I finished my leader/ender quilt.
I used an old favorite pantograph called Any Which Way.
I love the backing fabric. The sharks are so fun! It was supposed to be a sheet.
The binding was leftover from another project.
This last photo shows the truest color.
This quilt will get donated to Project Linus. For some reason, my bin of 2 1/2” squares doesn’t look any emptier than when I started. 🤔
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The first couple years when we came to Arizona, I kitted up projects to work on out here. Now that nearly all my sewing stuff is here, I’m kitting up projects to take back to Michigan.
This is how I do it. First, I go through my saved ideas and pick out projects. Next, I screenshot an idea or import a picture from EQ8.
I create a Note on my iPad as shown below.
I decide on a size and figure out what I need to cut. It is kind of a shorthand pattern for myself. Then I grab my dies and cut.
Put it in a bag and it’s ready to sew!
The hardest part is saving it to sew later. I’ll kit up bigger projects as well.
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I cut my jelly roll panel into strips. Then I played around a bit on the design wall.
I’m not in love with any of these, so I guess I’ll play some more.
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I was needing some mindless sewing, so I started digging around and found these bits and pieces from an old jelly roll.
I cut them into random lengths and sewed them end to end.
Then I sewed them together jelly roll race style and ended up with this.
It’s only 32 by 43 inches. I was thinking I might chop it up and reassemble somehow.
Though I do like it better than I expected to. I think there is some potential here. I’m going to have to think on this a bit.
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Yep, I decided to make a runner with my Star and Cross blocks. First, I had to pick out a border.
Time to quilt.
This is the pantograph I used. It is from Urban Elementz.
A peek at the back:
And…..ta daaaaa!
The colors are rather fallish, but I do love the combination.
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Mi was asked to share more details on how I long arm quilted my strippie quilt.
I used two templates and a straight edge. This curved ruler from HandiQuilter was used for the feather spines.
This circle template was used for the pumpkin seeds.
This is how I did the feathers. I used the wave temp,ate and went left to right to create the spine (blue line). When I got to the end, I freehand quilted the feathers on top (green line). I just use simple feathers, backtracking on each one. When I get back to the left hand side, I use a straight edge and stitch in the ditch between strips (yellow). Then I travel down to quilt the feathers on the bottom. I don’t have to break my thread at all this way.
For the pieced rows, I start with the pumpkin seed. Follow the red line from left to right, then return on the black line to finish the motifs in the squares. Then I freehand the continuous curves in blue. In the picture I’ve drawn the bottom curves first, then come back across the top. The last part are the freehand loops shown in green.
By working back and forth like this, I didn’t need to break my thread.
I hope this was helpful. Have a great day!
I won this package from Moda and Amy’s Creative Side in the Instagram Quilt Festival! it hasn’t arrived yet, but I’m so excited!
I’ve been quilting up some orphan blocks to use for quilted hearts. One of my grands loves to make them with me. 😊
So true!
This just makes me laugh. 😂
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It’s finally done!
I’m pretty happy with how it turned out too. Mr. Wonderful helped me take a few photos in the wild.
Here are some details.
I used plain old white on the back since this will be hung on a wall.
The letters were fused and cut using my AccuQuilt 2” Classic Alphabet die.
I put my temp scale on the lower right. I might go back and add the numbers.
You can see how hot July was! I used high and low temps as recorded at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix.
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I got a new AccuQuilt die!
I decided to cut pieces from three solids and play with different color placements.
Stay tuned, I do have a plan. Have a great day!
Thanks to all who entered my giveaway for the AccuQuilt GO! Me cutter! The giveaway closes this morning at 10 Central Time so you may still have a chance to enter. Check out yesterday’s post for details.
I started cutting some of my African fabrics into charms. I saw a fun quilt on Instagram using these.
It’s slow going, but I’ve made a few more tiny 9 patches. And yes, Terri, I may have been in the sun too long! 😂
I’m nearing the finish line for my temperature quilt!
Before I go, AccuQuilt Studio Dies are on sale!
Also, in case you don’t win the GO! Me cutter, AccuQuilt has all their die cutters on sale this month. No code needed.
One more thing, I’ve started a KatyQuilts Facebook page. You are welcome to follow and start a conversation there. I haven’t posted much yet, but I’d love to see what you all are making!
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