T-Shirt Quilts! This month I need to focus on making a t-shirt quilt for my nephew.
Shirts cut front from back.
I bought a new to me woven fusible. I hope I like it! I’ll try it out today and if I do like it, I’ll order a bolt as I have several t-shirt & clothing quilts to make this summer.
One Monthly Goal for June – Piece a t-shirt quilt top!
Linking to OMG hosted by Patty of Elm Street Quilts.
What a week! Besides missing a trip to visit friends and attend a graduation party, with too much coughing and getting over the Covid sore throat, the week went pretty well. When I sat down to write this post, I realized I did way more quilting & sewing than I thought!
To-Do Tuesday, May 24, 2022
1. Finished Week 13 of Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden
Once again I forgot to take a photo of the week’s rosettes before attaching it to the growing quilt. But Week 13 is completed and attached.
2. Prep Week 14 EPP
Week 14 not only prepped but sewn together and …
attached to the ever growing quilt. Weeks 1 – 14!
3. Prepping t-shirts for fusible.
T-Shirts cut up and woven fusible purchased. I’ve not used this fusible before, so hope it works well. The LQS will order a bolt for me if I like it!
4. Shirts to Aprons
One of Dad’s two Hawaiian shirts turned into an apron. With a pocket front and center.
5. Get over Covid – I tested negative! So that’s a plus! But I have a lingering cough that I’m so looking forward to getting over! Sore throat is a thing of the past too.
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I actually got back to template quilting with the Sew Steady Class The Next Steps Template Quilting with Donelle McAdams. Here are four blocks from Lesson three.
Finished, this block will be 12″ x 6″. Straight line quilting with the rulers I used. An appliqué will go on this block. I’ll get to that later.
12″ when finished HST pieced block with Orange Peel quilting using the curved edge of ruler shown.
12″ finished whole-clothe block using the Spin-D-Flex Feather 7.5″ template, 1/2″ circle, 4″ arc templates. Fanciest block in this set of lessons.
Friendship Star with straight line quilting.
Looking through my photos, I didn’t take any of Lesson 2! Guess I’ll go back and do that. All the blocks will be sewn together using the Quilt-As-You-Go method.
To-Do Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Linking to Linda’s To-Do Tuesday over at Texas Quilt Gal.
My May goal was to finish a baby quilt to gift to my nephew’s little baby girl.
I stitched in the ditch using Janome’s walking foot.
The back is a textured Minky fabric, which I was kind of afraid to use. But, it turned out great! No problems at all with SITD quilting!
Quilted and bound!
Ready to wrap and ship!
One OMG for May is completed!
Linking to Patty’s One Monthly Goal Link-up.
This crazy Sore Throat is lingering on from Covid. Good thing, Hubs continues to test negative even though he has an ongoing cough. We are supposed to be visiting friends in Knoxville, TN this weekend, but canceled that trip. Our friends say they will come visit us later in June. That will be fantastic!
Did I get anything accomplished this past week?
To-Do Tuesday, May 17, 2022
1. The only quilting I did this week was hand stitching English Paper Pieced hexies.
Week 13 of Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden still needs a few stitches to be completed. Then it’s ready to attach to the slowly growing quilt.
Oh! I did accomplish a few other things. I pulled out some of my Dad’s shirts and started cutting them up to turn into aprons.
Here is the first of the aprons. Since I’m starting with medium size shirts, they will end up being aprons for Dad’s 17 great grandchildren. I want my 7 year old granddaughter to try this one on, but since I had Covid this past week, family are all staying clear from me! So soon, soon we will be back to normal and family visits. I might add pockets, I’ll see what granddaughter thinks once she tries it on. The oldest grands are 8 yrs old, so I think this well work for all 17 kiddos.
I also started cutting into t-shirts for a quilt for a nephew. Besides those little bits of crafting, I spent a lot of time lounging with library books and walking in our backyard.
Here’s a small garden tour for you -
Hubs is all about native plants. Here is a woodland area. Columbine are doing well this year.
This week the cultivated Iris are opening up. Here are three of my favorites -
Michigan Pride
Rustler
Purple Pepper
What do I hope to accomplish sewing wise this week?
To-Do Tuesday, May 24, 2022
What do you have planned for this week? Take a look at To-Do Tuesday Link up hosted by Linda of Texas Quilt Gal for all the craftiness happening around the web.
Allergy Season! I’m feeling it today.
Here’s what happened this past week in my sewing room.
To-Do Tuesday, May 3 – 10, 2022
1. English Paper Piecing
Weeks one through ten of Homage To Grandmother’s Flower Garden. I’m using 1/2″ paper hexies. The flowers are left over Fossil Fern fabrics from a quilt I made for the grand daughter.
Week 11 is almost ready to attach to the rest of the quilt.
2. Baby quilt for my new great niece.
I’m currently stitching-in-the-ditch. I’m using a textured Shannon Minky fabric on the back.
The quilting is going surprising well with using a walking foot. I’m thinking about quilting a flower in the center of the four blocks.
3. I’ve not gotten in to the bag of Dad’s shirts yet. At least I’m thinking of the possibilities. One little step at a time.
What will be on my to-do list for this week?
To-Do Tuesday, May 10, 2022
I’ve totally spaced my April OMG finish. I finished the quilt I made from a panel, pieced, quilted, and bound, and donated. I only took one photo showing the beginning of the quilting! Don’t know where my brain was on that one! Since I used circle templates for the first time for the quilting, you would think I’d take several photos. Nope.
Here’s the one photo -
Geo Zoo panel, Sew Steady circle templates.
For May, I’d like to finish a baby quilt that is sandwiched and ready for quilting.
I’m using textured Minky on the back. Another first for me. I’m hoping the quilting will go well. The binding will be a green Mode Grunge.
Goal for May – quilt, bind and mail quilt to my new little niece.
Linking to One Monthly Goal hosted by Patty of Elm Street Quilts.
This week was filled with things not on my quilting list! But all is well!
To-Do Tuesday April 26th
1. EPP continues!
This is week 10 for Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden. Oh! Oops! I sewed one leaf in the wrong place. It’s ripped out and ready to go where it belongs. I was hoping to have week 10 attached to the main quilt by now. It’s not. Yet I’m still finding stitching EPP relaxing in the evenings.
2. I didn’t touch the baby quilt. Something else popped up. While my grandson was building spool towers last week, my DIL commented on the disarray of my fabric.
And she was right! It’s a mess. In the above photo you can see scraps & leftovers from finished quilts. As I finish a quilt, the fabric has just been thrown onto these two shelves. Then when I need a bit of something I dig through the mess.
My DIL offered to help organize! Not just criticize! We took all the fabric scraps to my guest bedroom and sorted by color. Then I bought baskets for storage.
End result?
Fabric neatly folded and place in these baskets by color family. The baskets will be easy to grab to find just what I need for smaller projects. I might end up cutting some of the fabric into squares to sew together for charity quilts. That will be in the future as I have several UFOs that will be turned into charity quilts first.
And while I was being bitten by the organizing bug, I tackled this book shelf too.
I didn’t get a before photo. Just imagine where all the baskets are a disarray of quilty things. Top basket is wool projects. On next shelf the basket is holding sandwiched fat quarter size and smaller pieces for FMQ & template quilting practice. The basket on the middle shelf holds small projects I might get to one day. Bottom two baskets hold specialty fabrics & kits.
Trust me, it looks so much better and I’m feeling so much better about the clean up too! Thanks to my DIL for that one little comment.
Of course there are other areas of my sewing room that need tackling, but this is it for now. As I cleaned, my pile of projects to finish for charities grew! I’ll enjoy the process of reducing that pile. I should have taken a before and after photo of that pile as it went from neat to a mess!
3. Next Steps template quilting
I’m finding template quilting so relaxing! Who knew!
Here are three blocks quilted. The 12″ pieced block and elongated block are quilted with Sew Steady 6″ Spiral Template. The 12″ solid block is quilted with a straight ruler.
Photoed are the ruler, Spiral Template, and a spacing gauge used during quilting.
Close-up of quilting on pieced block. I’m using Fancy That Design’s Song Book fabric line. The background is by Benartex. I’m using Superior Threads King Tut 40 weight variegated thread Color 985 for quilting.
To-Do Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Linking to To-Do Tuesday hosted by Linda of Texas Quilt Gal.
Wow! Can plans change quickly!
What is up for To-Do Tuesday March 22?
My Dad passed on one week ago today. I’ll not repeat the details, you can read about Dad here and here if you are so inclined. My husband and I traveled from IN to PA to be with him. I took along the EPP, and did make some progress on it in the evenings.
Lawrence (Larry) G. Loper
December 17, 1926 – March 31, 2022
1. Nebula – not touched for obvious reasons, three more seams and it will be a top!
2. I still need to make headway on setting up a guest bedroom, but our friends who had planned on visiting this weekend had their own crisis, and are not traveling for our visit. We are all hoping a visit will still happen in the near future.
3. EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden
Week 7 minus leaves that go in those odd holes. I’m using 1/2″ hexies.
Weeks 1 – 7 again minus the leaves. I’ll get to those this week. I didn’t take leaf templates with me when I traveled to be with my Dad.
Week 8 progress.
This week I’ll focus on the missing leaves. And continue working on Week 8 of Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden.
To-Do Tuesday April 5th
It’s Thursday, so I think I’ll keep that list short.
Linking to To-Do Tuesday hosted by Linda of Texas Quilt Gal.
I didn’t finish my March OMG. I traveled to be with my Dad and extended family for the last week of Dad’s life. Sadly we had to place him in Hospice Care due to diabetic complications. Monday, April 4th, we had a wonderful celebration of his 95 years of life. 60 of which he lived as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. We laid his earthly body to rest next to my Mom who passed on 4 years earlier.
I saved a few flowers from one of the bouquets sent to the funeral. When I arrived home, added Daffodils blooming from my garden.
Strange, isn’t it, how life continues on uninterrupted all around us when a loved one passes on?
That said, on to my April OMG.
I do plan on finishing my March OMG, but for April I’m listing a top I want to finish for charity.
This is a panel called Geo Zoo. I cut apart the animal blocks and rearranged them. Then added a black border and then the wave coordinating print as the outer border. Not sure how I’ll quilt it.
Goal is to quilt and bind and donate.
Linking to One Monthly Goal hosted by Patty of Elm Street Quilts.
Happy New Year!
I pulled out a UFO to finish in January.
I started this quilt August of 2020.
Got to get it finished and gifted to my son and daughter-in-love!
It needs sashing, some appliqué, and binding. Queen size!
Linking to One Monthly Goal hosted by Patty of Elm Street Quilts.