May 17, 2015

Great Pillow Fight | Spring 2015

This round of the Great Pillow Fight was delightful!

I received this beauty from Stephanie of Creative Reveries.  It is perfect for me.  Rainbow colors with text fabric.  I love love love it!
Just need to add a label, but otherwise done!  Hope you like it, partner! #thegreatpillowfightswap

This is the pillow that I made for Kelleigh
Hi Partner. I have been quiet this round but I hope this is perfect for you.

From the sounds of her post, it was as much of a hit for her as what Stephanie made for me.  I LOVE to swap and this round was absolutely perfect, on both sides!



May 14, 2015

Sneak Peak at Sisterhood

I belong to a sewing circle with an absolute perfect group of ladies.  We live all over the US (and Canada too) and get together once a year for a retreat in Amish Country.

For 2015, we are doing a traveling quilt.  Each person participating started their quilt with 4 blocks and a roadmap for what they envision.  Every 45 days, the quilt gets passed along to the next person in line.

During April I was working on a Sisterhood quilt and made a couple of granny square blocks along with another large scale block too.

Here are the two granny square blocks, along with my thoughts.


Originally, when I saw these blocks I didn't like them.  You know why? Because when I first saw them they were in a traditional quilt in traditional fabrics, which just isn't my preference.  But over the past couple of years, as I have seen them more and more and especially in modern fabrics, I have really started to like them.

But....you have to cut off so much fabric on the edges - Owwza! That hurts me.  I know I save too many scraps but I'm not sure that I will make more of these just because of that.

What do you think? Do you like Granny Squares? Does it bother you to cut off so much fabric?

May 12, 2015

Baby Quilt Top

My friend, Jane and I both quilt.  Although she prefers traditional quilts (I like modern) and can't stand all over quilting (my #1 preference) we enjoy hearing about what each of us is working on.

One of the gals in our book club is having her first baby in or around July, so we decided rather than buying something we would make a quilt.  The catch, she doesn't know if they are having a girl or a boy.  My job was to order the fabric and make the top and she will baste, and quilt it.

Our conversation went like this:
Me: Yes, yes, that sounds great. I'll do the top
Jane: Perfect, then I'll baste, quilt and bind it
Me: No, I want to bind it, that is my favorite part
Jane: Well how do you bind?
Me: Hand of course
Jane: Can you do an invisible binding?
Me: Is there any other kind?

Then we both laughed. She really wasn't going to let me bind unless I did an invisible hand binding.



It is currently getting quilted, but this is the top.  I love this pattern.  Finally, I have learned to read past the pattern.  I chain pieced with each color and then, cut them apart.  The directions have you cutting each piece separately and then sewing, but it takes longer.