My X Plus Quilt is Done

I have been attacking my UFO quilt tops this summer. This is a finish for which I need to thank my friends from the Flickr bee Mo-Stash from March 2013 when I was queen bee. I made more blocks to double the size but I so appreciate the blocks made by those special ladies. This is such a cohesive quilt to have been a group effort! Love it!!

 A lot of my favorite texty prints and AMH fabrics...

 There is a bit more detail in this post if you want more details...http://krislovesfabric.blogspot.com/2013/02/march-is-my-month-for-modern-stash.html

 My quilt buddy highly approves of this one, good thing we have air conditioning as she pinned me beneath it once the binding was attached this afternoon.

 How can I resist such adoration for my quilt?!!

 Or maybe it's just her cute little toes?  

Have a great day!!

A Wool Wallhanging Finish

I have been using this summer to clean up some piles in my sewing room...one of those piles was full of finished quilt tops.  This is another of those that I have now finished with quilting.  

It is a Buttermilk Basin (free at the time) Block of the Month design you can find here: free Buttermilk Basin Mystery QAL of 2015. 

 I am happy with the decision to do a kind of scribbly quilting in the background...

 These designs are so cute, Buttermilk Basin never disappoints, love them!

I know this last picture is too dark but I included it because I think it shows best how the scribble quilting I did in the background makes the wool appliques pop up  :)  This piece was a practice piece to prepare for a larger quilt I am planning to quilt in this same manner.  Onward....    :)  Have a great day!!

 

Another Finish a Bit Late in Coming...Celtic Solstice 2013

This is a quilt I modified from a Bonnie Hunter Christmastime mystery sal from 2013, just put the last of the binding on this afternoon.

Here are my first two posts for this quilt...http://krislovesfabric.blogspot.com/2013/12/quilting-along-in-between-getting-ready.html and http://krislovesfabric.blogspot.com/2014/02/this-is-where-i-want-to-be.html...sure took awhile...hehehehe.

Long Time Gone Quilt : A Finish

I love so many of Jen Kingwell's designs and when I heard there would be a SAL using her sampler pattern Long Time Gone of all machine pieced blocks, I decided I needed to play along.

The details on the SAL can be found here at  http://www.gnomeangel.com/week-1-long-time-gone-sew-along-bow-tie-block/. 

Today I have the pleasure of a quilt finish reveal!

This is among my favorites of quilt finishes...just a happy scrappy jumble of goodness, Jen Kingwell's pattern is wonderful and I am very happy with my decision to use some of my favorite prints truly making this an "I spy" for my quilter's heart.

Thanks for sharing this journey with me my friends!

Week 17: Checkerboards and Assembly of Top for Long Time Gone SAL

I love so many of Jen Kingwell's designs and when I heard there would be a SAL using her sampler pattern Long Time Gone of all machine pieced blocks, I decided I needed to play along.

The details can be found here at  http://www.gnomeangel.com/week-1-long-time-gone-sew-along-bow-tie-block/ if you would like to join in the fun. 
 

So last week was an amnesty week for the Long Time Gone SAL and I didn't have any catch up so had nothing to share.  This week is for the last blocks, Checkerboards...you can see them between all the other blocks in my finished quilt top...

Sneak peek of the quilting...I had my local long arm quilter just do a meander with all the busy fun of this sampler.

I am actually binding the quilt now...

 I believe the reveal is scheduled for next week :)

These are my other blocks for this SAL:
 

 
 
 

 

A Couple Finds From this Past Week

So I had an opportunity to spend some time out and about this last week and came away with a couple purchases I thought I'd share in case you thought they were interesting too...

First up, my first trip to Michael's in a long time and I found some lettered clothespins that will be great for all those quilt patterns that use letters for the various pieces...

I also found some plain clothespins of the same size that I can number for the numbered patterns (you know the ones...26 pieces aren't enough to cover them all so they switch to numbers...)  Target had a perfect size plastic latch box to store them in too!

Since my Long Time Gone Quilt is actually now quilted and just needs to be bound and revealed I was naughty and bought Jen Kingwell's newest sampler pattern and fabric kit as Amitie is having a grand opening sale...I couldn't resist.  I believe the sale is still on... This one is a bit more challenging as it has quite a few paper templates in the designs.

I already had it spiral bound as I find the stapled pamphlets don't stay together for me through all my pawing and paging!!  I am looking forward to playing in Jen Kingwell's palette in this one as it is very different from my normal fabric pulls.

Shenandoah Valley Botanical Quilt - Last Block Month

Happy July my friends!

 I am sewing along with the Shenandoah Valley Botanical Quilt project - the pattern is provided by the Virginia Quilt Museum and all pattern sales benefit the museum. Dawn, from Collector with a Needle, and Doreen, from Aunt Reen’s Place, are hosting a quiltalong for this quilt, here.

The pattern size as provided by the museum easily makes 9 inch blocks. I am doing mine in wool so that I can make that size (8 1/2" finished), many are enlarging the pattern and all the participant's resulting blocks are well worth a look...so pretty!

We have arrived at the last block which is supposed to be a rainbow, stars and a sun but I went another direction for mine as you can see...

 I chose to make a cross with a wreath of dogwood blossoms and my signature initials and date, as the top was finished in October 2016.

This top has been such a joy to make!  I am now in the process of quilting it!