Marcia's Quilt is featured!

I have a very talented mother-in-law. She is who I am learning to quilt through. She was asked by her friend Rachel Griffith over at ps i quilt to use this new fabulous fabric and make a quilt for Dear Stella Design. The fabric is beautiful and I can't wait to see her quilt in person. It is on its way back to Marcia.  So go take a minute and visit Rachel's site, you will love it and all her designs. While you are there take a look at it's a shore thing.

Here is her quilt, but really go take a look!

Beautiful Marcia!

Prayer Quilt

Have I mentioned before that I loved to sew and make things for others?  Well I do, but just don't always have the time. A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. I made her a prayer quilt to take with her to surgeries and or treatments.

I didn't take pictures of the back, but it is hot pink. In the white areas around the quilt we all took turns writing our favorite bible verses or motivational sayings.

Day 6!! FINISHED!!

Drum roll please.... I am finished with my quilt!  Yes done! I am just about to get this post done and curl up with it on my comfy chair. I have many areas to work on. Binding seems to be my next goal. I tried to machine stitch it on.  What was I thinking?? I know now that hand stitching would be better and easier.  Note to self. That is the good part about doing new things and learning, you always find a way to do it better and easier the next time.

Sewing the binding on to the right side of the quilt.

Sewing the binding. Lesson learned hand stitch this next time.

Finished product. The quilt is about 6.5 ft by 5.5ft.

Here you can see the backing. 

I am now about to log off and start my search for more fabric for my next project.  I have made good notes of my areas I need to work on.

Day 5

So excited to post this today!!  My quilt has been quilted!!  I went over the my mother-in-laws and we hooped it on her long arm quilting machine and away it went. It is just so pretty. Tomorrow I will be working on the binding and then have the finished product. I have also made two more fat quarter bags for friends of mine. I am just loving sewing again. I forgot how much I loved it. Now the hunt begins for fabric. I am making a quilt for Grace and of course it has to be pink.

This is the machine.

Marcia basting at the top of the quilt

Ready to go!

This is the design I chose for the quilting. I love it!

Day 4, FINAL Day1

I have finishing my quilt top!! Very exciting. I have had a lot of help, but it was all a good learning experience! I know that it isn't as hard as I thought and main things are to take your time in measuring and always check and double check. 

Here is part of the finished top! My camera battery decided to die just as we finished the whole top itself. So once I get it quilted then I will show pictures of it all done. The back will be oh so pretty. I just have my binding to make and I have some neat scraps left over in all the colors. So I think I will make my binding interesting.

Day 3

Well I am little sore today. All that sitting at the sewing machine. I will say though, that his process has been easier than I thought it would be. Above is some of my finished product. I have my blocks done and parts of the sashing is sewn in place.Lessons I have learning so far:

• MEASURE
• MEASURE again
• And for the peace of mind write your measurements down!!!

Here are my blocks getting ready to be pressed. Super important to make sure your seams are all nice and flat. Sewing 1.4" can be difficult, but if you make good practicing out of MEASURING, pressing and RE-MEASURING you will be fine.  ;o)

Day 2

Today I finally started to piece my quilt together. I started by deciding how each block was going to look, with some help of course. Once that was all laid out I began sewing them together. Once each side was done I called it at night. Tomorrow I will begin ironing and sewing the other sides on.  Pictures will come once I can upload them.

 Look at all that material getting sewn together.
 


My blocks are now half done!

Day 1 of new Sewing Adventure

Day 1 of Quilting.

Well today went good I think. I am making a quilt from another blog on here. Crazy Mom Quilts. It is her Flea Market Fancy quilt. I have sewed many things in the past, but this will be my first quilt. Back in the spring I finally chose all my fat quarters and then my mother-in-law found a pattern that is great. Since Thanksgiving break is fast approaching I thought this would be a good time.

So today I sat down and cut all my fabric pieces. Things were going well. I was cutting nice 3.5" pieces and then going back and making my smaller cuts. I had done about 4 sets when I came to a fat quarter that wasn't 22" long! UGH frustrating. My color scheme is mostly purple, yes I know, with a few greens. Guess what color was short almost each time? Yup the greens. But no fear I will make it work.

With that said all the pieces are cut. Right now I have enough to make 26 blocks. The pattern is for 20 blocks so I can play around with my colors and layouts. The rest of the week will be devoted to piecing and making my quilt top. ;o)

Here are some pictures of what I have done today.

Wish me luck!


Before I started my cutting today.




This is my first block that is finally cut.




All done! Well for today that is. Wednesday I will begin putting it together, with some help of course.