Monday, February 14, 2022

P.S. A Few More Valentines

Just wanted to share a couple more things before it's time to pack up what is unfinished (which will be a treat to take out for next year).

Sweetheart Pillow is made with little 3 1/2" hearts (To make: take two strips of fabric 2 x 3 1/2";  Snowball the top corners with 1" squares of background fabric.  Snowball the bottom corner with 2" squares of background fabric.  Add stripes!

Mini pink and red patchwork toppers, still need quilted and bound.
Topper for TV console

 



Cute Valentine envelope.  You can see I fussy cut the heart triangle


I think I will remove the white corner square triangles and add some triangles to the top of the envelope and make two more.... anyway, I'll show you next year.



Hope you had a lovely Valentine's Day!


Sweet Heart Quilt

Second Big quilt finish of 2022



I finished up this quilt with all the heart blocks I made last year.


I show a tutorial for the heart blocks here


Lots of hearts and swirls free motion quilting


Lots of heart felt quilting!


Linking with Quilt Fabrication

Happy Valentine's Day Wreath

Scrappy Wreath from a tutorial on Happy Quilting

 

I was happy to find a heart shaped wire frame at the dollar store.  I folded lengthwise and finger pressed and then started tying on some 1 1/2 x 6 1/2" strips but later changed the way I tied them on.  

In order to make the wreath fuller, I strung a bit of ribbon and tied as shown and tied on extra strips.



It turned out so pretty, but I wasn't liking that there were frayed edges, so started pinking the edges in spots where I saw fraying and on all subsequent strips I added.  Just beware to open the pinking shears with two hands, to spare your poor thumb joint!  Or if you have a pinked rotary cutter blade, that might work well.

Update:  Looks cute on the front door!


Sunday, January 23, 2022

Time for Red and White Sewing


I took out my Valentine Day decorations and realized I have no quilty runners or toppers or wall hangings.  I checked Pinterest for ideas and then pulled out all my red and white scraps and got busy.

This cute little block is only 8 x 10" and called Box of Chocolates.  It is a free pattern from The Temecula Quilt Company.  I'm going to quilt it tomorrow.


 
This little topper is 3 1/2" squares sewn together and the scallop border is made with 3 1/2 x 2” rectangles with two corners snowballed with 1 3/8” squares


All quilted with hearts and swirls and bound with white


These scrappy hearts are made with 2 1/2” squares and half square triangles


I found a cute X O pillow tutorial from a Quilting Life so have been making some






Update:  Sew cute (and calorie free) Box of Chocolates all done!


Saturday, January 22, 2022

Timeless Treasure Tuscan Poppies Sunset Panel Quilt

 

My first finish of 2022.  I actually ordered three panels which came in a continuous cut, so I was able to cut my sections a little wider.  The sunset looks like a very hot day which is in contrast to the bit of snow you can see in the photo.

I'm so happy the Tuscan Poppy quilt is complete.

The 3D poppies are made like 3D pinwheels except you fold back the top edge of each section to round the petal and also the inside corner just a little so you can see the black center. I sewed some beads inside the poppies to imitate real poppy centers.  Most of the poppies I made with 3 petals and then a green folded square to make the part that attaches to the stem.


It was a lot of appliqué which is not my favorite, but I love how it turned out and it's even prettier in real life.


Buffalo plaid flannel backing.  I washed the quilt and the red ran onto the back but luckily found some quilter advice and soaked in dawn dishwashing liquid (only briefly) and then washed with color catchers and as you can see, no red or pink left!  Not sure if the Dawn helped or not.  I'll send the rest of the box to my cousin for when she washes it.

Monday, January 3, 2022

Winter 2022 (Ravelry) UFO Club

 I have some projects I really would like to finish soon and saw this UFO club on The Joyful Quilter blog, for the first quarter of the year and figured it might give me some extra motivation.  There are some rules which are pretty easy to follow.  List your projects and complete at least one (I hope to finish at least three).  Encourage others.  So here is my list!


Perfect for Valentine's Day post here


I have about 8 of these log cabin blocks made and with another 4 or 8, would be lovely for Valentine's Day or any day really!  Original Post here.


This would be a cute wall hanging to finish post here



This quilt top is ready to be quilted

Another Pink one would love to finish for February.  Post here



I love Irish chains and would love to finish this scrappy one!  Post for this and the shamrock one here

This is another Irish quilt which would love to finish before St. Patrick's day

Winter Table Runner original post here

One more winter project.
I would love to use the winter artic animals to make a quilt for my grandson.  original post here

This quilt just needs the borders completed and will be ready to quilt.  It's made from a Tuscan poppy panel with packed poppy and tossed poppy borders and the final border is 3D poppies and vines.

This is a half square triangle sampler quilt made with French General Fabrics.  I have some fabric ordered to make a final border.  Original post with link to the quilt along


Gosh I just kept finding UFO's that fit in the winter category.  Well the French General and Poppy Quilt are actually ones I've been meaning to finish along with many others so I can give my Valentine Day birthday cousin a choice of quilts since I promised her one ten years ago!  So that is my number one priority.         
I'm going to ask her to choose an unfinished one that I will finish or she can choose the tree quilt that is lovely and all finished and get it in the mail ASAP!  

                 Linking with the Joyful Quilter, Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, and Elm Street Quilting

Friday, December 31, 2021

Happy New Year's Eve

The Christmas season goes by too fast so still enjoying a few more Christmas Projects

I made a last minute placemat out of some patchwork and a little house I had on hand.  I added a Christmas greeting in Freemotion embroidery

This tree skirt is not yet done but making progress for next year.

I'm using the tutorial by Nana Bluebird  I made 4 sections but think I will need 6, since my strips must be less than 10 degrees



I love the little Tannebaum tree.  I watched this tutorial from Shabby Fabrics and made my own template.  It's very fun to make and nostalgic because we made 3-D paper Christmas trees in school long ago in the good old days!
Linking up with Sarah; Alycia; and the Joyful Quilter

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Wedding Quilt

 The wedding quilt was finished a while back and now delivered to my friend, who will deliver it to her son and daughter-in-law 

 It’s about 72”square.

Shows some quilting detail and the debonair striped binding

It was fun adding lots of varying quilting designs 

Some Late Valentine Sewing (I forgot to post on time

I made a couple of these to give as gifts. See the links for some instructions I used the Moda Block Heads 3 block by Lissa Alexander and I...