Warm cozy Robes

Warm Cozy Robes

Finished 4 warm cozy robes this year.

2 for us and 2 for a friend.

These are the ones I have made for Terry.

It has been hard to get a good picture so please excuse

the photography, I know I need better lighting and 

a better camera.

This is V's robe

done in black with blue accents

 The V on the front, it really is very pretty and

the robe IS black.

The lines are the front facing.

 Bluebonnets on the back, very pretty in person.

 No point in showing bad pictures of C's robe

(which is the same design as V's)

so here is the hunting design on the back

the robe which is in a mocha brown. 

I also made a pink robe for myself and

a camo one for the hubs. 

Everyone should stay warm this winter.

now back to quilting.

Embroidered Butterflies

Time for some Embroidery

Taking a little break from quilting to

decorate some hoodies.

Some butterflies for your viewing pleasure.

 Instead of just decorating the back

 I decided to add the design to the sleeve.

This required unsewing the sleeve so

it could be flat on the hoop, then sewing it

back together.

 I wanted the butterflies to fly over my shoulder, too.

Another one in black with blue and white design.

I put these into a local store, I hope they are a big hit.

Lime, Black, Grey and White Quilt...Part 3

Lime, Black, Grey and White Quilt

Part 3 

Moving along on the borders of this quilt.

I was not sure what to do next to add the diamond border.

I did not like it right against the light grey

After considering things, I decided to add

a lime 1" border and a black 1" border.

I chose to sew them together before adding them.

Next the diamonds will be added

and another 1" black border will go on the outside.

Hummm.......this presented a problem

 I did not discover until I began sewing

                                                                 the two borders on.

Because I first sewed the borders together, they would

overlap at the corners in a way that would not work. 

After some consideration, I decided to add a corner block.

Now you can see the diamonds and how they

will line up, I believe a lime square will

go in the corner where they meet up.

That is for another day, more diamonds to sew together.

 

 

The top will measure 88 inches once the diamonds are on.

I hope to make it 96 inches square so that once it is washed

and shrinks up a little it will be close to the 90 inches wanted.

So what will the final border be?  Perhaps a piano key?  I am running out of

fabrics so will have to consider what to do next.  

Until later,

May the Lord above bless your richly.  

Lime, Black, Grey and White Quilt

Lime, Black, Grey & White Quilt

1st

 pieced border for the quilt.

Corner detail

What a difference a border makes.

 

I think I need a bigger design wall.

Flannel ordered to make a bigger design wall.

Border #2

Half square triangles in dark grey, light grey and white. 

(trying out the next border on the

  

 Corner details

Lime, Black, Grey and White

Quilting in 

Lime, Black, Grey & White

My latest project is for my son and daughter-in-law.

Josh and Michele

They wanted lime green, black, med grey and white.

Well this is a very lime top!

After making about 16 blocks I decided I did not like it

So something needed to happen.

 The block design is one I got from Quilters Cashe

she has tons of blocks there and all for free.  Thank you Marcia.

The pattern is called Fading Star

 

I know the colors are hard to see, 

sadly my camera is not picking them up to well.

The black has lime green dots.  What looks like yellow

is a bright, bright lime and white.  Then two different limes,

one with teal seed shape, shapes.  

 I changed it around a little because I did not like how the

fabrics I had chosen worked out.

As I mentioned I did not like the idea of a whole king

size quilt done with just those blocks soooooo

I had to figure something out.

I am a member of Craftsy.com 

and there is a class I am taking called Finishing School

by Winnie Fleming.

She teaches about making pieced borders.

Now I have done this before on my Ruffled Roses quilt 

but it never crossed my mind.

I began making borders to add to the center.

 First came a black border, next a lime border

both plain borders.

Next a 4 patch border.

Starting with a 4 patch with 1 1/2 finished squares

 Add half square triangles one in lime and one in grey

 Stack them like so and sew together to create

 this border, which will be added to the last lime border

 for this.

 Next make half square triangle squares

 which will be added thus

to create this.

What next?  I don't know yet.  

First I need to finish the other 3 sides, 

so I am off to sew.

Quilting in the Big Horns

Quilting in the Big Horns

Where oh where does the time go?  What a busy summer!

We have been coming and going, 

going and coming.

Had our oldest grandson for 2 months and

had major damage to our home from high winds.

With winter approaching it is time to prepare for

the cold and snow.

But quilting and embroidery has not stopped.

I am sorry for the long absents, I am hoping to set a

goal for myself, to post at least once a week.  

Can I do it?  Time will tell.

I want to share my current project with you.

A large embroidery order that I think you will enjoy.

These 16 x 16 micro fiber towels are for the

up coming POWDER PUFF race, which

will take place on Oct 17th.

Only ladies will be driving in this off road desert race.

Of course as you can see it is a race toward 

the cure for cancer.

 On the embroidery machine.  Love those mighty hoops

They make hooping so much easier, worth every penny.

 Completed with business card attached

Work center.  Preparing business cards, adding jute

instead of ribbon (to standard), then attaching

to the towels with safety pins.  I am going to have to buy some

more safety pins since I am using my quilting pins, is what

I had on hand.  Can not just pop over to the store from here.  :)

Each towel takes 24 minutes to stitch out and I have 300 to do.

Yep it will take a while.  I am hoping for 30 a day.

It has been a long time since I have had my machine on, so it feels

good to be working on this project.

I also did some hoodies for MORE a while back, need

to share that with you soon.   That job was a little smaller with

34 pieces, but the designs took 1 1/2 hours to stitch so it took a 

day or two to finish.  

Other jobs I am working on.

A king size quilt for my son and daughter-in-law

Finishing up on the Ruffled Roses quilt

 (just 5 years now in the works). 

Several service quilts.

This summer my quilting studio made huge strides

towards being finished and I was able to move my sewing area

up there.  Loving it. 

Much to share.

Many Blessings!

Fractured Flowers Quilt

Fractured Flowers

with embroidered border

 I think spring is here and the to do list just tripled

the gardens are calling my name.

In January we had a retreat here in our town, oh such fun.

I was in the need of flowers and my youngest daughter

in need of a quilt.  So I began this for her.

It started with 3 charm packs, now I have never worked with

a charm pack before but these kind of called my name

so I sent for them. 

 I mixed them up (or so I thought) and sewed them together,

and it was ok, adding the border helped 

BUT

I was not really happy with it, just did not have enough spark.

So I decided to cut the rows in half, shift them around 

and resew, below is the result.

Ok, that is better, 

BUT

it still needed somethings....So

 I cut the columns in half, shifted them around

and sewed them back together

(and yes I just cut thru the border, too)

Oh there we go, much better.

 While at retreat, I learned about the 

Wing Clipper

A ruler for helping make flying geese.

I love this tool, it made the process so much easier.

I had considered making flying geese to add to this quilt

but they are such a pain, I scrapped that idea

until I used this.  See the pretty geese and they are perfect.

A great tool!

 A few weeks later I took a class on Craftsy.com

The class is on making sweatshirt jackets.  

The teacher had a technique for an edge treatment that I could use

for this quilt.

These flowers are involved and they are embroidered.

 I decided to also put some of the flowers in the middle of the quilt.

 A finished one

 Next came the outer border, with the flying geese

After adding the flying geese border, I did the quilting

with a floral design

The geese are only on two corners, opposing.

Next came the embroidered flowers 

This took alot of time but I think the results were

worth the effort.

I bound the quilt before putting on the embroidered flower

so that they would cover the binding ends.

With the flowers being on opposing corners, 

I left the area to be worked with them unbound.

The front

 The back, where I used some of the 

fabric from the border on the front.

This design took alot of removing from the machine,

trimming and changing of bobbins so that 

the back matched the front.  

I love the way the border is now trimmed

to the shape of the flowers, alot more 

interesting the a straight border and binding.