My First Quilt

When I was in Southern Ontario this past weekend visiting my sisters and two of my grandchildren, my sister Lynda brought out a quilt that I had made many years ago and had forgotten about.  This quilt was made in 1973, and I know that because I signed the front of it.  Wow, that is 39 years ago.  When you look at this quilt you can tell that I knew a little about quilting.

Some of the blocks are just squares and there are some that I have put together with odd shapes of fabric to make a square.  There is even one that is a "Courthouse Steps" block.  The quilt is totally polyester.  There is no cotton on the front of this quilt although I think I put a blanket in the center or a piece of flannel.  I did not use batting.  It is all tied.  The backing is flannel.

My Very First Quilt.

 

This is where I signed the front of the quilt.

 

One of my crazy patch blocks.

 

My Courthouse Steps block.

 

I got such a kick out of Lynda showing me this quilt that I just had to post it.  Something from my past.

 

Peggy.

 

 

 

 

 

Quilt Therapy Time Again

Where are the days going.  It has been two weeks since we were together for Therapy and I can't believe how time has flown by. 

We all had a lot of busy days between sessions and didn't get much quilting done so it was good to sit and concentrate and finally see something accomplished.

Joyce is still working on her 8 placemats.  She was able to finish one and then her next step is to quilt the tops and then sandwich and flip them.

Aren't they beautiful colours?

 

Pierina was able to get a lot done on her bibs and even started a new one.

 

For twin girls.

 

Maria is working on her Max & Whiskers quilt.  She hopes to have it done for Christmas.

 

She is getting a lot of letters ready for

the middle of the quilt.

 

I was able to put the binding on my last 2 placemats for Christmas dinner.  I am having 10 for dinner this year and that is a lot for me.

 

You can see the sun streaming in the windows.

 

I am also going to make the pillow from

The Moda Bakeshop

for Christmas.  Here I am trying to

arrange the squares in a pleasing way. 

This is hard to do when there are 15 squares

and 4 colours. I hope to get 2 finished.

I am planning on making them to slip over the

cushions that I have so that I can just change

up the covers for the seasons.

 





Peggy.



A New Twister Placemat

Last Christmas the local Guild members exchanged some 5 inch squares and we were suppose to make a placemat for Meals on Wheels to give to their clients.  I couldn't figure out what to make until last week.  I added a few squares and made a Twister Placemat.

Twister or Tessellating pinwheels.

Peggy.

Orange Strippers

This month our Quilt Guild is asking us to make an orange strip measuring 14 1/2 by 68". I had enough in my stash to make the whole strip this time and I am all ready to hand it over in a few weeks time.

Orange Strip

Next month we will be making a yellow strip, following the colours of the rainbow.  I don't think I will have enough yellow, so I may just make a shorter one.

Peggy.

Yesterday was Tuesday

I haven't blog for a week now because I am still making Christmas gifts and I'm not sure who reads my blog so I have to wait till after Christmas to post some of those pictures.

We had another great therapy session and everyone is really into making new things.

Pierina has finished her small casserole carrier.

Small Casserole Carrier

Now she is working on baby bibs.  A lot of her friends have new grandchildren.

Cute fabric for bibs for little girls.

Maria is working on a Max and Whiskers Quilt

Four letters completed.

All the letters in this pattern are lower case so

she make her own capital R.

Good work Maria.

Joyce has been working on making

more placemats with the beautiful fabric she

bought in Southern Ontario.

She is making great progress with all 8 of them.

Ooops... I did fix it!!!

I also finished my In Color Order

November Block.

Peggy.

Quilt Therapy Tuesday

Tuesday is now Therapy day and we had a lot to share.  There 4 of us have been doing a lot of quilting lately and we haven't been able to get together and we like to have a show and tell session before we start for the day.

Joyce finished her placemats - 8 of them.

Beautiful wine fabric.

These placemats have no binding,

they are quilted on the batting

then the backing is sewn on

and flipped over to the right side.

 

This gorgeous fabric was purchased on her

trip to Southern Ontario.

She likes the above pattern so much that

she is now making 8 more placemats.

Getting ready for Christmas.

 

Pierina finished her mystery quilt bag.

It is big enough to carry all her supplies

for out Tuesday quilting group get together.

 

This is going to be small Casserole

Carrier.  Pierina is using the same pattern

I used that I purchased in

Newfoundland last year.

 

Maria was working on her twister Christmas Wreath.

She has the top completed and now will be

doing the quilting.

 

We had a lot of fun putting the keyboard

border together for the Max & Whiskers

quilt that Maria is now making.

 

I am also making more placemats. out of this

cute cat fabric that Colleen picked out when

we were in Duluth a few weeks ago.

 

 

Peggy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of finishes in October, getting ready for November

I have been waiting too long for the blocks to finish my Ireland Quilt so I decided to do my own thing for a few of the blocks.  I will wait a little while longer to see what the last blocks look like and if they don't get posted soon then I will do another one to finish that quilt.

I left my heart in Ireland

Flowers and greenery of Ireland

I like the flying geese block

so I am calling this block

"Flying over the Emerald Isle"

I was able to finish the last 3 of the Morning Glory Designs BOM and now there are 20 completed blocks.

Block 18

Block 19

Block 20

I also took a picture of the first 20 blocks in this BOM.

Morning Glory Designs Vintage Sampler

I also made a Casserole Carrier.  I thought I might make a few for Christmas gifts so I made one for myself to try the pattern out.  I changed the pattern by putting binding around the pieces instead of flipping them inside out and used webbing for the handles instead of fabric.

the outside

the inside

I also made 4 placemats for a friend that I do yoga with twice a week.

I used a pattern from Atkinson Designs book I have.

She wanted burgundy and black so I combined

the burgundy with beige and used black

for the backing and binding.

Peggy.

My Third Teddy Bear Quilt and Halloween Tablerunner

I am all set for the November Guild meeting.  My third teddy bear quilt is finished and I am really happy with it.  I found this pattern in a magazine and just had to try it.

I used the colours in the quilt 

for the binding.

All wrapped up.

This table runner is a McCall's Quilting Web Bonus.  I made it a little wider by not trimming it so close to the center square.    

Monster Munchies

The picture doesn't do justice to the fabrics.  

They are all spider webs and

the yellow has spiders on it.

If you click on the picture

and enlarge it you can

see the spider webs and

the little spiders.

Peggy.

Q, R, S, T.

I haven't posted the alphabet blocks for a while so I thought I would post 4 together.  These have been really fun to do and it keeps me thinking about what Lyn is going to come up with for each letter.

Q is for Quintessential Quilt

 

R is for Radical Revolutionary Rotary Cutter

 

S is for Snappy Scissors

 

T is for Thimble and Thread

 

I have been trying to co-ordinate the letter and what it stands for

when I have been doing these blocks. 

The Letter comes one week and it's mate

the next week.

Peggy

October Blocks of the Month

I have been alone since last Thursday October the 4th (YKW and number one son have gone moose hunting) so I have spent my time doing my October BOM's since I also want to get back to finishing up my Christmas gifts.  So after a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend at Hawkeye Lake at the camp of a friend and her family, I was able to finish the last of them.

Craftsy BOM this month was paper piecing and I have been dreading making this block.  Amy Gibson did a wonderful job on her video showing a different way of paper piecing and so much easier than the method that I was taught.  I just love her method.  It went together so fast I will certainly use this method again.

Block 19

Block 20

Country Junk'tion 

October Block

Apple Avenue

October Block

In Color Order

October Block

I still have to finish My Morning Glory Design Block and my Irish Quilt blocks.  The blocks for the Irish Quilt are so slow in coming that I am going to use some of my own ideas to finish it up.

Peggy

My September Blocks Are Finished

I finally finished my Craftsy Block of the Month for September.  I had never done a drunkard's path block so it was nice to learn something new.  I made a different block for my first one because instead of cutting the templates I bought Elisa's templates and they were the wrong size.  I learned a lot from using them though.  I also watched her video which was a lot of help using these templates.  I needed the squares to finish at 3 inches and when I used the templates they finished at 3 1/2 inches so in order to make a 12 1/2 inch block I had to put a border around what I made.

September Block Number One

For my second block I made templates so that the block would finish at 12 1/2 inches.

September Block Number Two

Joined at the Hip Block

Our Guild has a wonderful program every month.  Some very talented people put together a very interesting program at our September guild meeting.  First we had a Phys Ed teacher talk to us about keeping fit and do some exercises when we are quilting.  Many of us tend to hunch ourselves over and tense up when we are quilting and she tried to help us loosen up and relax.

Next the committee showed us some strippers.  They spent the weekend making strip sets of all the colours of the rainbow.  The strip sets were 14 1/2 inches by 68 inches.  They asked us to make a red strip set for this month.  I don't have enough reds to do that, so I recruited a few friends to make 14 1/2 inch squares in red and we will sew them together to make our strip.

My Red 14 1/2 inch square.

Peggy