Quilting

About the Process

August 14, 2018 by Jo 19 Comments

I was reading through the comments and saw a comment from Maggie at Making a Lather. She had added a link to her blog sharing her challenge project. She happened to be making her Roll, Roll Cotton Boll quilt.

That got me thinking back to when I made mine. I gotta say, it is hands down my favorite quilt as far as “making it” goes. It’s my favorite mystery quilt for sure. I’ve been doing them since Carolina Christmas.

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I am a process girl. I LOVE the process of making a quilt even more than I love the finished quilt. Kelli and I both are process girls. I think that’s one of the reasons we so freely give quilt away. We got our main enjoyment from the quilts…now someone else can enjoy them.

So what did I enjoy about it so much?? [Read more…] about About the Process

String Challenge

August 13, 2018 by Jo 9 Comments

Well at retreat I got my Daylilies quilt top together and I haven’t touched a string since. UGH. I need to get back in the swing even if it’s only to give the top a good pressing and find a backing.

This time of year I am swamped with stuff…summer winding down, school starting….Hubby is finally not working so many hours so we take a come time away. Then that just leaves me more behind. It’s a happy changing season type of busy, canning and freezing and getting the most out of what summer has left for us. School here starts on the 23rd so it will be a big shuffle. More kids going to school-teacher kids coming back-other kids coming back. It will so good to be back into a routine!!

With all this…sewing kind of goes by the wayside.

I did get something done though….. You might remember at retreat that I got this together…well I got this much together.

As is, it is 85″ x 85″. The blocks finish at 5″ so I can add more to this. I think it will be a bed quilt that I keep so that means I want it to cover a queen sized bed as all of our beds are queens. My quilt machine will take something 100 x 100 so, the plan is to get it as close to 100 x 100 as I can. That means another row on all four sides…so that means cutting.

Well if you remember I was sick on Wednesday. I laid around in the living room doing nothing but watch TV. Then about noonish I finally felt like I could start sitting up so I drug the box of shirts into the living room and started processing them. I cut off a back and a sleeve (or front) and kept those. The back is for my stash. The front or sleeve is for my churn dash quilt. The rest of the shirt I put in a pile and will sell them on the next auction here on the blog.

I used my wool mat for pressing. I love it all over again. I ended up throwing away my table top ironing board and am only keeping this. I can toss it on the counter or the island and press away. It’s a better height and doesn’t wobble. No buyers remorse on this product!!

The I started cutting. I got them all cut so next up is to try to find some time to sew these guys. I’d love to get this to completion. It’s been so long since I’ve had a finish I can show off and keep.

We have lots going on around here so I don’t expect a lot of sewing to get done…we’ll see. Right now salsa making and peach preserving is on the top of the list.

Stash Report

August 12, 2018 by Jo 5 Comments

WOW, the thrift stores have been giving me more fabric than I can possibly use lately. I don’t need it all but it’s so hard to say no to it. For now, I not saying no. I’m buying it up and at some point I’ll sort through some of my stuff and move some on to the charity groups.

Remember last week that I said I found those Kaffe Fassett fabrics….well this week, there was more.

I’m sure this is a Kaffee fabric. Yes, 2 yads for $2. I’m so excited for their new marking system. Before I had no idea how much was in each bundle.

This one is a Kaffee too.

I am just thrilled. I am going to make some of the quilts in the book Linda gifted us. This one! [Read more…] about Stash Report

Retreat Wrap Up

August 7, 2018 by Jo 12 Comments

Here’s the last blog post about the retreat. Everyone was so excited to share all that they got done. But more exciting we did a lot of work on making new friends and renewing friendships. So many of these ladies I’ve seen time and time again. It was so good to touch base and find out the new happenings in their lives.

Kayla was busy helping Linda work on a crochet project….

Nell and Deb got a chance to catch up. I met Deb several years ago when Kelli and I went and talked to the Muscatine Iowa Quilt Guild. We stayed overnight and Deb’s. She’s the best!!

…and Nell, she’s Nell. I’ve hung out with her several times and always have the best time with her.

It was good that my own girls were there. I can never get enough time with them.

Deb got a baby quilt together for her great niece who is soon to arrive.

You can’t see Loretta in this picture. It’s too dark but she’s showing off her finish…

Here’s Sue. Congrats to Sue for jumping in and working on her May Flower quilts from our book.

Right and left on the last day we were all snapping pictures of our table mates, our friends old and new, trying to capture in one photo the lasting memory of the weekend.

Charnette, despite a few set backs, did get her tractor quilt done. If you look below you’ll see Doreen made progress on her quilt too.

Here’s Kayla with her finish for the weekend. She had the start of a charity quilt that her students were working on. It needed a finish…so here it is.

Of course we had to take time to snap pictures of the cute things that the retreaters had…This is Charnette’s machine case.

…and a side view.

We all left with an emptier check book. After trying this… [Read more…] about Retreat Wrap Up

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