I’m doing two Block of the Month projects this year. The first I am combining with Vicki Welch and Judy Laquidara color palette challenge. I’m using the color palette to create a 2000 Joined at the Hip BOM. Here is the first block:
I’m also participating in Craftsy’s BOM and here are two blocks for this month:
Moda fabrics. Hullabaloo and other Modas.
This is #4 in a series of now five Not Just T-shirts Quilts. My client wanted four quilts made from her husband’s clothing as memory quilts for her four adult children and their families. She liked them so much she now wants one of her own.
Oops! First ‘frog stitching’ of the new year! ”Rip it!” I got a call from the long-arm quilter who quilts up the shop models for Fabrics and Friends Quilt Shoppe, Roanoke, IN. She was quilting along and came to a block with a flipped section, making a flying goose instead of an on point square. I picked up the quilt from her and ripped out the section in question. Because she had already quilted up to the seam of the mistake, I had no choice but to hand piece it back in to it’s correct placement.
Here is the quilt in question. Can you find my mistake?
Hint: it’s in the second row.
Here it is:
See the flying goose in the bottom center? It should be flipped to make an on point square.
Here it is corrected:
Too bad the quilting is not showing up in the photo. The long-arm quilter does such a lovely job! I was sorry she had to take the quilt off the frame and now has to re-load the quilt due to my mistake. But we agree that it is a good thing she found it before ripping out quilting would have been involved!
2012 finds me joining Judy Laquidara of Patchwork Times and Vicki Welsh of Field Trips in Fiber for their Color Palette Challenge and also Judy’s UFO Challenge. I hate to say it, but while cleaning my sewing room, I’ve come across more purchased and unmade projects than I’d like to admit! I also unearthed several works in progress. I have found more than 12, but put the ones I’d really like to get to this year on the UFO Challenge list.
1. Christmas Table Runner – applique on words, quilt
2. Argyle Quilt Top – blocks made, piece together
3. Pie Safe Quilt – finish applique and piecing top
4. 3 Creative Studios BOM – blocks made, piece together top
5. Garden Lattice Quilt – fabric bought, need to cut and piece top
6. Journal Covers – fabric bought, need to make covers
7. Chinese Coins Quilt- finish hand applique vines, piece constructed strips together
8. Modern Chinese Coins with applique – fabric bought, start top
9. Fire Escape Quilt – fabric bought, cut and start piecing
10. Fairy Quilt Top – fabric bought, cut and start piecing
11. Wallet Pattern – pick fabric and make!
12. Purse Pattern – fabric bought, make!
I’m also participating in SewCalGal’s Free Motion Quilting Challenge. I’m very excited about learning to FMQ this year. Maybe by the end of the year I’ll be using my new skills on the quilt tops finished in the UFO Challenge!
For the Color Palette Challenge I’m using a Joined at the Hip BOM I bought in 2000 but never made. And I also signed up for Craftsy’s BOM. I’ll use the color palette for that as well, and then use those blocks to practice the FMQ.
I’m feeling all set for sewing and quilting in 2012!
This is memory quilt No. 3 made of t-shirts, dress shirts, ties, slacks, jeans, and bib overalls and also two bird and flower panels. My client tells me the first two quilts brought tears and many happy memories Christmas Day when she gave them to her adult children. No. 3 goes to another daughter later today.
Front of Not Just T-Shirts Quilt
Back of quilt
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