Fusible machine applique is on my work table today.
This little owl will be joined by a few buddies for a baby quilt.
These kittens belong to another baby quilt in progress.
Flowers are for a pocket cover for Jelly Roll Season Bag.
Here is the bag – I used Quick Cuts Stripz.
Finished projects are for Fabrics and Friends Quilt Shoppe, Roanoke, IN. Demo this Saturday, August 11th. Kits available.
30″ blocks make up a quick quilt top!
I demonstrated some tips for making large blocks Saturday, July 14th, at Fabrics and Friends Quilt Shoppe, Roanoke, Indiana.
Tip #1: To mark the diagonal line on the half-square triangles (HST) use your iron. Fabrics right sides together, carefully fold one corner of your square to the opposite corner, press the diagonal fold. You will sew a scant 1/4″ seam on both sides of the marked diagonal line.
Tip #2: Once you have sewn a scant 1/4″ seam on both sides of your marked diagonal line, notch out the corners before cutting on the diagonal line.
Cut on the diagonal marked line. Press seam towards darker fabric.
Cutting out the notch will eliminate the ‘dog ears’ that most quilters trim off later. (Thanks to my friend Bev Gunn for showing this trick to me years ago!) Note: no ‘dog ear’ on above sample, while there still is a ‘dog ear’ on the sample below.
Tip #3: Use the 7/8″ rule to determine the size you will need to cut your HST pieces. The formula is add 7/8″ to the finished size of the piece. I wanted a 30″ finished block. Each of the 9 pieces for the block would need to measure 10″ when finished. 10″ (finished size) + 7/8″ = 10 7/8″. Two 10 7/8″ pieces matched with two 10 7/8″ background pieces will yield the four HST pieces I needed for the blocks shown.
(And don’t forget to add 1/2″ to the finished size of the other pieces you will need to cut for your blocks.)
Graduation party gift. Guests signed the top before it was quilted.
Note the yardstick and corner tabs for hanging the quilt.
Recently, I was asked to make a quilt out of mens trousers. Once I had the pants in hand, looking through them, I tried to picture just how I would use them to construct quilt blocks. Then I remembered this quilt -
- which I received from my mom when she moved into a retirement community. It was in the bottom of a cedar chest in her attic. She could not remember who in our family had made it. It is made of shirt cottons, wool, and flannel. And it has now become the inspiration for the pants quilt -
The fabrics are wool, poly, and corduroy.
Graduation time brings the request for t-shirt memory quilts. Here is one made for a Cross Country and Track & Field high school graduate.
About 27 t-shirts used. Quilt is 64″ x 82″.
My daughter was invited to the Junior Prom this year.
I love this rainbow of pretty girls!
I’ve never worked with a laser cut kit before for applique. Recently a friend asked if I would put together a Toni Whitney Design kit – The Guardian for her. What I did was fuse it together, and then sent it back to her for the quilting. I have not seen the finished quilt. Here is the applique all fused together:
I liked the process. The fabric comes with fusible webbing already attached. The laser cut pieces come still attached within the fabric sheets, just snip a few threads and the applique pieces are ready for placement. This kit is much like a ‘paint by number’ but you are using the applique pieces instead of paint. The only complaint I have is that some of the fusible did not fuse. I had to go back and dab fabric paint on all the pieces of several of the fabrics. What I liked best about the process was using a teflon sheet over the pattern. I could see through the teflon to follow the placement of the fabric pieces over the pattern. Then peel off the sections built on the teflon sheet and place on the background.
My mother and mother-in-law are each receiving a decorative pillow this year. I put two orphaned basket quilt blocks to use, added leaf and yo-yo shaped flower appliques. Just something a little different than the usual gift of candy.
Picture Purrfect Kitties with purrsonality! This was a fun applique quilt. I used raw edge applique technique for this quilt top.