Red and White WIP

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jenny

These are some blocks I made for a quilt for my husband’s baby sister. She is having a baby. She doesn’t know the gender, but I don’t really mind, because I make the quilt for the mom, not the baby, now. That way I don’t have to get overwhelmed trying to keep up with all of the quickly proliferating nieces and nephews.

I was originally going to have a vote on here for which style of arrangement, but she liked the geometric one below best, so that is how it will be. For these I just sewed together three strips, and cut them at 45 degree angles. It’s like the hourglass from cluck cluck sew, except with three instead of two strips.

I am open to suggestion on borders, though. I don’t have a ton of scraps, so I might have to go buy some more fabric. Darn.

Block of the Month / WIP

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Jenny

I just finished March’s block of the month for quilt guild. I did this one in red, so now I have green, orange, and red. I am thinking each block will be monochromatically themed, and will result in a rainbow quilt.

This is my blue scrap stack for April’s, which is a fan block:

I just love fabric.

WIP to FO!

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Jenny

I finished my diamond quilt! I love this fabric line.

Sew Mama, Sew Pillow Contest, Car Seat Cover, and Block of the Month

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Jenny

I think I want to enter this!

Haven’t decided what to do, but I’m sure I’ll think of something.

I also finished this car seat cover recently, for my little bundle on his way in only five more weeks. Yaay! You can catch a tutorial at Cluck Cluck Sew, if you want to try one. I made mine a little long, and I’m trying to decide whether to put some elastic around those bottom edges so it hugs the bottom of the car seat. What do you think?

And this is the block of the month for my quilt guild:

I think they will all be starry, and I’m going to do each one in monochrome but scrappy. We should have 12 by the end of the year. I am debating about doing two each month, one with the cream background, and one with lighter scraps and a dark gray background.

Minky Quilt

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Jenny

I got a sewing referral through facebook recently, and I put two minky quilts together for my friend’s sister. It was simple piecework, but the stretchy minky fabric (aka cuddle fabric) was a little challenging.

Here is what I learned:

* Baste very carefully, someone mentioned basting spray, but I pinned and it was fine
* Use a walking foot
* Don’t backstitch because you might have to unpick
* Use a big quilting ruler/grid to flatten and smooth out the bottom and top before pinning

I just sewed the squares together and quilted the front to the back. The fabric was so thick it didn’t really need batting, and rather than a separate binding I folded the back over twice and sewed it to the front. I love this paisley texture, isn’t it gorgeous?