Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 3

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 

 Part 3

Welcome back to the creation of this quilt

It is at what I call the gangly teenager stage 

you know when kids are growing so fast they get awakard in

mobility and looks.  LOL.

I finished cutting the strip sets this morning and sewing 

them together into 4 patches.

 Leaving some in 2 patches

 Then construction began (left side)

 Middle

 Right side

 All together

 Time to stop for today, what should I make for dinner

we are about leftovered out.  Is leftovered a word?

Will work on the next section tomorrow.

Come on over to My Tin Shack,

I am working on a post about my faux leather treatment 

in my stairwell and hope to finish that up to post 

later tonight.

God Bless and Keep you

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 2

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Quilt

 

Part 2

Today, nothing very exciting happened

All of the fronts of the shirts and some backs

have been cut into 3 1/2 inch strips 

and paired up with another color strip.

With right sides together the strips are chained piece together.

Ironed open and ready to be cut again.

Each strip set is cut again at 3 1/2 inches, like this.

Then two different ones are joined to..........

create this 4 patch unit.   

These units will be used to fill in between the main elements of the top.

Once constructed the finished block is 6 1/2 inches

The finished block within the quilt will be 6 inches, 

having 1/4 inch seam allowances.

Not all of the strip sets are cut, and not all of the 

units created.  Time to rest my hand.

More tomorrow.

God Bless and keep you

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt

 Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Quilt

I have been asked to make a quilt for

the  Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

I will be using commemorative shirts to construct the quilt.

This quilt is being donated to the foundation

by several local families.

It will be auctioned off at one of their affairs in March.

 On Tuesday February 1,

I was given this stack of shirts to use 

in constructing the quilt.

Beautiful shirts.

With great graphic logos

 The deadline for this quilt is February 28

It is a queen size quilt.

So I began cutting apart the shirts, 

starting at about noon and stopped to take

inventory about 6 pm (with a few little breaks inbetween).

 Above are the shirt backs with logos

 Shirt backs without logos, but will be used for fabric.

 Shirt sleeves

 Extras with possibilities

 Shirt fronts with logos

After dinner (thank goodness for left overs).

I decided I needed some direction so I 

cut out shapes for the large motifs (like you'd do for funiture

when your decorating a room)

Once I found a pleasing arrangement

I taped them down.

Next I put in the outer border

and began filling in the center.

There will be two borders

the outer most I am thinking will be black and 3 inches wide

Next will be a 6 inch border, 

it will house numerous items from the shirts.

 

 This morning (Wed), more cutting, 

prepare the element for the top

Large motifs cut to size

 Smaller motifs cut and sewing has begun.

 A star from a shirt front and strips from a shirt

Star fabric with strips.  

These are 6 inch blocks, the 4 together makes a 12 inch 

component for the quilt

 More small motifs awaiting placement

 These 6 inch squares were shoulder pads on the shirts

they are awaiting placement.

 Another component which will be going into the border are the

yokes from the shirts.

That is it for today's post.

I am beginning to cut the fabric into 3 1/2 inch strips

so I can begin making 6 inch four patches for fill blocks

then I can begin constructing the top.

Now I think it is time to shop for some fabric for the

back of the quilt.

Until next time

May God Bless you and keep you.

Ruffled Roses BOM - 2

Ruffled Roses

Block of the Month by Sue Graman & TQS  (The Quilt Show)

Update on my BOM

I have been working on getting all of the applique

secure.

Even though I did fuse the design down it doesn't stay.

So I machine appliqued the stems and leaves down,

this style of applique is call...Raw Edge Applique

because you leave the raw edge showing.  

I am trying to decide how I will quilt this on the longarm.

I was going to machine stitch the flowers also, but did not like the outcome.

Being a Crazy Quilter I decided to

 secure the flowers

with a blanket stitch, using 3 strands of embroidery floss.

Also the heart.

And the little berries, with french knots in the middle, 33 of them.

Next step is to add the setting triangles.  

The next set of instructions begin Feb 1.

I am try to keep on track.

Thank you for coming over,

I hope you will follow the progress of this 

beautiful quilt.

God's Blessing to you.

Block of the Month - TQS

 One of the things I want to do this year is this BOM

it is from TQS ,  The Quilt Show  with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims.

it is designed by Sue Garman

Isn't it beautiful?

I have seen alot of wonderful BOM but

never one that made me act.

If your a member of TQS it would be fun to see you do this

also, to see how yours would be different from mine.

 If your not a member, you might like to follow my progress.

This is January's block which you can see is the center block

Sue has done hers in needle turn applique, but

I decided to do mine in raw edge, fusible applique.

I decided to take all the fabrics from my stash, and I was able to,

the only thing I will need to buy is the backing, but that is a ways off so I can 

probably save up for it by next January.

I finished putting all the little red berries on tonight.

My setting triangles will be a creamy beige.

This one is by Margo Clabo, all in Pinks and greens.

So follow along won't you.     Have a blessed week.

We need your help!!!

 Over at  Among the Gum Trees  

An appeal has been issued to help crafters in  Australia who have lost everything in the horrible floods that are going on  over there.

I thought you all might be interested in helping and maybe did not know about this chance.   I did not know until today when it was passed on to me by a friend.

So read about it below and see how you might help.

For all links and to contact Jenny go to

Among The Gum Trees

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

We need your help!!!

A large part of our country is under water...the devastating floods have destroyed town upon town, and there is no end in sight for the next month or more. The water is still flooding towns as it makes its way down the country, and more rain is till bucketing down. This is indeed "Queensland's darkest hour" as our state Premier has described it.

The inland tsunami that hit Toowoomba yesterday has left the nation reeling, but no more than the people of Toowoomba with the deaths of children and still over 70 people missing. 

The list of towns affected is long. The area of flooding is larger than Texas.

The Gum Tree Designers are asking for your help.

There will be many hundreds of crafters who have lost what is their joy, their hobby. 

In our own small way we want to help, and we need you to come along side with us.

We want to collect, and then distribute, a 'New Beginnings' sewing kit for those who need to start over with their craft. We will be posting the kits in bulk to the various quilting groups in each town.

This is what we'd like in each kit:

1. A handmade sewing caddy, complete with needlebook and pincushion.

2. A pack of embroidery scissors with a scissor keep.

3. Six individual skeins of stranded embroidery threads.

4. Embroidery needles.

5. 1 fat quarter of fabric.

If you can help, please email Jenny at -

 jennyofelefantz AT yahoo DOT com DOT au 
OR
purpleflowerpatch AT gmail DOT com

for the address in Australia to post these kits to. 

PLEASE post by the first week of February.

Fee is going to make some drawstring bags to put the kits in, but if you can put your kit inside one you have made that will be even better. 

Please share this appeal on your blogs and link back to this post! 

Some free online patterns for sewing caddies can be found at  -

Helen's blog HERE 

About.com HERE

Maureen's blog HERE

Marcus Brothers HERE...

If you know of more free caddy patterns online, please leave a comment with the link and we'll add it to the list.

~~~~~

Jenny is also auctioning two of her original handmade Shabby Roses quilts to raise funds for the Flood Appeal. You can see the details HERE on her blog.

Joy is auctioning a kit for one of her beautiful patterns HERE.

Fee is auctioning a pretty fat quarter bundle of Sugar Pop HERE.

Our recently retired Gum Tree Designer, Vikki, is also auctioning a set of 'Springtime' patterns HERE.

We will keep you posted on other ways we intend helping as the weeks progress. The effects of the flooding as it continues to rage on will be felt for a long time to come, as it is not looking like ending for many weeks, perhaps months. 

Your help is appreciated more than you know.

We are also asking for donations to raise the funds for the postage costs to all the quilt groups, so if you can help out with that we are most appreciative! We have put a DONATE button on our sidebar for easy Paypal payments. 
Any money remaining after postage will be given to the Queensland Government Flood Appeal. 
 'll set up a button in our sidebar later this week to contribute. 

Thanks,

the Gum Tree Designers

xxx

Posted by Jenny of Elefantz at 12:31 PM

Finished Slippers..........

Finished slipper collection.

Warm footsies in the future.

Once I figured out how I wanted these to look

they went fast and I did the last 3 pair in an afternoon.  

For a tutorial, see my last post.