I Have Been Busy Over The Last Month

I haven't blogged for a while but I have been busy making quilts.

I saw this pattern on Missouri Star Quilt Company and it was perfect for my 2 inch squares.

This is a real scrap quilt.

Sixteen patch 2 inch squares with pinwheels.

I really enjoyed making this quilt because there were no seams to match when I put the blocks together.

Another Jar Quilt.  Lots of food here.

This was a neat quilt to make called Arrows but some of the blocks had squares that don't show up too well.

A child's quilt made with fabric with road signs.

This looks like a disappearing 9 patch but it wasn't put together like that.

Another scrap quilt made with a 4 patch and pinwheels.

Another food quilt but just patches staggered on the quilt.

Lots of 4 patches.

I bought this fabric about 5 years ago and finally found a pattern that I wanted to make with it.  

This is a quilt I made at the quilt bee.  I was leery of what it would look like with the assortment of fabric that I was given but it turned out really nice.

Peggy

Annual Quilt Bee 2016

Yesterday was our annual quilt bee held at one of the local community centers.  There were about 20 ladies sewing from kits that the committee had put together.  All the pieces had been cut to size so it was just a matter of making half square triangles and then making them into blocks.  A lot of the ladies were working on a block called Diamond Square Block that came from a website called "3 and 3 quarters".  This gal has a lot of really different blocks. I think I will have to borrow a few of hers in the future for my donation quilts.

Only one person got their quilt finished so the rest of us took ours home to complete and return.  We were given batting, backing and borders to complete each quilt. 

I finished mine today and it is ready to be quilted.  I have enough border fabric to make binding too.

This is my block, it is really scrappy.

ready to by quilted

  

Two ladies busy squaring up blocks and getting ready to sew.

 

Large squares for a chevron quilt.

Looks like a lot of production here.

A finished quilt from last years Bee.

Some of the kits on the table and buckets of fabric for backing and borders.

It was a wonderful day.  Lunch was supplied and some of the ladies brought salads and deserts to go along with the beautiful meat and cheese tray that was provided.

Peggy

Seven New Blocks

Our Guild is going to make some bed size quilts for an organization here for troubled youth.  I decided to make one using the hinge method since a large quilt is too big to quilt on my machine and using the hinge method you quilt the blocks first and then hinge them together to make a quilt.  I am still working on it and hope to have it finished by September.  

It looks a little weird because I still have to add borders and it is long and skinny, but it will look fine when the borders are on.  They are all quilted and ready to be added, I just have to get around to doing it.  The problem is that the quilt is still very large to maneuver around so I have to psyche myself up for it.

The guild has taken my idea and asked the members to make blocks that we can hinge together at a Quilt Bee in the fall, so I decided to make a few.  Once I get started I can't seem to stop.  I ended up making seven.   They were to be 12 1/2 inch squares but leave an edge all around them so that they can be squared up when it is time to quilt them.

Two inch squares

Three and a half inch squares.

Five nine patch blocks.  I tried to get a little creative with different colours and arrangements.

Peggy

Today Is National Quilting Day

It was a great day for a Quilt Bee since this is National Quilting Day.  The Quilt Bee Committee did a lot of background work and made up kits for us all to work on.  They found patterns on the Internet from Moda Bakeshop and made a definite effort to find simple easy patterns so that we could finish the quilt top in one day.  There were between 25-30 ladies at the Community Centre working all day except for a wonderful lunch that the Committee supplied.

Who would have thought that blue and green would look so nice together.

What man wouldn't love to have that on his bed.

A bright spring like quilt

A Wonky four patch.

Frog's Galore

Green and Purple go well together in this quilt.

So simple but so nice.

Maria and I made this one.  It almost looks tropical.  It is called Interwoven also from Moda Bakeshop.  We were given 5 inch squares and cut them into 2 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch rectangles and then added a 2 1/2 inch white square.

There were at least 8 or 9 other quilt tops that were worked on at the bee but didn't get finished.

It was a wonderful day and thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Peggy.

Busy, Busy, Busy

I have been very busy quilting my latest quilt tops.  I finished my quilt that I started at the Quilt Bee on April 5th.  It is 36 x 48 just the right size for a wheel chair quilt.

Windmills at Night.

I finished making tops from my Magic Stack N Whack.  I thought that if I made one top it would be too big for me to quilt on my own so I put 4 blocks together and made 2 quilts from the 8 blocks.

Quilt Number One

Quilt Number Two

The borders of both quilts are the same colour although they don't look it.  It is black with a swirl in it, and it turns gray when I take a picture.

A few years ago I made an Easter Egg Tree table topper so I decided this year that I needed some placemats to go with it.  I wanted them bright with some of the fabric from the Easter Tree.  The only fabric I had on hand was from the border and binding, so I used it on the placemats.

The center square is from the same line and I also cut the side borders from that fabric.  I fussy cut the center square and then had to scrounge fabric for the side borders.  I had barely enough to make my four placemats.

I also put together a new purse.  Linda G took the Bag Class and asked about making a bag with a gusset for the zipper.  She found a pattern and I said I would give it a try.  It turns out that it is not a true gusset but fabric added to the zipper so it is a false gusset.

The Bia Bag.

I think if I made it again I would make it wider and not as deep. but I am happy with it and have used it a few times already.  Since mine is all one colour it is a little more dressy than the original.

Peggy

Annual Quilt Bee

Today was the annual quilt bee for our Guild.  There were over 40 women there this afternoon.  I found out also that they call it a quilt bee because of all the B's in quilting.  There are borders, binding, backing, batting and that makes a lot of B's.

This was part of one room.

There was a second room where some of the ladies were quilting tops that had been made at a previous bee. 

Shirley quilts all her quilts on a regular machine so she was showing us how it was done.

This was the design she was making.

There were a lot of different quilt tops made today.

These Jelly Roll quilts were all made from strips cut from yardage.

One of the gals did all the cutting and put the colours together for these quilts.

She did a fantastic job.

Wonky Stars were made in Cindys group.

Rail fence was made in Karen's group.

Pat uses fleece as backing with no batting in the sandwich.

Maria also put fleece on the back of her quilt.

These quilts are very soft and pliable.

I was making windmills at night.

There were also lots of other quilts finished today.

It was a fabulous day with lots of quilts made to be donated to the Local Hospital and Homes for the Aged.

Peggy