Luckily I have the 2 1/4" strip die for my AccuQuilt cutter. I just laid them out, stacked a few strips high, and ran it through.
Sunshower Quilts
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Binding Update
Friday, September 08, 2023
Quilting a Shamrock
Hello my friend!
After we got home from the cottage I decided to get to work on my St Patrick's Day T-Shirt quilt. I have some commission work to do and this one was already loaded onto the frame and ready to go. I even picked Glide Celery thread for the top and bobbin.
So I decided to finish it up first. Besides - I actually pieced a backing for this one from some left-overs and large pieces and I didn't want to load it again. I really don't like taking a quilt off the frame when it's ready to go. I don't know about you, but it takes me a while to get it loaded onto the frame and I hate to undo that work.
I decided on a simple straight-line piano key quilting in the border, but, for the body I wanted something more. I sketched and doodled shamrocks for a good while on my white board (thank goodness for white boards!) until I came up with something that worked for me.
I'm being vulnerable here so you can see the process :-) I realized that quilting the two side heart like a figure eight was the key to this process instead of going around it in a circle - right side, left side and then the top.
I made a video so you could see what I was talking about.
It's a little long but I love watching people free-motion on the long arm. Maybe you do too?
Let me know what you think and if you enjoyed my quilting video.
Happy Quilting!
Monday, September 04, 2023
The Split 9-Patch Centre is Complete!!
Sunday, September 03, 2023
Split Nine Patch Update!
Can you believe this was started in 2011 when I bought the HST die and first posted about it 2012! Check it out! This quilt has been a long time in the making - here's an update from 2019.
The biggest stumbling block - the off-white/cream/light-tan background fabrics. I tend to buy a lot of an off-white and make projects from it but this project required so many different print scraps! All the coloured prints - no problem I have bins of those - it's the background fabrics for me.
This quilt uses only two dies - the 2" square die
And the 1 1/2" finished half square triangle die
Hard to believe I know but it really is just all done using these two. Of course you can do this without die-cutting, using traditional half square triangle (HST) methods. And, of course you can do this in different sizes. For example 2 1/2" squares and or the Value Die.
I will be over-joyed to get this quilt done! I'm still debating the border - kinda thinking about a first border and then maybe a 16-patch outer border? I have lots and lots of those already pieced, but, it might be way too much. Maybe a solid?
Thoughts?
Saturday, September 02, 2023
It's Been A Long Time!
I also decided to move my old sewing chair up here - soooooo much more comfortable than the rickety wooden one I was perching on before with my bum elevated by a pillow! I think I'm getting serious about my quilting here now LOL!
Monday, July 18, 2022
I Ripped!
I ripped!
You had to know that I would do this. I ripped the quilt again and added the two t-shirts to the quilt. Thank you for your encouragement to do what I wanted to do.
Monday, July 11, 2022
Christmas T-Shirt Quilt - Take 2
Christmas Quilt - Take 2!
A while back I posted this Christmas T-Shirt quilt I was working on. This one is just for me. No deadline. Not a commission quilt. Just for us. I put it together over Christmas and i was never really happy with how it turned out.
Specifically - I wasn’t happy with the entire bottom right hand corner and the bottom row. I really didn’t like the way that I had the spacer fabric in there and a lot of negative space; so, I put it away and slowly thrifted a few more t-shirts.
On the weekend I realized that I had enough shirts to fix some of it, so I took it apart and added in some shirts.
Binding Update
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