Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 11

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Quilt

Part 11

The label

My friend Lyn let me use her embroidery machine 

to make this wonderful label.

This is also made on material from one of the shirts

and is a deep midnight blue with silvery blue thread.

I think it adds the finishing touch to the quilt.

Just a couple more things to do

such as tacking down the large embroidered logos

by hand because I did not quilt through them

2 more of those to go.  The binding is all

finished, so we are nearly there.

Thanks for visiting, 

and 

May God Bless and Keep you.

Update:  March 5.   This quilt 
brought $4,000.00 at auction.
A great money raiser for the 
foundation and good pat on the back
for me.  WOW.

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 10

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Quilt

Just a little update.  No pictures at the moment.

I was busy stitching down the binding

last night and all of a sudden I came 

to the point where I began.

OH NO!

Now I am going to have to undo some of

the stitches, 

I got so carried away, I sewed down the

area where the label goes!

LOL

The label will be made today, my girlfriend

Lyn is bringing her embroidery  machine over,

so say tuned for pictures of this amazing process.

Then the quilt will be heading to its owner

and off to the auction. 

May God Bless you and keep you safe

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 9

 Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Quilt

 Part 9

Now that the quilting is done

it is time to bind the quilt

After cutting my fabric 1 3/4 inches

I attached it with a 1/4 inch seam.

I chose to do a single layer on the binding,

normally it would be doubled, but with

the thickness of the fabric

I felt it best to do the single layer.

 The binding is sewn to the front of the quilt

and then turned to the back to stitch down by hand.

 Pinned and ready to stitch.  This will take several days

the hand cramps after awhile so breaks are required.

The needle and double thread.

 After stitching

Next up, the label which will go in the last corner

Thank you for stopping by.  It won't be long now

and it will be going to its owners.

May God Bless and Keep you.

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 8

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation  Quilt

Part 8

The quilting.

Yes, the quilt is on the long arm

(Saturday morning)

I was so busy quilting I forgot to take any pictures until I was about 

half way done.  LOL.

A close up of the machine during stitching.

Some sections quilted.

All finished and ready for the binding.  A task for tomorrow.

(Sunday)

May God Bless you and Keep you.

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 7

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation

Part 7

The quilt top is done and ready

to go on the long arm tomorrow.

Click the picture for a close up.

Not much else to tell today

finished up all the borders and

getting the backing ready.

More tomorrow when it goes

on the long arm and we begin quilting.

So what do ya think?

It is good to see my vision come to pass

the top measures 88" X 100"

See you all tomorrow

God Bless and Keep you.

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 6

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Quilt

Part 6

Welcome back to the progress on this fun quilt

Today I began working on the

3 borders for the quilt

First is a 1 1/2 inch midnight blue

keeping with using the shirts for this quilt

I cut 2 inch strips for the first border this morning

(won't bore you with that process)

and sewed them to the quilt.

Next I began construction of the main border

which is 6 inches wide and incorporates

yokes, sleeves and more blocks.

To begin I cut apart and squared up the 

back yokes from the shirts, no point in having

extra layers of fabric to quilt thorough and 

add weight to an already very heavy quilt. 

 After squaring up the yokes some needed to be added to

(another thing I won't bore you with, besides I forgot to take a picture).

 The sleeves have wonderful embroidery on them and this will go in the border, too

Ready to cut.

 The quilt has become to big to fit across my king size bed

so it is a bit crumpled up.

Now you can see the first border and the lower 2nd border

Remember to click for a bigger picture

 The upper 2 borders, sorry the picture is off kilter, 

I took it upside down, so it would be right side up. 

A close up of the lower border, with a bit of the black fabric that will

be the last border so you can get an idea what it will be like.

Yes, I plan for the one yoke to stay like that into the final border

cool, yes?

Tomorrow I will not be working on the quilt, we have to head 

to town and do some cabinet work.

So stay tuned, I will be back at it on Friday.

Please leave a comment, I love to hear from you all.

God Bless and Keep you.

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 5

 Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Quilt

Part 5

Time to celebrate...........

the center of the top is
DONE.

I am pleased with how it looks

What do you think?

 Today's work included,
joining row 3 components together
making the 4th section.

Here we have, the left.

the middle

the right.

 Joining the 3rd and 4th rows together,

then joining the top half to the bottom half.  

WaHoo, and it looks cool.

 Next up are the 3 borders.  So stay tuned

The thread for the quilting and the backing arrived.

Real Tree Camo for the back.  Cool....Yes!

God Bless and Keep you.

Please leave a comment, they mean alot to me, 

I love hearing from you.

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 4

Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation Quilt 

 Part 4

Welcome back to the creation of this quilt

The weekend is over and it is back to working 
on this neat quilt.

This is row 3 of the quilt.

the left side (working on adding the red and tan logo)

Middle

Right side

the whole left side

The whole middle

Right side 

(remember you can click on the picture for a closer look)

The whole quilt, well 3/4 of the whole quilt.

Thank you for stopping by,

more tomorrow.

God Bless and Keep you

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.