasses for this!
I’ve made enough to play a bit at the design wall. I can see already that this will be the hardest part.
I still have plenty of blocks to piece.
Have a great day!
I have had this jelly roll hanging around for a long time.
I was in the mood for bright colors and something quick. This fit the bill. I’m pairing this with some orange yardage. Wow! That’s bright!
I used this die to cut up more strips.
I made some strip sets.
I used the same strip die to sub cut my strip sets.
To be continued….
Have a great day!
Bambi was checking out my progress!
And I have made progress! Though I’m not sure if you can see it.
The next photo was the best I could do to capture the texture.
I’m about 70% done at this point. I’d forgotten how fast it goes when doing this type of utility quilting. The thread is actually ecru, but I tweaked the photo so the stitches would show and now the thread looks very dark.
See that unquilted bit in the middle? That is all I have left!
Maybe next Sunday, I’ll be working on the binding.
Have a great day!
Just popping in quick this morning to let you know that I have a new tutorial for this quilt up on the AccuQuilt blog this week!
You can find the post here. Enjoy!
Here is my finished Valentine quilt!
And the back.
I’m happy with the freehand quilting.
In case you were wondering what the black spot is, it’s a shoe.
I gave my Valentine away and had a great time doing it!
I got up early and went to a park. I took my coffee to watch the sunrise. It was beautiful!
I took my quilt with me and hung it in a tree. I attached a note saying that anyone that found it was welcome to take it. I was inspired to do this by Luke Haynes’ affirmation quilts.
You can barely see my quilt from across the lake.
A guy came along and started fishing in front of it.
I enjoyed my park time and left. A few hours later, I had errands to run and decided to drive by and see if it was still there. It was. But just as I pulled into the parking lot, I saw this.
The quality of this photo is really bad. I was in the truck quite far away and zoomed and cropped a lot. Because of that, I’m okay with posting a photo of people I don’t know.
Please don’t leave comments saying I’m a nice person. It was great fun to share in this way, but if I were a really nice person, I wouldn’t have shared my deed with the world!
This was really fun. I hope this family enjoys it. They made my day!
Hope you have a good one too.
Before I get into today’s post, I wanted to let you know that I will be at QuiltCon today with my friend, Zenia, from A Quilted Passion, she’s the cute one on the left.
If you are there today and see us, please say hello! I’ll be carrying this bag, a gift from my lovely daughters.
Now, onto today’s post!
This is another throwback finish from 7 years ago. I can’t believe it has been that long. I still love this little quilt made back then. The kindness of quilters never ceases to amaze me. Enjoy this post from February 2015. Have a great day!
I finished the binding and took a few photos of this tiny tumbler quilt just before getting on the plane last week. I love how it turned out!

Since I had the big 30s Carpenter Star quilt loaded on the frame, I quilted this on my domestic machine. Boy, am I out of practice! 

A sweet friend cut these tumblers from her stash and sent them to me. She also sent me this lovely print that I used for the border! I am keeping this little quilt.

Here is a shot at the back.
Looking forward to another lovely day here in Arizona! My time here is flying by all too fast. Happy Day, everyone!
My friend, Kelly, visited recently and told me about a rope bowl class she took. It reminded me of an idea I wanted to try out. I purchased this cotton clothesline rope for it.
I’m no expert here and there are lots of classes and videos you can find to show you how. But this is how I did it. I started by creating a small coil and using long pins to hold it together.
Please excuse this pitiful diagram. I start stitching with a wide zig zag where the red arrow is pointing. I go back and forth over this a few times. Then I zig zag in a spiral, keeping the little well between two sides of the rope centered under my walking foot.
In the next photo, you can see the needle down to the right. Always put your needle down on this side, if you lift the presser foot to adjust.
It is a bit awkward at first, but it gets easier as you go.
I cut my rope at and angle and zigzagged over it at the end.
It took a while to decide how to lay these out to create a table runner.
Once I did, I zig zagged the pieces together. I feel like I need more small pieces, but I’m out of rope. I suppose I could add more later.
Have a great day!
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