Design Wall Monday

This weeks design wall Monday is on the cutting table. I'm making a small quilt for our grandpuppy, Jake. I plan to make the letters out of the brown tone on tone fabric in the picture. The letters will be placed diagonally, fused and stitched down.

The dog biscuit print is adorable. I think I bought it at the Bay Area Quilt Show. I'm anxious to get this little quilt made.

Design Wall Monday

This is my design wall this morning. You are seeing 2 tops that I pieced Friday. This is a variation of the jelly roll race quilt. I haven't come up with a name for this design. I changed the size and amount of strips for these quilts. I'm pleased with the results. I've got backing picked and binding made. I'm trying to decide on batting at this point. I'll keep the butterfly quilt for now, the other quilt is for community service. I hope to have it quilted and bound by the June meeting.

Jelly Roll Race Quilt Finished!

The quilt is done and was given away for a birthday present! Happy Birthday to Kathy! This is a detail shot of one corner of the quilt. There are 42 different butterfly fabrics in quilt!

The backing is flannel and I stitched the label on a leftover piece of binding. I machine stitched the label to the quilt. If I had it to do over again I would hand stitch the bottom edge instead of machine stitching it. It was a fun quilt and I'm sure I'll make more quilts similar to this one. For more information on this quilt, google jelly roll race quilt.

Jelly Roll Race Quilt Update

This is the quilt to date. I got it quilted last night and I hope to work on the binding tomorrow. It's a very fun quilt to make.

Jelly Roll Race Quilt

The backing has been pieced, loaded and batting was found in the scraps. I need to trim the top and I hope to be quilting Sunday. This quilt should quilt quickly.

Jelly Roll Race Quilt

I cut 40 2 1/2" strips from my butterfly fabric collection last night. Today I started piecing them together. This is a very interesting quilt. Once you sew all the strips together into 1 long strip you only sew 5 seams to get a finished quilt. The first seam took 40 minutes and I had a lot of interuptions. The second seam took 20 minutes and the third seam took 10 minutes. The fourth seam took 5 minutes and the fifth seam took 3 minutes.

I'll try to get a better picture of the top after I've pressed it. It was fun and I'm sure I'll make another one.

the Tooth Necklace

For the last couple of weeks I have been hearing about a tooth necklace from our oldest grandson. He has a loose tooth and he didn't want to lose it over spring break. It needed to be lost at school so he could go to the school nurse and get a tooth necklace. Well, yesterday a tooth on the other side of his mouth came out at school and he got the tooth necklace (shown above).

We're adjusting to the changes in our family. I had hoped to be back to quilting in March. I haven't been able to get any quilting done but, I have worked some piecing in. I'm currently working on 2 piecing projects and I'm about to start another one.